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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. Shooter
    The movie's politics may miss their mark, but its thrills are dead-on.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Shock to the System
    A Shock to the System has wit, a cool classy charm and a hero you root for even after he rigs his house's faulty wiring so his nagging wife unwittingly electrocutes herself while he's out of town on business. [23 Mar 1990, p.G5]
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  3. The Lady in the Van
    The Lady in the Van doesn’t give in to platitudes. It’s unnervingly honest about its subject.
  4. The Time Traveler's Wife
    The movie is slightly more sappy, and the characters are necessarily less fleshed out than they are in Audrey Niffenegger's dazzling novel, but neither shortcoming detracts from the film's appeal.
  5. Greenberg
    Greenberg is a comedy (a scene in which Roger attends a boisterous college party and pitches a fit over the music is marvelously funny), but it's a sad, rueful comedy about disappointment.
  6. Coach Carter
    Descended from a long and healthy line of high school-sports and academic-achievement films, a hip-hop "Hoosiers" bolstered by a generous helping of "Stand and Deliver" and "Lean On Me."
  7. Winter's Bone
    It's not always an easy movie to watch, but its characters are unforgettable.
  8. The Fault in Our Stars
    Best of all, the film never makes its characters into stoic or tragic heroes, choosing instead to highlight what makes them human — their hopes, their fears, their anger, the way they learn to live with knowing they’re going to die.
  9. Ghost Town
    Predictable but amusing. The painfully awkward, stubby Gervais as romantic lead is a funny enough concept, but the actor's ongoing banter with Kinnear is engaging, and their styles mesh entertainingly.
  10. Outrage
    Even in the 21st century, public discussions of homosexuality still make a lot of people awfully jittery. With passion and candor, Outrage argues that everyone needs to just get over it.
  11. The Clay Bird
    For all its tumult, The Clay Bird mostly concentrates on its likable characters, all acted with the kind of understatement that makes a good film better.
  12. Undertow
    It's a dreamy Southern gothic, a la "Night of the Hunter," with an emphasis on the dreamy.
  13. Soul Surfer
    It's a good, solid family film.
  14. Wild Grass
    Wild Grass, which employs a wry, self-deprecating voice-over narrator and some highly stylish camerawork, feels like a comic thriller building into a kind of strange romance.
  15. Syriana
    Gaghan is attempting to cover so much ground in Syriana that the movie at times feels a little suffocating.
  16. Darfur Now
    Despite the fact that the film is not graphic, you won't want to watch Darfur Now over dinner with your family. But you probably should anyway.
  17. Bruno
    The real genius, if that is what it is, behind Sacha Baron Cohen's crude, shocking and explosively funny Brüno is the fact that the filmmakers actually found enough gullible human targets.
  18. Pirate Radio
    Pirate Radio does what it sets out to do. It rocks.
  19. Thieves
    Les Voleurs requires undivided attention and a willingness to let the storyteller tell the tale his way. But Techine proves he's worthy of your trust. [31 Jan 1997, p.4G]
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  20. The Opportunists
    The movie is small and familiar, but this time, those turn out to be strengths.
  21. Bubble
    Simply too odd and unconventional to ever appeal to a broad audience, either at the multiplex or on home video.
  22. Wordplay
    Manages to turn an internal, solitary activity into fodder for an engaging, even exciting movie.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sidewalk Stories
    It's the gentlest of tales in the grittiest of surroundings. Charles Lane's remarkable feature film debut, Sidewalk Stories, merges the sensibilities of Charles Chaplin and Spike Lee, fashioning a moving examination of homelessness from eloquent silence. [29 Dec 1989, p.5G]
    • Miami Herald
  24. The Dance of Reality
    The Dance of Reality, which deserves a place along Amarcord as a fantastical take on coming of age, is the work of a wise and experienced old soul with the heart and curiosity of a young man in love with life.
  25. Timecode
    This is a big, audacious stunt of a movie -- pointless, perhaps, but incredibly fun to play with.
  26. Kung Fu Hustle
    For all its excitement Kung Fu Hustle is mostly a marvel of comedic ingenuity and mile-a-minute creativity run wild. You've never seen anything like it.
  27. Night at the Museum
    Wonderfully energetic.
  28. The Armstrong Lie
    Gibney even convinced Armstrong to sit down for one final interview in May. In it, he comes off as somewhat contrite but also victimized, as if he were being single out for something everyone does.
  29. August: Osage County
    August: Osage County is easier to watch on screen, and maybe for that we should be grateful.
  30. A Passage to India
    Old-fashioned isn't necessarily bad. In Lean's case it can be immensely entertaining, because he knows how to build a story. At 76, he is still quite vital a force behind the camera, and he makes A Passage to India, born a comedy of manners, into high melodrama. [11 Jan 1985, p.D1]
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