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For 3,654 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Caesar Must Die
Lowest review score: 0 Summer Catch
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,408 out of 3654
  2. Mixed: 966 out of 3654
  3. Negative: 280 out of 3654
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Goofy Movie
    Kids will love this typically well-done Disney film, and there's enough to keep parents entertained as well. [07 Apr 1995, p.26]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Jefferson in Paris
    The bad news is that Jefferson is inept and inert. [21 Apr 1995]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
    A nice take on the traditional maniac-meets-girl horror story. [18 Mar 1995, p.C08]
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Just Cause
    This suspense thriller is scary, all right, but it's also distasteful and manipulative. [17 Feb 1995, p.AE22]
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  5. Shallow Grave
    McGregor is a real charmer, a young Malcolm McDowell with a Scottish lilt; Brain Tufano's photography manages to be both rich and stark at once; Hodge's script has some genuinely arch lines. [03 Mar 1995]
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  6. Legends of the Fall
    The acting is the strongest thing about the film. Pitt nicely balances the dashing and wounded sides of Tristan's character. [13 Jan 1995]
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  7. Ladybird Ladybird
    Ladybird, Ladybird is a scathing indictment of a meddlesome social-service sysBased on a true story, and set in a large English city, it is wrenching viewing, guaranteed to make complacent audiences reconsider their attitudes toward social welfare, single parents and the lot of battered, state-dependent women. [27 Jan 1995, p.12]
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  8. Nell
    Although the Hollywood treatment intrudes at times, it's still a compelling film, richly filmed and deeply moving. [23 Dec 1994, p.12]
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  9. Little Women
    It's a celebration of American female screen acting, it's a study of early feminism that feels relevant today, it's a carefully mounted exercise in period filmmaking and it's a beloved novel come to life for the fourth time. [23 Dec 1994]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Love and a .45
    The film by writer-director C.M. Talkington answers a question no one in his right mind would want answered: What would happen if someone without a hint of Quentin Tarantino's talent made a Quentin Tarantino film? [07 Apr 1995, p.C06]
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Heavenly Creatures
    A gorgeously realized portrait of obsession, this based-on-truth vision of two teen-age girls driven to murder by their fantasies is one of the most audacious films of the year. [2 Dec 1994, p.18]
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The River Wild
    This white-water thriller by the director of The Hand That Rocked the Cradle isn't especially inventive, but the cinematography is first-rate and so is Streep's performance. [30 Sep 1994, p.14]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Dear Diary
    This mock-documentary look at one man's allegorical tour of Italy is a whimsical, intelligent antidote to big-budget Hollywood formula bloat. [18 Nov 1994, p.15]
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  14. Timecop
    Timecop speeds along briskly: It's a well-oiled, smooth-running action movie with a science-fiction twist tossed in for good measure. [16 Sep 1994, p.14]
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Good Man in Africa
    There's a madcap romp in here somewhere, but Beresford doesn't locate it, despite a fine cast. The script doesn't help. [09 Sep 1994, p.19]
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  16. What Happened Was...
    The film may have its troubled spots, but its poignant depiction of human tenderness more than compensates for them. [18 Nov 1994, p.17]
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
    Elliott has come up with an ebullient entertainment propelled by garishly jaunty musical numbers, adroitly handled comic banter and an optimistic faith in people's ability to roll with the punches. [26 Aug 1994]
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  18. Eat Drink Man Woman
    After seeing Eat Drink Man Woman, it's a toss-up whether you'll want to reach for tissues or for General Tso's chicken. [19 Aug 1994, p.AE17]
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Getting Even with Dad
    Ted Danson gets in a little practice for serious dramatic roles with a solid performance in this otherwise forgettable piece of fluff. [17 Jun 1994, p.15]
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  20. Renaissance Man
    It's a sweet-natured trifle that sneaks in some social commentary about the modern military and the failings of the American educational system, and it takes a wide swipe at advertising for good measure. [03 Jun 1994]
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fear of a Black Hat
    Hilarious parody of rap subculture and attitudes, packed with in-jokes but accessible to viewers not steeped in the genre. The profanity-intolerant will want to steer clear, however. [15 Jul 1994, p.AE24]
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  22. Little Buddha
    In Little Buddha, the Italian director offers an utterly sincere, respectful introduction to a religion that is, for people raised in the Judeo-Christian tradition, largely a mystery. [27 May 1994, p.21]
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  23. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    The novel's exuberance, happy sensuality, goes AWOL in Van Sant's sadder, darker vision. [20 May 1994]
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  24. Being Human
    For all his invention, Forsyth's reach ultimately exceeds his grasp. "Local Hero," without trying so self-consciously hard, conveyed more of the ephemeral beauty of life than Being Human does.
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  25. The Favor
    When all is said and done, The Favor is just another comedy about comfortable yuppies wondering what they might have done differently, dipping a toe in adventure, then returning to the cocoon of yuppie comfort. [03 May 1994]
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  26. The Paper
    If The Paper were a newspaper story, a savvy editor would demand a rewrite. [25 March 1994, p.AE13]
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  27. Bitter Moon
    Adapted by Polanski and his longtime collaborators Gerard Brach and John Brownjohn from a novel by Pascal Bruckner, Bitter Moon works as a kinky sex farce, comedy of manners and playful spin on national stereotypes. [22 Apr 1994, p.AE15]
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  28. The Ref
    An ascerbic swipe at family counseling, holiday dinners, small-town mores and baby-boomer marriages, ``The Ref'' is acted and written with such pleasure that its meanness becomes cleansing, a stripping-away of the sentimentality that suffocates most Hollywood films about families. [11 Mar 1994, p.AE15]
    • Portland Oregonian
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Sugar Hill
    Ambitious attempt to make a "Godfather"-like epic about a black Harlem drug dealer starts well but loses focus. [25 Feb 1994, p.AE15]
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  30. Romeo Is Bleeding
    Romeo Is Bleeding has a core of such mean smugness that the genuine shock is that the picture got made at all. It isn't so much that the film is violent, misogynistic and hateful. It isn't even that it so often lapses into senselessness and laughable pretense. It's that a certain competence has been deployed in the service of such degrading and juvenile material, that a group of actors and filmmakers and financial backers all said ``yes'' to something that ought never to have happened. [4 Feb 1994, p.15]
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