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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 1.9 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. A Decade Under the Influence
    This documentary about the triumph of the New Hollywood employs a treasure trove of interviews and clips to create a rich understanding of the many forces -- cultural undertows, really -- that flowed together to fill the void left by the dying studio system.
  2. That Obscure Object of Desire
    The lightness with which Buñuel was able to insert the little jokes and knife stabs of surrealism he loved so much is, in fact, divine.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Dead Ringers
    A masterpiece.
  4. The Crying Game
    By the time The Crying Game is over, you'll never look at beauty in quite the same way.
  5. The People vs. Larry Flynt
    The film catches us by surprise in its moving portrayal of the love between Larry and Althea, played by Courtney Love in a performance that glides from kinky abandon to stark tragedy.
  6. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    Don't let unpleasant personal dental associations stand in the way of seeing a luminous specimen of independent filmmaking.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Reversal of Fortune
    Funny and scary, Reversal is a tour de force for Schroeder, who examines the idle rich, the intricacies of the legal system, and the imperatives of morality concisely but with unmatched brio.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  8. Menace II Society
    Bleak, brilliant, and unsparing.
  9. The Man Without a Past
    The message, if there must be one, of this marvelous, stubbornly personal movie is that there is a spark in every soul.
  10. Quiz Show
    Working from a superb script by Paul Attanasio, Redford has caught the way a show like Twenty-One offered a carny-barker version of the American Dream.
  11. The Player
    The film is sublime entertainment, at once ticklish and suspenseful, cynical and sincere. By its very existence, Altman's comedy about the death of Hollywood lets you know that movies are still alive and kicking.
  12. Nurse Betty
    The superb screenplay won an award at Cannes this year for good reason.
  13. Go Tigers!
    Beautifully edited, Go Tigers! is an enthralling look at the drama that can transpire in the autumn of one small town on any given Friday.
  14. The Apostle
    Unusual, unhurried tour de force--a seamless match of strong artistic vision and physical performance. [19 Dec 1997, p. 52]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  15. Chuck & Buck
    The most resonant and haunting movie I've seen this year.
  16. Traffic
    The rare Hollywood epic that dares to entertain an audience by engaging the world.
  17. Hamlet
    Almereyda excises big chunks of plot to shape his vision, but retains Shakespeare's language and pays such rigorous attention to meaning and subtext that what's missing isn't missed.
  18. A Hard Day's Night
    They're like gods at play, paragons of pure delight, as they mock and feign their way through a universe of mere mortals. To see the movie again is to realize that they were never entirely of this earth and that they never will be.
  19. Together
    This is the rare movie that gets you to fall in love with characters you don't even like.
  20. In the Company of Men
    Stunning, unsettling, beautifully written drama.
  21. Timecode
    A voyeur's delight.
  22. Startup.com
    For sheer dramatic wallop outpowers virtually every fiction feature I've seen this year.
  23. L.A. Confidential
    Voluptuously engrossing.
  24. The Grey Zone
    No dramatic feature has ever come quite this close to the matter-of-fact ugliness of the Nazi crimes.
  25. A Simple Plan
    Lean, elegant, and emotionally complex -- a marvel of backwoods classicism.
  26. Chinatown
    It’s one of those rare puzzle-box mysteries where, even if you can’t work it all out, you trust that it all makes sense. And when you do finally solve it — for me, around the fifth viewing — it fills you with the giddy sense of accomplishment you get from polishing off a stubborn New York Times Sunday crossword.
  27. Babe
    A witty, stylish, beautifully made charmer of a family picture.
  28. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    Errol Morris may have been put on earth to make The Fog of War, a stunning portrait of Robert S. McNamara that closes a year of outstanding nonfiction movies on a high note.
  29. Bukowski: Born into This
    It reveals Bukowski to be a far grander artist than his bum's armor would suggest.
  30. From Hell
    Sensational and accomplished.
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