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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. Felicia's Journey
    One of the year's riskiest yet most effective films.
  2. Tape
    Thoroughly engrossing.
  3. A Decade Under the Influence
    It is often remarked that the years between "Easy Rider" (1969) and "Star Wars" (1977) marked a second golden age in American filmmaking, and this documentary, as comprehensive as it is incisive, is a reminder of just how many terrific pictures came out during those years.
  4. The Tailor of Panama
    Benefits from delicious acting from co-stars Geoffrey Rush and Pierce Brosnan, a mordant script co-written by le Carre (along with Boorman and Andrew Davies), and the distinctive touch of its director.
  5. The Third Miracle
    Has the gritty, intimate feel of an Eastern European film--and packs the power of a genuine revelation.
  6. Thomas in Love
    Starts gently, with amusing drollness, then gets more serious, even provocative, without sacrificing its light touch. This is very much a film with something on its mind.
  7. The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    So refreshing and funny and, in its way, sophisticated.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tosca
    Altogether, this is successful as a film, while at the same time being a most touching reconsideration of the familiar masterpiece.
  9. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    An old-fashioned weepie tucked inside a fiercely indicting political thriller.
  10. Derrida
    An absolutely first-rate documentary.
  11. Manic
    If the cast is distractingly pretty, the performances are also quite fine and, in the case of Gordon-Levitt, exceptional.
  12. The Children of the Century
    In scope, ambition and accomplishment, Children of the Century therefore takes Kurys' career to a whole new level.
  13. Only the Strong Survive
    It emphasizes its stars' capacity to endure as individuals and entertainers and does not dwell on the harder times and personal travails they survived. However, it acknowledges the well-known exploitation black artists have traditionally experienced in the pop music industry.
  14. The Hunt for Red October
    The production is as clean and effective as Red October herself; there's not one dial or glowing radar screen too many; the underwater hits and near-misses are clearly choreographed and the undersea intensity is captured perfectly by Jan De Bont's camera work. [2 Mar 1990, Calendar, p.F-1]
    • Los Angeles Times
  15. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
    Far from seeming dated, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie seems timelier than ever, downright prophetic, for that matter.
    • Los Angeles Times
  16. Haiku Tunnel
    A sly and captivating comedy of imaginative leaps and gently orchestrated pandemonium.
  17. On the Run
    Reveals its secrets slowly and with coy deliberation. The storytelling has the quality of a striptease, so that by the end of the film, Le Roux looks radically different from how he appears at the start.
  18. Tumbleweeds
    One of those wonderful, deeply personal pictures that pop up every now and then to lift your spirits.
  19. Carnage
    There's undeniable pathos to many of these encounters, and because the director has a wonderful feel for color and knows how to throw a frame around the world, there's also unmistakable beauty.
  20. Primal Fear
    A tight courtroom melodrama that serves up twist after twist like so many baffling knuckle balls, this film handles its suspenseful material with skill and style.
  21. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    Occasionally heavy-handed and overdone -- and scarcely free from a self-congratulatory tone -- this latest spoof is nonetheless lots of fun, clever and fearless, and loaded with wicked lines and touches.
  22. Mission: Impossible II
    The power of film to irrationally transform and exalt is almost a religion to Woo, and another reason why he was the natural go-to guy for this lucrative movie franchise.
  23. Charlotte Sometimes
    Would that all love stories were as sophisticated and amusing as the satisfying Charlotte Sometimes.
  24. Deliver Us from Eva
    Flows smoothly, looks great and probably cost lots less than it looks. One can't help resist saying it delivers the goods.
  25. Sugar & Spice
    Amusingly subversive, thanks to sharp writing and direction, by Mandy Nelson and Francine McDougall, respectively.
  26. Mystery Men
    It's clever, amusing, clever, visually inventive, clever, well-cast .
  27. Looking Through Lillian
    Director Jake Torem swiftly moves beyond familiar first-feature artiness to create an illuminating portrait of a young woman (Jade Henham) brought to a crossroads in her life.
  28. Blue in the Face
    [The movie has] considerable charm and humor....Adam Holender's fresh, airy camera work and a vibrant electric score also add vitality to an all-talk film. [13 Oct 1999, p.F8]
    • Los Angeles Times
  29. Swimming Pool
    Ozon misses some chances with Sarah, but Rampling doesn't skip a beat. Freed from the burden of likability, the actress pushes the character from near-farce to near-tragedy, without once appealing to sentimentalism.
  30. Two Family House
    A film of rare, delicate sensibility.
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