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For 20,335 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: 9,412 out of 20335
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20335
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20335
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  1. Kippur
    Immerses you in violence and agony, but it may leave you with a curious feeling of detachment.
  2. Journeys with George
    A witty reminder that campaigns are an endless string of foolish events and photo ops that are wildly detached from the hard issues a president has to deal with.
  3. The Experiment
    It's empty calories trying to trumpet its bogus nutritional value, and the strain for social importance undermines the picture.
  4. Crazy in Alabama
    Banderas directs capably enough to keep the film lively.
  5. Midnight Run
    Mr. De Niro and Mr. Grodin are lunatic delights, which is somewhat more than can be said for the movie, whose mechanics keep getting in the way of the performances. [20 July 1988, p.C15]
    • The New York Times
  6. The Big Tease
    As it rubs our noses in our own fascination with vanity and the silliest values in life, it's charming enough to make us like it.
  7. Daughter from Danang
    May not be a great piece of filmmaking, but its power comes from its soul's-eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustice, at least as represented by this case.
  8. The Gatekeeper
    Though the film is far from polished, the force of its significance to Mr. Frey, as well as the urgency of its political message, give it some genuine impact.
  9. Unknown Pleasures
    Perhaps the world doesn't need another picture on disaffected youth, but Pleasures is about more than alienation.
  10. Dr. Dolittle 2
    Mr. Murphy is not given much to do in this sloppy, good-hearted sequel, so he graciously allows himself to be upstaged by all manner of animatronic, celebrity-voiced talking animals.
  11. The Man from Elysian Fields
    By the end, after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly, sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be, you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be.
  12. Two Men Went to War
    It mocks the absurdity of war, but between the chuckles, and especially near the end, it plucks the heartstrings.
  13. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    For all the hype and the inevitable box office bonanza, Terminator 3 is essentially a B movie, content to be loud, dumb and obvious.
  14. The War Zone
    The actor Tim Roth makes a fierce, disturbing directorial debut with a film that treats incest as something worse than a terrible secret.
  15. Riding in Cars with Boys
    As the movie jumps back and forth in time, it displays an impressive cut-and-paste agility, skillfully interweaving humor and drama without tipping over into farce or soap opera.
  16. Okraina
    A strange, disturbing and yet occasionally quite funny cultural artifact from the new Russia.
  17. ABCD
    A better and more serious film than its forerunner, "American Desi."
  18. The Flower of Evil
    Wanders rather than moves chillingly toward its climax.
  19. Sacred Planet
    What the movie lacks is contrast. The sped-up ribbons of traffic in a city look as pretty as the interior of a redwood grove. As for the perils of logging, one brief shot of a clear-cut forest flashes by so quickly it is almost subliminal.
  20. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
    For horror film devotees eager to know how this unseasonable visit from the darker spirits of autumn rates, frankly, it's more marketing trick than moviegoer treat.
  21. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Emerges as an uncommonly sober, well-researched film of its type.
  22. The Gift
    The picture is saved from mediocrity by Mr. Raimi's smooth competence, and by the unusually high quality of the acting.
  23. Kingdom Come
    You are left with the feeling that its excesses notwithstanding, it knows its chosen terrain.
  24. Saving Grace
    That they're English and elderly apparently makes their antics screamingly funny to people who would turn up their noses at similar humor in a film like "Scary Movie."
  25. Beefcake
    A fascinating double-edged portrait of 1950s Los Angeles.
  26. The Man in the Iron Mask
    Beyond its persistent coarseness, Wallace's story often trades yesterday's inspiration (Dumas) for today's (Simpson-Bruckheimer).
  27. The Object of My Affection
    Easier to watch than it is to believe.
  28. Bad Boys
    Would have been better if it had been sleeker and shorter. After all, this film isn't aiming for high-toned drama, just high-energy entertainment, which is what it delivers.
  29. The Princess Blade
    Not quite good enough to jump out of the pack of Asian swordplay movies but is too well crafted to sink into utter anonymity.
  30. Sliding Doors
    Once the movie throws in a jolting, late-in-the-gameplot twist that could have been borrowed from "City of Angels," it never regains its balance.
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