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For 20,311 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: 9,399 out of 20311
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20311
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20311
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  1. La grande strada azzurra
    A political movie that, partly through the powerful lead performance of its star, the relatively young Yves Montand, transcends its own politics.
  2. Central Station
    There's plenty of room for sentimentality here, but the wonder of Salles' film is all in the telling.
  3. Pecker
    Finding hilarity in John Waters's latest movie title is the basic pre requisite for enjoying the goofy ingenuity of his new film.
  4. Lilo & Stitch
    Hardly a work of state-of-the-art virtuosity, but rather an example of quiet, confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet, charming tale of intergalactic friendship.
  5. The Five Obstructions
    Watching The Five Obstructions is at once like witnessing two chess masters playing dominoes and like spying on a series of therapy sessions. Mr. von Trier clearly sees himself as a maniacal psychoanalyst.
  6. Aberdeen
    Skarsgard and Headey deliver perfectly meshed lead performances in a small, beautifully acted film that will make you squirm.
  7. The Devil's Backbone
    Mr. del Toro provokes your screams and shudders, but he also earns your tears.
  8. Tuck Everlasting
    An effective, well-made film that will certainly please its target audience of preteen girls.
  9. Private Parts
    Thanks to sharp editing and surprisingly strong comic timing, the film puts less emphasis on the Stern raunchiness than on how his wilder routines make listeners drive off the road.
  10. Vodka Lemon
    The thicket of relationships that the director, Hiner Saleem, has created and weaves his cast and camera through is so invitingly hotblooded and crowded with hilariously melodramatic incident that the snowbanks are not nearly as forbidding as they initially seem.
  11. The Animal
    Transcendently dumb but very funny comedy.
  12. Arlington Road
    While this film's conception of a terrorist threat is apparent early on, its strength lies in a string of ingenious little surprises.
  13. Entrapment
    Combine two stars of this wattage with a lot of techno-talk and elaborate heist plotting and you get plenty of good reasons to pay attention.
  14. The Golden Bowl
    If this handsome, faithful, intelligent screen adaptation of the novel doesn't leave you devastated, its ominous sense of a rarefied moral and aesthetic world bending before the accelerating streetcar of history will leave you with a mournful sense of loss.
  15. Shrek
    A giggly cocktail, though it's more foam than drink.
  16. To Be and to Have
    The interest of To Be and to Have, though, is not sociological: it is not really about the French educational system, rural life or even the way children learn. It is, rather, the portrait of an artist, a man whose work combines discipline and inspiration and unfolds mysteriously and imperceptibly.
  17. Das Boot
    Das Boot is yet another moving testament to the wastefulness of battle.
  18. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    It's up to snuff. It sustains the gee-whiz spirit of the series.
  19. Bright Young Things
    Waugh's dialogue, effortlessly catching the lockjaw intonations and facetious mannerisms of the British aristocracy between the world wars, is a gift to screenwriters and performers alike. The actors Mr. Fry has assembled receive the gift with gusto and grace.
  20. Dirty Dancing
    The dancing itself, especially the dirty dancing, choreographed by Kenny Ortega, looks very contemporary, or, at least, as contemporary as "Saturday Night Fever," but it has a drive and a pulse that give the filim real excitement. [21 Aug 1987, p.C3]
    • The New York Times
  21. House of Sand and Fog
    The nearly flawless execution of a deeply flawed premise.
  22. Spider
    Brilliantly realized but bone-chillingly bleak.
  23. Your Friends & Neighbors
    The web of lies, failures and brutal revelations here is strong stuff, and it's the work of an original filmmaker who takes no prisoners.
  24. Shall We Dance?
    And the dancing, as in ''Strictly Ballroom,'' is filmed with a wishful Fred-and-Ginger sweetness that gives the film a studiously effervescent mood.
  25. Sunshine
    Leaves you with a sense of quiet, chastened grace.
  26. Faat Kiné
    Sembène is a far more adroit and elegant storyteller than many may be accustomed to seeing.
  27. Election
    Election is a deft dark comedy with a resemblance to "Rushmore." It's smart no matter what.
  28. Fleeing by Night
    The kind of old-fashioned, grown-up weepie in which the hearts of men and women are cracked, and the shards flutter through the story. Its directness is the movie equivalent of hot, fresh popcorn.
  29. Lost Boys of Sudan
    Getting an audience so caught up is no small feat; it is a tribute to the directors' storytelling.
  30. Boogie Nights
    The movie's special gift happens to be Mark Wahlberg, who gives a terrifically appealing performance in this tricky role.
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