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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 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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  1. Gerry
    The movie is on some level a stunt, but it has the fervent, sun-dazed pull of an authentic experience unfolding in real time, with glints of drama, comedy, and terror mixed into the almost-but-not-quite tedium.
  2. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    A dazzlingly crafted documentary about the teenage surf punks of lower Los Angeles who singlehandedly transformed skateboarding into the extreme sport it has become.
  3. How I Killed My Father
    The script is a steady accretion of small stabs to the heart, propelling the gorgeous performances of Berling, Regnier, and especially the 76-year-old French cinema veteran Bouquet, whose every faint smile is killing.
  4. Scream
    A deft, funny, shrewdly unsettling tribute to such slasher-exploitation thrillers as "Terror Train," "New Year's Evil," and Craven's own "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
  5. Godzilla
    Godzilla is still the most awesome of tacky movie monsters.
  6. Human Resources
    Acompelling, cant free drama about clashing class systems and challenged family relationships that's all the more engrossing for its organic, near documentary style.
  7. Chicken Run
    A delightful, perceptive, funny, detail-perfect fable.
  8. Harry Is Here to Help
    A suspenseful and delightfully creepy French drama.
  9. Girl on the Bridge
    Leconte (''Ridicule'') gives his heart to the luck of romance, to the dream state visual style of Fellini, and, most lyrically, to the passion of the dagger point swoon.
  10. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    The subtle selectivity of Leconte's eye, how he moves with great control from gesture to gesture, is matched by the disciplined intensity of the performances.
  11. Knafayim Shvurot
    That the story is so oldfashioned and domestic and the family so average and secular is, in its way, the wind beneath this Broken Wings.
  12. In This World
    Realer and more consequential than much being packaged for TV and movies these days as ''reality,'' the fictional In This World unfolds with the deceptive dispassion of a documentary, but builds with a sure sense of dramatic epic.
  13. American Psycho
    Funny, pungent, and weirdly gripping.
  14. Raising Victor Vargas
    The writer-director, Peter Sollett, cast the film with kids from his own neighborhood, who give themselves over to the camera with a spirit of improvised play that morphs into vivid, layered acting.
  15. In & Out
    As a sharky, gay TV journalist investigating the story, Tom Selleck charms by playing in contrast to his own determinedly hetero persona.
  16. Spellbound
    Thrilling little epic set in the bewildering arena of the English language.
  17. Girl, Interrupted
    Shrewd, tough, and lively -- a junior-league "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    High Art
    Who knew that Brat Packer Sheedy would shine as a heroin-addicted photographer who had too much fame too early?
    • 63 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Secretary
    There's a word for an actress who can go from nervous to winsome to raunchy to romantic in a heartbeat and get you to adore her the whole time. The word is star.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Manchurian Candidate
    This gonzo satiric thriller is a riveting portrait of early-60's paranoia. [15 Nov 1996, p.82]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  21. Veronica Guerin
    Her death was shocking; this well-made telling of her life is inspiring.
    • 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
  23. The Story of the Weeping Camel
    The vivid fictional specifics, and the simple loveliness of the artless performances by nonactor Mongolian nomads, attest to the filmmakers' abundant artistry.
  24. Owning Mahowny
    Hoffman plays Dan Mahowny's addiction to instant money as something dirty and private and, at the same time, soul-quickening.
  25. The 13th Warrior
    The most unexpectedly audacious, exhilarating, wildly creative adventure thriller I've seen in ages.
  26. Irreversible
    After a while, a didactic overdeliberateness seeps into Noé's design, but there's no doubt that he's a new kind of dark film wizard: a poet of apocalyptic shock.
  27. One Last Kiss
    A crowd-pleaser in the deepest sense, mixes heartbreak and happiness together until you don't even want to see them apart.
  28. Guinevere
    This patient, perceptive, nonjudgmental love story about age difference is the first to convincingly explain the temporal physics of May-December romances.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Winslow Boy
    This genteel period piece invites a typically Mametian tension between its characters' stylized manners and their underlying motivations.
  30. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    It's all very French, very intricate, and -- this is Rivette's magic -- seemingly as light as air.
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