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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. The Count of Monte Cristo
    That tale gets a first-class Hallmark Hall of Fame treatment in Kevin Reynolds's swaggering The Count of Monte Cristo, which is old-form moviemaking at its best.
  2. Good Will Hunting
    Director Van Sant, who made the lyrical "Mala Noche," "Drugstore Cowboy" and "My Own Private Idaho," returns to his favorite hunting ground -- the subworlds of grimy, poetic lost boys -- and pulls us right in
  3. My Flesh and Blood
    For an agonizing and ultimately transcendent cinematic portrait of sacrifice, love and saving grace, audiences need look no further than this unpretentious and deeply moving film.
  4. Talk to Her
    A movie of technical skill and rare depth of intellect and feeling.
  5. A Room with a View
    Room With a View, with its genteel cliches and its mouth-puckering social commentary, will absolutely please. It is a gorgeous, glimmering film adaptation of E.M. Forster's sweetest novel, an affectionate study of a party of English gone globetrotting, their Baedekers held close like talismans. [4 Apr 1986, p.29]
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  6. The Ring
    The creepiest, clammiest, twitchiest squealfest in months. It offers, among its many pleasures, the happiness of safe fear.
  7. Intermission
    So full of pep you can't help surrendering to its creative energy.
  8. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
    Steers refreshingly clear of the usual cliches. Character takes the wheel and dictates the action, not the other way around.
  9. Pieces of April
    This film explores what low-budget films do best: the quirkiness of character, and slightly off-kilter comedy.
  10. Tokyo Godfathers
    Part of the spell cast by this magical film is its ability to make an unvarnished political statement about economic reality and social alienation while, at the same time, seducing its audience into believing in the transformative power of love and the almost supernatural beauty of the everyday.
  11. The Matrix Reloaded
    The Matrix Reloaded is about sensation, not logic. As such, it delivers, in spades, exactly what you should expect from a popcorn flick -- thrills, chills and spills -- plus a little more for good measure, just to keep anyone from whining who might want a beginning, a middle and an end.
  12. The Triplets of Belleville
    Chomet's vision is singularly strange and somber, and one of enormous originality and promise.
  13. In Praise of Love
    I don't pretend to understand a darned thing about Jean-Luc Godard's In Praise of Love...But it's undeniably powerful and, if you're up for the experience, exhilarating.
  14. Amélie
    Amelie is joie de vivre in a nougat.
  15. Working Girl
    A delectable reworking of the ultimate girl's myth, a corporate Cinderella story with shades of a self-made Pygmalion.
  16. Primary Colors
    Guilty, deftly orchestrated fun.
  17. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    It's one heck of a basis for a funny movie.
  18. Tarnation
    You may not want to hang with the haunted Caouettes, but the movie is so compelling, it doesn't give you a choice.
  19. The Road Home
    A beautifully textured, disarmingly simple movie about romantic devotion.
  20. Blue Crush
    A big, sexy, sun-splashed thrill ride, is what a summer movie ought to be: not totally mindless, but more interested in jangling your nerves than engaging your brain.
  21. Touching the Void
    Tells a tale of fortitude that comes not from muscle but from the ineffable, bungee-like sinew that is the human spirit.
  22. Liar Liar
    It's a magnificent comic experience.
  23. Malcolm X
    A spiritually enriching testament to the human capacity for change -- and surely Spike Lee's most universally appealing film.
  24. Almost Famous
    It takes the rock movie into regions it has never been before.
  25. The Big Red One
    What the movie may lack in "Saving Private Ryan"-style gloss, it more than makes up for in authenticity, or, in other words, heart.
  26. The Lion King
    This is the Mickey Mouse factory at its finest, with inventive animation, stirring music and a pride of inspired, almost-human animals.
  27. Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    Watch this film. You may never look at nature indifferently again.
  28. Rushmore
    Weird, warm, monumentally entertaining comedy.
  29. Girl with a Pearl Earring
    If the scope of the film feels small, Girl With a Pearl Earring fills that scope to bursting with subtle glory. It takes things as far as they can -- and should -- go.
  30. Dazed and Confused
    Richard Linklater's satirical take on high school life in the 1970s is not only funny and entertaining. It's practically a historic document of life during the smiley-face button era.
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