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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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  1. Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    A snapshot of the festival, one that radiates good cheer and offers moments of true, godly goodness.
  2. Jumping the Broom
    In style and structure, it mimics an old-style studio effort, a culture-clashing comedy of manners that's tinged with melodrama and filmed in a smart progression of medium shots.
  3. Assisted Living
    Works more often than it doesn't.
  4. Gunner Palace
    The best glimpse yet of what it's like to be in Iraq.
  5. Saraband
    Bergman has not gone soft, not emotionally, philosophically and certainly not artistically. This is as tough a film as he has ever made.
  6. Rent
    Columbus' schizoid approach works more often than not.
  7. Dai si gin
    It takes just the first shot to get sucked into Breaking News, the latest bit of destruction from mayhem master Johnnie To, and it's a doozy.
  8. Play It to the Bone
    Either Shelton knows this world well, or he's such a great bluffer it doesn't matter.
  9. Cruising
    One of the most original thrillers of the 1980s. It's a lurid, twisted film that brings you into its world and completely works you over.
  10. The Quiet American
    A smart and literate effort with a few weaknesses.
  11. Arthur Christmas
    There's nothing dark about Arthur: It's as bright and twinkling as a Christmas tree, decked with warmth and humor.
  12. The Book Thief
    The resulting film has some wrong notes and touches of preciousness, but mostly it's a moving and effective presentation of life under Nazism, as seen from an unusual angle.
  13. Plan B
    Plan B is ultimately a gross-out sex comedy that has more than sex on its mind. It seems odd to consider a film with such familiar beats radical, but the word fits here, in the best sense.
  14. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    Along with the awkward romantic exchanges that always seem to find their way into Smith's movies, there's also a sweetness that you don't often see in films that average multiple f-words per minute.
  15. Nothing Like the Holidays
    Like a Christmas present you didn't know you wanted but are delighted to receive.
  16. Chuck
    The Chuck Wepner story is a compelling one — and the performances ensure its place as a sports movie contender.
  17. Me Myself I
    At heart this is a thoughtful, well-made movie about something serious.
  18. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    A marital comedy as perceptive as it is delectable.
  19. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
    It may not be as perfectly clever or uproarious as it was in Tap’s heyday, but we all get old and neither need nor want humor as loud as we used to.
  20. Any Given Sunday
    Features convincing, often soaring, performances by a savvy cast that must have gotten adrenaline shots administered by Stone himself.
  21. Darwin's Nightmare
    At times quite powerful.
  22. The Heat
    Don't believe the weak coming-attractions trailer. The inspired pairing of Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy makes for a successful action comedy.
    • San Francisco Chronicle
      • Posted Jun 27, 2013
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Uprising
    A solid network effort about heroism in a most immoral world.
  24. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Damning.
  25. Oliver & Company
    The film offers a fanciful, lush urban setting, unusual for Disney animated features, and a couple of good songs, Once Upon a Time in New York City performed by Huey Lewis and Perfect Isn't Easy sung by Midler.
  26. Gay Chorus Deep South
    What makes the film emotionally satisfying, beyond the stirring music, is that we witness the healing and enlightenment of chorus members, some of them bearing scars from their oppressive red-state upbringings.
  27. Ferdinand
    There’s real artistry to Ferdinand.
  28. Boiling Point
    A smart, nicely paced crime drama, with colorful characters, compelling situations and an assured style. [17 Apr 1993, p.C3]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
  29. They Cloned Tyrone
    They Cloned Tyrone can be heavy-handed times and runs a bit long, but the committed performances of its plucky triumvirate of stars go a long way toward the fun.
  30. Sunlight Jr.
    The film is merciless in showing the obstacles faced by a down-and-out couple in strip-mall Florida, but there's a modicum of hope in the genuine love the characters share.
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