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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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  1. The Daytrippers
    First-time writer-director Greg Mottola has a real feel for characters, a quality that's in disturbingly short supply among young filmmakers. The Malone family could easily be a one-dimensional collection of sitcom caricatures, but by the movie's end they feel like real people. He also pulls off a tricky shift of tone, from pleasant, mild comedy to something far more bitter and haunting.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What's Eating Gilbert Grape
    The film is heavy on character and atmosphere and light on action, though what does happen is so bizarre as to verge on the ridiculous.
  3. Cold Mountain
    Allows the supporting cast to steal the movie.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Commitments
    For all its emphasis on working-class integrity, The Commitments is really Fame wrapped in streetwise packaging.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Flowers of Shanghai
    The camera never ventures outside, but remains fixed on the action at the table, gliding languidly past the same sepia-toned tableau: In the film's universe, people are indistinguishable and the setting never changes. Hou does succeed in one key respect: His films evokes opium addiction, a narcotic delirium fading into a dreamless sleep.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    For the Bible Tells Me So
    Through the hard-won experiences of these families, Karslake shows that Scripture and homosexuality are not mutually exclusive, and with the help of a number of academics and theologians, shows how the Bible has been misread, particularly during the 20th century.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Rocket Science
    Teenage angst and adolescent agony are the stuff of sharp, observant comedy this quirky, wonderfully dry first fiction feature from documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound).
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Working Girl
    Funny, touching, and ultimately tremendously buoyant--reflecting the optimism engendered by the short-lived 1980s economic boom—Working Girl is a "feel good" movie with some intelligence.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mad Max
    Though the plot is that of a simple revenge western, director George Miller infuses the film with a kinetic combination of visual style, amazing stunt work, creative costume design, and eccentric, detailed characterizations that practically jump out of the screen and grab the viewer by the throat.
  10. Obscene
    Engrossing documentary about the life and times of publisher Barney Rosset, who spent much of his career advancing the cause of free expression, is a flawless match of style and subject.
  11. Beyond the Mat
    A behind-the-scenes documentary that manages to be unabashedly sympathetic without being a puff piece.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Titanic Town
    Holding nothing back, Walters is, once again, remarkable.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Our Lady of the Assassins
    Rough, breathless adaptation of Fernando Vallejo's ferociously sardonic novel.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Not One Less
    This is much more than a typically one-dimensional message-movie -- it's obviously the work of a master filmmaker .
  15. Space Cowboys
    If only this amiable shaggy dog story...didn't degenerate into an implausible, second-rate thriller after takeoff.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    L.I.E.
    The subject matter is certainly controversial -- it's not every day that we see a sympathetic portrayal of a pedophile -- but Cuesta avoids the taint of salaciousness, thanks in large part to a brilliant performance from Cox.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Corporation
    Bakan's arguments are buttressed by entertaining clips culled from commercials, industrial films and, appropriately, monster movies.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Man in the Moon
    A superb, timeless film which can and should become part of the treasured trove of minimalist art films that live on in memory and experience.
  19. The GoodTimesKid
    The film's pared-down narrative is anything but aimless, and it pays off in a haunting final last scene scored with Gang of Four's "Damaged Goods."
  20. The Scandal
    The result is a beguiling mix of the familiar and the exotic, vivid proof that a good story can withstand endless variations without losing its fundamental vitality.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mata Hari
    Fitzmaurice directs with great style here and makes the most of the lavish production techniques available to him.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Major and the Minor
    The Lolita of the 1940s, and just as sexy. A sparkling farce that marked Wilder's American directorial debut after years of writing witty screenplays for other directors, The Major And The Minor sails along breezily from its very first scenes until its romantic ending.
  23. Cars
    It's the one movie so far this summer that demands to be seen on the big screen.
  24. Erin Brockovich
    Entertaining -- if predictable.
  25. Alias Betty
    If the ending isn't conventionally happy, it's certainly deeply satisfying.
  26. Red Satin
    Vividly photographed in shimmering colors and driven by a propulsive score.
  27. Antz
    Adults also are more likely than kids to snicker at jokes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Lookout
    A smart, engrossing thriller in which you care as much about the characters as the crime.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Big
    Big is a winning, charming film, primarily because Hanks makes it work. He is extraordinarily convincing as an adolescent who suddenly finds himself dealing with a new, adult body, responsibilities, and a romantic relationship, while simultaneously trying to survive vicious corporate infighting.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Hangover
    So if you're looking for the next stop on the Shockingly Experimental Comedy train, don't get off here -- this ride is strictly for laughs.
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