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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 3.2 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. Boulevard
    Williams does a terrific job portraying Nolan's ambivalence, the mix of fear, guilt, and excitement that grips him and the gradual change he undergoes in the ensuing weeks.
  2. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    Riveting and heartstoppingly fine documentary.
  3. Teeth
    A smart and creepy fable in which the myth of the vagina dentata - yes, a toothed sex organ - is transplanted to teen suburbia.
  4. Sidewalk Stories
    Basic as a home movie -- and twice as touching -- Charles Lane's Sidewalk Stories is a black-and-white silent comedy that pays tribute both to Charles Chaplin's The Kid (1921) and to the urban homeless. [06 Apr 1990, p.4]
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  5. Little Accidents
    Eloquent, moving, and deeply troubling, Little Accidents is a true contemporary tragedy.
  6. Spartan
    An entertaining foray into a world of spy guys, stakeouts and secret government machinations, Spartan teems with the kind of terse crypto-speak that is the playwright and filmmaker's stock-in-trade.
  7. Drag Me to Hell
    A Raimi-esque mix of gross-out madness and sick laughs.
  8. Machete
    A maniacal, over-the-top, daring, and insanely funny satire of the American cultus from Hollywood to Madison Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue, Machete has all the nutrition a growing film geek could possibly need.
  9. The Bank Job
    Feels both absolutely of the 1970s and absolutely fresh.
  10. Standard Operating Procedure
    In presenting their testimony to the jury of public opinion, Morris would seem to be building a case for absolving some of them of mistreatment charges and implicitly asking for an investigation of those who were not charged.
  11. Spare Parts
    At times, Spare Parts sails perilously close to the saccharine. But the film is a fine example of a message movie that does justice both to its important subject matter and to its characters' inner lives.
  12. Kitchen Stories
    It's hilarious - in a Scandinavian Sartre-esque sort of way.
  13. American Violet
    A torn-from-the-headlines tale of institutional racism and injustice in the Lone Star State of not-so-long-ago, American Violet might not be subtle, but it's certainly powerful.
  14. Eureka
    A work that demands patience, and it will easily exasperate some moviegoers.
  15. Monsoon Wedding
    A feast for the eyes and ears as its story is a banquet for the heart.
  16. The Family That Preys
    Was it just three years ago that Perry made his feature debut with "Diary of a Mad Black Woman?" Then his filmmaking was strictly amateur; now his sweeping pans and portentous closeups approach those of Pedro Almódovar.
  17. Merry Christmas
    Carion's cri de coeur is at once a historical chronicle, an ode to the European Community, and a not-so-veiled critique of a 21st-century war.
  18. Casino Royale
    Like Connery - but in different proportions - Craig is earthy and erotic, holding himself like a smoking gun.
  19. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    This drag-queen melodrama, like its star, perseveres.
  20. The Man Who Cried
    Melodramatic and strangely moving.
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  21. The Trip to Italy
    The Trip to Italy doesn't feel entirely new, but there's comfort in familiarity, too. And as Brydon and Coogan note in one discourse, it's the rare sequel (The Godfather: Part II) that's better than its forebear.
  22. Flags of Our Fathers
    In the film, the music, beginning with a muted a cappella ballad, is from Eastwood himself.
  23. We Are What We Are
    "The Silence of the Lambs" gave us an articulate, Euro-suave gourmand cannibal, but served up pretty much the same stew.
  24. House of Sand and Fog
    Remember the name Shohreh Aghdashloo. The heartbreakingly fine Iranian actress is only a subsidiary character in House of Sand and Fog...But she is the soul of this pungent film.
  25. Two Lovers
    A throwback in style, pace, and storytelling to the 1970s and the downbeat mood pieces of directors like Bob Rafelson.
  26. Best in Show
    A droll piece of deadpan played with mostly unerring pitch by a talented cast.
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  27. Bread and Roses
    Full of pungent and telling observation.
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  28. Speed Racer
    Speed Racer offers a crazy, turbo-charged mix of cartoon kitsch, gamer action, and a wild new way to think of - and look at - movies.
  29. I'll See You in My Dreams
    I'll See You in My Dreams is delicate and nuanced, with writing that rejects, or at least reshapes, the cliches of movies about people facing the glare of their sunset years.
  30. Grateful Dawg
    The movie has a musical rather than a cinematic shape, defined by songs played in their entirety.
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