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For 7,291 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Primary Colors
    Sophisticated and unsentimental political film.
  2. 10 Things I Hate About You
    With her high forehead, pale eyebrows and solemn face, Stiles could have understudied Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth -- another dignified smart girl surrounded by conniving idiots.
  3. Thirteen
    A movie that is often as awkward and as filled with mixed impulses as the age it documents.
  4. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
    A drama that's often insightful and occasionally powerful but is still, at heart, a piece of television and not a work of film.
  5. Freaky Friday
    The movie is directed by Mark Waters (responsible for the indie black comedy, "The House of Yes") and mostly, he's workmanlike, but smart enough to get out of the way of the nicely balanced two lead performances.
  6. Millennium Actress
    Millennium Actress is a quest for beauty and truth that is as wonderful to look at as it is gruelling to contemplate.
  7. Merry Christmas
    For a few fleeting hours, they unlearned those lessons of childhood, laying down their arms to pick up their common humanity.
  8. Bugs
    Though it might initially look like a wacky foodie adventure show, Bugs has a conscience.
  9. Street Smart
    Street Smart is marred by dumb coincidences and by an ending that is immoral - it abruptly applauds a form of exploitation it has spent most of its considerable energy criticizing - but its texture is grittily realistic and its psychosexual sophistication is surprising in an American potboiler. [17 Apr 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  10. The Changeling
    The Changeling is a breathless, enjoyably scary amusement-park ride through an aged genre that comes back more often than Frank Sinatra; and that appears to be as pleased with itself, and as well-preserved. [28 Mar 1980]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  11. The Krays
    Piously posing as providing a public service, The Krays is little more than an artsy simulacrum of America's Most Wanted. [25 Jan 1991]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Food, Inc. 2
    Food, Inc. 2 follows the formula of its predecessor so closely, it’s difficult to understand why it was made at all.
  13. The King
    Jarecki picks up all sorts of celebrated people and thinkers – probably too many. I would have liked to hear more from Elvis’s Graceland cook and less from Alec Baldwin.
  14. Together Together
    As the central characters, Helms and Harrison play their parts with empathy.
  15. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
    There is a terrific little movie making the rounds, Repo Man, that demonstrates what can be done with vision, no money and faith in the audience; Buckaroo Banzai demonstrates what can be done with a lot of money, no faith in the audience, and a vision that begins and ends in the cash register. [13 Aug 1984]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
      • Posted Jun 28, 2017
  16. Heartbeats
    A light, slight, wry look at the beautiful and besotted, which gets away with not having much to say, thanks to its charm and excessive good looks.
  17. eXistenZ
    EXistenZ, unlike existence, just lacks that certain mystique.
  18. Gunner Palace
    Sorry, but this level of insight is readily available from daily news reports.
  19. The Skin I Live In
    Though beautiful to look at and graced with moments of ticklish camp, The Skin I Live In is also sluggish, arbitrarily conceived and, especially in its sagging middle, unaccountably dull.
  20. Curse of the Golden Flower
    This colour-drunk, sumptuous late Tang Dynasty (928 AD) drama is huge on spectacle but as devoid of delight as a Cecil B. DeMille biblical epic.
  21. Shall We Kiss?
    Perhaps the film's biggest weakness is that all the characters are so naive and petty you can't really work up much fervour about who sleeps with whom. That would never be a question in a movie like "Casablanca."
  22. The Last Unicorn
    Gone from the glittering original are most of the charm and all of the humor, deflating a bright balloon into little more than the rubbery flatness of a Saturday-morning cartoon.
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  23. Elephant
    Is it, the debate asks, a truly substantial work or just a stylish cop-out? Well, for once, I'm voting with the French.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Science of Sleep
    It's this edge that saves The Science of Sleep from its own whimsy.
  25. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
    The bargain-basement knock-off of this movie, minus Manville and Dior, would not look out of place on Lifetime or Hallmark.
  26. Doubt
    This movie sticks.
  27. A Man Called Ove
    A Man Called Ove hits all of the genre’s sweet spots, without ever tipping into the saccharine. Most of the credit can be thrown Rolf Lassgard’s way, as the actor gives Ove a humanity, and humility, that is expertly crafted and genuine.
  28. Liar Liar
    A laugh a minute? Liar Liar Jim Carrey's forced truthfulness means a lot of mildly funny facial gyrations.
  29. On the Job
    On the Job feels marinated in hardscrabble reality. Action scenes throughout are unnervingly frenetic, with the tension amplified by the sheer density of the crowds.
  30. Dead Calm
    Rippling with resonance, Dead Calm is Jaws in a human form, a shape profoundly complete and completely disturbing. [07 Apr 1989]
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