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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. Crimson Gold
    An extraordinary film in many ways, the least of which is its unorthodox casting.
  2. Harry Is Here to Help
    A deliciously mordant French spine-tingler.
  3. Spartan
    Until its final stumble, this intelligence thriller, starring Val Kilmer, is charged with brilliance.
  4. Man on the Train
    What a good movie. Sometimes you get tired of 'splaining and you just want to say: Hey, this one's really very good. That's all, folks. It's a damn good movie.
  5. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    It's a kind of 18th-century "Dead Man Walking" but with that earlier film's foreground arguments against capital punishment pushed to the background here.
  6. 8 Women
    Really, really good -- Yes, it's over the top, giddy and parodistic (God bless it). But it also takes a thoughtful, if surreptitious, look at what eight women might act like when men aren't around.
  7. Lantana
    Perceptive, powerfully acted psychodrama.
  8. Seabiscuit
    Yes, it's that cheesy, but it's also surprisingly appealing. After all, the horse Seabiscuit really WAS that phenomenal.
  9. Concert for George
    It offers a special "something" for everyone who ever appreciated the Quiet Beatle's musical gifts and spiritual explorations.
  10. Heat
    As with his other works, [Mann] binds sound, music and pictures into one hypnotic triaxial cable and plugs it right into your brain. He makes this almost-three-hour experience practically glide by.
  11. The Insider
    A well-orchestrated nightmare that keeps you on edge until the very end.
  12. In This World
    Although fictionalized, it feels depressingly real. It's a 90-minute newsreel with a broken heart.
  13. Raising Victor Vargas
    Succeeds where 100 studio-generated teen romances -- starring the bland, the blunt or the blow-dried -- have failed.
  14. Spellbound
    Just might be the most action-packed suspense thriller of the summer.
  15. The Manchurian Candidate
    An exceedingly loopy satire of the entire American political circus, and could be viewed as offensive to the sensitive-souled in either camp. And time hasn't in the least softened its bite. [Re-release]
  16. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
    Brings kinetic, stylistic and even sexy dimension to the Bram Stoker legend.
  17. The Story of the Weeping Camel
    The movie, a lyrical blend of documentary and fiction filmmaking techniques, offers a bold example of the rewards of crossing boundaries -- stylistic, cultural, temporal and even commercial.
  18. Joy Ride
    Climb into this rig and you'll be sweating bullets.
  19. The Virgin Suicides
    Bewitching.
  20. The Princess Bride
    As a good fairy tale should, The Princess Bride teaches but never preaches. It's a lively, fun-loving, but nevertheless epic look at the nature of true love.
  21. Shadow Magic
    Sumptuous, warm, continually amazing, it's a completely enjoyable couple of hours at the flickers.
  22. Bright Leaves
    A brilliantly amusing couple of hours.
  23. The Station Agent
    The best advice to filmgoers who appreciate smart, mature, humanist movies is, simply, Go.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Calle 54
    This is one fan's valentine to the music he loves. It just happens that the fan is a terrific filmmaker and the music loves him back -- and we get to see it and hear it all. What a treat.
  25. Me Without You
    Friendship matters to those of us who still claim membership in the human race, and Goldbacher's merciless autopsy on it is both illuminating and dispiriting.
  26. Quills
    Profane, sacrilegious, pornographic, sadistic and Sade-istic, titillating and the most honorable movie of the year.
  27. The Magdalene Sisters
    Mullan's movie is admiringly uncompromising. He refuses to augment the horrors with relief.
  28. Go
    The latest furiously paced, perversely entertaining "Pulp Fiction" for puppies.
  29. Road Trip
    I'm talking cheap visual gags, painfully embarrassing moments and other sophomoric humor guaranteed to get you and your friends almost vomiting with laughter.
  30. Auto Focus
    In this admirably unconventional film, director Paul Schrader is interested in just about everything BUT traditional biopic business.
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