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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 English Patient
    A tour de force so haunting that other films can't exorcise the memory of its radiant cast, exquisite craftsmanship or complex system of metaphors. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a movie.
  2. Catch Me If You Can
    It's brilliantly acted. But best of all, it's brilliantly made.
  3. You Can Count on Me
    A humanistic gem of a movie, with unforgettable performances from Linney and Ruffalo.
  4. The Leopard (re-release)
    Watching this masterwork allows you to return to the filmmaking sensibility of the 1960s, when epics looked like epics.
  5. Russian Ark
    Dramatically, this is something of a waking dream.
  6. Shrek
    A movie that appeals to the eye, mind, heart and funny bone; that's a pretty good quadruple for any movie.
  7. All or Nothing
    Exquisitely textured film.
  8. Secrets & Lies
    A magnificent melodrama that draws both tears and laughter from the everyday give-and-take of seemingly ordinary souls.
  9. To Be and to Have
    Hypnotically absorbing film.
  10. Das Boot
    You emerge from this experience rather like a returning U-boat crewman -- drained, blinking in the light, but oddly triumphant. [Director's cut]
  11. Saving Private Ryan
    Searing, heartbreaking, so intense it turns your body into a single tube of clenched muscle, this is simply the greatest war movie ever made, and one of the great American movies.
  12. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    A stunning successor, a tense and pictorially dazzling science-fiction chase melodrama that sustains two hours of elaborate adventure while sneaking up on you emotionally.
  13. Election
    A wonderful, piercing and hilarious examination of high school politics and how bitter and ruinous it can become.
  14. Festival Express
    Most of Festival Express resonates with the power and passion, even the innocence, of the era.
  15. About Schmidt
    What gives About Schmidt its ultimate boost, what pushes it into the stirring heavens is Nicholson, who produces the most understated -– and one of the most powerful –- performances of his career.
  16. The Hours
    With its deft intercutting of place and time, the film creates a powerful sense of mysticism and fate.
  17. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    It's a comic book at heart, albeit a thoroughly, grandly romantic one in the end.
  18. Memento
    You're exhilarated from beginning to end.
  19. 10 Things I Hate About You
    It's a celebration of young American women, finding them smarter, tougher, shrewder, more rigorous, more persistent and more honest than any movie in many a moon.
  20. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    Maintains its artistic magnificence after more than 30 years.
  21. Blade Runner
    Grand enough in scale to carry its many Biblical and mythological references, Blade Runner never feels heavy or pretentious -- only more and more engrossing with each viewing. It helps, too, that it works as pure entertainment.
  22. My Own Private Idaho
    It gets you below the emotional belt in a searing, delicate way. No movie this year approaches such magnificent imagery, such delectable poetry.
  23. Sling Blade
    Like the eloquent, darkly funny dialogue, the film's characters, setting and cadences draw us into its world, with all its terrors and tenderness. What emerges is a masterpiece of Southern storytelling that draws a sharp line between good and evil.
  24. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    An instant slapstick classic from Disney and Steven Spielberg. Already, it's a hare's breadth away from legend. [22 June 1988]
  25. Toy Story 2
    A sequel that eclipses the original. The toys are back with even more hilarious vengeance. The story's twice as inventive as its predecessor.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Toy Story
    What the bright minds of Walt Disney have produced here is a must-see movie. Must-see, must-talk-about, must-plan-to-see-again.
  27. High Fidelity
    A guaranteed pleasure for anyone who ever loved pop music, owned a record collection or suffered in love
  28. Moolaadé
    Moolaade, in short, is a movie to rock the soul.
  29. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
    The aerial dogfight Dykstra and Stears have helped Lucas perfect as his climactic piece de resistance looks more exciting than its antecedents in live-action war movies. It’s the most gorgeous stylized combat sequence since the underwater battle at the end of "Thunderball," a project that won an Oscar for Stears.
  30. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Isn't just a fabulous seagoing spectacle. It's one for the ages.
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