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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. All the Old Knives
    The framing device of the conversation between Henry and Celia, which includes a bit of flirtation, necessitates a certain ennui, though director Janus Metz (“Borg vs. McEnroe”) does his level best to open up the claustrophobic setting with frequent jaunts to other times and locales. Come to think of it, there’s an air of a tennis match to the proceedings of All the Old Knives, with its two protagonists playing a mental game of volley and return, as it were.
  2. Wise Guys
    Wise Guys, a surprisingly sweet, but sluggish Mafia farce, teams easy-going Joe Piscopo with driven, dangerous Danny De Vito in a neo-Abbott and Costello Meet the Godfather.
  3. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
    With surprisingly good production values and sly, underhanded wit, Willmott never tips his hand, steadily guiding the satire to a genuinely stunning, back-to-reality conclusion.
  4. Deconstructing Harry
    A provocative, but extremely profane work, it is surely Allen's bawdiest since "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex."
  5. The Lesson
    Echoing Liam’s review of Sinclair’s work in progress, I’d call the first two acts of the film cleverly constructed, fresh and fascinating, yet marred by a climax and conclusion that are unworthy of what came before.
  6. Cats Don't Dance
    The only thing parents need fear is utter boredom.
  7. Fall
    Lots of people pay good money to endure the kinds of thrill rides that make them wish they were back on solid ground. Fall does the same thing, but with the added benefit of being entirely vicarious.
  8. Maverick
    Alternately a celebration and sendup of cowboy conventions, the movie lingers over a stunning Western landscape only to be spurred on by the principals' inexhaustible supply of escapades. The burr under the saddle: There's just too much of everything.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    G.I. Jane
    Guts-and-green-beret saga.
  10. Mister Foe
    Thanks mainly to Bell's abundant charisma, Hallam makes for a strangely likable antihero.
  11. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
    After the film's first few minutes I watched, neither entertained nor illuminated, with something close to total indifference... (Greenaway's) extravagances and attacks on taste seem less like the bravery of the courageous artist than the empty desperation of a charlatan.
  12. Night of the Creeps
    Unfortunately, the film's stalking hordes of zombies aren't the only lifeless things about it. [03 Nov 1986, p.B2]
    • Washington Post
  13. The Matrix Reloaded
    No, it's not great. No, it's not a disaster.
  14. Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    The atmospherics are wonderfully dark and film-noirish, if overly violent.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Armand
    It’s as a satiric bourgeois psychodrama that “Armand” works best and reveals its genetic heritage to the works of Bergman and Ullmann (the latter no slouch as a director herself).
  16. Ted
    Eventually MacFarlane's formula -- consisting of filthy, ethnically offensive jokes, scatological humor, tacky pop culture references and random cameos -- begins to wear thin.
  17. Visitors
    For those willing to join Reggio in his extended meditation, Visitors offers a sublime, even spiritual experience, as well as a bracing reminder of cinema’s power to create a transformative occasion.
  18. Baghead
    Baghead provides a diverting showcase for actors you may never have heard of but who deserve a shot at fame and fortune.
  19. The Woman in Black
    Director James Watkins knows how to make a body jump out of its skin, even if he does use the face-reflected-in-the-mirror/window trick once too often. At the same time, the film is kind of, well, silly.
  20. The Bookshop
    Mostly, The Bookshop is a pretext to watch three great actors do their thing: Mortimer, as the film’s mousy but surprisingly formidable heroine; Clarkson, as her smiling adversary, Violet Gamart; and Bill Nighy, as the town’s reclusive loner — and its only voracious reader — Mr. Brundish, who comes to Florence’s aid and advocacy.
  21. U-571
    The real star of U-571 is its sheer visceral atmosphere.
  22. The Golden Bowl
    Its splendor cannot be denied, but then again neither can the emptiness of this Henry James adaptation.
  23. Saved!
    If you're mocking holier-than-thou-ness, you can't very well strike a hipper-than-thou tone.
  24. Santa vs. the Snowman
    This is sweet-natured fun for the very young.
  25. Sky High
    A slight but sure-footed, live-action comic fantasy.
  26. Wakefield
    Cranston is consistently watchable in the title role, although Howard’s journey into — and, at least potentially, out of — madness is a tough one to keep up with.
  27. Yakuza Apocalypse
    Miike sets up entire sections of Yakuza Apocalypse like an endurance test. If the film’s title and the promise of ear fluid are not deterrents, then maybe you’ll be able to appreciate the sheer energy and audacity of his unapologetic vision.
  28. Ten Thousand Saints
    The movie captures the city vibrantly, in moments of beauty and brilliance.... But Jude, our narrator, is paper thin.
  29. Major Dundee (re-release)
    What's important is that Major Dundee, not a great movie but a great star-driven, big budget 1965 studio western, is back in all its fractured glory and confidence.
  30. 5x2
    You can make a good movie about a bad marriage, as countless directors, the latest being Ozon, have discovered.
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