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For 16,520 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 2.4 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 16520
  2. Mixed: 5,806 out of 16520
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16520
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  1. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    The history of slavery was vividly relived through the memories of a fictional 110-year-old woman beautifully played by Cicely Tyson in a story adapted for TV by Tracy Keenan Wynn and directed by John Korty. The climactic scene, when Miss Jane defiantly drank from a "whites-only" water fountain, was one of TV's most memorable moments in one of TV's most memorable movies. [23 Apr 1989, p.25]
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  2. The Sting
    The Sting, that unalloyed delight...A pure entertainment film, it is impeccably crafted and well-deserving of its immense popularity.[25 Aug 1985, p.5]
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  3. Don't Look Now
    The movie remains a devastating portrait of grief, a master class in disjunctive editing and a haunting disquisition on the use of the color red.
  4. Fantastic Planet
    Director Rene Laloux and his co-writer, illustrator Roland Topor, in adapting Stefan Wul's science-fiction novel Oms en Serie, have created a surreal nightmare worthy of Dali, one that is filled with seemingly magical phenomena and bizarre and dangerous flora and fauna. [09 Oct 1998, p.F18]
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  5. The Holy Mountain
    More than three decades later, Jodorowsky’s vision of chaos has acquired a powerful aura of prophecy.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Iceman Cometh
    Though Lee Marvin doesn't quite work as the salesman Hickey, the film features amazing performances from Robert Ryan and, in his last film role, Fredric March. [20 Mar 1994, p.5]
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  7. Mean Streets
    Mean Streets is a jazzy riff of a movie, zigging and zagging as if to the beat of snapping fingers. Its greatness lies in its leanness, with nary a word, a move, a gesture that's nonessential.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
    A demanding, harrowing drama of agonized love laced with sardonic humor. [19 Apr 1992, p.9]
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  9. The Mother and the Whore
    The film is at once of its time--simultaneously the fullest flowering of the French New Wave and the shattering of its male chauvinist tendencies--and utterly timeless in its perception of love, sex and human nature.
  10. Cahill U.S. Marshal
    An amiable 1973 John Wayne movie, typical of his later Westerns. [09 Oct 1988, p.4]
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  11. Playtime
    Never was Tati's mastery of sound effects more inspired than in Playtime, a commercial disaster at the time of its release that nevertheless may be Tati's true masterpiece. [14 May 1998, p.F18]
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  12. Dillinger
    A masterful performance by Warren Oates in the title role, but the film emerges as trite and hollow anyway. [19 Aug 1990, p.4]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Legend of Hell House
    Visually, by today's standards, The Legend of Hell House is pretty tame, but what it may lack in visual acuity is more than made up for in atmosphere and sheer creepiness. [29 Oct 1992, p.30]
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  14. The Offence
    A splendid, unjustly neglected 1973 British film in which Sean Connery, at his very best under Sidney Lumet's direction, plays a veteran police sergeant haunted by years of contact with terrible crimes and on the brink of a total breakdown. [27 May 1990, p.10]
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  15. Scorpio
    A jaundiced look at the CIA, bolstered by a terrific cast. [14 Sep 1986, p.6]
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  16. Theater of Blood
    A triumph of stylish, witty Grand Guignol, it allows Price to range richly between humor and pathos as a crazed Shakespearean actor. It's not too much to say that if horror pictures were taken seriously Price would have been a 1973 Oscar contender. [24 Mar 2005, p.E15]
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  17. Sisters
    The first full flowering of the De Palma style, the film cleverly uses split-screens and cross-cutting to string the audience along while heightening the emotions of any given scene nearly to the point of parody. The movie is playful and provocative -- at once one of the scariest and funniest horror movies of the '70s. [21 Oct 2018, p.E7]
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  18. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
    Paul Newman has lots of fun playing the legendary hanging judge, and Ava Gardner is a ravishing Lily Langtry, the object of Bean's unrequited love. [18 Aug 1991, p.6]
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  19. 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.
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lady Sings the Blues
    The film, which also stars Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor, plays fast and loose with the facts, but there's no denying Ross' powerful turn as the troubled singer -- she received a best actress Oscar nomination. [08 Nov 2005, p.E5]
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  21. Early Summer
    Once again, Ozu's script, co-written with constant colleague Kogo Noda, is a marvel of organic detail and deceptive naturalism. Ozu's late style -- the serene, easy flow, the smooth succession of floor-level interior shots, the quietly restrained acting, the mastery of intimate psychology and the subtle portrayal of Japanese society in transition -- are all in place. [24 Mar 1989, p.23]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fat City
    Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges and Susan Tyrrell are all superb in this downbeat boxing drama adapted by Leonard Gardner from his novel. Conrad Hall supplied the gorgeously stark cinematography. [16 Dec 2002, p.8]
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  23. Tokyo Twilight
    Ozu cherishes tradition but accepts the inevitability of loss and change, and is as all-embracing as Jean Renoir. His people may judge and not forgive, often understandably, but as one of the greatest filmmakers he does not do so. [04 Oct 2007, p.E13]
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  24. Le Samouraï
    Le Samourai is a film of few words but many vivid images and, above all, impeccable style. [09 Jul 1998, p.F18]
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  25. Play It Again, Sam
    It's a satisfying comedy in which the humor actually develops from character rather than plot. [15 Mar 1987, p.5]
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  26. Buck and the Preacher
    Lively entertainment underlined by some stinging social comment. [04 May 1972, p.17]
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  27. Fritz the Cat
    Contemporary viewers are more likely to find Fritz the Cat a mildly amusing period piece, as dated as a Nehru jacket.
  28. The Godfather
    Overflowing with life, rich with all the grand emotions and vital juices of existence, up to and including blood. And its deaths, like that of Hotspur in "Henry IV, Part I," continue to shock no matter how often we've watched them coming. [16 Mar 1997, Calendar, p.7]
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  29. Pink Flamingos
    One thing you can say for Pink Flamingos, it has a frat party chumminess, even at its most repulsive. In the late '60s and through the '70s, Waters used the same gang of pals for his ensemble, and that created a kind of "let's get down and dirty together" camaraderie.
  30. Tokyo Story
    The movie...remains perhaps the wisest of family dramas, an experience as wrenching as it is restorative.
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