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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. Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut
    If Kelly felt it necessary to add the new material, that's all to the good. It just means there's more to love.
  2. Distant
    Straightforward, droll, brutally honest and arresting.
  3. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    In keeping with the Smith rules, the movie is irreverent, self-referential, twisted, cheap and tasteless. And, of course, I mean that as the highest compliment.
  4. Memento
    Unforgettable, especially in Pearce's startling performance.
  5. Songs from the Second Floor
    Want to see something strange, funny, twisted, brilliant and macabre? Sure you do.
  6. Mulan
    Gorgeously animated and stirringly told, Disney's Mulan is a timeless story that will delight kids and divert adults with its sweeping scope, emotional intimacy and screwball humor.
  7. The Corporation
    Cogent, scary and, at times, sickening.
  8. Fade to Black
    A spectacular concert documentary that also gives some fascinating insights into the making of "The Black Album."
  9. Rain
    All about undertones, obliqueness and expectancy, about the scent, if you will, of something no one can stop
  10. Open Range
    There's a lot in this movie, simple, big, small and exciting. It's the year's first serious contender for big prizes. What's not to like about this picture?
  11. My Own Private Idaho
    Van Sant's sensibility is wholly original, wholly fresh. "My Own Private Idaho" adds a new ingredient: a kind of boho sweetness. I loved it.
  12. Sling Blade
    Takes you down paths full of primitive, almost biblical implications, but it also finds comic relief in moments of palpable tension.
  13. Monster's Ball
    The movie's stroke of sheer genius is its wondrous ending.
  14. Toy Story
    Though computer-animated rather than hand-drawn, this wry, rippingly paced buddy movie is as delightful in its own way as any of Walt Disney's traditional fairy tales.
  15. Three Kings
    Enormously entertaining.
  16. The Straight Story
    Cuts a path directly to the heart.
  17. Liberty Heights
    Demonstrates what writer-director Levinson does best: evoke the sights, smells and atmosphere of his youth with intelligence, humor and a keen sense of social perspective.
  18. Elephant
    A movie that throws out the rules with audacity, assurance and admirable moral seriousness.
  19. The Sixth Sense
    The 11-year-old Osment evokes the boy's terror and awful predicament so memorably, you'll never forget him.
  20. Thelma & Louise
    It spins its wheels in a giddy sort of way, then puts the pedal to the mettle, lays rubber and fairly takes wing.
  21. 21 Grams
    The movie itself is a miracle: tough, smart, relentless, provocative and, above all, serious.
  22. Lilya 4-Ever
    Lilya's struggle to make a life for herself is both heartbreaking and heart-stirring.
  23. Red Lights
    It conforms to that twisted French genius's typical opus: grisly, ironic but minuscule and sordid.
  24. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    Truly a movie for world audiences with a message that's devastatingly subtle.
  25. The Thin Red Line
    The disturbing ideas it plants in the soil of the soul need time and darkness ? not light ? to germinate.
  26. Gods and Monsters
    In a performance of enormous complexity and nuance, emotions seem to race across McKellen's face like hurrying clouds.
  27. Dances with Wolves
    Costner (with Michael Blake's screenplay) creates a vision so childlike, so willfully romantic, it's hard to put up a fight.
  28. Elizabeth
    Where Elizabeth really triumphs over its dusty source material is in transforming all this boring history into a real, rip-roaring adventure tale.
  29. Full Metal Jacket
    We've seen it all before, most recently in "Gardens of Stone," most romantically in "An Officer and a Gentleman," but never more elegantly than here as Kubrick sustains the athletic ballet of obstacle courses and white-glove inspections for a breathtaking 40 minutes.
  30. This Is Spinal Tap
    Its cleverness is exceptionally congenial and sustained. [13 Apr 1984, p.B1]
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