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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Good Night, and Good Luck.
    That the film should have the look and feel of a classic teleplay by, say, Rod Serling, is probably no accident -- the style is one more reminder of just how regrettably short of Murrow's vision we've fallen.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Terms of Endearment
    Lopsided comedy turned tearjerker, saved by excellent performances.
  3. Shallow Grave
    Danny Boyle's effective psychological thriller.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Singles
    SINGLES is funny and well-observed and, most notably, plays to its audience's intelligence rather than its libido.
  5. Time to Leave
    The film rests entirely on Poupaud's shoulders, and he rises to the demands of a complex, deeply unsympathetic role.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Brideshead Revisited
    It shifts the focus from Charles and Sebastian's youthful idyll to the stronger, more provocative relationship between Charles and Julia, wherein lies Waugh's concerns with materialism and velvet-gloved dual grip of family and religion.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Year of Living Dangerously
    Ambitious, stylish, and ideologically confused, The Year of Living Dangerously falters in its attempts to succeed simultaneously as thriller, romance, and political tract, while also encompassing director Peter Weir's penchant for half-baked mysticism. Still, it's a gripping film.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Love for Sale
    The theme song, a wonderful Portuguese version of Bread's soft-rock classic "Everything I Own," is by Dinah, a long-forgotten Brazilian singing sensation of the 1970s who deserves to be better remembered.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Hairspray
    Controversial filmmaker John Waters finally hits his commercial stride in this film, parlaying his keen social observation and great compassion for society's outsiders into a colorful and engaging comedy full of dancing, music and heartfelt nostalgia.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Man with Two Brains
    The Man with Two Brains, which never ceases to amuse, is at its best when most outrageous.
  11. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    This tribute to old-fashioned hard-boiled detective fiction is laced with Hollywood satire and snappy, lightning-fast dialogue.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Cronos
    An offbeat and in some ways, more daring variation on vampirism
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Separate Lies
    If there's pleasure to be derived from the misfortunes of others, then Julian Fellowes' wickedly entertaining adaptation of Nigel Balchin's nearly forgotten 1951 novel is a barrel of fun.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
    It's intriguing stuff, but Curtis overplays his hand when he underplays the existence of any real threat (Madrid? London? Amman?), proposes that Al Qaeda is a fiction and risks undermining the credibility of an otherwise compelling argument.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Telling Lies in America
    A heartfelt sleeper from screenwriter Joe Eszterhas and director Guy Ferland.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Treeless Mountain
    The movie is thoroughly engrossing from the opening frame to the end credits, and it’s a beautiful viewing experience.
  17. The Host
    Boon's film is both funny and heartbreaking, a supremely confident mix of political satire, free-floating paranoia, fractured family dynamics and the kind of comedy that regularly reconfigures itself into tragedy.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    12:08 East of Bucharest
    Wonderfully droll, Cannes Camera d'Or winner.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The City of Lost Children
    You may end up wishing for a little less show and a lot more substance.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    New York Doll
    This might be the only documentary that will appeal to punks and Mormons alike.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Emma
    The movie is a genteel, witty soap opera designed to make everyone feel the better for having not only seen it, but having had a bit of fun.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Australia
    Australia goes for the absolute limit in terms of scope. And let's not be coy -- size may not matter, but it still helps.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Toy Story
    Clever, fast-moving and unobtrusively self-conscious.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Grand Canyon
    Grand Canyon successfully recreates the random, haphazard ways in which individual lives intersect, and captures the sense of menace and disintegration that permeate contemporary urban life.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Ich hiess Sabina Spielrein
    Told mostly through haunting, often chilling visual fragments, this handsomely mounted and unusually gripping account amounts to an important exercise in biography: It faithfully restores Spielrein to her rightful place as a crucial contributor to the fields of child psychology and psychoanalysis.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
    Tsai finds great beauty in streets of Kuala Lumpur particularly at night, making this gorgeous film one that should be seen on a large screen in the total darkness of a theater.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Halloween (2007)
    Zombie delivers a scary horror movie immediately recognizable as his own -- something that will come as a welcome relief to fans who've diligently sat through seven "Halloween" sequels in hopes of one day reliving the original's terrifying magic.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Labyrinth
    Labyrinth packs enough surprises to captivate an audience of children and provides enough wisecracking to keep adults laughing.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
    The film unfolds with all the heart-stopping suspense of a true-crime expose that sheds light on the twisted policies of Kim Jong-il's strange and secretive nation.
  30. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    The vicious clamor the film occasioned in the U.K. is simply the measure of how volatile a subject the relationship between England and Ireland remains more than eight decades after the film's events, and the thinking viewer can hardly help but see parallels between the Irish insurgency and all subsequent guerrilla conflicts.
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