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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. The Measure of a Man
    The Measure of a Man is about one of those everyday people who lose their livelihood and are at risk of losing everything else, and on this small scale and rather ordinary canvas the human drama is keenly felt.
  2. Freakier Friday
    By multiplying the number of body-swaps, the script seems to have accidentally increased its plot padding, too, resulting in a mushy mess that is only fitfully charming. But when the film does work, it delivers the kind of thank-goodness-it’s-Friday success story that will warm the heart of every long-time Lindsay Lohan fan out there (we are legion).
  3. Blue Crush
    Frankly, with so much to feast my dazzled eyes upon, I barely noticed that the plot was missing in action. And that's because the action itself is so pure.
  4. The Kid Stays in the Picture
    The best thing the film does is to show us not only what that mind looks like, but how the creative process itself operates: messily, erratically, outside of most people's morality, but with a force and purposiveness that makes the machinations of the rest of us look irresolute by comparison.
  5. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Rather than another oppressive film about poverty, it's a revealing experiment in perspective.
  6. Bill & Ted Face the Music
    Although the tale feels a bit slight – and yeah, I’m still aware we’re talking about a Bill & Ted movie – the affair is ultimately breezy, harmless fun.
  7. Museum Hours
    It’s a hybrid drama/art-history essay about how looking at art recasts our experience of looking at the world.
  8. The Emperor's New Clothes
    Has a refreshingly different twist: What we have here is a "what if" comedy.
  9. Clockwatchers
    Quite consciously, Sprecher has dramatized that wry riff from Frank Zappa: "Life is high school with money." [12 Jun 1988, p.C3]
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  10. Starbuck
    Starbuck is unapologetic genre filmmaking with a winning performance from its lead, Huard ( Bon Cop, Bad Cop), a shambling, likeable comedian who can flip, flop and fly off a diving board while maintaining his sex appeal.
  11. The Hunting Ground
    The Hunting Ground’s film’s biggest journalistic “get” is the first on-camera interview with Erica Kinsman, the Florida State student who accused star quarterback Jameis Winston of drugging and raping her.
  12. Ste. Anne
    A highly abstract look at family, memory and regret, all filtered through the reality of daily life in the Métis Nation, Ste. Anne makes a big impression.
  13. Benda Bilili!
    An unabashed crowd-pleaser.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Crooklyn
    Spike Lee's Crooklyn is a charming little movie. [14 May 1994]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Young@Heart
    Ultimately, though, it's the life-affirming sentiments of the documentary and not its backstage drama that may turn it into a popular hit, especially among boomers who can now legitimately fantasize about their impending retirements as musical stars.
  16. Whip It
    Boisterous, cloying, simultaneously raunchy and innocent, hip and klutzy.
  17. She's Out of My League
    You don’t need to root for the best movies and you don’t want to root for the worst. But, occasionally, along comes a picture so nearly good that you dearly wish it were better. Welcome to She’s Out of My League, where the rooting interest is strong but so is the frustration.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Salt of the Earth
    This much we know: The photographer takes the picture. Less clear is the reverse process – what the picture takes back. And this, to a large and illuminating extent, is the subject of Wim Wenders’s The Salt of the Earth.
  19. Damsels in Distress
    This is a mannered comedy, more stylized and theatrical, almost surreal at times, and less accommodating to his trademark brand of razor-sharp dialogue.
  20. All or Nothing
    Everything you've come to expect, and cherish, in a Mike Leigh movie.
  21. 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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    At First Light
    The rare example of an understated, effectively told young-adult yarn that places emphasis on grounded characters, nuanced performances and stunning visuals over convolution and clichés, Canadian filmmaker Jason Stone’s At First Light boasts unpretentious but exciting surface-level charms.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tower
    Animation seems an odd means of addressing such a grim tragedy, but it gives Maitland the creative freedom to effectively tell a suspenseful, harrowing and moving story.
  24. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    Highly entertaining.
  25. The Aura
    Its rhythm is deliberate and unhurried, yet the film is rich with detail and with small, meaningful character revelations -- the running time of more than two hours feels just right.
  26. Hilary and Jackie
    The wildly ambitious but flawed biographical film about the English cellist Jacqueline du Pré.
  27. Eastern Promises
    What it doesn't have is the resonance of Cronenberg's "A History of Violence," a film that exploited the same genre even while transcending its limitations. Eastern Promises delivers, but not on that scale.
  28. Bad Moms
    Although all these actors prove the shrewd casting choices of Bad Moms, it is Hahn who makes this unassuming summer blockbuster something close to stellar.
  29. Waydowntown
    Waydowntown may not be perfect, but it is perfectly astute in the target it selects and in the questions it raises.
  30. A River Runs Through It
    It's perfectly admirable, absolutely controlled, and fully understandable. [09 Oct 1992]
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