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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. Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    Always predictable in its outcome, but it still retains a certain charm, mostly because of Meadows's cheerful sympathy and affection for his motley crew of characters.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Apollo 13
    The lean and efficient screenplay, based on the book "Lost Moon," by Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, is full of the terse poetry and dry humor of people in crisis.
  3. The Last Days of Disco
    Eavesdropping on the glib conversations of witty urbanites can be a pleasant diversion, but after so much volubility, you might find yourself wishing that they would all just shut up and dance.
  4. Clay Pigeons
    Upon this fine mess shines Janeane Garofalo like a ray of sarcastic sunlight as FBI agent Shelby...With her gift for sweet bile, the sardonic Garofalo makes every second on screen a treasure to be cherished.
  5. The Glass House
    It is surprising that no matter how much we know what will happen, we never stop watching.
  6. Bollywood/Hollywood
    Will prove infectious to those audiences who find themselves sharing the director's frivolous frame of mind.
  7. Rana's Wedding
    Clara Khoury delivers a performance that is luminous, fierce and intensely focused as the title character of Rana's Wedding.
  8. The Gingerbread Man
    The trouble is that the picture is far from over when suddenly we find ourselves watching another movie -- a punishing, overly complex melodrama in which the Gingerbread Man receives his comeuppance.
  9. Smoke
    A celebration of buddies and butts, it's an unconventionally structured, wonderfully acted group portrait of the regulars at a Brooklyn cigar store.
  10. Swimming Pool
    Until the movie gets lost in its ultimately convoluted conceit, however, it's a superb modulation of menace, tension, mystery and eroticism.
  11. Quiz Show
    As taut, sleek and guiltily comfortable as the classic Chrysler automobile we see at the beginning, "Quiz Show" is built for entertaining road performance. The facts (at least, the dramatically inconvenient ones) are left on the side of the road. Redford retains the emotional engine of the Van Doren affair and drives this baby all the way—presumably—to the bank.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Life Without Me
    Not a gentle film. Insistent and unforgettable, it wounds on the inside, and the scars feel fresh for some time.
  13. Velvet Goldmine
    The film is a visually beautiful but clumsily plotted mishmash of "Citizen Kane," "Eddie and the Cruisers" and England's last overblown movie musical, "Absolute Beginners."
  14. Chuck & Buck
    A provocative and uncomfortable comedy.
  15. Snipes
    Highly watchable stuff (not to mention listenable, with a relentless but not overly obtrusive hip-hop soundtrack propelling the action).
  16. Butterfly Tongues
    The film's climax was only one of several moments that left me utterly verklempt, without ever knowing that my buttons were being pushed.
  17. Dopamine
    Shakespeare asked, "Or in the heart, or in the head?" It's not a new question by any means, but it's one that is given a fresh and refreshing adult twist by Decena's heady yet steady-handed Dopamine.
  18. Inspector Gadget
    The movie, based on the TV cartoon series, is exceptionally pleasant, and there's just enough humor to make it enjoyable for adults.
  19. Hard Ball
    Surprisingly brusque yet likable film.
  20. Good Boy!
    Surprisingly nimble and fun to watch, mostly thanks to the magnificent dogs Hoffman has found to portray his lead characters, and thanks to the actors he cast as the animals' voices.
  21. Zero Day
    The movie can't help but resonate with a ripped-from-the-headlines topicality.
  22. The Clay Bird
    The power of this quiet little film lies in the lyricism of its images of life on Bangladesh's waterways and in its towns...and in the naturalistic performances from its cast of mostly nonprofessional actors.
  23. Head of State
    Not the sharpest political humor I've ever heard, but it gets my vote for the stupidest fun I've had in a long time.
  24. Kingdom Come
    Manages to be profound without being pompous.
  25. Johnny English
    Delivered with the kind of English aplomb that PBS audiences around the country have come to know and love. It must be the accent.
  26. 54
    An entertaining and surprisingly serious look at the infamous New York discotheque, with a genuine nostalgia for the late '70s and early '80s.
  27. Enough
    Even the most hard-hearted critic will let out a sisterhood-is-powerful whoop.
  28. Die Hard
    A logistical wonder, a marvel of engineering, and relentlessly, mercilessly thrilling.
  29. Living Out Loud
    This is screenwriter Richard LaGravenese's directorial debut and now that he's in charge, he finally has his chance to give dialogue and character their due.
  30. Sliding Doors
    Sliding Doors is frothy stuff, far more complicated in structure than in content.
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