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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. Dark Blue World
    The last word you'd expect for it is "sweet," yet it is exactly the right one. That may come as no surprise to some, since the director is Jan Sverak, who brought sweetness to his breakthrough film "Koyla," but it caught me by total surprise.
  2. Two Family House
    The story, which deals straightforwardly with racism, miscegenation, adultery and consumerism, is a fascinating combination: a movie with an almost Capraesque heart and pristine, almost stagey lighting schemes, that addresses uncomfortable moral issues with today's perspectives.
  3. Quiz Show
    As taut, sleek and guiltily comfortable as the classic Chrysler automobile we see at the beginning, Quiz Show is built for entertaining road performance.
  4. Phone Booth
    What keeps Phone Booth going, despite its premise, is the acting and the writing, both of which are top-notch.
  5. Midnight Run
    Robert De Niro is one extended pleasure in Midnight Run -- a real actor putting his considerable talent to work in a well-scripted comedy. And he's more than complemented by Charles Grodin, a brilliant comic performer who has been wasted up to now in small roles or lousy movies. [22 July 1988]
  6. Demonlover
    Disturbing, darkly beautiful.
  7. The Spanish Prisoner
    Pure David Mamet is an acquired, but delicious, taste.
  8. Nurse Betty
    Nurse Betty is this year's "Being John Malkovich"-an utter original with a little something to say and a way of saying it that manages to be at once delightful and bilious.
  9. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    And if the movie's not particularly visual -- apart from the excerpted scenes from Fellini's extremely visual films -- it's entertaining for the ears. Fellini talks and talks. And like many directors, he talks a good life.
  10. The Man Who Wasn't There
    It's the latest and one of the best entries in a genre whose highest philosophical expression is the whiplash realization that the universe doesn't play fair.
  11. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    In this movie, only one thing is certain: No one remains the same.
  12. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    Tried hard to honor the spirit of the franchise, not exploit it, and take it to a new level and a surprising destination.
  13. Real Women Have Curves
    Handsomely shot by cinematographer Jim Denault, the film immerses the audience in Ana's world, its mosaic of colors and sounds and people, to create a vivid cinematic portrait not only of one girl but of an entire community.
  14. The Hunted
    It's a good ride, briskly paced, well played and vividly photographed by Caleb Deschanel.
  15. Under solen
    Makes a virtue of its own simplicity. But don't be fooled. That simplicity is mere cover. You're kept wondering about the outcome until the very end.
  16. One Hour Photo
    Intense and absorbing experience.
  17. Dopamine
    A lot of bigger movies won't provoke you half as much.
  18. Stone Reader
    While he dithers around in search of a movie and a theme, Moskowitz meets intriguing people -- almost all of them older men. And because they are hungry readers, they have interesting things to say.
  19. The Thomas Crown Affair
    A full-throttle fantasy, about as heady a movie experience as it gets.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Zero Day
    Will chill you to your core.
  21. Hamlet
    These are great, primal stories that pull you in, make you care and put you on the edge of madness and violence.
  22. The Cuckoo
    It's a whimsical tale of war and redemption, of faith, hope and even some charity...It's quite a treat, as a matter of fact.
  23. Love and Diane
    It is a movie about the real challenge of heroism.
  24. The Core
    A two-hour pleasure cruise.
  25. Italian for Beginners
    It's all done without special effects, soaring strings or manufactured sentiment. Now, that's entertainment.
  26. Nowhere in Africa
    Consistently absorbing family saga is primarily a safari of the soul.
  27. Le divorce
    A relaxed delight, a series of delicately tongue-in-cheek musings about the clash between American and French cultures.
  28. Bull Durham
    You may catch yourself trying to remember where you parked a little before the end.
  29. Tarzan
    Speaking of Jane, Minnie Driver gets the big banana for top off-screen performance. She brims over with prissiness and pep, tenderness and visionary appreciation.
  30. The Embalmer
    A bummer, but one that manages to stick to its depraved convictions until the strange and bitter end.
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