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For 20,312 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: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. Fantastic Voyage
    All I can tell you is it is quite a trip. Fortunately, all of the voyaging is done in the northern hemisphere.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bloody Mama
    What hoists the picture into real substance toward the home stretch is an eerie and fascinating by credible sequence with the Barker clan holding as captive a blindfolded millionaire, strongly played by Pat Hingle.
  3. Celebration
    Saint Laurent was essential to 20th-century culture, and Celebration shows the inevitable fading of glory as well as the enduring features of his life’s work.
  4. Richard Jewell
    The shadows are what linger from this flawed, fascinating movie.
  5. Lolita
    This is not the novel Lolita, but it is a provocative sort of film.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Burn, Witch, Burn
    This low-budget, British import, with Janet Blair and a small cast, is quite the most effective "supernatural" thriller since Village of the Damned.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Babes in Toyland
    This time, Mr. Disney, true to himself in his own fashion, has constructed a garden of dreams to delight every child, with the aid of a few of the noted Herbert melodies, a spate of new ones, a cast of photogenic kids and willing grown-ups and sets as stylized as those of any Disney cartoon.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blackbeard's Ghost
    The whole thing, by the way, shines in nifty color. But the real appeal of such wholesomeness is the brisk, unsugary serving, under Robert Stevenson's trim direction, and the consistently adroit humor, which sidesteps slapstick.
  9. Candleshoe
    Candleshoe, with its beguiling English countryside settings, languid pace, defanged Dickensian villains, compassionate butler, down-at-the-heels nobility, hidden treasure and orphaned children engaged in a plot to outwit swindlers, keep up appearances and save the old manor from foreclosure, is the fiction of a bygone era.
  10. The Living Desert
    Mr. Disney's earnest people have done a remarkable job of collecting some extraordinary footage and his editors have assembled it well for excitement and fascination, more than for education.
  11. Old Yeller
    In this very lean and sensible screen transcription of Fred Gipson's children's book, adapted by himself and William Tunberg, a warm, appealing little rustic tale unfolds in lovely color photography. Sentimental, yes, but also sturdy as a hickory stick.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
    An expert rendition of an ancient legend that is as pretty as its Technical hues and as lively as a sturdy Western.
  13. When Lambs Become Lions
    It’s a striking, human portrait of men in trouble, looking for escape and possibly redemption.
  14. Pacific Heights
    Pacific Heights deserves a little credit for originality, and a little more for remaining within the realm of realism until a contrived, violent ending becomes overdue. Thanks to its three stars and a well-chosen supporting cast, the film remains sly fun even when its characters begin making silly mistakes.
  15. Lady in White
    Here are the bones of an ordinary ghost story. But the writer and director Frank LaLoggia brings them to life with exceptional vitality.
  16. Human Nature
    Every “Oh wow” in Human Nature is matched by an “Oh no” somewhere down the line. Together, these two competing emotions — excitement and unease — make for one pretty fascinating documentary.
  17. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
    “Farmageddon” features plenty of inspired, boomeranging slapstick, executed with clockwork precision. It’s a very funny movie — and an endlessly, refreshingly cheerful one, which is just as rare.
  18. My Neighbors the Yamadas
    Mr. Takahata’s broad, cartoony family comedy whose smeary watercolor washes and Peanuts-like line drawings don’t follow Ghibli’s house style. The family’s misadventures are standard stuff, but the art is continuously inventive.
  19. Incitement
    Potently, Incitement depicts Amir as just one member of a self-reinforcing fringe.
  20. You Go to My Head
    Until its surprisingly effective ending, You Go To My Head keeps its drama under the skin. Like an animal in captivity, Bafort, who is also a model, slinks and lounges with long-limbed grace; but it’s Cvetkovic who holds the movie steady, giving Jake a secretive, worn gentleness that’s tinged with tragedy.
  21. Tenet
    The film is undeniably enjoyable, but its giddy grandiosity only serves to highlight the brittleness of its purported braininess.
  22. The Silent Partner
    A dense, quirky, uncommonly interesting movie, this time with a high quotient of suspense.
  23. The American Friend
    Like Taxi Driver, The American Friend was a new sort of movie-movie — sleekly brooding, voluptuously alienated and saturated with cinephilia.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dolemite
    Dolemite remains the Citizen Kane of kung fu pimping movies. [26 May 2002, p.1]
    • The New York Times
  25. System K
    Barret makes the viewer understand, implicitly at least, the desperation of these creators, even as views of their work, and the simmering electronic Afro-funk of the soundtrack, make a case for the indomitability of their creative impulse.
  26. Miss Americana
    Wilson has captured Swift at a convincing turning point, ready, perhaps, to say a lot more.
  27. Dick Tracy
    Dick Tracy has just about everything required of an extravaganza: a smashing cast, some great Stephen Sondheim songs, all of the technical wizardry that money can buy (plus the knowledge of how and when to use it), and a screenplay (credited to Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.) that observes the fine line separating true comedy from lesser camp.
  28. Beastie Boys Story
    It’s a jaunt down memory lane and also a moving and generous elegy.
  29. Sign 'o' the Times
    Prince, whose ties to soul and jazz are clearer than ever before, whose willingness to embrace different musical forms seems to grow all the time, has never cast a stronger spell.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Booksellers
    Charming.
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