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For 7,293 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Close to Home
    The film is much more subversive for treading back and forth between the political and the personal, the Arab and the Israeli points of view.
  2. The Pillow Book
    There's as much to draw us in, but far less to put us off. [13 Jun 1997]
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  3. Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
    A surprisingly tender look at San Diego Comic-Con.
  4. The Way
    The pilgrimage is still long but, even with the crosses they bear, these are pilgrims lite – perhaps it's the modern way.
  5. Absence of Malice
    Absence of Malice is lively, provocative and intelligent, three qualities in short supply this Christmas. It simplifies, but it rarely distorts, and it doggedly picks at sores journalists would just as soon banish by Band-aid. [19 Dec 1981]
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  6. Marie Antoinette
    Here's one thing about Marie Antoinette: It sure is easy to watch. And here's another: It's even easier to forget.
  7. Suffragette
    Some will criticize the director’s choice to recount a collective struggle through just one individual, but Mulligan’s performance, coupled with a solid script by Abi Morgan, shows us just how much is at stake when a woman decides to wage war.
  8. Guilty by Suspicion
    Guilty by Suspicion is a morality play innocent of moralism and manipulation. It's what almost nobody thinks Hollywood is: decent. [15 Mar 1991]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Interview
    The end result of this showcase for Buscemi's writing, acting and directing chops is so uneven and mixed in small details and overall tone that it's anybody's guess if it's one for the Oscars or the Razzies next year.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sunflower
    Sunflower succeeds as both a moving family drama and a microcosm of China's social history since the 1970s.
  11. Sunshine
    That last wrong turn completely undoes a picture that had been steering a very impressive course.
  12. Mean Dreams
    Spiritual questions and thoughts on the importance of flesh-and-blood relationships are raised, but the strength of the you-can-run-but-you-can’t-hide drama is the dewy charisma of the two young co-stars.
  13. The Prince of Egypt
    Certainly spectacular -- an elaborately designed combination of animation and computer-generated imagery -- but at times it's a spectacular bore.
  14. He Got Game
    Coming from a major director like Spike Lee, this is a colossal disappointment. And a surprising one.
  15. Alien: Romulus
    Álvarez eventually gets there, with the third act of Romulus impressively nauseating. But otherwise, the filmmaker isn’t developing this cinematic universe so much as he is stunting its growth.
  16. Heaven Help Us
    As directed by Michael Dinner from Charles Purpura's script, the movie combines the anti-Catholic satire of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You with the rowdy sexuality of Porky's and the stereotyping of every mediocre teen film ever made. [8 Feb 1985]
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  17. Frozen II
    I could watch the background environmental action here for hours. But then the second thought of my Frozen 2 experience hit: I really wish I was listening to Let it Go right now.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Beautiful Country
    With its visual splendour, The Beautiful Country is indeed lovely to behold, but its story of human misery and survival doesn't always benefit from the painstaking art direction, picturesque vistas and surges of dramatic music.
  19. Real Life
    Brooks' bravery is spiriting; in his debut he has written an unlikeable character doing unlikeable things to likeable people. One wishes his talent as a director matched his chutzpah. [17 Mar 1979]
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  20. Gretel & Hansel
    Everything about Gretel & Hansel is weirder, smarter and way more cinematic than I’d expected, thanks to some fascinating movie choices made by director Oz Perkins.
  21. MaXXXine
    As compared to both X and Pearl, West’s bag of cinema tricks in MaXXXine reaches a level of engagement that feels both compulsive and abridged.
  22. Frailty
    This is a guy movie, a gothic creepshow.
  23. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    The film is never as powerful or convincing as it should be.
  24. Soundtrack for a Revolution
    With young audiences definitely in mind, the film puts a fresh spin on the issues and struggles of the civil-rights movement.
  25. Wanted
    This is a blockbuster busting out of the block; this is a Hollywood staple served up on a European platter; this is summertime fare with a wintry verve.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Goodbye Girl
    If you enjoyed previous Simon comedies like Plaza Suite, it is virtually guaranteed that you will enjoy Goodbye Girl. If you have not previously enjoyed Simon's work, Goodbye Girl will not convert you. [21 Dec 1977]
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  27. Adoration
    Though there are moments when the drama turns into intellectual debate, the film is also emotional, moving with a fluid, mounting tension and moments of anguish and strange, startling humour.
  28. Outbreak
    After a great start, Wolfgang Petersen's intelligent medical thriller is infected by some nasty germs, resulting in the all-too-common Actionitis. [10 Mar 1995]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  29. JCVD
    Unlike "Being John Malkovich," which JCVD sometimes resembles, there is no secret portal to the star's head; instead, the audience gets a fleeting glimpse through the smeared window of his soul.
  30. Cop Land
    A good film prevented from being a great film by an act of well-intentioned but misguided casting.
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