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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. The Safety of Objects
    Eloquently adapted from the collection of A.M. Homes stories of the same title, Troche's film derives its voltage from the way it burrows to find that the connections within -- and among -- families are very much alive.
  2. The Anniversary Party
    Has a loose, improvisatory feel that rings true.
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  3. Starlet
    Starlet sneaks up on you. Set in the same sun-dried, strip-malled precincts of the San Fernando Valley where "Boogie Nights" took place - and set, in part, in that same porn industry milieu - Sean Baker's low-key, low-budget indie traces the relationship that develops between a young actress and an isolated, elderly woman.
  4. Bread and Tulips
    Actresses such as Maglietta are why movies were invented: You never get tired of her mercurial personality or of her infinitely compelling face.
  5. American Pie
    Exceptionally funny, unexpectedly tender, and lewder than a teenage boy's dreams.
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  6. 42
    42 doesn't shirk from showing how daunting it was for Robinson to turn the other cheek, as Ford's Rickey tells him he must do, in the face of the insults and hostility.
  7. Margarita Happy Hour
    Stunning, beautifully observed character study.
  8. A Cat in Paris
    A Cat in Paris is thrilling, and a thrilling example of traditional ink and paint cartooning.
  9. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
    If Mockingjay - Part 1 is quieter and less flashy than its predecessors, that doesn't make it less satisfying.
  10. The Simpsons Movie
    The Simpsons Movie is finally here. And guess what? It's funny. But not that funny.
  11. Miracle
    Miracle really isn't about the game. It's about the game as metaphor for united we stand.
  12. A Serious Man
    This unsettling, shaggy, surrealistic pillow of a movie - a mixed bag more funny-strange than ha-ha.
  13. Proof
    Once you get past that golden swag and curtain of hair, Paltrow's performance is devastating, cutting to the pith and marrow of parent-child relations. The other actors in this stagebound movie fare less well.
  14. Shower
    Told in a leisurely though concise 92 minutes, Shower is a purifying and refreshing spray of hope that family and lifestyle differences can be reconciled. Lovely.
  15. Osmosis Jones
    Should you take the kids? Boys 8 to 11 are the target audience for this gross-out film. A better question might be, should they take the parents?
  16. Magnolia
    Anderson, 29, does so much in Magnolia, with such nerve, with wily humor and out-of-the-blue bravado, that the film's flaws and lapses don't really matter. It ain't perfect, but it's awe-inspiring.
  17. Step Brothers
    While Ferrell and Reilly are great together, hatching harebrained schemes that have no basis in reality, part of the unexpected treat of Step Brothers is watching Jenkins and Steenburgen sink to such blithely immature levels of rude and crude comedy.
  18. The Salvation
    The Salvation is severe and bloody stuff.
  19. Mean Creek
    Has a jumpy, reality-TV kind of feel that adds to the story's sense of unsettling authenticity.
  20. Alexandra
    Alexandra never depicts the soldiers in combat, but Sokurov nonetheless shows how war can break down the social structure, break down family, break the human soul.
  21. The Hangover
    The Hangover pushes the boundaries of good taste, good sense, and good will toward man. And you'll feel good about it all.
  22. Cold Souls
    Cold Souls entertains on its own terms, delivering irony and suspense as Giamatti discovers that his soulless self is a terrible, terrible actor.
  23. Intimate Strangers
    Light and droll, but with an undercurrent of moody suspense.
  24. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    The movie simply has the best use of music (Talbot is also a musician) that I’ve seen this year, starting with a gorgeous score by Daniel Herskedal , and embellished with the smart, eclectic use of songs that speak to the city’s cultural history.
  25. Happy Endings
    Bills itself as a comedy but unfolds as the drollest of dramas, an extended-family album for the age of abortion, adoption and donor sperm. It's a cheeky story about turning the other cheek.
  26. The Third Miracle
    So profoundly does The Third Miracle live up to its title that Agnieszka Holland's exceptional meditation upon a priest's crisis of faith might win the endorsement of archdiocese and agnostic alike.
  27. Europa Report
    A quiet, modest chamber piece more like "Moon" than "Star Wars."
  28. The Last Mimzy
    An involving fantasy for beamish boys and girls - and their parents.
  29. Ira & Abby
    Works its way under your skin, and then into your heart.
  30. Multiplicity
    As silly as Multiplicity is, there is an adult sensibility at work here. The movie gets some of its biggest laughs when the clones, one after the other, proceed to break rule number one: No clone nooky. There's nothing explicit about the sexual shenanigans, but the duplicates' respective dalliances with the missus serve as the basis for much of the comedy. [17 July 1996, p.E04]
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