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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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    Chasing Amy
    Can a script exploring some truly deep questions about human sexuality and emotions be any shoddier and wooden?
  2. Married to the Mob
    Director Jonathan Demme has nailed one with this playful, but dangerous, gangster farce.
  3. The Water Horse
    Combining the best of fantasy and somber reflection, The Water Horse is a lovely ride.
  4. A Monster with a Thousand Heads
    Director Rodrigo Plá, working from a spare yet jangly screenplay by Laura Santullo, steadily builds suspense, craftily calibrating subtle shifts in perspective that allow us to alternate, seamlessly, between impartial observers and, as it were, active participants.
  5. Maria by Callas
    In this immersive, often deliciously sensuous documentary portrait of the late opera star Maria Callas, viewers are treated to another rise-and-fall story of a great but tortured artist, this one punctuated by the occasional real-life bed of roses and pleasure cruise.
  6. Beetlejuice
    Not since "Ghostbusters" have the spirits been so uplifting. [30 Mar 1988]
  7. Tadpole
    Doesn't need the passage of time to become a classic. It's one already.
  8. Spy Kids
    Energetic and slickly done, but also somewhat soulless.
  9. Wonderland
    Grim, yes, and great viewing.
  10. All the Real Girls
    It's a movie of deft impressions and telling human moments. Whether or not those impressions and moments add up to anything is almost beside the point.
  11. Time of the Wolf
    I would rather have a more interesting group of desperate people to spend my post-apocalyptic time with.
  12. The Raid 2
    The brawling itself is every bit as inventive and exhilarating this time around... The script and acting, however, prove less successful.
  13. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    It remembers to have fun. It’s a kick to watch — often literally — and the kind of popcorn movie summer is made for.
  14. Searching
    Like most mysteries, this one relies heavily on coincidental discoveries, even if they arrive via Gmail or FaceTime, rather than more traditional means. But the plot’s contrivances are less problematic than the movie’s insistence on maintaining its artifice even after it becomes a hindrance.
  15. La Moustache
    An enigma inside a conundrum inside an escargot shell, the French puzzler La Moustache will delight some people even as it annoys others.
  16. The Menu
    "Eat the rich” might be a popular theme this movie season, but The Menu takes the idea to extremes that finally overpower the palate.
  17. Cookie's Fortune
    Seems to go sideways as often as it goes forward. Altman can't help noticing things more interesting than the story.
  18. Seeking Mavis Beacon
    When the pair’s natural curiosity and humor seep into the film, their scrappy enthusiasm is infectious.
  19. Rudy
    It's a sweet-natured family drama in which years of effort are rewarded by a brief moment of glory. Its corny, cartoonish finale makes "Rocky" look like "Bullwinkle." Still, you'll have to forgive the lump in your throat and the tear in your eye.
  20. The Big Lebowski
    The movie is as visually inventive and wildly eccentric as the Coens' earlier movies, but it lacks the emotional maturity and moral clarity of 1996's "Fargo."
  21. Thank You for Smoking
    As a satire on Tobacco Inc.'s outrageous ability to market carbon monoxide as the elixir of life, this movie should be packing more nicotine.
  22. Heretic
    Written and directed by “A Quiet Place” scribes Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, “Heretic” builds suspense through ideas and argument, allowing both sides to score points when it comes to organized religion.
  23. Pete's Dragon
    Despite the vastly improved visuals, the new film is just as soft-hearted — and, unfortunately, just as mush-headed — as the earlier one.
  24. Monkey Shines
    While Romero's past films have for the most part been experiments in horror (or at best, terror), Monkey Shines moves in another direction -- the psychological thriller, with a difference. It's not just "a man and a woman" story; it's a man-woman-monkey triangle, and how the sparks do fly.
  25. Map of the Human Heart
    A marvelous breakthrough, a film of incantatory intensity and moment by a prodigiously gifted young filmmaker.
  26. Ema
    Di Girólamo delivers a performance that is, like the combustible fuel inside the tank strapped to her back here and there throughout the film, intense, hot, destructive — and hard to look away from.
  27. The Long Walk
    That existential paradox — are we all in this thing called life together, or is it every man for himself? — gives the film and its protagonists something meaty to chew on as it, and they, progress. But “The Long Walk” doesn’t dig into it in any deeply satisfying way.
  28. Factotum
    The film looks great on the screen, and Hamer has commissioned a terrific musical score from Kristin Asbjornsen, who has set a few of Bukowski's poems to haunting, jazzy music.
  29. The Good Girl
    It's tough, astringent, darkly funny and . . . well, it's also generic, untidy, condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning.
  30. Intolerable Cruelty
    Smart, silly, splenetic and a bit smug, it's a movie that might put a viewer's teeth on edge were it not for its winning lead performances.
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