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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. Dances with Wolves
    A gigantic achievement, an endowment of riches.
  2. Full Metal Jacket
    The most eloquent and exacting vision of the war to date... Inspired with technique rather than overblown with it, Kubrick, the filmmaker's filmmaker, lays one on you.
  3. In the Mood for Love
    The sexiest movie of the year.
  4. Adaptation.
    May not be the first movie to examine the creative process. But it's the most playfully brilliant.
  5. Batman
    The movie fixes you in its gravitational pull. It's an enveloping, walk-in vision... As rich and satisfying a movie as you're likely to see all year.
  6. Amélie
    A movie for aesthetically hungry moviegoers: wildly amusing, sometimes sardonic and always touching. There's so much here, and all of it delightful.
  7. Reservoir Dogs
    With the exception of the opening scene -- whose purpose is chiefly comic -- the movie is one, extended climax. Even with flashbacks and other time jumps, it never lets up. You have to go back to Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1952 "The Wages of Fear" to recall suspense this relentless.
  8. Capturing the Friedmans
    Jarecki has created a tour de force of narrative ambiguity, and in doing so has made one of the most honest reality shows ever.
  9. Jaws
    The movie version of Jaws is one of the most exciting and satisfying thrillers ever made.
  10. Pulp Fiction
    Brilliant and brutal, funny and exhilarating, jaw-droppingly cruel and disarmingly sweet...To watch this movie (whose 2 1/2 hours speed by unnoticed) is to experience a near-assault of creativity.
  11. The Truman Show
    One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative.
  12. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Magnificently nonchalant about its magic.
  13. Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Its themes of passion, heartbreak and the inexorable passage of time are eternal.
  14. Lost in Translation
    Thanks to two delightful performers, you're drawn powerfully to the outcome.
  15. The Pianist
    A beautiful story, told in measured cadences by a master of old-timey narrative compression and expression.
  16. Waking Life
    A smart cartoon about the life of the mind. It's about the fuzzy border between dreaming and living. It's thoughtful, provocative, liberating and fun.
  17. Do the Right Thing
    There's no doubt about the film's sheer power and taut originality.
  18. Spirited Away
    This movie -- which is equally appealing to children (those of adventurous, non-freak-outable spirit), Japanese animation (anime) fans, and any surviving acquaintances of Timothy Leary -- is so full of invention, you might want to take a breather now and then.
  19. I'm Going Home
    Simple, yet quietly astonishing film.
  20. Mystic River
    Eastwood's elegantly directed Mystic River, a deeply textured drama in which the sins (or perceived sins) of the past weigh heavily on the present.
  21. The Silence of the Lambs
    Delicious with foreboding, a masterly suspense thriller that toys with our anticipation like a well-fed cat.
  22. Yi Yi
    On one level, Yi Yi is classic soap opera, with a suicide attempt, a wedding ceremony, even a brutal 11 o'clock news murder, all in the mix. But Yang's direction is so admirably restrained, it lends rich heft to everything.
  23. Goodfellas
    One of Martin Scorsese's most brutal but stunning movies, an incredible, relentless experience about the singleminded pursuit of crime.
  24. The Age of Innocence
    Instead of "Masterpiece Theatre"-style fawning, [Scorsese] fills this movie with visual flow, masterful cinematography and assured direction. There's an alert, thinking presence behind the camera.
  25. Hukkle
    An extraordinary and brilliant (and almost wordless) film that takes us above ground and below it, up in the air and deep below water, to follow its conundrum of a story.
  26. Shrek 2
    Sure, the animation work is great, but it's the actors and their subtle, complex vocal performances that make us care about these fairy-tale characters. Shrek 2 is all about fantasy, but its characters are rousingly, affectingly real -- not to mention real, real funny.
  27. Whale Rider
    One of the best performances -- and movies -- of the year so far.
  28. Barton Fink
    What "Raising Arizona" was to baby lust, "Barton Fink" is to writer's block -- a rapturously funny, strangely bittersweet, moderately horrifying and, yes, truly apt description of the condition and its symptoms.
  29. Cold Mountain
    It's funny, it's heartbreaking, it's scary, it's exhilarating. It's got love stuff and lots of laughs and cool gunfights. It's really long and it feels like it's over in 15 minutes. It does something so few movies do these days: It satisfies.
  30. Dangerous Liaisons
    A delectably naughty experience. This sort of wit and immediacy is extraordinarily rare in a period film.
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