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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. Heist
    Mamet doesn't just give us an enthralling heist flick, he makes the language something to savor. You're biting your nails with your ears peeled.
  2. Daughter from Danang
    Maybe Thomas Wolfe was right: You can't go home again
  3. The Man Who Wasn't There
    When you're in the hands of the Coen brothers, you're in for sheer originality.
  4. About a Boy
    Hilarious, touching and wonderfully dyspeptic.
  5. The Emperor's New Groove
    A hip, hilarious new animated feature.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    My Architect
    This is a bittersweet story, no question. But to the son's great credit, what emerges from his patient investigation is a remarkably rich, even sympathetic, portrait of the father.
  7. One Hour Photo
    It begins by scaring you to death by evoking a monster, and by the end it has seduced you into caring for him.
  8. The Rookie
    So unassuming and pure of heart, you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell "Safe!"
  9. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    The movie's big action scenes, at times, make you forget you're even watching animation. There's an in-your-face sequence involving a runaway, crashing train that will make you squirm in your seat trying to get out of the way.
  10. The Emperor's Club
    This isn't a stand up and cheer flick; it's a sit down and ponder affair. And thanks to Kline's superbly nuanced performance, that pondering is highly pleasurable.
  11. Traffic
    Sinfully watchable ensemble movie.
  12. L'Auberge Espagnole
    It's an exhilarating, funny, very sweet movie.
  13. The Missing
    Has Blanchett and Jones to its credit. To watch them is to take in two of the screen's greatest natural wonders.
  14. Grosse Pointe Blank
    A hilarious new addition to the wonderfully warped Generation X-Files.
  15. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
    Each revelation seems more disturbing than the next. But Chinese treatment of Tibetans is only half the heartbreak. The other is the amazing resilience of the Tibetans, who are overwhelmingly Buddhist.
  16. Bull Durham
    It eases up on you, lazy as a cloud, and carries you off in a mood of exquisite delight. To borrow W.P. Kinsella's phrase, it has the thrill of the grass.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Hard Day's Night
    Still a marvel of verve and bone-dry wit, the movie has been treated kindly by time.
    • Washington Post
  18. Tarzan
    This Tarzan doesn't bellow, he kvetches; he doesn't dominate, he persuades; he doesn't rule, he seeks consensus. He isn't the king of the apes, he's a citizen of the animal planet.
  19. In the Company of Men
    This is a fully realized movie, whose intelligence -- despite its grim findings -- dwarfs any Hollywood production.
  20. The Weather Underground
    One of the most thought-provoking documentaries of recent times.
  21. Jerry Maguire
    Joyous redemptive romantic comedy.
  22. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
    More juvenile than a Mel Brooks movie, wittier than "Get Smart," almost as low as "Animal House" and close to the laugh count of "Airplane!", "Gun" is a loving parody of every cop show that ever syndicated its way to your living room. [2 Dec 1988]
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  23. Our Lady of the Assassins
    It's sad, funny, shocking and completely unlike any movie in a dozen years.
  24. Enigma
    With a cast of actors playing some of England's smartest people and with a crackling script by Stoppard -- no slouch in the brains department -- it pays to stay awake.
  25. The Professional
    Oldman is the least inhibited actor of his generation, and as this deranged detective, he keeps absolutely nothing in reserve.
  26. Get Shorty
    Barry Sonnenfeld's irresistibly charming lampoon of Hollywood.
  27. Kandahar
    Though it might lack in Hollywood production values, it overflows with moral impact.
  28. Beetlejuice
    Not since "Ghostbusters" have the spirits been so uplifting. [30 Mar 1988]
  29. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (re-released)
    A glorious romantic confection unlike any other in movie history.
  30. Groundhog Day
    For once, the audience isn't forced to surrender its intelligence (or its healthy cynicism) to embrace the film's sunny resolution.
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