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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. Voices in Wartime
    The words more than hold their own against the pictures.
  2. Another Road Home
    Full of heart-rending moments, in which people of good faith search for answers to what, in the end, remain painfully irreconcilable questions.
  3. A Sidewalk Astronomer
    A documentary that knows to sit back and listen as [Dobson] expounds on a variety of subjects.
  4. Naked in Ashes
    By turns fascinating, puzzling and troubling -- a deeply felt account of the varieties of religious experience but also a thoroughly uncritical apologia for fanaticism.
  5. I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
    A profoundly disturbing -- and depressing -- look at the New Anti-Semitism of the post-9/11 world. Produced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the film is remarkably restrained, given the outrages it documents.
  6. Family Law
    Family Law never really gets to the nitty-gritty of the Perelmans' fraught relationship, instead maintaining a gently ironic distance that, while admirable in its restraint, ultimately lacks emotional fire.
  7. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
    The power of "Grbavica" is not the arc of its story line, but the fullness of the world Zbanic creates.
  8. Glastonbury
    Clocking in at two hours-plus, Glastonbury at times gives viewers the impression that they're slogging through the three-day plunge into mud, music and madness themselves. But for all the posers with light sticks and piercings, there are moments of Dada-esque beauty, not to mention some great music.
  9. ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    ShowBusiness is not so clever nor so entertaining as the popular musical "A Chorus Line," which plied this territory more than 30 years ago, but it does go deeper into the mechanics of the business.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trust
    Trust is always interesting. And always interesting, as someone once said, is always good.
  11. Being Human
    Bill Forsyth's Being Human, an anthology about the hesitant ascent of man, is a whimsically offbeat, stubbornly upbeat tour of man's progress as seen through the eyes of five guys named Hector. [06 May 1994]
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  12. Joshua
    Harrowing, controlled and diabolically self-assured, Joshua leaves filmgoers teetering on their own emotional precipice, wondering just where pathos ends and pathology begins.
  13. El cantante
    A star isn't born in El Cantante as much as it's reconfirmed. She's still here, and she's still got it.
  14. Milarepa
    What really reaches us is the collective presence of the cast, most of them monks and other acting amateurs. They seem uniformly imbued with inherent grace and effortless spiritual bearing. And their smallest of gestures exude the kind of un-self-conscious gravitas that constitutes all fables.
  15. The Life of Reilly
    The Life of Reilly pays fitting homage to a man who deserves to be remembered for much more than just trading double-entendres with Brett Somers on "The Match Game."
  16. Mr. Untouchable
    It's fast and furious, and it proves that crime doesn't pay, unless you know how to do it right.
  17. What Would Jesus Buy?
    Must-see viewing for anyone who thinks of Christmas as just a mall and its night visitors.
  18. Alice's House
    Even though it sounds awfully depressing, there's something moving about watching people go at their lives with everything they have -- or don't have.
  19. Girls Rock!
    We may not get to their innermost feelings, which would have taken this documentary to a deeper, maybe darker level, but the movie's purpose is celebratory. As such, it's a satisfying experience.
  20. Funny Games (2008)
    While the movie's star -- and ruler, and ship's captain, and grand poobah -- is Haneke himself, his actors are sublime.
  21. Love Songs
    Yes, it's weird. But it's wild card weird, with that thrill of never knowing what's coming next or when these Parisians are going to get musical on us.
  22. Tuya's Marriage
    It's not a great movie, but Yu Nan's performance is superb without being showy or melodramatic.
  23. Beauty in Trouble
    Whether they're navigating a recently flooded Prague or the pristine waters of a Tuscan swimming pool, the fiends and angels who populate Beauty in Trouble are like so many scorpions explaining why they sting the fabled frog trying to help them: "It's my nature."
  24. The Last Mistress
    Argento and Aattou deliver appropriately outsize performances to fit the movie's sense of extravagant escapism, and Claude Sarraute delivers a slyly witty performance as the elderly lady carried away by Ryno's Scheherazade-like tale.
  25. American Teen
    What makes Nanette Burstein's movie so powerful is its uncanny sense of familiarity.
  26. CSNY/Déjà Vu
    One of the great strengths of CSNY is how skillfully it deflects criticism of "four balding hippie millionaires" taking to the stage to criticize American politics; the film is peppered with excerpts from some of the tour's earliest and nastiest critics.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    Despite some scenes that have the feel of an acting or writing workshop, these are believable, complex characters. Their story has a full measure of Judd Apatow raunch, with a dash of "Swingers" emotional sweetness.
  28. The Girl Cut in Two
    For all its charisma, A Girl Cut in Two lacks a certain depth.
  29. Momma's Man
    Momma's Man takes that germ of an idea and lets it flower, in a way that is both odd and oddly compelling.
  30. The Pool
    The result is a vivid portrait, not just of one unforgettable young man but also of a country in transition.
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