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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
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Huey P. Newton Story
    Smith relies on the audience’s memory, anger and sense of community to explore a wide range of conflicting facts and emotions. The ambivalent trust forged between performer and audience as they journey through Newton’s story is kinetic and revealing of both sides.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Miracle in Milan
    De Sica handles his fantastic material subtly and with simplicity, yielding an original mix of sharp satire and poetic fable that extended the limits of the neo-realist style.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ball of Fire
    Terrific, crackling dialogue, especially in the slangy, machine-gun mouth of La Stanwyck.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mississippi Masala
    "Masala" refers to a mix of varied spices, and one of the strengths of MISSISSIPPI MASALA is its own collection of colorful characters.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Scum
    The performances are mostly good, and the direction and editing work wonders in the tight gray interiors of the juvenile prison. Not for everyone, but worthwhile viewing for the not-easily-shocked.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Window
    An exceptional film.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ruthless People
    Everyone in the movie seems to have a comic moment, because the laughs are piled on top of each other. Call it rude, crude, and lewd, but you also have to call it very funny.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Up and Down
    Hrebejk's film remains clear-eyed and satisfyingly complex right to the bitter end.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lost in America
    Just when it seemed Albert Brooks had gotten his creative energies under control, along comes this intermittently funny, often overdone comedy that could have been a classic.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Enchanted April
    Paper-thin.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Last Mistress
    Under the beautifully appointed costumes and to-die-for interiors is Breillat's preoccupation with female sexuality and desire, all centered on a blistering performance from a perfectly cast Asia Argento.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Saddest Music in the World
    You won't see anything quite like it from any other filmmaker working today.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Two for the Road
    Donen's direction here is a trifle trendy and frantic, with sometimes jarring results.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Fearless Freaks
    Beesley's film is perfectly in sync with the Lips' unique vision.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Buddy Holly Story
    Busey did all his own singing and playing, as did Martin and Stroud as The Crickets, providing a welcome sense of realism. Busey's performance is terrific.
  16. Magnolia
    Anderson strikes a near flawless balance between looseness and structure, and indulges the occasional flight of cinematic fancy without undermining the movie's emotional integrity.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Barbarosa
    A beautifully filmed, nicely philosophic and rather old-fashioned western with an elegiac tone, well directed by Australian director Fred Schepisi (Breaker Morant), Barbarosa features uniformly strong acting, with Busey and Nelson making a good team.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Midnight Run
    Director Martin Brest has allowed the actors to improvise, and their resulting interaction is more realistic, funny, and surprising than that of any buddy film released in the last several years.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Devil Came on Horseback
    If you don't already have a handle on the complicated conflict at the heart of Darfur's ongoing genocide, you probably won't come away from this harrowing documentary with any comprehensive understanding.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Moby Dick
    Filmed at considerable danger to cast and crew, MOBY DICK, under Huston's strong direction, is one of the most historically authentic, visually stunning, and powerful adventures ever made.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    All That Heaven Allows
    With its touching story and stylized treatment, ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS is one of Sirk's finest films.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gaslight
    The climax is a workmanlike rise of psychological terror, but the whole exercise looks self-consciously careful.
  23. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Errol Morris' characteristically distanced documentary is empathetic without being especially sympathetic.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Ça commence aujourd'hui
    A superb performance from Torreton, easily one of the finest actors working in France today.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Last Orders
    Given the number of characters involved and the fact that the film flashes back and forth over a 40-year period, the film flows beautifully, thanks in large part to excellent casting and Kate Williams's fluid editing.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Son frère
    Chereau boldly risks alienating his audience by presenting serious illness and all its attendant indignities with an unflinching clarity that's becoming a hallmark of his work.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Murderous Maids
    Nearly 75 years after the fact, the matter still hasn't given up all its secrets, but Denis' film comes close to a definitive, deeply disturbing account.
    • 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.
  29. The Aura
    Bielinsky's "Nine Queens" was a complex romp through the machinations of high-stakes con artists, but this intricately plotted mystery ventures into darker psychological territory and never misses a step.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    James and the Giant Peach
    As you'd expect from Disney, the film's a technical tour de force, with flawless stop-motion animation and some imaginatively realized live-action sequences. What's surprising here is how much of Dahl's misogyny is allowed to surface. James's elderly aunts are unconscionably grotesque.
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