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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sweetie
    Cruelly honest and pitilessly funny, Sweetie is one of the nakedest explorations of familial love and desperation ever filmed.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Serpico
    When all is said and done, Pacino is the riveting presence that makes the movie work and it is difficult to imagine any other actor in the part. (Review of Original Release)
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    The sheer size of the production dwarfs the human drama.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    Fred Frith's lovely and subdued score is a perfect accompaniment.
  5. Shrek
    Colossally entertaining.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Woman Is a Woman
    Godard's third feature film and his first in color, A Woman is a Woman is one of the most enjoyable of all the master's works.
  7. The Matrix
    This dazzling pop allegory is steeped in a dark, pulpy sensibility that transcends nostalgic pastiche and stands firmly on its own merits.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Night of the Living Dead
    Despite mostly unprofessional acting, near nonexistent production values, homemade special effects, and cheap grainy black-and-white film stock, the film is a triumph.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love and Death
    Woody Allen's hilarious satire of classic Russian literature, might properly be described as Tolstoy meets the Marx Bros., as he and Diane Keaton get caught up in an uproariously funny plot to assassinate Napoleon in 1812.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
    Barak Goodman and Daniel Anker have done a tremendous job of sorting the facts from a tangle of fictions, and include perspectives from a wide variety of experts and testimonies from a surprising number of surviving eyewitnesses. Together, they do the whole, horrible episode justice, something awfully hard to come by in the state of Alabama in 1931.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
    No film in recent memory has tapped into primal, visceral fear as HENRY does, with its vision of a depraved world that seems at once too horrible to exist and too realistic to be denied.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Theater of Blood
    Wholly entertaining and memorable, THEATRE OF BLOOD is ripe camp, an excellent film, and a lasting tribute to the career of one of the most important actors in the genre.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Sunset Story
    Aside from the women themselves, the most remarkable thing about Gabbert's unexpectedly entertaining film is how effortlessly it dispels misconceptions about the elderly.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Straight Story
    Oddly enough, this uncharacteristic offering from a director whose name instantly evokes a very particular kind of film -- call it postmodern American gothic -- is also one of his best.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Crying Game
    Thematic issues aside, The Crying Game pulls off a tremendously difficult technical feat; its screenplay contains not one, but two, wrenching twists, each of which could easily derail the narrative in the hands of a lesser storyteller.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    La Ciénaga
    Martel can barely contain her disgust, and like Bunuel before her, she knows just when to cut the laughs and go straight for the throat.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Piano
    Campion's eye is extraordinary. She searches out the detail that makes the image, and the image that tells the story more eloquently than words ever could.
  18. Velvet Goldmine
    It's a shimmering, thorny, and consummately self-aware valentine to a paradise, however illusory, lost.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Once Upon a Time in America
    This is Leone's gangster film to end all gangster films, a work of tremendous intellectual depth and emotional range.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Sugarland Express
    The film moves well and never loses its gripping tension, but the lighthearted tone of the beginning takes a dive into an abyss that shocks many viewers.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    The complete absence of world leaders is a bewildering sign that the world still doesn't care much about small African countries with no exploitable resources to speak of, and a troubling indication that such atrocities can, and no doubt will, happen again.
  22. Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
    Overall the film is a fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the lie to many clichés and showcases a group of dedicated artists.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    A zany, hysterically funny, and sometimes brilliant if sometimes sophomoric send-up of every medieval movie ever made.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vengeance Is Mine
    Director Imamura effectively portrays some of the more negative aspects of the forces that have shaped modern Japanese people. In this manner the picture resembles his chilling films of teenage wanderlust made in the 1950s.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Thrilling, heart-wrenching tale of the real-life incredible journey.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Sobibór, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures
    While it stands as a distinct film in its own right, this film is still very much of a piece with "Shoah," and the subject is presented in the same haunting manner.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Filth and the Fury
    This loud and exhilarating documentary from director Julien Temple brings it all back in a vitriolic spray of spite, spittle and raw rock and roll that still hits like a heart attack.
  28. Saving Private Ryan
    The movie's greatest strength lies in phenomenal performances that reach from the leads right down to the smallest supporting roles.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Best Intentions
    A deeply satisfying film, THE BEST INTENTIONS, honored with the prestigious Palm d'Or at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, uses its considerable length to examine the early relationship of Bergman's parents with uncompromising thoroughness.
  30. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    Tarantino maintains a flawless balance between flat-out action, quirky dialogue, stylish homages to the glistening shadows of film-noir thrillers, the sun-baked brutality of Westerns (American and Italian), the ritualistic rhythms of Shaw Brothers martial-arts pictures from the 1970s and quietly dramatic moments, shifting between them with quicksilver facility.
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