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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. Oranges and Sunshine
    It's powerful, gut-wrenching stuff, and it doesn't need tarting up.
  2. The Last Five Years
    It’s more than great dancing and tragic strings that elevate The Last Five Years to a very funny, deeply affecting portrait of love lost and found. Kendrick and Jordan are both Broadway performers with powerful voices.
  3. Any Day Now
    The film's title suggests the wry irony of hindsight: We've come a long way, baby, but we're not there yet. Any Day Now could do with a little more of that astringent humor and a little less sap.
  4. The Exception
    For all its late-in-the-game silliness, The Exception is a solidly acted, well-told tale about how love of country holds up in the face of other, less nationalistic passions.
  5. Mary Queen of Scots
    Did you find “The Favourite” just too weird, too raunchy, too . . . too? Perhaps Mary Queen of Scots will be more your cup.
  6. Gorky Park
    Hurt's horrendous, with his goofy stilted accent. He talks as though he swallowed a bathtub. [16 Dec 1983, p.24]
    • Washington Post
  7. Stealing Beauty
    For those who simply want to drink in the northern Italian countryside and Tyler's physical details, it's quite an experience. But as a story, Stealing Beauty (which Bertolucci wrote with Susan Minot) is a misbegotten, sentimental reunion with old European cinema.
  8. Allied
    As the espionage plot surges toward its nail-biting conclusion, the path it’s traveling feels less open-ended than preordained.
  9. Fugitive Pieces
    Everyone in the movie, from Dillane to (especially) Serbedzija down to the child actor Robbie Kay (as young Beer), is fabulous, and Podeswa has an ability to distill history into a few powerful images. The movie, however, is circular in structure and keeps reiterating points it has already made. For some, it will be a long sit.
  10. Dredd
    This, finally, is the Dredd movie comic book readers have been anticipating.
  11. A Sidewalk Astronomer
    A documentary that knows to sit back and listen as [Dobson] expounds on a variety of subjects.
  12. The Adjustment Bureau
    Equal parts playful, sophisticated and engrossing, The Adjustment Bureau is like the first songbird of spring, signaling that the winter of our collective brain-freeze is over and it's safe to go back to the multiplex.
  13. Scream
    There is such a thing as toxic fandom, to borrow the term used by one of this movie’s young protagonists, and “Scream,” which is filled with endless conversation about the difference between a sequel and a “requel” and more rules than a penitentiary, suffers from it, fatally.
  14. The White Countess
    Despite its brilliant evocation of this great city at this most provocative time in history, the movie just gets sillier and sillier.
  15. Lightyear
    If the film is aspirational, showing Andy what it means to be a dependable ally, then MacLane sacrifices pure entertainment for a loftier purpose. A more straightforward clash between good and evil might have touched on the same themes, without sacrificing the action kids could mimic with toys.
  16. Good Boys
    Hits all the expected marks for raunch and vulgarity, with the bonus that it is actually also kind of sweet.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Notorious
    Cloyingly, Biggie narrates his tale from the grave. It's a device that feels irksome and condescending.
  18. Motherless Brooklyn
    Norton, who wrote and directed Motherless Brooklyn, does his best to imitate the genre’s snappy dialogue and clever red herrings; but what starts out as a mystery as intelligent as it is intriguing winds up being over-plotted didactic.
  19. The Whale
    Darren Aronofsky’s adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter’s play is a murky-looking, claustrophobic exercise in emotionalism at its most trite and ostentatiously maudlin.
  20. Great Expectations
    Thrillingly told, compellingly acted and beautifully shot.
  21. Warm Bodies
    Cute without being especially clever, Warm Bodies is almost as pallid and as brain-dead as its zombie antihero.
  22. Keeping the Faith
    May be the most ruggedly decent film to come along in a couple of decades.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With All Deliberate Speed
    Misses almost every opportunity to break new ground on the issue.
  24. McFarland USA
    A new sport doesn’t equate to new ground, but there is pleasure to be had in a formula that works.
  25. Bride Flight
    Lovely scenery and historical context elevate the sentimental story lines above the soap opera domain.
  26. Gloomy Sunday
    It's a piquant story but unfortunately the movie creaks with European-style artifice. It tells its story in a rather cinematically stilted style, and some of the dramatic moments come perilously close to unintentional parody.
  27. Stillwater
    As in life, what drives most of the drama in this overstuffed but often thought-provoking movie is a failure to communicate.
  28. The Wedding Singer
    Adam Sandler is surprisingly likable as Robbie, a struggling musician who is left at the altar early in this modest romantic comedy.
  29. The Star Chamber
    Yaphet Kotto, as L.A.P.D. Detective Harry Lowes, and Larry Hankin, as his partner, pull the bench out from under the rest of the players. Show-stealing is their only crime -- they add the necessary guts and good humor to bring the Star Chamber down to earth. [5 Aug 1983, p.17]
    • Washington Post
  30. Cool Runnings
    A wholesome, engaging, frequently hilarious, ultimately inspirational film.
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