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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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  1. Babe: Pig in the City
    There's a lot to like in this film. As in the original, it has more than a few echoes of Animal Farm in its portrayal of humanity as the exploiter species. It respects both its child audience, by permitting Babe and his sunny decency to win out, and its adult audience, by generating more wit than the average dozen Hollywood films.
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  2. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
    A splendid adventure sure to thrill children and fantasy buffs, while leaving everyone else passably entertained.
  3. The Finest Hours
    There’s nothing subtle about The Finest Hours, but much that is satisfying.
  4. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
    As for the winner and new champion, it has to be Kuosmanen, who never met a boxing-film cliché he couldn’t discreetly avoid.
  5. The Horse Boy
    It's a film that will both captivate and divide audiences.
  6. Born to Be Wild
    While the visuals aren't nearly as eye-popping as those of the underwater movies, the film is more inspiring thanks to its human heroines.
  7. Closer
    Despite Marber's sardonic wit and Nichols's intelligent direction, the film winds up in the ironic position of practising exactly what it preaches: Closer invites and even gains our intimacy, only to finish by driving us ever farther away.
  8. 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
    Films about single film scenes, however, represent unexplored territory. Which is why 78/52 is such an enticing prospect – a deep dive into one of the most influential moments in cinema history: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Permanent Midnight
    Permanent Midnight is a slick, entertaining, show-biz saga whose worst fault may be that it has a happy ending. Stahl has not only recovered from debauchery, he's making a ton of cash with his book and the movie. In fact, this may be as quintessential a morality tale for the nineties as the Monica Lewinsky story. [25 Sep 1998, p.D9]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  10. Giant Little Ones
    [A] tender but untimid drama.
  11. Tetro
    Tetro is Coppola's best film since Apocalypse Now because the filmmaker has abandoned conventional drama – what for him had become a straightjacket – indulging in a collage style that allows him to honour favourite filmmakers.
  12. Hobo with a Shotgun
    In its mocking but acutely observed style, Hobo is a well-designed cinematic mess: There are whiplash jump cuts, patches where the sound almost disappears, and the whole thing is projected in a queasy, faded Technicolor.
  13. Humane
    Cronenberg offers a light touch to the material, spiking the deeply depressing dystopia with a sibling-rivalry battle royale that eagerly, if sometimes wobblily, shifts between sharp humour and slippery sentimentality.
  14. Nostalgia for the Light
    Patricio Guzmán's documentary, Nostalgia for the Light, pays equal attention to the astronomers and searchers, regarding their quest as the same – a search for life.
  15. Creed II
    Whatever you normally do during the rousing finale of a Rocky movie. It will feel familiar, but just go with it.
  16. Alice
    Alice Tate seems at first to be no more than a grimly sweet nothing, but she evolves into a giddily sweet something. So does her movie. [25 Jan 1991]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  17. Peaches Does Herself
    Peaches Does Herself is constantly inventive, from the Road Warrior/Rocky Horror fantasy costumes, to the hump-happy choreography.
  18. Animal Kingdom
    Animal Kingdom isn't perfect: Some performance moments are over-ripe, and there's an episode of arbitrary cruelty that's excessively creepy.
  19. The September Issue
    For all its ballyhoo'd full access to Vogue's inner workings, the movie's cinéma-vérité approach feels perilously close to advertorial.
  20. You Don't Nomi
    Maybe arguing the merits of a quote-unquote bad movie through the means of an imperfect documentary is the only option that makes sense. I have the distinct feeling, though, that somewhere in Europe, Verhoeven is laughing his ass off.
  21. BlacKkKlansman
    A bold, if sometimes preachy, film that is stylistically daring, improbably entertaining and politically supercharged.
  22. Easy Money
    What really distinguishes it from any number of drug-escapade stories is the unusual and welcome sense of Dostoyevskian moral gravity of the narrative.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Riddick
    The quickest and easiest way to humanize an unlikeable movie character is to give him a lovable dog, and so it goes with Riddick.
  24. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
    The best Brit noir since "Croupier" is a complex, marvellously twisty thriller.
  25. City of God
    In God's ghetto, as in so many of the world's forsaken places, warring armies of infants brandish their weapons of self-destruction, while politicians bluster and inspectors sleep.
  26. Austin Powers in Goldmember
    Myers's sheer fertility of invention is of a different order, and even if he misses as often as he hits, he's definitely a swinger.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hannah Montana: The Movie
    Music, naturally, is a big part of this movie -- Disney has a soundtrack to sell -- with both Cyruses, Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts performing.
  28. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    So much cinematic majesty perched precariously atop so little common sense. But, hell, maybe Quentin's right; relax, enjoy -- a castle with a shaky foundation is still quite a sight.
  29. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
    Precious is a bit like having a piano dropped on your head: messy but memorable.
  30. Tully
    Cody’s third-act twist threatens to unravel Theron’s hard work; yet, somehow, the power of Tully remains firmly in Theron’s skilled and capable hands.
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