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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Byzantium
    Female-forward and class-conscious, allegorical and adventurous, Byzantium is almost the anti-Batman.
  2. The Dark Crystal
    The Dark Crystal sees through a dark crystal: There is much to marvel at, but there is much that is obscure, and much that may not be there at all. [17 Dec 1982]
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  3. Talk Radio
    Flashy Talk Radio offers little but babble: A mindless, hollow look at a sad symbiosis. [21 Dec 1988]
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  4. Crimson Tide
    Nope, this picture doesn't bear thinking about, but, if you resist that nasty temptation, setting all your mental gauges at Dead Slow, the flow of the action will see you through.
  5. Margot at the Wedding
    These characters don't seem illuminating at all – just damned annoying and, ultimately, dead boring.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Advanced Style
    These confident women care less about what comes off the runways – ‘money has nothing to do with style,’ says one – than with what can be assembled from thrift-shop finds, homemade items and imagination.
  7. White Noise
    There is a distinct, and welcome, lack of sentimentality here, too, with Baumbach able to swerve the tone into a more cerebral version of National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise, of all things. Imagine if Clark Griswold studied fascism and carried around a teeny-tiny pistol, and you’ll start to get the idea.
  8. Winter in Wartime
    View the Second World War through a child's eyes and the result isn't hard to predict: a loss-of-innocence tale. Winter in Wartime is the boilerplate version, with the already dramatic facts of the era ramped up to melodramatic levels. Little wonder it rings so false.
  9. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
    The new Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers movie is a delightful, zippy and genuinely fun thing
  10. Scream
    May not be the most scary or the grossest horror film you've ever seen, but it has one distinct feature: it actually talks up to the audience. By the conclusion, you won't be shaking in your seat, but you may enjoy the status of someone who has earned a Master's in Slashology.
  11. Maelstrom
    Like many of his (young) generation, Villeneuve is front and centre with the visual and musical language. He doesn't always hit the mark, but he is already trying for a symbolic allusiveness that is entirely beyond the reach of many filmmakers.
  12. Kick-Ass
    Kick-Ass is some kind of twisted fun.
  13. King of New York
    That's the allure of the genre. Succeed, and you're artful, thoughtful, and popular all at the same time. But fail, and you're the King of New York. As failures go, this is typical enough, smugly dividing the world into good gangsters and bad ones. [9 Nov 1990]
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  14. A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
    If the movie is essentially a study of a loving family, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries is hampered by extraneous scenes that are simply self-indulgent on the director's part.
  15. Mean Girls
    Lohan, in her third lead role in a year, is a good reactive young actress, and London, Ont., native Rachel McAdams is excellently evil, a dose of poison in a pretty lacquered container.
  16. Transamerica
    What a fine, tender, delicate, funny, gender-bending-and-rebending performance this is.
  17. Philadelphia
    This Hollywood movie about a gay man afflicted with AIDS is evocative, understated and ultimately deeply affecting. Hard-earned tears of truth. [22 Dec 1993, p.C1]
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  18. Dumb Money
    Like the stock market itself, there are peaks and valleys.
  19. The Good Dinosaur
    More manipulative, maudlin trash from the Disney-Pixar content farm.
  20. The Border
    A tough, effective, socially conscious melodrama in the old Warner Brothers tradition. [15 Feb 1982]
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  21. Miami Vice
    Sensual and scary, the movie is so visually textured you feel as though you're brushing against the screen.
  22. Paris, je t'aime
    I love the City of Light as much as any starry-eyed provincial, but Paris, je t'aime tries even my considerable patience.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pavarotti
    It’s a sweeping story, but for those already enamoured with “the people’s tenor," Pavarotti is unlikely to offer any new insights into his life.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    La Vie en Rose
    Surprisingly but fittingly, for a film about the life of a singer, the use of songs is generally elliptical.
  25. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    The best of The Desolation of Smaug is saved for the last, when Bilbo goes to steal from the massive fire-breathing dragon, Smaug. The orange-eyed beast is voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, who, through a sludge of voice-altering electronics, seethes and preens between fiery exhalations; this scene is one of the few occasions in the film where anyone actually takes time to talk.
  26. Another Earth
    It's refreshing to see a movie tackling difficult ideas, even if, like the new Earth, it sometimes feels like the filmmakers have their heads up in the clouds.
  27. Let the Bullets Fly
    Low on nuance and high on body count, the movie is primarily of interest to fans of Asian action spectacles and followers of the charismatic Chow Yun-fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), here cast as both a dandyish villain and his idiotic double.
  28. Mid90s
    Mid90s doesn't feel like a recreation of an era so much as a lost artifact of the time. There's one predictable and regrettable narrative beat toward the end, but otherwise Hill has crafted a debut that will last a lifetime.
  29. Swimming with Sharks
    George Huang's Swimming With Sharks purports to give us the goods on the big bad egos who run Hollywood, but it lacks both credibility and coherence. [06 May 1995]
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  30. The Amazing Spider-Man
    More honourable than "amazing," the latest reboot of the Spider-man franchise brings Marvel Comics web-slinging super-hero down to earth, in a mostly satisfactory way.
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