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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love in the Afternoon
    Coop is too long in the tooth as the rich rogue, but Hepburn and the Parisian locales make this worth watching. [13 Feb 1997, p.F43]
    • Los Angeles Times
  2. Journey's End
    The film rarely feels static or stagy. It's a fine and memorable effort.
  3. Both Sides of the Blade
    Watching it, you can feel Denis zeroing in on the conventions of the bourgeois French melodrama with something resembling a lover’s playfulness; she wants to rough them up, test their limits and bend them into challenging new configurations.
  4. Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
    Considering its subject often enjoys the simple wonder inherent in characters who look into the distance, Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny does an extra-fine job of looking back with similarly rich and appreciative curiosity.
  5. A Borrowed Identity
    At its best, A Borrowed Identity concerns itself with the malleability of self, with who we are and how society and culture can force identity choices on us.
  6. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
    The result is a cinematic curio in search of a more conclusive theme and emotional payoff.
  7. Megadoc
    Figgis gets moments of real tension and genuine behind-the-scenes drama, but is also too respectful and admiring of Coppola, understandably so, to push his own inquiry to its limits.
  8. Battle of the Sexes
    Enjoyable and entertaining.
  9. River's Edge
    There's a lot of low-key poetry and nicely casual tension in Hunter's direction and in Frederick Elmes' cinematography--and the acting ensemble is fine. For all its flaws and the revulsion it may induce, River's Edge has something valuable: a dark, harrowing but moral perspective.
  10. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    Bird has done a stylish and involving job here, turning in an entertaining production that's got considerable visual flair, especially in its action-heavy Imax sections.
  11. Hive
    Hive is occasionally bumpy, but it’s the rough terrain of a raw narrative — the out-of-place music cue or awkward dream snippet doesn’t disrupt the social realist momentum, which is at its best when focused on the grit of how moving forward is also moving on.
  12. Cold in July
    Tense and violent, it grabs you from the first moments and rarely loosens its hold until the last body drops.
  13. Layer Cake
    A sleek, effective entertainment that is a refreshing respite from the slick emptiness of recent American crime dramas.
  14. The Company
    Makes the world of ballet, seen by so many as rarefied, accessible and exciting, a rigorous art that yields breathtaking results.
  15. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    Faraldo's most engrossing and inventive script, alternately serious and comic, is beautifully realized by Binoche, Auteuil and Kusturica, all of whom reveal a nobility of spirit and stylish gallantry so cherished by the French.
  16. Ray
    Ray may be too by the numbers, but with Jamie Foxx out front, this is one film that knows how to make it all add up.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Parent Trap
    A charming comedy, liberally laced with slapstick. [26 Dec 1986, p.27]
    • Los Angeles Times
  18. Mask
    Stoltz is simply amazing in the variety, the humor and the absolute lack of self-pity with which he draws Rocky, whose spirit soars so far beyond his body.
  19. Dead Pigs
    Dynamic in a Hollywood-friendly manner, the film has a deliberately broad tone, but by no means does that detract from its thematic acumen.
  20. A First Farewell
    A First Farewell is a gorgeously shot window into a world most of us hadn’t looked through before, but it’s worth examining the meanings of its images.
  21. The Inspection
    In its most moving and offhandedly momentous moments, The Inspection becomes a chronicle of not just persecution and survival but also solidarity, in which the all-American brotherhood in which Ellis finds himself actually can function as advertised.
  22. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Instead of pushing for tough answers to difficult questions, this film is content to mythologize Thompson's bad-boy behavior, celebrating things like his willingness to drink a bottle of bourbon a day and go hunting with a submachine gun.
  23. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    Turns into a film that is too ostentatiously pleased with itself, so in love with its own cleverness it doesn't notice it's darn near worn you out.
  24. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
    Its stars, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, are on screen virtually all of the time, and they're always worth watching. But the film puts such a premium on tastefulness that it never threatens to become exciting. [23 Nov 1990]
    • Los Angeles Times
  25. Crossing Delancey
    From its first romantic encounter, as two pairs of eyes lock across a crowded room, to its last tremulous one, "Crossing Delancey" is unqualified pleasure, bound on every side by love. [31 Aug 1988]
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What's Up, Doc?
    The film is a cultivated taste -- hilarious to some, silly to others. The 94-minute romp holds up well with Madeline Kahn in her first film role and Streisand showing off her likable comic abilities. [19 Feb 1993, p.F24]
    • Los Angeles Times
  27. Three Monkeys
    Unpredictable and gratifying, Three Monkeys emerges as a mordant cautionary tale on the contagiousness of corruption. It is rich in atmosphere.
  28. The Long Walk Home
    A blob of good intentions. Good intentions do not a good movie make. 
  29. Zootopia 2
    After several haphazard attempts with the Frozen and Moana franchises, Zootopia 2 can take the title as Disney’s most effective animated sequel yet.
  30. Bowfinger
    Has it's share of downtime.
    • Los Angeles Times
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