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For 4,219 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Radio Days
Lowest review score: 0 Teen Wolf Too
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,423 out of 4219
  2. Mixed: 1,074 out of 4219
  3. Negative: 722 out of 4219
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  1. Captain America: Civil War
    After the nihilistic deconstruction of Deadpool and the flattening self-importance of Batman v. Superman, Captain America: Civil War reminds you how funny and exciting these pictures can be when they’re done right — you know, like comic books. The summer movie season has barely begun, and already the remedy for superhero film fatigue has arrived.
  2. Body Double
    It's such a pleasure in so many ways that one feels like yelling, "Welcome back." Forget Scarface, all is forgiven. Body Double reminds us what it's like to be in the presence of an original, and that does not happen often at the movies, these days or any days. [27 Oct 1984, p.D1]
    • Miami Herald
  3. Monsters, Inc.
    Movies like Monsters, Inc. literally make you feel like a kid again, marveling at the joyously inventive sights before you, and that's a feat that should not be taken lightly.
  4. Love & Mercy
    Love & Mercy allows you to understand how the lifelong auditory hallucination that haunted Wilson also fueled his creativity. Sometimes, from madness, great art can emerge.
  5. The Manchurian Candidate
    Rarely do you see first-rate melodrama welded to first-rate political satire. [13 May 1988, p.D5]
    • Miami Herald
  6. The Bourne Ultimatum
    It's an action picture that's been distilled and compressed to its tightest, barest, almost abstract essence, and it's absolutely thrilling.
  7. The Hateful Eight
    But Tarantino isn’t glorifying the ugliness; he’s condemning it. He just wants to put on a grand show at the same time. “Are you not entertained?” he seems to be asking. Yes. Yes, we are.
  8. The Secret of NIMH
    This may be a film for children, but its achievement is no less serious. For only when animation approaches reality this closely does its liberation from reality -- its celebration of a fantasy world in which anything is possible, including talking mice and swashbuckling rats -- have its impact on us. [20 July 1982, p.C6]
    • Miami Herald
  9. Madonna: Truth or Dare
    The Madonna that Keshishian has caught on film is as interesting for her ambition -- love me , desire me -- as any other quality. [17 May 1991, p.G5]
    • Miami Herald
  10. Gilles' Wife
    There's a timelessness to her character that makes her real even today. And in Devos' intense portrayal, she's a woman you admire.
  11. Hard Boiled
    As a director, Woo never hesitates, and the result is exhilarating. [22 Oct 1993, p.G6]
    • Miami Herald
  12. Lost in Translation
    It's a sign of just how much Coppola respects her characters that she doesn't make us privy to that final line: It is only meant for them to share. But like the rest of the ethereal Lost in Translation, you don't need to have it spelled out in order to feel it.
  13. Mulholland Dr.
    It just requires an open mind, a love of film and a willingness to dream.
  14. Into the Abyss
    The overriding point of Into the Abyss, what keeps this sad, sorrowful film from becoming depressing and elevates it far above the usual chatter of liberal-conservative debate, is that there can be light on the other end of even the darkest of tunnels.
  15. The Return
    Many questions remain purposely unanswered: Where was the father for 12 years? Why did he want to go away with the kids? What's in a box he finds hidden in the island? Yet, in a remarkable ending, the boys discover their feelings.
  16. Signs
    If "The Sixth Sense" was Shyamalan's take on ghost stories and "Unbreakable" his ode to comic books, then Signs is the evil cousin to Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
  17. Chunhyangdyun
    As magical as "The Wizard of Oz," the film leaves its spare setting and blooms into action in a colorful springtime world to tell the story of an epic romance lush with silken costumes, giggling courtesans, comic servants and rulers cruel and compassionate.
    • Miami Herald
  18. The Interrupters
    One of the first things that strikes you about these courageous people, who constantly confront volatile, gun-carrying thugs, is that they outgrew their violent pasts and now live contented lives with their families.
  19. Far From Heaven
    It feels wholly artificial, and your eyes never tire of drinking it all in.
  20. Topsy-Turvy
    A joyous, amazingly detailed paean to imagination and personal expression that dares -- and succeeds -- to illustrate one of the most mysterious enigmas of all: the creative process.
  21. Croupier
    Don't let it slip out of town without getting a look at it.
  22. Chocolat
    Chocolat is as beautiful as it is solemn. It's a meditation on memory and on the nature of innocence in the face of great, irresistible change, but its glory is in the quiet development of its several characters. [12 May 1989, p.5]
    • Miami Herald
  23. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    The movie is filled with wonderful music, memorable characters and rich, quotable dialogue. But what makes the picture really soar is the way it reminds you what it feels like to fall in love -- and the endless, countless possibilities a new romance brings.
  24. Boys Don't Cry
    A remarkable movie that merits a place alongside "The Executioner's Song" and "In Cold Blood" as an unforgettable depiction of tragedy in the heartland.
  25. The Lobster
    Another strange, sometimes harrowing exercise in absurdity that resonates despite its weirdness.
  26. The Name of the Rose
    Ribald, wry and even, from time to time, suspenseful, The Name of the Rose is actually a movie-movie -- rich in Hollywood convention, dense with images, with muscular performances (the principals play their types to the maximum), with good, old- fashioned movie stuff. Never a dull moment. How very unlikely. [24 Oct 1986, p.D1]
    • Miami Herald
  27. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    The movie offers just the right amount of spectacle.
  28. Notes on a Scandal
    Dench and Blanchett will likely pick up Oscar nominations; no one could improve on either performance.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Edge of Seventeen
    Edge of Seventeen is the rare kind of film that is much larger than it seems. [30 Jul 1999, p.6G]
    • Miami Herald
  30. Rachel Getting Married
    A portrait of a family reeling with pain and resentment -- and rising to the challenge of dealing with it head-on.
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