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For 20,280 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Babí léto
    Mr. Brodsky's final screen performance in one of his richest roles finds overlapping layers of humor and pathos.
  2. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    Intensely appealing.
  3. The Tenant
    The film is superbly acted by Mr. Polanski, Mr. Douglas and Miss Winters, who might not be entirely convincing as a Parisian concierge in a realistic film, but who fits into this nightmare perfectly.
  4. Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
    Very much a writer's film: Mr. Schickel's elegant, occasionally knotty prose, read by Sidney Pollack, offers a clear, nuanced interpretation of the artist's work in relation to his life.
  5. Charlotte Sometimes
    A tiny film that reflects a large talent.
  6. Our Father
    Poignant though it is, the movie is the opposite of depressing. There is too much life in it.
  7. Mystic Pizza
    Though in essence this is little more than a girls' romance novel brought to life, it has been filled with heart and humor. The place, the people and even the largely predictable situations in which they find themselves are presented in an entirely winning way.
  8. Rana's Wedding
    Ms. Khoury, often filmed in close-up, gives a deeply sensitive, unsentimental performance, and the feelings that crowd on her face (sometimes more than one at a time) run the gamut from despair to ambivalence to hysterical frustration to tenderness and joy.
  9. The Gingerbread Man
    With unexpected success, Robert Altman plays a John Grisham mystery in a seductive new key.
  10. Blue in the Face
    Good-humored, try-anything fun.
  11. Panic
    A sneaky and smart film noir.
  12. Swimming Pool
    Simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism. Whose psychology, and which reality, remains ambiguous even after the tart, delicious final twist.
  13. Under the City's Skin
    The real protagonist is the family itself -- a fragile, complex organism undermined by internal conflict and menaced by the cruelty and indifference of the society around them.
  14. Demonlover
    The entrancing visual imagery goes a long way toward filling in the screenplay's gaps in logic.
  15. You've Got Mail
    The film's mix of romance and reading matter is seductive in its own right, providing comfy book-lined settings and people who are what they read and write.
  16. The End of the Affair
    When it comes to holiday films worth swooning over, here's the one to see.
  17. The Apostle
    Duvall's unobtrusive direction moves the film at a leisurely pace that lets many scenes build the gentle, pleasing rhythms of small-town Southern life. A rare display of spiritual light on screen.
  18. About a Boy
    The Weitz brothers -- notorious as the authors of the "American Pie" series -- handle the sentimentality of the story with a light, sweet touch.
  19. Chuck & Buck
    Strange, intense and moving -- one of the few truly grown-up movies you're likely to see this year.
  20. Cremaster 3
    If Cremaster 3 is an innovative artwork that has been credited with breaking down the distance between sculpture and film, is it also a great movie? Probably yes.
  21. Real Women Have Curves
    Effervescent and satisfying, a crowd pleaser that does not condescend.
  22. Decasia
    Nothing more -- and nothing less -- than a collage of decaying, decomposing nitrate film stock...The unexpected thing is that its dying, in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia, is quite beautiful.
  23. My Architect
    The son's search is one of three strands of a story that the movie weaves into a meticulously structured portrait of a complicated man who remains elusive even after key elements of the puzzle have been pieced together.
  24. In My Skin
    As unrelenting an exploration of isolation and dissociation as Roman Polanski's "Repulsion."
  25. Stone Reader
    Enchanting and diverting documentary.
  26. The Grandfather
    Brims with understanding of the complexities of relationships, the frailties of humankind and the possibilities of joy.
  27. Tadpole
    Shot in just two weeks with a hand-held digital camera, the movie often looks frayed around the edges. Yet it has a soulful heart and a clear grasp of its rarefied milieu (Manhattan upper-level moneyed academia).
  28. Grosse Pointe Blank
    Enough wild-card energy to keep it bright and surprising.
  29. Juliet of the Spirits
    Invites you to contemplate the symbolic vibration of every hue in its teeming, overcrowded canvas.
  30. Johnny English
    Unlike most movies of this kind, which run out of steam and ideas as they go along, Johnny English gains momentum, nudging you along from a few stray giggles to helpless, giddy laughter.
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