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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bull Durham
    Featuring outstanding lead performances by Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins; a witty, literate script; and an insider's familiarity with life around minor league baseball--Bull Durham is both one of the best films ever made about the national pastime and a charming romantic comedy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Thunder Road
    This has become a minor cult classic and is one of Mitchum's more interesting (and bizzare) efforts.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
    There are moments of such breathtaking grace and artistry that you'd be forgiven for thinking you're watching the most beautiful movie ever made.
  4. The Cats of Mirikitani
    The person who can resist a formerly homeless senior citizen gradually restored to sufficient stability to the degree that he can take in his own "castaway cat" is hard-hearted indeed.
  5. The Puffy Chair
    Billed as a dark comedy, brothers Jay and Mark Duplass' shaggy, ultra-low-budget tale of a tense New York-to-Atlanta road trip is more accurately a relationship-hell drama peppered with strangled laughs.
  6. The Original Kings of Comedy
    The relentlessly self-congratulatory tone is oppressive.
  7. Innocence
    A beautifully acted, intensely felt story.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Shattered Glass
    It's almost inconceivable how Glass could have gotten away with so much, but the movie makes a convincing case for how Glass used office politics, the good faith of his editors and his own personal charisma to get away with the worst offenses a journalist could commit.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
    Zhang's film is sweet and sentimental nearly to a fault; luckily, he's such a master, you'll hardly notice how shamelessly you're being manipulated.
  10. War of the Worlds
    It unfolds in the angst-haunted shadow of the 9'11 terror attacks and teeters on a thin edge of sheer panic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    It's riveting to watch the shows' respective creators work, clash, whine, celebrate and commiserate as the season and their stories unfold.
  12. Love & Basketball
    The movie's performances, especially Lathan's, are strong enough to balance out the sometimes-clichéd script.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Breaker Morant
    Capably directed by Australian Bruce Beresford and well acted, Breaker Morant is a fascinating and satisfying experience.
  14. Notes on a Scandal
    Though at heart a tightly-wound, bitterly bleak comedy of manners, Eyre's film is less funny than brilliantly squirm-inducing, a dissection of bad behavior via rapier-sharp dialogue.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Charlotte's Web
    The voices of Reynolds, Lynde, Gibson, and all the rest are perfectly cast, and the songs by the Sherman brothers are solid, although none of them became hits like those they wrote for such Disney movies as Mary Poppins.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Clueless
    Impossible to dislike: It's as good-hearted as its bubbly protagonist.
  17. Blood Tea and Red String
    Despite the absence of dialogue -- the mice squeak and the oak creatures caw like ravens -- Cegavske imbues her scrappy little creatures with disturbingly complex personalities. And if the tale's moral is less than clear, its haunting images speak directly to some dark, preverbal corner of the heart.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The City of Lost Children
    You may end up wishing for a little less show and a lot more substance.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    That's Entertainment!
    It's impossible not to get a nostalgic buzz as the hosts wander around the old sets and soundstages, while the anthology of clips creates a wonderful sense of popular culture during Hollywood's halcyon days.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Patch of Blue
    This moving story neatly avoids melodrama.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Polyester
    The biting satire and absurd situations in Waters' movies always dwell self-consciously on how media images and stereotypes affect viewers' notions of reality. Polyester is much more cliche-ridden than his other films, however, and so is less successful as satire.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Road to Perdition
    This dark, almost mythic heart is what makes the film such an emotionally rich experience.
  23. Stevie
    The roots of Steve James's disturbing documentary lie in youthful idealism.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    A Song for Martin
    A touching examination of the ravages of Alzheimer's disease, made even more so by the extraordinary chemistry between Swedish actor Sven Wollter and his real-life wife, Viveka Seldahl, who died shortly after the film was completed.
  25. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    What could easily have been a sentimental, fannish exercise in musty nostalgia is in fact a lovely tribute to an era of feverish creativity that seemed as though it would never end yet now lives only in memory.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Bishop's Wife
    The picture runs on a bit long and it does pale by comparison to the book, but it was a welcome smile in 1947 and has the same effect today.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Climates
    What is interesting is Ceylan's depiction of life among the Turkish upper-middle classes, a world rarely seen in international art-house cinema outside his own films.
  28. Gone Baby Gone
    Fans of Lehane's Kenzie-Gennaro books will lament the fact that starting with the fourth book means losing the couple's extensive backstory, but the essence of their fragile, damaged bond comes through even if you don't know what shaped it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Milo and Otis
    Shot from the animals' point of view and narrated by Dudley Moore, MILO AND OTIS contains some important messages about the responsibilites of friendship. Slow in spots, but a treat nevertheless.
  30. White Palms
    The film's climax, which cuts back and forth between the 16-year-old Dongo (Silas Radies, whose younger brother plays Dongo as a ten year old) making his dangerous debut with the fly-by-night Aurora Circus and the 2002 competition that takes him back to Hungary for the first time in years is nothing short of riveting.
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