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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Broadway Danny Rose
    Although the laughs are tempered with a seedy undercurrent and a lump-in-the-throat ending, Allen has rarely been funnier.
  2. BMX Bandits
    The film’s no great shakes; it’s a Down Under Goonies wannabe about three wisecracking kids shredding on their bikes as they’re chased by bungling bank robbers. But the baby-faced Kidman is easily the best thing in it.
  3. The Big Chill
    And there's that perfect soundtrack, jammed with hit after timeless hit. So integral is the music to the heat of Chill that even a now-hackneyed scene like ensemble-dancing-while-cleaning-the-kitchen (to the Temptations' ''Ain't Too Proud to Beg'') takes on a glow far lovelier than the chore warrants -- as does this ingratiating, fake movie.
  4. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
    Best of all, a revisit with Jedi makes a viewer appreciate spectacle, presentation, mythology -- that, and the power of a bitchin' helmet to speak volumes in a language even an alien can understand. [Special Edition]
  5. The Meaning of Life
    It’s tough to find the meaning in much of the craziness on display here, let alone the meaning of all human existence as the title promises, but you will find a whole lot of exquisite nonsense.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Tootsie
    Sometimes a movie’s turmoil isn’t a sign of impending doom so much as one of impending brilliance.
  7. The Verdict
    If you were presenting a case for Newman’s legacy of acting brilliance, this film would be exhibit A.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    My Favorite Year
    My Favorite Year, a slight but sweet backstage comedy, now provides three levels of nostalgia: for the era of swashbuckling stars like Errol Flynn; for the golden age of TV that supplanted it; and for the presence of Peter O’Toole.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tempest
    Though real-life couple Cassavetes and Rowlands bounce well off one another and Raul Julia does a wacky musical number with goats (set to the tune of ”New York, New York”), the magic’s spare.
  10. The Last American Virgin
    "Virgin" is also one of the few Reagan-era romps that could put a lump in your throat, as loser Gary (Lawrence Monoson) watches his skeevy best friend (Steve Antin) steal his dream girl. Thank-fully, the Cars keep things fizzy by shaking it up on the soundtrack.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Secret of NIMH
    Bluth and his animators, bless them, chose to revive an endangered art form — classically detailed animation. They drew their characters exquisitely and gave them individual personalities. The entire ensemble — artists, actors, animals, and musicians — created something unique: the world’s first enjoyable rat race.
  12. TRON
    Jeff Bridges seems to be the only one having fun, playing a videogame designer who gets sucked into a Day-Glo world of his own creation. It’s like Alice in Wonderland acted out on a kids’ Lite-Brite toy.
  13. Blade Runner
    This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
  14. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
    E.T. is ultimately a tale of love, and the film becomes a cathartic leap into pure feeling. [2002 re-release]
  15. Burden of Dreams
    Herzog’s death-defying endeavor (executed with the help of an indigenous Indian tribe, not special effects) is the basis for Burden of Dreams, Les Blank’s lyric chronicle of the film’s four-year evolution.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
    The vintage footage is seamlessly integrated into the action, and the end result is both very funny and very true to the conventions of the detective movie.
  17. Diva
    Diva is based on one novel in a series about Gorodish and Alba by the pseudonymous ”Delacorta,” but the movie’s mad excitement hinges entirely on the pleasure to be had in moving our eye from one gorgeously composed stage set of artifice to another.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eating Raoul
    Paul and Mary Bland stop at nothing to open a restaurant in Paul Bartel’s scabrous black comedy.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Death Wish II
    The shamelessly rehashed Death Wish II finds Kersey in L.A., methodically hunting down those responsible for his daughter’s death (just as she’s recovering from her assault in the first Death Wish).
  20. Das Boot
    Sweaty and claustrophobic, exciting and horrifying at the same time, it never lets us forget we're riding aboard a giant, primitive tin can, a hunk of industrial machinery that mingles the illusion of omnipotence with the reality of a floating prison cell. [Director's Cut]
    • 64 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Absence of Malice
    Overwrought.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    True Confessions
    While True Confessions boasts big themes (redemption, reconciliation) and big names, the plot and performances are painfully subtle. It proffers too many details and not enough payoff.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Prince of the City
    What remains is nearly three hours of disorientation and paranoia, accented by Method-y monologue outbursts that quickly disappear into a vacuum of overwhelming loneliness.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    They All Laughed
    They All Laughed, Peter Bogdanovich’s quiet romantic comedy about two Manhattan detectives (Gazzara, Ritter) following, and falling for, their subjects (Hepburn, Stratten), was unfairly overshadowed when Stratten, in 1980 (after filming had wrapped), was murdered by her estranged husband.
  25. Blow Out
    Deliciously twisty and twisted.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Superman II
    It boasts a more consistent tone, better special effects (such as villains throwing buses around like paper planes), and even an affecting love story.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Polyester
    Long before Mel Brooks, trash aesthete John Waters was making movies dedicated to the proposition that life stinks.
  28. This Is Elvis
    Its ambition is so great that the production’s occasional melodramatic touches can not only be forgiven, but viewed as having been executed in the spirit of the man himself.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Mirror Crack'd
    An adaptation of an Agatha Christie Miss Marple mystery, with Angela Lansbury as the sweet little old sleuth, it has the vitality of a vicar, yet it’s enormously campy fun.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Raging Bull
    Another harsh character study, with poignant echoes of "Taxi Driver."
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