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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. Last Night
    A surreal, elegantly melancholy, and yet witty ensemble story.
  2. Twin Falls Idaho
    A quietly dazzling microcosm that's always just this side of eerie, just that side of tragic.
  3. Divided We Fall
    The tonal elegance of this black comedy set in a dark time -- is boldly dependent on performances that tug at taut lines of moral complexity.
  4. Since Otar Left
    Superb family drama.
  5. Central Station
    A richly tender and moving experience.
  6. Drumline
    Does more than capture the excitement of marching bands; it gets their clockwork beauty as well.
  7. The Exorcist
    Here, in paranoid, bad acid trip form, is the real birth of girl power. [2000 re-release]
  8. Mean Creek
    Although the talent of a kid with the last name of Culkin may not, at this point, register as such a novelty -- Rory follows brothers Macaulay and Kieran -- there is something precociously mature but natural about the work of this youngest Culkin sibling that stands apart.
  9. The Devil's Backbone
    Del Toro builds excitement, dread, and melodrama in equal layers.
  10. Read My Lips
    Expertly sinister, office-as-devil's-playground French thriller.
  11. Gosford Park
    The movie might almost be winking at the fact that any single one of these performers could easily be the featured star of his or her own upper-crust period piece.
  12. Shrek
    Lives happily ever after because it's such a feisty but good natured embrace of the inner ogre in everyone.
  13. Very Bad Things
    Peter Berg's scandalous sick-joke thriller is packed with rude and clever twists, and it delves, with surprising force, into the hypocritical postures of corporate-era male bonding. The cast is terrific, especially Christian Slater.
  14. The Battle of Algiers
    Nearly four decades ago, Pontecorvo anatomized the very form of modern terrorist warfare: the hidden cells, the cultish leaders, the brutish cycle of attack and counterattack.
  15. Monsoon Wedding
    The old-world-meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack, a joyful effusion of disco Bollywood that, by the end of Monsoon Wedding, sent my spirit soaring out of the theater.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Bad Lieutenant
    For all its scenes of degradation (five minutes of which have been shorn for an R-rated cut; we recommend the original NC-17 version), Bad Lieutenant is a deeply moral movie. It's not pretty-it's not even very realistic-but it does matter.
  17. Stuck on You
    Has a fractured fairy-tale charm, even if it isn't a nonstop laugh riot.
  18. Deconstructing Harry
    Deconstructing Harry is Woody Allen's naughty-boy confessional movie, a disquietingly candid and funny portrait of a pathological narcissist.
  19. Your Friends & Neighbors
    Bleak, scathing, and utterly compelling.
  20. Serendipity
    Serendipity has no business working, but it does. And by the way, Eugene Levy has no business almost stealing the show, but he does, too.
  21. Dogma
    It's not every day you get to see a movie that begins in satire and ends in reverence, but then, for Kevin Smith, they may ultimately be the same thing.
  22. Wag the Dog
    If the result is often as glib as the targets it's satirizing, it's also driven by a cruelly distilled joy. Wag the Dog is an ode to the thrill of deception, a thrill embodied in Hoffman's inspired performance.
  23. The Iron Giant
    At times, The Iron Giant is more serene than it needs to be, but it's a lovely and touching daydream.
  24. Notting Hill
    Blithe and exhilarating romantic comedy.
  25. Blade Runner
    This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
  26. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Sky Captain is a gorgeous, funny, and welcome novelty.
  27. Before Sunrise
    If Linklater goes to a bit of an extreme here, it's in making both characters so intelligent and sincere, so ardent and giving, that they seem a little too good to believe.
  28. Sling Blade
    It's a beautiful contraption of a movie, a gothic backwoods fable that uses its naive yet murderous hero to walk a fine line between sentimentality and dread.
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  29. Cast Away
    Hanks towers as a near naked, near biblical man. Zemeckis tells his story -- the screenplay is by William Broyles -- with a control magnificent in what isn't shown as much as in what is.
  30. Galaxy Quest
    A fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them.
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