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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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  1. An Affair of Love
    Smells much more like real life than the immediate mating that occurs between expensive movie stars on Hollywood soundstages.
  2. Boiler Room
    As a piece of journalism then, Boiler Room is first class.
  3. Mumford
    A sort of thinking-person's cornball movie.
  4. The Lady and the Duke
    The effect, in this French period drama, is something like a moving pop-up book, in which characters seem to be two-dimensional cardboard cutouts come to life.
  5. A Housekeeper
    Even if the film is only moderately enjoyable, it can create a sort of exotic escapism.
  6. Laurel Canyon
    Thanks to the performances and the general looseness of the script, the movie is more appealing than it has any business being.
  7. Est - Ouest
    The two-hour film never feels a minute too long.
  8. Stuart Little
    The tale is propelled by its characters and buoyed by the film's warm and loving spirit.
  9. L.I.E.
    In a role that challenges our very notion of morality, Cox comes across as both predatory and fatherly, sometimes at once, in an acting turn as astonishing as it is stomach-turning.
    • Washington Post
  10. Fever Pitch
    If you don't operate on the premise that soccer is the most important thing in the universe, you might not go along with everything in Fever Pitch.
  11. Rollerball
    A turbo-charged remake that should alienate no fans of the adrenalized 1975 original.
  12. Big Fat Liar
    An innocent comedic revenge fantasy that somehow manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time.
  13. Dr T and the Women
    If you skim along the surface of this movie, you'll have more fun than if you submit the movie to scrutiny.
  14. The Contender
    As entertainment of a tawdry but compelling sort, The Contender certainly delivers.
  15. Mondays in the Sun
    It's a long and relatively underdramatized film, but it's powerfully true.
  16. Cinemania
    It's too short, and it doesn't delve deep enough. But it's thoroughly enjoyable.
  17. U-571
    The real star of U-571 is its sheer visceral atmosphere.
  18. Ishtar
    Ishtar is an unabashed vamp for a pair of household names, and as such it works, often hilariously.
  19. Pleasantville
    Lacks the edge and depth of a truly inspired work.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Four Weddings and a Funeral
    A movie to cheer you up and on and help you feel that spring will, in fact, arrive before we are all too desiccated to enjoy it.
  21. Happy, Texas
    Along with a lot of 10-gallon laughs, Happy, Texas rustles up plenty of goodwill for its larcenous, sexually ambiguous leading men.
  22. Erin Brockovich
    It is a rabble-rousing cheerfest, based on a true story.
  23. Bulworth
    This is a great liberal movie, which is to say, it will be loved most passionately by great liberals, and despised by the conservatives it contemptuously fails to notice.
  24. The Tailor of Panama
    Despite a dissatisfying conclusion, a sense that things don't completely jell, The Tailor of Panama is lively and provocative.
  25. Jet Lag
    It's got a subtext but not a subplot.
  26. Only the Strong Survive
    Even with its flaws should be cheered for preserving the later years of these towering musical talents.
  27. The Shipping News
    It's worth seeing at the very least because it is so different from standard Hollywood fare.
  28. Repo Man
    It's a quirky film -- extremely profane and violent -- a respite from reverential sigh-fi. It's like visiting the bus depot late at night, and finding you kind of like it. [14 Sept 1984]
    • Washington Post
  29. La Femme Nikita
    Ludicrous. Its logic flies out the window like a rocket. It's unbelievable and ridiculous... But fascinating it is.
  30. Dead Ringers
    The movie is really almost tasteful considering [Cronenberg’s] stomach-churning capacities. He always does it for a higher purpose, though, which is why his films sometimes win wider audiences. This one probably won't cross over, because it's too queasy. [23 Sept 1988]
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