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For 9,306 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,162 out of 9306
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9306
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9306
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hot Shots!
    If anyone steals the air-show with his deadpan, it's Lloyd Bridges as Admiral (Tug) Benson, a total maladroit whose body has been wounded in every major battle since the Little Big Horn massacre and who has flown 21 missions without ever landing his airplane (he was shot down every time). Bridges gets away with some wonderfully corny lines and sight gags. [31 July 1991, p.E1]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
      • Posted Jun 29, 2017
  2. Robin's Wish
    Robin’s Wish, of course, can’t lessen the tragedy of Williams’ death, but it helps us better reconcile the suicide of such a joyous, irrepressible soul.
  3. Psycho Beach Party
    If it doesn't always come off, enough headlong energy develops to carry it through.
  4. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    A snapshot of a fabled career that's of little interest to anyone outside Young's fans.
  5. Tell Me Something
    A complicated and stylish Korean thriller that will make viewers' skin crawl.
  6. Safe Conduct
    The details feel authentic: The empty Paris streets, the profanation of German anti-aircraft guns atop belle epoque buildings. And Devaivre's adventures provide high tension.
  7. Uncut Gems
    Uncut Gems remains, from start to finish, a tale told about an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. By the time it’s all over, nothing is exactly what you might feel. But Sandler and Fox give it the humanity the Safdies wanted there. The movie needed it and got it from the actors.
  8. The Concert
    Though The Concert swerves and skids, it never goes off the road, and when the moment counts, when things really make a difference, the film comes through beautifully.
  9. Viva
    The lively setting helps, but the main attration here is the familiar story, which has been around forever and yet never gets old.
  10. The Protégé
    Maggie Q has been in good movies before, but The Protégé is the first movie that’s good because she’s in it.
  11. Ex Machina
    A sci-fi movie that actually has intelligent things to say about science — that’s all too rare. It’s what we get in Ex Machina.
  12. The Card Counter
    Schrader’s characters are haunted (please see “First Reformed” if you haven’t). They’re also deeply moral, not in a dime-store virtue kind of way but in the sense that they struggle mightily to do the right thing. In the end they’re painfully human, which is why they keep resonating after the lights go up.
  13. Turtles Can Fly
    Sad yet offering glimpses of hope.
  14. The Social Dilemma
    The Social Dilemma should be mandatory viewing for everyone who has a social media account. After seeing it, you may look at your phone differently, as something that isn’t really your friend.
  15. Phantom Boy
    Phantom Boy has a cute, comic-book vibe to it, a visually pleasing style and a fast pace. It’s fun, for sure.
  16. Escapes
    The result is an unconventional and layered portrait of a complicated talent.
  17. Margaret Cho: Assassin
    Biting and incisive.
  18. Songcatcher
    Greenwald is fine at creating the texture of early mountain life but loses her footing by embracing several plot points at once.
  19. Inland Empire
    The film is dazzling and bewildering in equal measure.
  20. The Man Who Invented Christmas
    Rarely has a movie ever captured the importance of a writer’s having unbroken concentration in order to work.
  21. The Crying Game
    It's a movie filled with surprises, including one outright kick in the head that qualifies as one of the biggest movie moments of 1992. [18 Dec 1992]
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  22. The Savages
    The right mix of humor and horror and with not even a shred of sentimentality.
  23. The Man Who Knew Too Much
    The film is notable as the first English-language role of Peter Lorre, who is creepily appealing as the leader of the conspiracy. [03 Feb 2013, p.Q19]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
  24. Danny Collins
    By the way, Danny Collins is inspired by the true story of Steve Tilston, a British musician who received a 1971 letter from John Lennon some 30 years after it was written. The gist of the letter was about the same, but all the characters and circumstances are creations of the filmmaker.
  25. K-PAX
    This is a tour-de-force performance, delivered by an actor at the top of his game, and it's a shame that K-Pax, instead of engaging our imaginations as it promises to, devolves into such a conventional, paint-by- numbers disappointment.
  26. Forty Shades of Blue
    A slow seduction.
  27. Family Business
    Family Business has star power going for it, and all three names above the title get the job done. [15 Dec 1989, p.E1]
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  28. Harriet
    At times, Harriet is a little too romantic — never quite schmaltzy — but it feels like a movie perhaps a bit more than it should. Still, it’s effective and, at times, moving, and it has a major asset in Erivo.
  29. After Tiller
    At the end of the day, though, thanks to the moral complications expressed by the abortion doctors and patients, this movie gives us more than enough room to help weigh these issues on our own terms.
  30. Delirious
    Wonderfully giddy meditation on the nature of fame.
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