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For 20,278 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: 9,380 out of 20278
  2. Mixed: 8,434 out of 20278
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20278
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  1. Safe Conduct
    The movie is full of juices that give it a healthy, pungent flow.
  2. The Leopard (re-release)
    For the most part, Nino Rota's music provides a rich melodic surrounding for the pictorial magnificence, and a heretofore unknown Verdi waltz that is played at the ball at the finish appropriately supplements this remarkably vivid, panoramic, and eventually morbid show. (Review of Original Release)
  3. Read My Lips
    Like so many European pictures these days, Read My Lips seems destined to be remade in Hollywood, and it is unlikely to be improved by the addition of vainer actors, a simpler screenplay and flashier direction.
  4. The Good Girl
    There's more to everyone here than we're initially led to think. The Good Girl is like a neurotically charged post-millennial take on the trailer-park comedies that Jonathan Demme once claimed for himself.
  5. Gattaca
    A handsome and fully imagined work of cautionary futuristic fiction.
  6. The Rainmaker
    Drawing a parade of colorful performances from a constantly surprising cast, the curiously titled ''John Grisham's 'The Rainmaker' '' is Mr. Coppola's best and sharpest film in years.
  7. Russian Ark
    A magnificent conjuring act, an eerie historical mirage.
  8. The Ice Storm
    Elegant and deeply disquieting drama.
  9. Intolerable Cruelty
    Something not seen in movie theaters for a long time: an intelligent, modern screwball comedy, a minor classic on the order of competent, fast-talking curve balls about deception and greed like Mitchell Leisen's "Easy Living" and Billy Wilder's "Major and the Minor."
  10. Dead Man Walking
    Quietly courageous drama .
  11. The Original Kings of Comedy
    Their comedy gives audiences that have never seen anything like it a hilarious window on a new world.
  12. All or Nothing
    All the drinking, arguing and brooding, which in lesser hands might have produced oppressive and unvarying dreariness, somehow adds up to a tableau of extraordinary vividness and variety.
  13. Secrets & Lies
    Unfolds beautifully, with a rueful, knowing intelligence that rises above easy assumptions. [27 September 1996, p.C1]
  14. Topsy-Turvy
    One of those films that create a mix of erudition, pageantry and delectable acting opportunities, much as "Shakespeare in Love."
  15. The Return
    At once highly naturalistic and dreamily abstract, playing out its mythic themes through vibrantly detailed characterizations (and remarkable performances by the entire cast). The Return announces the arrival of a major new talent.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Au hasard Balthazar
    This is neither an easy film, nor, in the show biz sense, an entertaining one. It makes large demands upon its audience, and in return confers exceptional rewards.
  17. Flirting with Disaster
    Mr. Russell's wonderfully mad odyssey of a movie, in which a man sets out to find his biological parents and winds up meeting more weirdos than Alice found down the rabbit hole.
  18. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    It is, all in all, a rambunctious and inspired ride in which the Coen brothers' voracious fascination with the arcana of American popular culture and their whiz-kid inventiveness reach new heights of whimsy.
  19. Sense and Sensibility
    Grandly entertaining...matches the Austen-based "Clueless" for sheer fun. [13 Dec 1995]
  20. Boys Don't Cry
    Stunning...a film much tougher and more transfixing than its wan title.
  21. Fargo
    For all its exaggerated ordinariness, this film seems to start where others leave off.
  22. Blind Shaft
    Deftly swings to a spartan, engrossing climax, and the final twists spell out what the murderers are made of and the setting responsible for creating them. It is a true piece of film magic.
  23. Deconstructing Harry
    This poisonous, brazenly autobiographical comedy shows off the best of Mr. Allen's misanthropic humor.
  24. Roger Dodger
    One of the juiciest male characters to pop up in an independent film this year.
  25. George Washington
    This dream of a movie is set in such a place; with its delicate shifts of tone, it could be a fairy tale by Faulkner
  26. All the Real Girls
    Remarkable for its genuine, unpretentious lyricism.
  27. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    You realize you are witnessing a psychodrama of novelistic intricacy and epic scope.
  28. Festival Express
    To watch the biggest stars of their time in casual conversation, trading riffs and passing bottles, without benefit of publicists, handlers and security goons is to relive an innocent, anarchic time in the entertainment business when music, not marketing, was at the center of the enterprise.
  29. Ten
    A work of inspired simplicity.
  30. American Beauty
    If you don't share the film's piercing vision of what really matters, someday you will.
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