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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. 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.
  2. City Island
    Yes, it’s really complicated, life with the Rizzos. City Island probably has too many moving parts. Still, writer-director Raymond de Felitta (Two Family House) understands that a proper farce, like a good campfire, needs plenty of friction to get started.
  3. Missing
    Missing packs in enough mystery and intrigue that the film never feels boring. It ends up working as good, light and thrilling entertainment.
  4. Something's Gotta Give
    If the lines in the script were as keenly etched as the ones in her face, Keaton would have had something to work with. Instead, during an especially lovelorn sequence, she's asked to indulge in a crying montage so painfully extended that it has us in tears too -- weeping from embarrassment for her.
  5. Patti Smith: Dream of Life
    This intimate portrait of the so-called godmother of punk is aimed at viewers who are keenly fascinated by Smith.
  6. The Girlfriend Experience
    This is one of the director's small, experimental, semi-improvised provocations, and if it doesn't push too deep, it's pointed enough to leave a mark.
  7. Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
    This solid intellectual biography painstakingly follows the development of Arendt’s thought as she was forced to flee her privileged surroundings in German academia, where she was Martin Heidegger’s student and lover, to France and then the United States.
  8. Sausage Party
    If Mel Brooks went insane, he would make Sausage Party.
  9. 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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  10. The Life Ahead
    Ultimately, Ponti’s film survives on the one surprise that’s not much of a surprise at all: the power and majesty of his lead actress. And how did the director score such a casting coup? You’d have to ask his mother ... Sophia Loren.
  11. Diary of the Dead
    There are zombie movies and then there are George Romero films.
  12. Peterloo
    When the bloody finale does eventually arrive, though, you’ll be thankful that Leigh is at the helm. Once again, the director proves himself to be a master of basic human conflict, on whatever scale is necessary.
  13. White Hunter Black Heart
    White Hunter, Black Heart is a beautifully made elaboration of a thesis that has thankfully lost its antithesis to time. [15 Sep 1990]
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  14. Yossi
    Yossi is an early spring breeze of a film – too delicate to be substantial but definitely holding the promise of warmth.
  15. Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
    The film may not shed any new light on Hamilton, but the footage of him riding 100-foot-high waves is nothing short of awesome.
  16. Miller's Crossing
    A masterpiece, but of a unique kind... A gorgeously filmed, supremely well-acted, intricately written film noir about now.
  17. Stuart Little 2
    Vacillating between sappy and snappy, Stuart Little 2 is featherweight family fare, perfectly timed for viewers with short attention spans.
  18. Auto Focus
    When the bloody climax comes, we look on apathetically, as desensitized to the violence as a pornographer is to sex.
  19. Devotion
    Dillard takes every opportunity to interrogate Hudner’s narrative and what it means to be an ally. Whenever Hudner speaks up for Brown or throws a punch on his behalf, we get a revelatory moment observing how self-serving those actions can be.
  20. Dark Horse
    The plot's problem is insoluble: There is no honest ending for Abe other than a completely undramatic continuation of the trapped life he has lived so far. So we get narrative disjunction and a limp conclusion instead of the brilliant reversal of formula that was promised.
  21. Dead Again
    The cinematic equivalent of a "good read" - pick it up and you can't put it down; put it down and it's gone forever.
  22. Pink Ribbons, Inc.
    Pink Ribbons, Inc. is unabashed advocacy filmmaking. In spite of improved mortality rates and scientific advances, few women in the film will acknowledge that pink-ribbon-financed research has done any good at all.
  23. Creed II
    Whatever you normally do during the rousing finale of a Rocky movie. It will feel familiar, but just go with it.
  24. Ben Is Back
    It’s an interesting twist on the usual addiction drama – it’s not the downfall, it’s will he stay clean? – and it works. If you’re not invested, you’re not watching.
  25. Wiener-Dog
    Overly sensitive pet owners, however, would be advised to take a walk.
  26. Ever After
    Well, I didn't exactly leave the theatre barefoot, but there's a lot to like here -- the result is pretty darn cute and hardly ever cloying.
  27. The Founder
    As limp and cold as The Founder is as a movie, it contains one of the finest Keaton performances of his entire career, maybe the one he’s been working his whole life toward.
  28. Mulan
    Sumptuously designed, brightly costumed and shot with an eye toward epic grandeur, the new film is simply gorgeous to take in, no matter the size of the screen. Less pretty is the script, which took four screenwriters to conjure even though there’s perfectly good source material just sitting there, waiting for a photocopy machine.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Angels' Share
    There might be a pretty good film lurking in this latest dramedy from the veteran Scottish directing-writing team of Ken Loach and Paul Laverty. I use the conditional because at least half the dialogue is delivered in a Glaswegian Scots so thick, it might as well have been Urdu.
  30. Moonraker
    THE BOND by which to compare all other Bonds is Goldfinger and by that standard Moonraker, the 11th chapter in the exploits of Agent 007, is second-best. But, by the standards of most of the other candy served up as summer fare, Moonraker is marzipan - it's so insubstantial it melts in your mouth, but its flavor is distinctive and you can't get enough of it. [30 June 1979]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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