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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 5.2 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. Amores Perros
    Anguish ranges from gritty and realistic to the tragicomic soap opera found in Pedro Almodovar's films.
  2. Francis Ford Coppola Presents: The Legend of Suriyothai
    Huge, sprawling, and utterly absorbing.
  3. L.I.E.
    Gripping, troubling and deftly acted.
  4. Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    Every moment of the way, there is a delectable sense of subtle menace and, at the center of it all, Huppert's haunting expression, part sphinx, part grace and maybe part scary.
  5. The Hurricane
    Brilliantly played by Denzel Washington
  6. Affliction
    Never has an actor embodied the passing down of violence and bitterness from father to son more powerfully.
  7. Waking Ned Devine
    The plot is far from intricate, but Waking Ned Devine more than makes up for its narrative simplicity with a uniformly engaging cast of Hibernian oddballs.
  8. The Circle
    A memorable and devastating indictment of the oppression facing many women in Iran.
  9. The Endurance
    The nail-biting quality of Shackleton's true story outdoes any dramatic fiction on the market.
  10. Felicia's Journey
    So elegantly layered and emotionally restrained, it makes the horror at its center all the more disturbing.
  11. Last Orders
    The movie's pace is unhurried by Hollywood standards, but it's all the richer in character detail.
  12. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Searing dramatization of a story of remarkable courage, stamina and spirit.
  13. Shine
    The movie does what any great musician should: It lifts an idea to the heights of ecstasy; it sells its song.
  14. Hoosiers
    Yet much of the movie's validity stems from time and place recreated with such authenticity that you can sense the wet chill in the morning air and the new wax pungent on the old gym floor. [27 Feb 1987, Weekend, p.n29]
  15. The Deep End
    The real story lies beneath the surface of this superbly acted, strangely moving film.
  16. The Heart of Me
    Old-fashioned moviemaking at its best.
  17. The Crying Game
    An intriguing yarn.
  18. Apollo 13
    Apollo 13 is humanized by Hanks's reassuring portrait in courage, by Harris's nicotine-stained fingers and Quinlan's lacquered French twist.
  19. The Last Days of Disco
    The director isn't much on orgies; he's all talk. But that's good, not bad, because his talk is so brilliant. Stillman is the Balzac of the ironic class, the Dickens of people with too much inner life.
  20. Out of Sight
    Jack is just one of a dozen enormously appealing personalities in Out of Sight.
  21. Shanghai Noon
    Childishly simple, but extremely funny.
  22. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    Small, quiet movie that imperceptibly takes its viewers by their throats and doesn't let go
  23. When Harry Met Sally...
    It's a movie that walks on air.
  24. Menace II Society
    Though brilliant, Menace II Society is definitely a film to guard yourself against. There's not a trace of softness or sentimentality. At times, the picture takes on the scary you-are-there verisimilitude of a tabloid-TV show.
    • Washington Post
  25. The Fugitive
    Pure energy, a perfect orchestration of heroism, villainy, suspense and comic relief.
  26. Smoke Signals
    And that's the surprise of the movie, beyond even the humor and humanity of its inside look at contemporary American Indian culture. It's really the oldest and most primal story forms, the one about the old man and the boy.
  27. The Man Without a Past
    Everything has a Chaplinesque feeling, from the largely silent scenes to the highly visual, tragicomic situations...But The Man Without a Past is entirely free of the tramp's cloying sentimentality.
  28. The Joy Luck Club
    Never has political correctness looked so sumptuously handsome as it does here, and in its perfect-pitch instinct for the cultural vibe, this sweeping movie is so immaculately dead-on that it nearly transcends criticism.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Panic
    Anyone interested in serious film should absolutely not miss it.
  30. Swimming Pool
    The tension is never crushing, as it would be in an American job. Instead, it grows by increments, until you realize the movie, in its quiet way, has you snared entirely.
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