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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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    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Get on the Bus
    It all has an artless, ephemeral feel, and 20 years from now people will marvel at the fashions, the landscapes and the attitudes it captures like fragile bugs in amber.
  2. Smokin' Aces
    For rip-snorting pop entertainment, it's one discomfiting, nasty piece of work, and ain't that a kick in the head.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Angels in the Outfield
    Great performances by all make this a little gem of a film.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
    Leaves you wanting much more.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Like Water for Chocolate
    Though one wonders if Arau couldn't have found more visual parallels for Esquivel's narrative, overall the film is a witty, charming diversion that struck a chord with audiences.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Last House on the Left
    An ugly, disturbing, passionately conceived cult favorite, Last House on the Left is much more complex (albeit crudely made) than its controversial reputation would suggest.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Lucky You
    A well-acted character piece.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Copycat
    Aside from some effective suspense sequences, the film's strengths lie in the relationship between the heroines, which is well developed and plausible by genre standards.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Lookout
    A smart, engrossing thriller in which you care as much about the characters as the crime.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dave
    The funniest, savviest political comedy to come our way in some time.
  11. Falling
    Charging Albert's film with looking too much like an American chick flick is to give it short shrift: For all the drinking, dancing and group hugs, by the end of their 36-hour trip down memory lane, the women's problems remain unresolved and poisonous secrets are still leaking out.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    California Split
    A film such as this, which is essentially a series of comic vignettes without a plot, depends upon its performances, and both Gould and Segal are in top form, providing an example of impov at its best.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    To Sir, with Love
    What makes To Sir, With Love such an enjoyable film is the mythic nature of Poitier's character. He manages to come across as a real person, while simultaneously embodying everything there is to know about morality, respect, and integrity.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Rita, Sue and Bob Too
    Although there are some slow sections, RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO! provides a number of good laughs and also more than a few empathetic winces.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Great White Hope
    The Great White Hope persuasively recreates the climate of the time and generally avoids the preachiness for which director Ritt is sometimes known. The love story between Alexander and Jones is touchingly portrayed.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    What's Love Got to Do with It
    Fishburne and Bassett are both extraordinary, and though the story is inevitably slanted to Tina's perspective, Fishburne makes Ike a complex and compelling presence.
  17. Surfwise
    Chalk up another family for Leo Tolstoy and Philip Larkin file: The Paskowitz family is unhappy in its own unique way and mum and dad f**cked them up -- they didn't mean to, but they did.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bronco Billy
    Eastwood is perfection as the New Jersey shoe clerk who, like Miniver Cheevey, dreamed a nostalgic dream and took action to realize it. The actor-director could have gone over the top by satirizing the very character he played so well in spaghetti westerns; instead he gives a sincere, realistic performance that silenced detractors who thought he could only play violent loners.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Victor Victoria
    A musical boudoir farce, captivating at times, infuriating at others.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Stay Hungry
    Filled with interesting characters and strong performances, Stay Hungry not only makes its point about class prejudice, but presents a detailed portrait of southern country club culture and the bodybuilding milieu that would be so deftly captured in Schwarzenegger's next film, the fine documentary Pumping Iron.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Lady Chatterley
    Wragby is a stately manor straight out of English House & Garden, rather than a sprawling, suffocating warren teetering on the edge of a coal pit, and sex is portrayed as a means of personal deliverance rather than a universal salvation, leaving Lawrence's admirers still waiting for the film that will finally do the novel justice.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Paris Is Burning
    An enthralling examination of the loaded cultural issues of sex, class and race as seen through the subculture of black and hispanic transvestites.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Imagine Me & You
    Where "Brockback" leaves its lovers where gay love stories have left them for centuries - isolated, ostracized and miserable - this small comedy finds a far more liberated alternative for everyone involved. In its own modest way, it's the far more radical film.
  24. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    The series' breakout star remains Scrat (Chris Wedge), a scrawny, speechless rat-squirrel thing trapped in a Sisyphean quest for acorns, and while kids' movies generally could do with fewer scatological gags (the target audience for poo and pee humor needs no encouragement), writers Peter Gaulke and Jim Hecht managed to come up with a (relatively) sophisticated one.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Born on the Fourth of July
    The critique of masculinity is far more thoughtful and compelling than the vague ruminations about war. Nonetheless Cruise's impassioned performance as Kovic is an impressive accomplishment.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Baby Mama
    Even though Kinnear is meant to be obvious love interest, it's the relationship between Kate and Angie that becomes the film's central story, making this comedy sweeter -- and more honest in its depiction of class difference -- than one might otherwise expect.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Little Big League
    For once in a kids' sports picture, the child actors don't grate or get sticky, and the adults aren't crotch-grabbing, swaggering, overgrown delinquents. More important, Little Big League makes some very nice emotional points along the way to a satisfying end, suggesting that America's rocky romance with baseball is alive and well.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blackboard Jungle
    Vic Morrow is excellent as the leader of a gang of thugs, as is Poitier in a star-making performance, though at age 31 he unfortunately doesn't convince as a high school student.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    F/X
    The action sequences are well staged and the twists and turns of the convoluted plot will keep viewers guessing. A competent and unpretentious entertainment.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
    An extremely funny movie that presents a torrent of insightful gags at breakneck pace, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka features many of the stars of the old "blaxploitation" movies, adding weight and authenticity to Wayan's film. In offering up this affectionate parody of the old movies, Wayans also turns a satiric eye on black culture in general--but in an inoffensive, lighthearted manner.
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