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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Castle in the Sky
    Unusually detailed animation glides hand in hand with the film’s aura of wonderment.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Better Tomorrow
    Woo's direction is clean and direct, with a clarity of purpose behind every scene that makes each wrenching development seem inevitable. It's strong stuff.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Public Speaking
    This is a movie with a lot of intelligence and ideas, about someone with a lot of both, for people who, even if they lack one or both of those qualities, appreciate them.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Bug's Life
    The saucy repartee will amuse adults, while the climactic showdowns -- yes, there are more than one -- are gripping entertainment for the whole family.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The War Room
    Veteran documentarians D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus make fine use of traditional verite techniques--hand-held cameras, extended long takes--to create a compelling, dramatic portrait that should appeal to anyone with even the slightest interest in the political process.
  6. Funny Ha Ha
    The look is rough, but Bujalski's talent is evident.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Before I Forget
    It all comes down to Nolot's marvelous performance: His Pierre is sulky, morose, self-centered and curiously likeable, and Nolot leaves you wanting to know a bit more about just where this odd figure might be headed.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Into Great Silence
    Groning's approach gives the viewer a rare chance to really listen to what water sounds like when it drips from a tin bowl, or the watch what patterns raindrops make when they fall on a shallow puddle -- purely sensual, cinematic experiences. In such moments we sense the point of view of a patient, sensitive filmmaker.
  9. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    The same super-heated visual imagination that made Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" such a darkly thrilling delight is very much in evidence in his sequel to "Hellboy." It's a shame that it's at the service of such a blandly conventional story.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    How I Killed My Father
    Fontaine's thoughtful character-driven screenplay is the perfect vehicle for Berling and Bouquet and both are superb. As father and son, they play off each another in fascinating ways as the film moves towards its perfectly modulated, intriguingly ambiguous final moment.
  11. Lumumba
    Utterly enthralling even for viewers unfamiliar with the Congo's complicated political history.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Painted Fire
    Im distinguishes what might have otherwise been a standard Hollywood biopic through his use of exquisitely composed shots that could have been imagined by Jang himself.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tender Mercies
    Tender Mercies is an episodic gem that offers little in the way of action or melodrama but gets by on fine performances (particularly from Barkin and from Duvall, who does his own singing), atmospheric cinematography, and spare, unglamorous writing.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Elephant Man
    Hurt gives a tour de force performance, masterfully conveying emotions while unable to use his face or even much of his voice.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    In a rare and inspiring example of the way art can both reflect and alleviate human suffering, photojournalist Zana Briski's wrenching documentary traces her valiant use of photography to help children trapped in one of the most wretched places on earth.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Freshman
    There's not much to THE FRESHMAN beyond the spectacle of Brando gently spoofing his most famous role, but that's a pretty sizeable asset. Broderick is his usual charming self, and there are occasional moments of inspired whimsy or absurdity: Brando on ice skates, Bert Parks delivering a rousing rendition of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm."
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Color Purple
    Spielberg lacks his usual intuitive affinity for his story material; consequently the film is a bit clunky at times. There are some unfortunate slapstick comic relief sequences and a few of the characterizations are also much too broad and cartoonish.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Near Dark
    Bigelow, who codirected THE LOVELESS with Monty Montgomery in 1982, and coscreenwriter Eric Red (THE HITCHER) demonstrate a keen understanding of the history of American cinema and create a unique film that explores the conventions of the vampire movie while moving it from dank European castles to modern-day Southwestern America.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Babette's Feast
    A gentle film that metaphorically examines the artist's relationship to her art, BABETTE'S FEAST is the sort of story that one cannot help but find uplifting.
  20. Diamond Men
    The ever-charismatic character actor George Coe stands out as a small-town jeweler grateful for a late-life affair.
  21. LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
    Froemke and Dickson's film opens a window onto rural poverty so dire it's almost inconceivable that it exists in 21st-century America.
  22. How to Draw a Bunny
    John Walter's documentary suggests that Johnson, who made no distinction between his life and his art, designed every detail of his own mysterious 1995 suicide with the same whimsical care that went into his painstakingly assembled pieces, and provides an engaging overview of Johnson's eccentric career in the process.
  23. Dirty Pretty Things
    Ejiofor's subtle, infinitely humane performance is the invisible glue that holds everything together and Chris Menges's darkly shimmering cinematography lends the story a gritty, coolly seductive glamour.
  24. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    Though overlong and repetitive, Hirsch's film is vitalized by the same music that helped keep the revolutionary spirit alive.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Punch-Drunk Love
    The strangest thing about writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's unusual romantic comedy is how much of it is based on a true story.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Princess Bride
    A hilarious mixture of Errol Flynn swashbuckler and Monty Python send-up...When it comes to pleasing both kids and adults, you can't do much better.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wings
    The only silent film to win an Oscar for Best Picture of the year, WINGS was a spectacular tribute to WWI combat pilots.
  28. The Thin Red Line
    An intensely internalized portrait of external pandemonium, a slippery, insidiously haunting work of poetry rather than brilliantly realized pulp.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Trouble in Mind
    TROUBLE IN MIND is offbeat, unique, and interesting, and for that alone it should be noted. It is a shame that none of the elements ever come together, so this film winds up being a beautiful, atmospheric mess.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    After Dark, My Sweet
    Director James Foley and cinematographer Mark Plummer deftly conjure the sense of stifling containment that drives these characters to drink or sin, but Robert Redlin's screenplay fails to fully animate their personalities. Patric gives a tremendous, smoldering performance, but Ward fails to convey the mysterious radiance of a convincing femme fatale. Dern rounds out the unappetizing triangle with an unpleasant performance, proving himself a worthy contender in the Dennis Hopper/Harry Dean Stanton creepstakes.
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