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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 Beach Boys
    The film is a level-headed look at artists who promoted joy but lost their own.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Syrup
    It’s tempting to say that Aram Rappaport’s Syrup sticks, but it’s also true.
  3. Searching for Sugar Man
    A pleasing fix, Searching for Sugar Man is a lost-and-found film about pursuits – one of them abandoned, and one not.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pretty Baby
    Apart from the ideology of the film, Pretty Baby is exquisitely executed. Shields, Sarandon and Carradine all give substantial but generally low key performances. [11 Apr 1978]
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  5. The Station Agent
    The movie's main attraction isn't hard to find. It's essentially a character study, but one where the nature of the study is as unique as the stature of the character.
  6. Snitch
    Pleasant because, instead of the usual hero-and-mayhem jive, Snitch is an honest exercise in workmanlike craft. This is to film what ceramic is to floors or Billy is to bookcase or what a third-line centre is to a winning hockey team – hardly great but good and solid and functional.
  7. White God
    Hackle-raising in its intensity.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    Finding deep meaning and satisfaction from this story will be difficult, but if it’s style over substance you’re after, then you’ll revel in the comedic chic.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sky High
    An engaging and surprisingly sharp allegory about high-school hierarchies and adolescent growing pains.
  10. Night of the Kings
    City of God crossed with A Prophet by way of One Thousand and One Nights, Philippe Lacôte’s Night of the Kings is an ambitious thriller that constantly surprises.
  11. Our Nixon
    At its best moments, Our Nixon captures the split-personality of the times, and the apparently innocent face of corruption.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Secret Garden
    The 1949 film version was definitively a tear-jerker. But Holland, too, has opted for a faithful adaptation, which starts out tart and winds up treacly. [14 Aug 1993]
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  13. Juno
    The film's forced quirkiness constantly threatens to derail the entire enterprise, making this another minor American indie exercise in family eccentricity. But it keeps being put back on track by the apparently effortless performance of a great young actress.
  14. Alien: Resurrection
    Jeunet manages a terrific pass in an extended underwater sequence, but, beyond that, he runs out of ideas as we run out of patience.
  15. Our Little Sister
    It’s subdued, at times even too leisurely, but the film and its characters are luminous, especially lead Ayase Haruka.
  16. The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
    Thanks to some skillful, nuanced editing – and the forgiveness of time that comes with three decades – Coppola’s experiment is an offer you (sorry) can’t refuse. Mostly.
  17. Naked Lunch
    Paradoxically cerebral and primal, reasonable and anti-rational, life- affirming and nihilistic, Naked Lunch is a sensual and intellectual feast. It will not be a meal to everyone's taste, but in its bizarre class, there is nothing classier. [10 Jan 1992]
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  18. 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.
  19. Perfect
    Perfect betrays itself in the end, but until it does, it's an unexpectedly thoughtful consideration of "lifestyle" journalism, which by nature allots to the unknown a sudden but ephemeral celebrity, and which too frequently takes advantage of naive subjects eager to lower their defences. [7 June 1985]
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  20. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Burton's movie is not only more faithful, complex and better cast, it has an essential ingredient: squirrels.
  21. Dung che sai duk
    Strange and beautiful and transfixing and confusing, it's quite the sight - martial-arts fans may find themselves disappointed, but Wong Kar-wai addicts will be delighted.
  22. House of Sand and Fog
    There is both a sense of disappointment and relief when House of Sand and Fog crosses over into improbability, when the viewer can sit back, breathe easy again. All this trouble over the failure to open an envelope.
  23. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    When Spitzer resigned, they broke out champagne on the stock exchange trading floor. Shame on them.
  24. Beverly Hills Cop
    In Hollywood terms, Beverly Hills Cop harks back to the semi- good old days, to the studio era when stars were not always relied on to fix everything - this is unquestionably a star vehicle, but the star, an employee of his own production company, has been smart enough to surround himself with other, by no means lesser lights. [4 Dec. 1984]
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  25. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    All right, there are bits and pieces of new material in Chapter 3, but they come in the form of gobbledygook world-building. What’s worse is that all this blather about the underground assassin economy arrives gussied up with characters uttering needlessly intimidating Latin phrases.
  26. Tu Dors Nicole
    The night scenes are particularly resonant, mixing humour, suspense and textured visuals. This is the kind of film dream from which you feel reluctant to wake.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Much Ado About Nothing
    It’s a pleasant surprise, therefore, to see what Whedon has done with the Bard’s timeless comedy Much Ado About Nothing.
  28. In This Corner of the World
    The elegant, condensed saga covers a dozen years, starting in 1933. You don't need to be an Einstein to guess where the story is heading. An evocative, slow-blooming feature is a study on the flash horrors of war and the gradual death of dreams.
  29. Agnes
    From the cult Oklahoma director Mickey Reece, the horror film Agnes is funny – both funny ha-ha (in sly ways) and funny-peculiar all around.
  30. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    Both a triumph of design and cinematic engineering and, at the same time, long, repetitious and naive.
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