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For 2,973 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,806 out of 2973
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2973
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2973
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  1. Gremlins
    Gremlins has enough style and savvy to stand on its own as the summer's most original Hollywood picture.
  2. Primary Colors
    Nichols and his once and current partner, screenwriter Elaine May, can make a funny, knowing, ultimately judicious film from the deliciously satyric satire.
  3. The Emperor's New Groove
    Doesn't aim too high or strain too hard; it is at ease inhabiting its pretty, miniature realm.
  4. The King
    Perceptive, probing and ultimately devastating, The King is for anyone who cares about where this country has been and where it’s headed.
  5. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
    The plot, though, is only the lid of this Pandora's toy chest. Inside, the alert viewer will find humor, imagination and a little Oriental mysticism.
  6. eXistenZ
    Like the virtual game he plays on us, the film is weird, it's addictive, and Lord, it's alive!
  7. The Skin I Live In
    There's no reason Banderas, after two Hollywood decades, couldn't do Robert justice; yet for a man whose mourning has turned to madness, he is strangely remote, lifeless, displaying neither rage nor poignancy. If Anaya is the heart at the center of the film, Banderas is the hole.
  8. Curse of the Golden Flower
    This is high, and high-wire, melodrama. It's less soap opera than grand opera, where matters of love and death are played at a perfect fever pitch. And grand this Golden Flower is.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Camelot
    Unfortunately, there is nothing royal about Camelot's carious screen version. It has been brought crunchingly down to earth by the churlish touch of Director Joshua Logan.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Italian Job
    Like most criminals, however, the creators expend all their energies on the heist and not nearly enough building their characters.
  11. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
    This is a story about following one’s dreams and then learning there’s a lesson attached to those dreams—you might catch more than a perfume whiff of sanctimoniousness here. But it’s rare to find movies that value the mere idea of beauty, and this one—directed by Anthony Fabian—does so unapologetically.
  12. Rebuilding Paradise
    Being fortunate enough to survive a catastrophic event doesn’t necessarily protect you from future heartbreak. Rebuilding Paradise recognizes that, though it also offers some cautious optimism. This is a movie about how life goes on, in defiance of whatever may have been burned away.
  13. Happy Together
    [A] sexy, spiky love story.
  14. Soul Food
    It could be a distillation of some unaired black soap opera, so predictable are the plot contrivances--adultery, pregnancy, illness, missing money--and so cartoonishly are the characters drawn.
  15. Nightmare Alley
    This an unnervingly compassionate portrait of a truly bad egg.
  16. The Hoax
    Gere and Molina are themselves terrific as the con men.
  17. Who Killed the Electric Car?
    Chris Paine's documentary makes an unapologetic case for the car and an unofficial indictment of the forces allied against it.
  18. Lethal Weapon 2
    That first movie raised the craft of torture to a low art. Expect no less in LW2, directed by Richard Donner and written by Jeffrey Boam. This installment features a surfboard decapitation, death by carpenter's nail gun, a bomb wired to a very sensitive seat ( and reduction of the Afrikaaner diaspora by about one-half. (24July 1989, p.53)
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  19. Wuthering Heights
    Faithful and bold adaptation.
  20. Martin Margiela: In His Own Words
    Here, the effect of merely hearing his voice and watching his hands is so intimate that we walk away with an almost tactile sense of who Martin Margiela is, the way we confidently, yet only sort of, know what the man in the moon looks like. His mystery becomes our secret too.
  21. Caramel
    It may be a first film, but Labaki, employing a cast that is full of non-professional actresses, is a slick and knowing filmmaker. Her multiple plot lines are neatly braided and though her characters are conventionalized they are also charming and capable of surprising us.
  22. Rampart
    Harrelson rewards watching; he's no less potent at rest than when he explodes in calculated rage.
  23. Your Friends & Neighbors
    Jason Patric is the chief sleaze; Ben Stiller adds to his gallery of wormy guys; and Aaron Eckhart is the doleful husband who, when asked who his best lay was, unabashedly answers, "Me." [24 August 1998, p. 85]
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  24. Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
    The joy of Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe is that these two haven’t gotten the memo.
  25. Late Night
    It has the wiggy energy of a workplace that might sometimes drive you crazy, but is never boring. This is a great workplace comedy about the ways in which people who seem to be holding you back can also, sometimes, be the ones pushing you forward. Crawling under your desk gets you nowhere. It also means you miss all the fun.
  26. Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
    It’s a complex, observant and overwhelmingly (if unsurprisingly; the film was co-produced by her label, Interscope) flattering portrait. And, if they can sit tight through too many similar home-recording scenes, it should help the perplexed appreciate her appeal.
  27. The Boys in the Band
    The Boys in the Band is anything but a relic. This version, produced by Ryan Murphy and performed by the same cast that appeared in the play’s 2018 revival on Broadway, is like an unusually strong telescope, giving us a clear and vivid view into a not-so-distant past.
  28. The Old Guard
    In its craftsmanship and soul, it has more in common with the 1990s films of action genius John Woo than with anything that’s been extruded through the franchise Play-Doh pumper in recent years. If an action movie can be elegant and thoughtful, this one is.
  29. Contagion
    For a good hour, a very good first hour, the film efficiently accumulates small, terrifying incidents and images.
  30. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    This documentary, a gallivanting time trip through a bolder film era, is Herzog's final collaboration with Kinski: an act of love and exorcism.
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