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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. Up for Grabs
    A winning combination of humor and crafty filmmaking.
  2. Another Road Home
    An amazing achievement of personal filmmaking.
  3. The Real Dirt on Farmer John
    Though its title suggests an exposé on Dodger Dogs, the movie is the moving, inspirational account of John Peterson's discovery of an almost divine calling in the land beneath his feet.
  4. Street Fight
    The story that first-time feature filmmaker Curry tells is extremely compelling, but where he really scores is in addressing politics and race in a way that allows events to speak for themselves.
  5. Favela Rising
    Memorable and significant.
  6. House of Sand
    As original as it is lovely.
  7. King Leopold's Ghost
    Although King Leopold's Ghost dwells perhaps too long on the viciousness, it does offer clues on how it became a circle.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    51 Birch Street
    What makes 51 Birch Street a moving revelation rather than a therapeutic exercise is Block's commitment to understanding his parents, Mike and Mina, on their own terms, regardless of what it does to his image of them.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Romántico
    Pain, poetry and perseverance form the backbone of Mark Becker's compassionate, well-observed documentary.
  10. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
    While excellent films like Danis Tanovic's Oscar-winning "No Man's Land" and Vinko Bresan's "Witnesses" have dealt with the war itself, few have dealt with the aftermath, and none with the aching power and empathy of Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams.
  11. Eklavya: The Royal Guard
    Something about Eklavya: The Royal Guard suggests a lost film by David Lean. With some muted echoes of "Hamlet." And a whiff of "Rigoletto."
  12. Trust
    Hartley has such a spare, controlled touch in this film that this landscape seems both realistic and fantastic. [16 Aug 1991]
    • Los Angeles Times
  13. Flirt
    There's a beguiling throwaway quality to Flirt that has the effect of making it stick with you.
  14. Pierrepoint
    At once desperately grim and unnervingly gripping, providing an exacting sense of the detail and procedure that went into death by hanging.
  15. A Man of No Importance
    Towering over one and all, not surprisingly, is Finney as the increasingly tormented but brave Alfie. [22 Dec 1994]
    • Los Angeles Times
  16. Primo Levi's Journey
    For while the idea of comparing the Europe of 60 years ago to the Europe of today sounds didactic, the results are anything but. Ferrario turns out to have a delicate, unforced eye for elegant counterpoints, and his style unobtrusively draws you into the journey.
  17. Exiled
    To packs the moments of contemplation with as much suspense as the action sequences and is a master of ratcheting up tension through small details.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Price of Sugar
    Still, as compelling as The Price of Sugar is, it also represents a squandered opportunity. A stronger connection could have been made between the film's subject and our own responsibility as consumers.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Golda's Balcony
    Harper and Golda's Balcony generate tremendous influence and timeless meaning.
  20. Protagonist
    Yu's film may be challenging to synopsize, but it's thoroughly engrossing and wildly surprising.
  21. Half Moon
    An eloquent and audacious lament.
  22. Tuya's Marriage
    Thoroughly gratifying in its consistent inventiveness and has a grasp of human nature so universal that there's no feeling of the exotic about the film and its people.
  23. Beauty in Trouble
    Consistently inventive and surprising, Beauty in Trouble evokes human nature in all its strengths and weaknesses, contradictions and ambiguities. It is itself a beauty -- rich in imagery, deftly paced and structured.
  24. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
    A hugely entertaining, efficiently crafted documentary about a ruthless, if undeniably clever, American political force.
  25. Dung che sai duk
    "Ashes" is glorious and ultimately wrenching, but it's a tough journey.
  26. Choose Connor
    What makes Choose Connor so special and unsettling is the consistent adroitness and perfect timing with which Eberl makes his revelations.
  27. The Black Balloon
    For the most part, this unblinking family drama packs a visceral punch. Thomas' journey toward acceptance is blessedly free of noble lessons and filled with real people.
  28. Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
    Both an irresistible human story and as fine a documentary on football as "Hoop Dreams" was on basketball.
  29. Shall We Kiss?
    It is classical in form yet fresh and spontaneous.
  30. Forbidden Lie$
    Even after you've seen Forbidden Lie$, the dizzying, drop-dead fascinating documentary on Norma Khouri, you won't be absolutely sure if she's on the level or a con artist ranked as "one of the best ever." That's how good she is.
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