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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. Margarita Happy Hour
    The film's ensemble portrait of women caught between nostalgia for the tough and free-spirited babes they were (however much that freedom may have been illusory) and uncertainty about what their futures hold is almost painfully on target.
  2. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    Those who appreciate Ferrell's sense of humor will be utterly entertained by his efforts to kick it into high gear.
  3. Hermanas
    Solomonoff cuts back and forth between 1984 and 1976, gradually revealing the truth of what happened, but the mystery is less important than the complex relationship between Natalia and Elena, which was sorely tested by events beyond their control.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun
    Against all odds, you'll leave this remarkable film caring quite a bit for the old coot -- surely a sign of a very good documentary.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
    The humor here is forced, incoherent, and sophomoric, made worse by Thomas Chong's amateurish direction.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Valley Girl
    This simplified Romeo and Juliet tale was written and performed with such heart and care that it is impossible to dislike. The cast is wonderful, headed by the engaging couple of Cage and Foreman and wittily directed by Coolidge.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pretty Baby
    Beautifully shot and subtly rendered, but too slowly told for its ambiguities to really be effective.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Rolling Thunder
    While Rolling Thunder suffers from Schrader's predictable obsessions with masculine ritual and gunplay, Devane and Jones enhance the material with their nuanced, sensitive portrayals of men who have lost their souls in another land.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dead Ringer
    Davis has a chance to let it all hang out in the two roles and she does.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Unidentified Flying Oddball
    The film is pleasantly humorous, though the jokes are aimed at those interested in history.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Great Impostor
    Played for comedy, the film never quite works, and Curtis can't quite handle his role.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It Happened on Fifth Avenue
    Fun at times, but somewhat long.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Red Dust
    The second pairing of Clark Gable and Jean Harlow is a steamy drama of infidelity, set against an exotic background and peppered with dialog and situations that pushed the boundaries of Hollywood self-censorship as far as they would go.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Snoopy Come Home
    Where this film towers above the first one is in the music, written by Disney stalwarts Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
    Makoto's misadventures are specifically geared to the concerns and perspectives of teenagers, while avoiding the luridness of similarly themed films like THE BUTTERLFY EFFECT, and the resolution refreshingly bittersweet.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    We Don't Live Here Anymore
    Though the violence in this film never becomes physical, the psychic wounds these people inflict on one another cut so deeply you wish it would. It's a grueling experience.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Strange Days
    It hurts to see this story reach for a tidy ending... STRANGE DAYS hurtles down the track for two hours, frantically trying to warn us en route to the Big Switchback, only to pull up in a hiss of smoke and hot air.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    American Teen
    The kids are real and their stories enthralling: When it comes to drama, there's nothing quite like high school.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Carlito's Way
    Al Pacino gives an urgent, bravura performance as the title character.
  20. The Edge
    A taut, literate tale of civilized men pitted against implacable nature, encumbered by a meaningless and not especially enticing title.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Dark Crystal
    Once again employing his famous muppets, Jim Henson creates a brilliantly detailed universe with this intriguing fairy-tale adventure.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Jackass Number Two
    Ask yourself this: Did the title make you laugh? If so, you're probably the target audience.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Talk Radio
    Fueled by a brilliant performance from Bogosian, TALK RADIO is an intense experience that will leave most audiences feeling drained.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Crimson Tide
    Directed by Hollywood's slickest hack, Tony Scott ("Top Gun"), with a script doctored by Quentin Tarantino--you won't need sonar to spot his contributions.
  25. Margot at the Wedding
    It's a shame to see such dedicated performers flay their psyches in the service of such fundamentally shallow material.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Shall We Dance?
    It addresses issues of stultifying routine and the small crises of middle-aged life, and deserves credit for not obscuring the simple story with a flurry of smoke and mirrors.
  27. Scream
    Compared with most of what passes for scary movies these days, this is golden: It's not stupid, it's not wussy and it pulls off a couple of pretty nasty jolts.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Maelstrom
    Visually striking and viscerally repellent, director Denis Villeneuve's Quebecois oddity offers a nightmarish vision of one woman's unraveling, the likes of which haven't been seen since Roman Polanski pushed Catherine Deneuve off the deep end in "Repulsion" (1965).
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Beautiful Boxer
    Like his intrepid hero, theater-turned-film director Ekachai Uekrongtham never misses an opportunity to brighten an otherwise ordinary palette with just a bit more color.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Jazz Singer
    By today's standards, THE JAZZ SINGER is mawkish, crudely filmed, and full of schmaltz. Yet it remains fascinating in its historical value, not only for its technical innovation, but because director Alan Crosland took his cameras on location into New York's Jewish ghetto around Hester and Orchard streets and then along the Great White Way of Broadway, showing the colorful, divergent, and now vanished ways of immigrant and show business life.
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