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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 5.3 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. Legally Blonde
    Blondes may or may not have more fun, but in this one case, they certainly provide more fun.
  2. One Day in September
    The film, built of interviews with participants, is fast-paced, utterly absorbing and ultimately tragic.
  3. Charlotte Gray
    Has an intoxicating, old-fashioned feel about it. We are instantly lost in the period, thanks to cinematographer Dion Beebe's almost haloed images and Joseph Bennett's authentic, restrained production design.
  4. Manic
    It's without posturing or phony outrage, and offers instead something far more affecting: a deep sense of melancholy. This is the way it is, it says, and not much can be done about it.
  5. Jet Lag
    Rather wonderful to sit through. It's fluff with flavor. And a cell phone.
  6. Willard
    This is a one-riff movie and instant cult classic.
  7. Repo Man
    Cox gives the denizens of Edge City wacky ways of expressing themselves whether they're principals, passers-by or disembodied voices. [14 Sept 1984, p.C1]
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  8. Colors
    It's an exhilarating sparring match between Duvall's workmanlike fine-tuning and Penn's raw energy. [15 Apr 1988]
  9. The Hunt for Red October
    This is a Reagan youth's wet dream of underwater ballistics and East-West conflict.
  10. The Hot Spot
    A crazy, intentionally ludicrous movie that's a lot of film-noir fun.
  11. ABC Africa
    A gorgeous and surprisingly profound meditation on a place and its people.
  12. On the Run
    The most cinematic of the three films. It tells its story in stark, often wordless scenes.
  13. An Amazing Couple
    In this comedy, Cecile misinterprets husband Alain's furtive attempt to have himself medically tested as suspicious extramarital behavior.
  14. After the Life
    The most assured of the three films.
  15. Tumbleweeds
    Janet McTeer doesn't imitate Mary Jo Walker, and she doesn't act her. She becomes her. It's almost spooky.
  16. Carnage
    A gorgeously morbid meditation on the interconnectivity of life.
  17. Primal Fear
    A crackling courtroom drama with more twists than O.J. had alibis.
  18. Rounders
    This isn't a movie where story matters that much: It's a movie of character and milieu, both of which it evokes brilliantly.
  19. Analyze This
    Ramis...does extract every last yuk from this lively clash of id and superego, this spoofy buddies' odyssey from underworld to Prozac nation.
  20. Big Eden
    The key to success: The audience must really like both characters and believe that they deserve a fairy-tale ending. That's definitely the case in this nicely acted love story.
  21. Babí léto
    Though the story line seems grim at times, it's always made lighter by Brodsky's gentle, often hilarious presence.
  22. Mission: Impossible II
    Such a feast of outlandish pleasures it'll send you home steam-cleaned and shrink-wrapped.
  23. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    Roundly entertaining.
  24. Dark Blue
    Shelton's harrowing and compulsively watchable morality play.
  25. Charlotte Sometimes
    Wonderful images, hues, sensations and faces.
  26. Menace II Society
    May just be the best in its genre… Entertainment and radical street preaching, all rolled into one. If it tells black kids not to try this at home, it also revels cinematically in blam-blam-you're-dead. This is what makes the movie maddening -- and what gives it strength.
  27. Northfork
    Isn't everyone's cup of tea -- as the Polishes admit in a clever bit of critical preemption -- but it possesses an undeniable, haunting grandeur.
  28. The Fugitive
    A flurry of stunts, close shaves and deeds of desperate daring, it easily transcends its television origins to become a stylish pacemaker-buster.
  29. The Man Without a Past
    It's a gentle, surprising little movie whose rewards lie in what its characters don't say as much as in what they do.
  30. The Joy Luck Club
    Gives refreshing -- and bittersweet -- dimension to the age-old clash between generations.
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