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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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    • 28 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Surf Nazis Must Die
    The best thing about this B movie is always going to be its title, but there’s more than a catchy name to this DVD.
  2. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
    The Voyage Home is pure, joyful cinema.
  3. The Name of the Rose
    The film’s packed with messages in invisible ink, secret staircases, and corpses in cauldrons of pig’s blood. And since ? Connery’s bald as a cue ball, that means no distracting Hanksian haircuts!
    • 16 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Shanghai Surprise
    Some bad films become kitschy-cool with age, but Shanghai Surprise continues to rot.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Manhunter
    The brilliance of Michael Mann's Manhunter is that it appreciates that the true nexus of humanity is our shared closeness.
  6. Stand by Me
    Rob Reiner’s film is all about the journey, not the destination. And all of his young actors are great — Wheaton as the sensitive narrator, Feldman as the slightly crazy wild card, and especially Phoenix as the tough-yet-tender doomed soul.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Big Trouble in Little China
    There are two kinds of people: the ones who have seen — and love — Big Trouble in Little China, a John Carpenter kung fu Western buddy Chinese ghost love story, and those poor saps who aren’t burdened with having to try and describe it to the uninitiated.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Great Mouse Detective
    The Great Mouse Detective‘s few tunes are unmemorable and all the action (aside from the inventive chase sequences) is snooze-worthy. Only the incomparable Vincent Price (as Ratigan) is worth the price.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  9. Under the Cherry Moon
    It’s really Prince who’s the ingenue here. He engages in much mock-effeminate vamping, scampers around the French Riviera in outfits that would have humbled Liberace, and grants himself the most melodramatic death scene since Camille.
  10. Top Gun
    Top Gun has always been more than just an action flick about a cocky young fighter pilot who feels the need for speed.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Salvador
    It serves as testimony to the ghosts that continue to haunt such men as ex-senator Bob Kerrey.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Room with a View
    A movie with exquisite period detail. [8 Apr 1994]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Best of Times
    It’s hardly a great Williams performance, nor would it make the short list of really good football movies, but there’s something very sweet and innocent about it—especially Williams’ hopeless dreamer.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Brazil
    One of those rare gems that prove equally stunning on both aesthetic and cerebral levels.
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 41 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Clue
    This screwball comedy turned a rainy-day board game into inspiration — and attempted to answer the question of what Colonel Mustard has up his sleeve.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Twice in a Lifetime
    ”With her it’s sex?” a weepy Ellen Burstyn asks husband Gene Hackman in Twice in a Lifetime, a sensitive divorce drama that finds her wondering why Hackman’s steel-mill man is jilting her late in life for jezebel barmaid Ann-Margret. ”Of course it’s sex,” Hackman replies testily. ”It’s important.” Good scene, but it’s jarring, too, because it reminds you just how rarely this master actor has been asked to play a man in heat over the course of his long career.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Death Wish 3
    The preposterously Rambo-esque Death Wish 3 sends him to New York City’s bombed-out slums to mow down “creeps,” using machine guns and missile launchers.
  18. Girls Just Want to Have Fun
    No Footloose. But its synthy soundtrack, heated dance-offs, and Day-Glo leg warmers are guilty-pleasure pay dirt. A mouthy 14-year-old Shannen Doherty doesn’t hurt either.
  19. The Sure Thing
    Rob Reiner’s Spinal Tap follow-up is surprisingly deep for a flick that rests on the same shelf as Hardbodies and My Tutor. But as Gib would say, ”What the hell’s wrong with being stupid once in a while?
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Breakfast Club
    From the neon-sign opening titles to the derivative angst of the dialogue, it's a touchstone of '80s pop culture, and a schizophrenic one, too.
  21. Blood Simple
    All in all, Blood Simple looks better than ever.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 33 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Runaway
    Starts with savvy concepts (televised mind control and man’s reliance on robots, respectively) and quickly devolves into sour, overwritten diatribes.
  23. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    Some of the effects remain nicely repulsive; Freddy himself comes across as a genuinely nasty piece of work, far removed from his later incarnation.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Terminator
    Kineticism and suspense, combined with strongly conceived characters....Made Cameron a talent to watch. [13 Jan 1995, p. 67]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  25. Purple Rain
    The film is like East of Eden replayed as a hyperbolic rock fever dream. There are a few sour, juvenile moments, but this is the rare pop movie that works the way a great rock & roll song does: It tells a simple, almost elemental tale and uses the music to set it aflame.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Stranger Than Paradise
    Jim Jarmusch’s minimalist meditation on a trio of misfits who wander across the U.S. Shot in crisp black and white, the film is a series of 67 single takes punctuated by moments of black screen.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Top Secret!
    The result is a monkeyshine that lumbers when it should swing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Once Upon a Time in America
    A brilliantly detailed Lower East Side Jewish version of The Godfather.
  29. Repo Man
    Unlike Cox’s sneering Sid and Nancy, it’s defined more by a tone of affectionate disaffection than antipathy, celebrating a friendlier species of anarchy.
  30. Tenebrae
    Directed by Dario Argento, a.k.a. the Italian Hitchcock, the remastered giallo Tenebre is crammed with artsy camera work, intricate Rube Goldbergian death scenes, and a gruesome final reel where blood flows like the Tiber.
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