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For 2,931 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Peter Pan
Lowest review score: 0 Mindhunters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,824 out of 2931
  2. Mixed: 872 out of 2931
  3. Negative: 235 out of 2931
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  1. Lucky Number Slevin
    It's the soulless quality of so many films that value devious plots, smug deception and quirky personality traits over actual story and character.
  2. Shooter
    Sylvester Stallone is filming a new episode of his "Rambo" action series, but Mark Wahlberg has beaten him to the punch with Shooter, a preposterous gut buster that follows the formula so closely it would probably lose a plagiarism suit.
  3. The Tigger Movie
    Both sophisticated and elemental enough for all ages to grasp the message.
  4. Flightplan
    Far-fetched but deliciously exciting aerial nail-biter.
  5. RocknRolla
    It never generates much interest in its story or affection for its characters, and it's simply not half as funny as it needs to be.
  6. In Too Deep
    A mess of incohesiveness and fragmented storytelling.
  7. Imaginary Heroes
    Weaver was half-heartedly pushed as an underdog Oscar choice. If the film was worthy of her performance, Weaver may have had a shot.
  8. Keeping Mum
    The script (by Richard Russo) is solid, the performances are witty and fun, and the movie is a most agreeable way to spend an hour and a half.
  9. Lisa
    Keanan, a competent young actress, has several strong and quite believable scenes of conflict with Ladd that make the movie work as a compelling relationship drama in its exposition half. But these scenes are soon forgotten as the script moves into non-stop suspense and terror. [20 Apr 1990]
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  10. Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert
    It's hardly a must-see laugh riot, but it is a good chuckle, and it does its job well.
  11. Lost and Delirious
    It has a frenetic, unsettled edginess that chafes against its serene, woodsy, upscale private school setting.
  12. Tea with Mussolini
    Zeffirelli creates a lovely, perfectly composed and lyrical look at life under Mussolini's black-shirted fascist regime. But despite danger on every corner in Italy, there is a tinge of rose-colored sentiment that blurs the events yet lends to the making of an affecting dramatic period piece.
  13. De-Lovely
    Flies so gallantly in the face of what's supposed to work at the movies these days that you just have to love it.
  14. Vanity Fair
    Witherspoon is terrific.
  15. Johnny Suede
    Johnny Suede seems in every way a pale imitation that is so vacuous and self-consciously hip that it just fades into nothingness. [13 Nov 1992]
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  16. He Was a Quiet Man
    With his Jack Nicholson mannerisms extinguished and his boyish features made up to look worn and aged, Slater also makes us believe and care about this guy. A movie this marginal isn't likely to get much notice, but it's one of the very best things he has done.
  17. Palindromes
    Aviva emerges undamaged for all of her trauma. That may be the most compassionate, human act Solondz has offered in his career up to now.
  18. It's Easier for a Camel...
    The contrast of the naive assurance of youth with the confusion and ambiguity of adulthood is sweet but simplistic and the wandering script hasn't much else to offer.
  19. Narrow Margin
    Like D.O.A., Against All Odds, No Way Out and other recent remakes of film noir classics, this overblown and heavy-handed film is just one more reminder of how much more thoughtful and entertaining movies used to be. [21 Sep 1990]
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  20. Apres Vous (After You)
    The jokes run dry, the situation is redundant, the cast becomes tiresome and the running time is interminable.
  21. Amateur
    Amateur, the fourth film of American independent filmmaker Hal Hartley, is by far his best - though, in the wake of "The Unbelievable Truth," "Trust" and "Simple Men," that is, admittedly, not saying much. [05 May 1995]
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  22. Hamlet
    This great Elizabethean masterpiece comes alive in a rich cinematic version that proves the past 400 years have done nothing to dim its uncanny power to mirror the human condition. [18 jan 1991]
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  23. We Are Marshall
    To the movie's credit, the cast is better than average.
  24. The Phantom
    Perhaps because I expected nothing - the movie struck me as one of the better comic-strip translations, and one of the better films of the genre. It's fast, colorful, entertaining and a clear cut above its most immediate predecessor, 1994's "The Shadow." [7 June 1996]
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  25. Enemy at the Gates
    It's a sporadically thrilling visual epic and a gruesome reminder that war is hell.
  26. Focus
    The script is full of holes and the premise is not especially credible.
  27. Passionada
    Ireland says he was after the kind of "elegant simplicity" of the great Hollywood romantic dramas of the '50s, and, for the most part, this is exactly what he pulls off.
  28. New Suit
    A witty new indie with a good cast and high production values that has fun with the absurdity of the frenzied bidding wars that can break out over a "spec" script by an unknown or first-time screenwriter.
  29. Rent
    Columbus is a member of the '80s generation and he gives the play authenticity, the respect of a classic, an epic visual scope and a sensibility that's blissfully free of any generational self-pity. It seems to be the movie he was born to make, and he serves it well.
  30. Another Stakeout
    For fans of Rosie O'Donnell, Another Stakeout is also noteworthy as the first real starring vehicle for the fast-rising, dead-pan comic. But she seems awkward as a lead and never very funny. You get the sense that her considerable talent might be better suited to television, stand-up comedy and supporting roles. [23 July 1993]
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