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For 20,271 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: 9,377 out of 20271
  2. Mixed: 8,430 out of 20271
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20271
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  1. Lantana
    Astonishingly well acted film, so much so that it seems unfair to single out any of the performances. Mr. Lawrence's camera sense is as sure and unobtrusive as his feel for acting. The movie just seems to happen, to grow out of the ground like a thorny plant, revealing the intricate intelligence of its design only in hindsight.
  2. 24 Hour Party People
    "Print the legend," Mr. Wilson says at one point, both quoting John Ford and laying the foundation for his own often fact-free fabulous fabulism. And this movie is just that -- fabulous.
  3. American Psycho
    A lean and mean horror comedy classic.
  4. Rocco and His Brothers (re-release)
    Neither the neighborhood intimacy of "Mean Streets" nor the grandeur of the "Godfather" movies is imaginable without Visconti's example. Its richness, though, is inexhaustible, and well served by the spotless new 35-millimeter print being shown at Film Forum.
  5. I Vitelloni [re-release]
    Full of brilliantly executed coups de théâtre, showing the director's natural flair for spectacle.
  6. Glengarry Glen Ross
    The reason the film prompts laughter, and finally elation, is not because it's jolly or has any feel-good words to live by. It's because of the utterly demonic skill with which these foulmouthed characters carve one another up in futile attempts to stave off disaster.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sunset Boulevard
    Sunset Boulevard is that rare blend of pungent writing, expert acting, masterly direction and unobtrusively artistic photography which quickly casts a spell over an audience and holds it enthralled to a shattering climax.
  8. Shakespeare in Love
    Shakespeare meets Sherlock, and makes for pure enchantment in the inspired conjecture behind Shakespeare in Love.
  9. La Dolce Vita
    A brilliantly graphic estimation of a whole swath of society in sad decay and, eventually, a withering commentary upon the tragedy of the overcivilized. (Review of Original Release)
  10. Far From Heaven
    It rediscovers the aching, desiring humanity in a genre -- and a period-- too often subjected to easy parody or ironic appropriation. In a word, it's divine.
  11. The English Patient
    A stunning feat of literary adaptation as well as a purely cinematic triumph.
  12. Lone Star
    Gratifyingly complex and beautifully told, this tale explores a huge array of cultural, racial, economic and familial tensions. In the process, it also sustains strong characters, deep emotions and clear dramatic force.
  13. Sunshine State
    Creates a cinematic mosaic of American lives unprecedented in its range, balance, subtlety and even-handedness.
  14. Blissfully Yours
    Marks the emergence of one of the more original and promising new voices to hit the international cinema scene in recent years.
  15. Halloween
    From the first shot to the last, this movie is confidently guided by a specific and committed vision.
  16. Gosford Park
    A virtuoso ensemble piece to rival the director's "Nashville" and "Short Cuts" in its masterly interweaving of multiple characters and subplots.
  17. Saving Private Ryan
    Steven Spielberg's soberly magnificent new war film, the second such pinnacle in a career of magical versatility, has been made in the same spirit of urgent communication. It is the ultimate devastating letter home.
  18. About Schmidt
    What makes this exquisitely observed slice of American screen realism transcend itself is finally its moral sensibility.
  19. Braveheart
    One of the most spectacular entertainments in years.
  20. The Hours
    Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain.
  21. In the Bedroom
    When a film as profoundly quiet as In the Bedroom comes along, it feels almost miraculous, as if a shimmering piece of art had slipped below the radar and through the minefield of commerce.
  22. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    The most voluptuous comic-book movie ever made.
  23. Road to Perdition
    A truly majestic visual tone poem.
  24. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    Not merely an interesting document from a far-off place; it is a masterpiece.
  25. Hannah and Her Sisters
    Virtually nonstop exhilaration--a dramatic comedy not quite like any other, and one that sets new standards for Mr. Allen as well as for all American moviemakers. [7 February 1986]
    • The New York Times
  26. The Last Seduction
    A devilishly entertaining crime story with a heroine who must be seen to be believed, is as satisfying an ensemble piece as Red Rock West.
  27. My Own Private Idaho
    The film itself is invigorating - written, directed, and acted with enormous insight and comic elan. [27 Sept 1991]
    • The New York Times
  28. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    A film whose best moments are so novel, so deliriously funny, and so crazily unexpected that they truly must be seen to be believed.
  29. Toy Story
    Thanks to exultant wit and so many distinctive voices, Toy Story is both an aural and visual delight.
  30. Moolaadé
    To skip Moolaade would be to miss an opportunity to experience the embracing, affirming, world-changing potential of humanist cinema at its finest.
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