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For 20,313 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: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. The Emperor's New Groove
    Exhibits a cheeky effervescence and spunk.
  2. Butterfly Tongues
    Delicate, quietly devastating.
  3. One Hour Photo
    Unfortunately One Hour Photo turns everyone but the central character into a cutout.
  4. Manna from Heaven
    A product neither of Hollywood nor the New York-Sundance indie axis, Manna From Heaven is a true outsider film, and while it would be easy to fault its lack of technical polish, somewhat discursive script and uneven performances, it is also refreshingly sincere, gentle and good-natured.
  5. The Thomas Crown Affair
    Hard to believe that real emotion was involved anywhere in this story.
  6. Intimacy
    If Intimacy does anything well, it portrays desperation, in many different forms.
  7. Hard Ball
    Its uplifting message about teamwork and caring wouldn't hurt a fly. You might even say, the movie is good for you.
  8. Love at Times Square
    For those looking for a vacation from the irony and the cruelty that have invaded so much of American popular culture, this scruffy little Indian film is a delightful getaway.
  9. Zero Day
    What gives the movie its power is that even the most innocuous scenes in the boys' lives are shadowed by dread.
  10. L'Auberge Espagnole
    Presents an appealing and persuasive picture of European integration, in which national differences, which once sparked military and political conflict, are preserved because they make life sexier and more interesting.
  11. Bossa Nova
    There must be a name for a picture so inconsequential, in which the music provides so much of the chemistry that you get the feeling Bossa Nova would be funereal without it.
  12. The Cuckoo
    There are subtitles to reduce everything to simple English declarative sentences. This gives the viewer a decidedly unfair advantage over the characters: we can understand what they cannot and are invited to laugh at their mutual incomprehension.
  13. Nowhere in Africa
    Despite a shaky narrative focus and dramatic reticence, its journey is consistently absorbing.
  14. The Embalmer
    The screenplay evokes this psychosexual power struggle with perfect accuracy and finely tuned performances.
  15. In the Company of Men
    It exaggerates real, recognizable attitudes in a manner that intends to be disturbing.
  16. Buddy Boy
    Even the walls seem to be sweating something viscous and unpleasant.
  17. Die Hard
    Has to be the most excessive film around. It piles every known element of the action genre onto the flimsy story. [15 July 1988]
    • The New York Times
  18. Together
    Together may not be overtly political, but its vision of contemporary Beijing, where brazen, fashion-crazed gold diggers like Lili bait their hooks to snare arrogant, slippery wheeler-dealers who end up playing her for a sucker, has bite.
  19. Bulgarian Lovers
    Superbly acted, without a trace of coyness and with considerable heat.
  20. Living Out Loud
    The filmmaker has borrowed from Chekhov the soul-baring introspection that can be so ineffable on the page or stage yet becomes so damply sensitive and dramatically vague on screen.
  21. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    Presents itself as an anguished brief against capital punishment, especially the execution of people who are legally insane...But the timing of its release smacks of the very exploitation that Mr. Bloomfield condemns.
  22. Life
    Lawrence and Murphy make an entertaining team. And they are surrounded by a supporting cast that makes the prison setting more pleasant than it has any right to be.
  23. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
    It will help if, while watching The Naked Gun, viewers can assume a mental age of about 14. The jokes will seem fresher that way, and they will also, much to the writers' credit, seem screamingly funny at times.
  24. Frida
    At its best when it forsakes earnest psychological exposition for magic realism, when, instead of trying to explain Kahlo's life, it conjures the moods and sensations that fed her art.
  25. Music of the Heart
    An affirmation of the power of music to provide beauty, pleasure and a sense of accomplishment.
  26. Hollywood Homicide
    He (Ford) slips into the role as if it were a pair of well-worn loafers, the left inherited from Peter Falk, the right from Clint Eastwood, and then proceeds, with wry nonchalance, to tap-dance, shuffle and pirouette through his loosest, wittiest performance in years.
  27. Saturday Night Fever
    Fever beings to flag when, after an initial hour filled with high spirits and jubilant music, it settles down to tell its story; the effect is so deflating that it's almost as though another Monday has rolled around and it's time to get back to work.
  28. Spy Kids
    An enjoyable and charming if overactive fantasy.
  29. What's Cooking?
    It's a meal you may feel you've eaten before, but you nonetheless walk away stuffed and happy.
  30. Basic Instinct
    Basic Instinct transfers Mr. Verhoeven's flair for action-oriented material to the realm of Hitchcockian intrigue, and the results are viscerally effective even when they don't make sense. Drawing powerfully on the seductiveness of his actors and the intensity of their situation, Mr. Verhoeven easily suspends all disbelief.
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