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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. Far From Heaven
    Bold and brilliant.
  2. Run Lola Run
    An existential chain reaction, yet as remarkable as his cinematic gamesmanship is the way that he traces the anatomy of feeling in Lola.
  3. What Time Is It Over There?
    Tsai builds this shimmering story with deft, deadpan wit and a warm, understated love of the absurd, both in life and afterlife.
  4. You Can Count on Me
    Beautiful, compassionate, articulate domestic drama.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Say Anything...
    It all comes down to one scene: John Cusack, standing at dusk, boom box aloft, blaring Peter Gabriel's ''In Your Eyes'' outside Ione Skye's window. This, friends, is what rapturous, heartrending, soul-spinning love is all about.
  6. The Five Obstructions
    As he rises to each challenge, you realize that von Trier, the most exalted of prankish sadists, has orchestrated the filmmaking equivalent of the story of Job. The Five Obstructions glories in art, life, and the faith that binds them.
  7. The Limey
    A small cubist masterpiece about crime and punishment set in that most split-level of environments, Los Angeles.
  8. Dead Man Walking
    A bold, searching, wrenching experience. It may be the most complexly impassioned message movie Hollywood has ever made.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  9. Topsy-Turvy
    Topsy-Turvy reminds us that, in any age, creative expression is at once the most personal and most communal of enterprises.
  10. The Return
    Can be interpreted politically or even biblically or not at all, as the elemental struggles between dominance and submission, impulse and action, man and nature, father and son, play out to their stunning conclusion.
  11. To Be and to Have
    So superb, so graceful, so strong -- another beauty in this year of good documentaries -- that I do believe it will influence career choices, sending inspired viewers to study pedagogy, or cinematography.
  12. Saving Private Ryan
    A movie of staggering virtuosity and raw lyric power, a masterpiece of terror, chaos, blood, and courage.
  13. Boys Don't Cry
    It's Swank, however, who's the revelation. By the end, her Brandon/Teena is beyond male or female. It's as if we were simply glimpsing the character's soul, in all its yearning and conflicted beauty.
  14. Fargo
    Dizzily rich, witty, and satisfying.
  15. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    The storytelling is the series' best, with a zingy balance of drama, humor, and Deep Thoughts (in a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, directed with confident exuberance by Irvin Kershner). [Special Edition]
  16. All the Real Girls
    It's thrillingly original, lyrical, and wise, and the filmmaker conveys the mutable intensity of young love with the authoritative originality of an important filmmaker.
  17. Election
    Alexander Payne's scathing, subtle, and complexly funny tragicomedy builds a perfect, off-kilter universe--it's a first cousin to "Rushmore."
  18. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    One of the most revelatory rock portraits ever made.
  19. About Schmidt
    The power of this great movie -- part comedy, part tragedy, part satire, mostly masterpiece -- is in the details.
  20. Boogie Nights
    Mark Wahlberg, in a star-making performance, has the kind of electric ingenuousness that John Travolta did in "Saturday Night Fever."
  21. Distant
    Ceylan, who also served as cinematographer, frames the affecting, unstudied performances in gorgeously chosen shots and nonevents that sometimes teeter on the edge of comedy before knocking us breathless with their emotional power.
  22. In the Bedroom
    The uncoagulated anguish of parents mourning the death of a child has rarely been more powerfully depicted than in the collected vignettes of grief, rage, and retribution that make up the riveting domestic drama In the Bedroom.
  23. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    There's no denying that when it comes to communicating a certain delirious romanticism of character shaped by thousands of hours spent sitting in the dark, the artist who made this showpiece is a master.
  24. Memento
    Memento, which may be the ultimate existential thriller, has a spooky repetitive urgency that takes on the clarity of a dream.
  25. Waiting for Guffman
    A madcap gem.
  26. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    Still the grandest of all science-fiction movies.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  27. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    Stunning, fully formed masterpiece.
  28. Sexy Beast
    Carries so much impacted menace and visual narrative gamesmanship that it brought back some of the excitement I felt nearly a decade ago watching Quentin Tarantino's ''Reservoir Dogs.''
  29. Love and Death on Long Island
    A highly original Death in Venice-scented comedy drama written and directed with flair by British feature novice Richard Kwietniowski.
  30. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    Potent and eye-opening documentary.
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