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For 16,522 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: 8,697 out of 16522
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16522
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16522
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  1. Kandahar
    This remarkably revealing and timely film, in which the depiction of pain and sorrow is suffused with a sense of beauty and a graceful, flowing style, more than lives up to glowing advance notices.
  2. What's Cooking?
    For so brisk and entertaining a film, sharp in its observations but light in its touch, Cooking has unexpected substance and is a formidable accomplishment in that it brings dimension to its nearly 40 principal characters.
  3. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion [re-release]
    A provocative political thriller that is as troubling today as when it came out in 1970. Maybe more so.
  4. Lost in La Mancha
    Records an accident while it's happening, revealing a situation that makes you laugh again and again while weeping, metaphorically at least, for the sheer frustration of it all.
  5. I Capture the Castle
    It's a rich, emotional story, a wonderfully appealing film made with humor and intelligence, but there is also something almost magical about how it takes the stuff of innumerable previous films -- love, romance and adolescent coming of age -- and turns them into something that feels one of a kind.
  6. The Son
    There are all sorts of ways to look at The Son -- as a philosophical thriller, as a statement of faith, as a call to political arms or just as a terrific entertainment.
  7. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (re-released)
    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg has stood the test of time as beautifully as Deneuve and seems likely to enchant future generations as fully as it has audiences over the past four decades.
  8. Senseless
    It's a laff riot that also contains a torrent of scathing social satire that couldn't be more timely in light of the dismantling of affirmative action.
  9. The Sea Is Watching
    An exquisite period film from a script Akira Kurosawa did not live to direct. It has a softer edge than the master probably would have delivered, but it is deeply affecting.
  10. The Faculty
    A smart, lively and unpretentious exploitation picture...Consistently funny and clever.
  11. The Ignorant Fairies
    This graceful and wise film moves to its denouement with subtlety and, at its end, strikes a note that seems just right for all that has gone before.
  12. Insomnia
    Insomnia shows an equally welcome ability: a gift of creating intelligent, engrossing popular entertainment.
  13. Babe
    That rare movie that completely fulfills its admittedly modest aims.
  14. Buena Vista Social Club
    Being able to hear this kind of playing is a special moment in time, one we don't want to end and one that we're privileged to experience.
  15. Hilary and Jackie
    It takes two to be sisters, two to have a rivalry, and two exceptional actresses to turn Hilary and Jackie into a compelling look at the most intimate and troubling of family dynamics.
  16. Pi
    It is a brilliant intellectual adventure that fans of bold independent filmmaking will want to experience, even though the ending is something of a letdown.
  17. Ronin
    It's a welcome throwback to the days when the world didn't have to end or tanker trucks explode to get an action audience's attention.
  18. A Walk on the Moon
    A film of exceptional emotional honesty.
  19. The Wood
    An across-the-board delight featuring a spot-on ensemble cast that treats the most awkward and embarrassing moments in the rites of passage with affectionate hilarity.
  20. Office Space
    Bristling with shrewd observation, inspired humor and all-around smarts, Office Space is a winner about a guy who's beginning to feel like a loser.
  21. Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
    Haneke illuminates beautifully the lives of his people with an eye for the revealing nuance and detail.
  22. The Piano Teacher
    The Piano Teacher will surely be too strong for some audiences and is best left to those who like films that take big risks and get away with them.
  23. Teacher's Pet
    Smart and stylish, Disney's Teacher's Pet is one family film that has appeal for adults as well as children.
  24. Ça commence aujourd'hui
    Although there is real pain and suffering in It All Starts Today, it is too impassioned, too brisk and too embracing of life and human foibles to be depressing.
  25. Femme Fatale
    Here, the message is the moviemaking and the unparalleled joy you get from a film that can carry you off so completely, making you forget about everything save for the beautiful lies in front of you.
  26. To Die For
    The most accurate assault against the media age since "Network," To Die For's killer lines and wicked sensibility are given added poignancy by the off-center, sensitive performance of Joaquin Phoenix, River's younger brother, the only person more deluded about Suzanne than she is about herself.
  27. Kissing Jessica Stein
    For an American film it is a groundbreaker in exploring the realm of sexual fluidity, and it does so with wit, wisdom and in a completely entertaining fashion.
  28. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    Artfully, even elegantly constructed, Secret Lives skillfully probes issues of conflicting emotions and allegiances in a dark time, yet emerges as a loving affirmation of humanity's remarkable potential for goodness in the face of pervasive evil.
  29. A Mighty Wind
    The jokes would be funny even if they weren't perfectly timed, but what makes them come across as so poignant is the seriousness with which the director and his co-conspirators deliver their jabs and japes.
  30. How I Killed My Father
    Truly, there can be nothing as complex as the simplest human relationships, and nothing as satisfying as a film that understands that as this one does.
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