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For 4,671 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,964 out of 4671
  2. Mixed: 1,021 out of 4671
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4671
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  1. Strange Days
    It wallows queasily in its high-tech violence and is woefully anti-climactic; if you think director Kathryn Bigelow doesn't know when to quit, just think back to her sky-diving folly Point Break. The audio-visual ka-boom here befits James Cameron's producing-writing co-credits, but little else justifies Days' prime Saturday-Sunday slot in the New York Film Festival. [6 Oct 1995, p.4D]
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  2. American Teen
    Though it could work as effectively as a television vehicle, American Teen is revealing, funny and involving.
  3. Crimson Tide
    Nothing better than boys with really big toys. Especially when the boys are men like Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman, top talents who duke it out among the nukes in the propulsively pulse-pounding undersea thriller Crimson Tide. [12May1995 Pg.01.D]
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  4. Margot at the Wedding
    Watching this movie feels a bit like being trapped on a weekend holiday with an unpredictable and seriously unhappy group of people.
  5. Shall We Dance?
    Has its moments - but far too many of them. It runs two hours and seems to end five times.
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  6. Scream
    While Scream has its frights, it feels more like one of those solve-the-mystery jigsaw puzzles than a real movie.
  7. Kick-Ass
    It's irreverently entertaining.
  8. King of New York
    This movie has a little something, and part of it is subtext. Walken, who wants to use drug money to build hospitals, is embraced as a New York celebrity; this rings true. Plus, King reunites director Abel Ferrara and screenwriter Nicholas St. John of Fear City/Ms. .45 cultdom. [1 Oct 1990, p.5D]
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  9. A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
    The movie grows on you, lingers in the mind and may pick up a cult. Take away Heat and Dust, Howards End and The Remains of the Day, and it's as satisfying as any movie the filmmaking team's ever made. [18 Sep 1998, Pg.03.E]
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  10. Mean Girls
    Mean Girls has the same fancifully dead-on tone as the 1995 high-school comedy "Clueless" without the sweetness because, hey, these snits are mean.
  11. Transamerica
    Huffman is a woman playing a man playing a woman, which is easily the year's most complicated turn. She does a fine, nuanced job in bringing to life a character that could have become a caricature.
  12. The Tailor of Panama
    Brosnan and Rush are a smooth fit, playing off each other like a snappy shirt and tie.
  13. Moulin Rouge!
    May be a spectacularly awful movie, but it's also spectacularly drenched in color, décor and other visual oh-la-la.
  14. Philadelphia
    Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia labors ambitiously on two socially conscious fronts - relating the story of an AIDS-afflicted lawyer while exploring a much broader issue. Unlike almost any other Demme movie - it's a film where you feel the gears struggling to mesh. [22 Dec 1993, p.1D]
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  15. Dumb Money
    In its own terms, Dumb Money probably should sell off sooner – nothing kills storytelling momentum like congressional Zoom hearings – but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better big-screen combo of rising stock prices and rousing joy.
  16. The Good Dinosaur
    A sense of family, the one you have and the one you make, strongly pervades every inch of the world that The Good Dinosaur inhabits.
  17. Miami Vice
    All this movie has in common with its ancestor are speedboats, shotguns and drug-dealing Colombians.
  18. Fun & Fancy Free
    It's only a mild Disney package, despite a dose of Donald Duck dyspepsia. [18 July 1997, p.3D]
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  19. Paris, je t'aime
    The stories run a gamut of emotions: melancholy, bittersweet, provocative, witty, poignant, silly and fanciful.
  20. La Vie en Rose
    There's a riveting tale within this awkward litany of pivotal moments. Still, despite the film's uneven nature, Cotillard's extraordinary performance is worth experiencing.
  21. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    When it's not stalled on silly, it falls into slog territory.
  22. Another Earth
    Another Earth proves compellingly that science, intellect and emotion can coexist in mesmerizing synchronicity on the big screen.
  23. The Amazing Spider-Man
    As a new chapter in the superpowered arachnid saga, it stands on its own quite nicely, focusing more on human emotions than on a panoply of special effects.
  24. Nixon
    Oliver Stone's Nixon humanizes a reviled but respected subject for over three hours - dynamically at times, but finally so solemnly that it becomes a grind-you-down dirge. The maker of Natural Born Killers actually concludes with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing Shenandoah - without irony. [20 Dec 1995, p.1D]
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  25. Premium Rush
    Despite far-fetched plot points - such as a flash mob of bike messengers ready to rumble and thwart evil - it's easy to get caught up in this life-or-death two-wheeled slalom.
  26. Splice
    It's good to see Polley back on screen, after her successful turn behind the camera directing 2006's "Away From Her." She brings a measure of intelligence to the one-dimensional role.
  27. Bridget Jones's Diary
    Where the highly likable actress (Zellweger) proves most valuable is in making us adore this insecure, clumsy, contradictory creature.
  28. Barbershop
    Genial but largely predictable ensemble comedy.
  29. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    Though slightly lacking in the warmth of the first, should no doubt please audiences.
  30. Heist
    Passable but never exciting, Heist is on a level with those minor Burt Lancaster action pics the actor's name helped bankroll in the '70s.
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