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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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dark Passage
    The third of four films teaming Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, this 1947 feature is a cinema classic. [20 Nov 2009, p.R21]
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  2. I Used to Go Here
    The characters aren’t compelling, the comedy isn’t energetic, and the narrative surprises that Rey throws at the screen will be obvious to anyone who has ever heard the word “Sundance.”
  3. The American President
    These days, when presidential bouquets are named Gennifer Flowers, and when we all know what Jack Kennedy did beneath the White House covers, this sort of Capra-corn, even in the guise of light comedy, just doesn't have the same taste. More salt, please, and hold the butter.
  4. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    Superficial but giddily entertaining backstage documentary.
  5. Afterglow
    Despite his flair for trenchant dialogue, nicely complemented by Mark Isham's bluesy jazz score, Rudolph whets our appetite but then fails to deliver. The picture limps to its ending and leaves us with nothing to hold onto.
  6. 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.
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  7. Braveheart
    Despite a formidable effort and occasional grace, there's something cowardly about Braveheart -- it's an aspiring giant with a diminutive soul.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pierrepoint
    Invites viewers to think critically about such weighty concepts as justice, atonement and personal accountability.
  9. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    Crazy, Stupid, Love seems at times like a bunch of movies searching for an identity. Happily, some of them are actually worth watching.
  10. Deepwater Horizon
    The overall product is so tightly assembled, and so emotionally satisfying, that any complaints end up being inconsequential.
  11. Lamb
    More Tusk than, say, the goat who runs wild in The Witch. I won’t make the obvious joke and say it’s baaad. But its sheep thrills are mutton to write home about, either.
  12. Fighting with My Family
    After all, it’s a movie about professional wrestling – the blows may feel real, but the match is fixed from the very beginning.
  13. End of Watch
    No doubt, these twin saviours are a likeable tandem, and they bear their cross lightly. Still, End of Watch suffers from no end of sanctimony. Sainthood is all well and fine but it ain't drama and, on screen at least, the question cries out: Where's a corrupt cop when you need him?
  14. Manhunt
    At times, it approaches self-parody, but that’s just Woo having some much-needed fun.
  15. Apocalypto
    A lotta woe to sit through, with not much to think about and only one matter to address. After the two hours-plus have sped by with brutal alacrity, all that's left is for the survivors of the bloodbath to hose down and suss out a "new beginning." I'm still searching for mine, but you might have better luck.
  16. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
    Most of this is bald, and very funny; some of it is witty, and even funnier. [14 Dec 1988, p.C9]
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  17. Potiche
    Without its star, this picture would float off forgettably into the ether.
  18. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    For 2020, though, this new and unexpected Borat is a nice surprise. Very niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.
  19. The Adventures of Tintin
    Hergé was the pioneer of an even-handed style of cartooning with solid lines and no shading that became known as ligne claire, but there is a decided lack of clear lines in this erratic movie adaptation of his work.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bopha!
    Danny Glover delivers the most subtle and controlled performance of his life, and Freeman proves himself a sensitive and talented filmmaker. [24 Sept 1993]
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  21. The Meddler
    It’s a sitcom-y, Sarandon-wrapped Mother’s Day valentine.
  22. The World's Fastest Indian
    The World's Fastest Indian may be the world's slowest movie.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ask Dr. Ruth
    Crucially, Ask Dr. Ruth shows us a renegade ahead of her time.
  24. What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
    The state of modern criticism has never been so splintered. We create harsher and harsher binaries in our online response to cinema every day, so reading Kael can make you go, “Hey, remember pleasure?” While Garver’s documentary isn’t worthy of its subject’s fascinating artistic legacy, I anxiously await the one that is.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Kindergarten Teacher
    Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid (whose debut Policeman was a critical hit) keeps us guessing. His message seems clear even if his characters’ motivations aren’t always.
  26. A Place at the Table
    Says the actor Jeff Bridges, a long-time and articulate soldier in the campaign against hunger: “It’s a problem that our government is ashamed of acknowledging. We’re in denial.”
  27. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    The effect of so much pretension and so many lovely images eventually becomes soporific.
  28. Learn to Swim
    Just like a jazz tune, the film establishes an image, elaborates on it and brings it back to a more-or-less satisfying close.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Homesman
    While it’s true that landscape is character in most westerns, it’s also true that the character played by director/co-writer/star Tommy Lee Jones in The Homesman is landscape itself.
  30. Henry Fool
    Hal Hartley's latest film, an odd and mentally stimulating black comedy that may or may not have a point. In any case, the ride is delectably weird and entertaining. [17 Jul 1998]
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