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For 16,524 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Big
    The greatest thing about Big is that its makers have known how to end it in a thoroughly satisfying fashion, which is always the challenge-and often the stumbling block-of fantasy. In never confusing what is child-like with childishness, Big is actually a refreshingly grown-up comedy-for the entire family. [3 Jun 1988, p.1]
    • Los Angeles Times
  2. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    [Figgis's] most venturesome, most personal - and least accessible film to date. If you open your mind and trust him completely, it's possible to experience the wrenching impact of this ravishingly beautiful and highly distinctive film.
  3. Johnny Suede
    Johnny Suede has an astonishingly consistent tone and a remarkably talented and cohesive cast. [21 Aug 1992]
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Christmas Story
    Laugh-out-loud funny. [11 Dec 1997, p.F48]
    • Los Angeles Times
  5. Virtuosity
    Virtuosity is a sleek, brutal techno-thriller that generates nonstop action, but for at least some of us the fun is spoiled by its numbing body count and murky story line.
  6. Aliens
    But of all the film's choices, the best was Weaver. She's its white-hot core, given fine, irascible dialogue to come blazing out of that patrician mouth, and the chance to look, for a moment, like a space-dusted Sleeping Beauty in her hyper-sleep casket.
  7. Salt
    And really, who goes to summer action movies for cast-iron logic anyway? Or for plausible characters, for that matter? You go for brisk stunts expertly executed, for well-directed action that doesn't allow you to catch your breath and for one of the preeminent action stars of our time. Yes, that would be Angelina Jolie.
  8. Step Up 3-D
    An exhilarating summer treat for all ages.
  9. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
    The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is back with all of the lethal and loving bite it was meant to have: The kiss of the vampire is cooler, the werewolf is hotter, the battles are bigger and the choices are, as everyone with a pulse (and a few without) knows by now, life-changing.
  10. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    She is by turns blue, bitter, hilarious, unbroken; a Hollywood-style portrait in infinite ambition. In that role, Rivers is unforgettable.
  11. Kick-Ass
    This shrewd mixture of slick comic-book mayhem, unmistakable sweetness and ear-splitting profanity is poised to be a popular culture phenomenon because of its exact sense of the fantasies of the young male fanboy population.
  12. Fighter
    Director Amir Bar-Lev finds a way to mix the personal, the philosophical and the historical into a complex human document, something that's funny, moving and sad.
  13. Missing Young Woman
    Chillingly, Portillo reveals that 50 women were killed in the 18 months it took her to make her film.
  14. Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    A beautifully articulated and acutely perceptive work with impeccable, carefully shaded performances.
  15. A Moment of Innocence
    Finds the impassioned Makhmalbaf in a more contemplative, even whimsical, mood than usual.
  16. Sobreviviré
    Sobrevivire has a satisfying scope and substance with an appealing blend of warmth, humor and pathos with a dash of tartness.
  17. Agnivarsha: The Fire and the Rain
    This is a splendid example of contemporary Bollywood in which a director's sophisticated style and vision have been brought to bear on the beloved conventions of popular Hindi cinema.
  18. Punks
    Terrific entertainment, full of wit and energy, alternately hilarious and serious -- and very sexy.
  19. Mad Song
    Instead of a genre movie-industry calling card, Roy has made a venturesome and effective film.
  20. Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen
    So engaging and illuminating that it is enjoyable even for those unfamiliar with one of cinema's most dynamic forms.
  21. Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
    A dark allegory and a dazzling example of Japanese anime.
  22. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    Raises it to the level of an art film with fully drawn characters, a serious underlying theme, and a sophisticated style and point of view.
  23. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
    Their (Kim Bartley and Donnacha Ó Briain ) remarkable true-life footage makes this 74-minute film as potent as behemoths twice its size.
  24. Chop Suey
    Of the many remarks Weber makes in the course of his beautifully fashioned film, none may be more significant than his observation, "We photograph things we can never be."
  25. Imelda
    Diaz has said that she hopes the film asks the right questions. But it seems, in this case, that the questions are leading - and rightly so. Marcos is given all the tape she needs to hang herself.
  26. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    With her unblinking but nonjudgmental eye, Spheeris doesn't shy away from the horrifying, at times violent messes these kids make of their lives, but she is always sensitive to the pain behind everything, to the unhappy futility of squandered potential.
  27. Ae Fond Kiss...
    All of Loach's formidable strengths, which include a sense of humor, come together in the wrenching A Fond Kiss.
  28. Sunset Story
    The result is a wonderfully humorous take on a seldom-broached subject.
  29. The Other Side of the Street
    Spritely, tender and unpredictable.
  30. Voices in Wartime
    A thoughtful, provocative exploration of the ways poets have dealt with the experience of battle throughout history.
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