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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. Along Came a Spider
    Freeman fills Cross's gumshoes with distinction.
  2. Together
    Moodysson's cornball sentimentality about the many shapes of the human family is tempered by his honesty about personal frailty and the silliness of utopian living experiments.
  3. The Object of My Affection
    It's just more wry than funny, more a gently subversive comedy of modern manners than the simpering date movie it seems to be masquerading as.
  4. Die Hard
    A firepowered, blood-drenched action picture that doesn't let up.
  5. Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    You probably never dreamed a charming romantic movie could be staged against a backdrop of Scud attacks from Saddam Hussein.
  6. Together
    A true original, thanks to some memorable characters, an engaging story and a thrilling classical soundtrack.
  7. Lawless Heart
    It's an intriguing experience.
  8. The Weather Underground
    A smart, absorbing, often exhilarating documentary.
  9. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    Engrossing, educational, amusing and disturbing. And who could ask for more than that from a film?
  10. S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
    Cinema at its most intellectually honest and morally necessary.
  11. Life
    We have been treated to something we normally would never get in a prison comedy like this: a little delicacy with the humor.
  12. Jerry Maguire
    Cruise is at the top of his form, and Gooding makes a brilliant opponent.
  13. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
    You have the right to remain silent. But if you do, call 911 -- your funny bone is busted. [2 Dec 1988]
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  14. The Princess Blade
    It's all story, character and dazzling martial arts violence, as orchestrated by fight choreographer Donnie Yen at breakneck speed.
  15. Sliding Doors
    This is the lightest, brightest and tightest film confection to come down the date pike in quite some time.
  16. A Few Good Men
    An entertainment to be seen and appreciated in momentum. As such, it is constantly gripping
  17. Startup.com
    Astute and entertaining documentary.
  18. Frida
    Endlessly interesting. It's about people who thought ideas and art mattered, which makes it a rarity today.
  19. Our Lady of the Assassins
    The grimness of the movie becomes not only too unbearable, its point is clear about halfway through. After that, everything comes across as redundant retreading of the same perspective. But for atmosphere, great cinematography and eye-opening directness, this movie can't be beat.
  20. L.A. Confidential
    Hanson delivers something ever rarer in film culture, not a new film noir but an old-fashioned total movie, somehow of a single piece.
  21. Kandahar
    That's the movie: It's taking us inside the burqa to the woman.
  22. The Abyss
    Before this voyage plummets into Stevie Spielberg's locker, the human stuff is more than worth the descent.
  23. Planet of the Apes
    Forget the heavy stuff. This monkey shines.
  24. Step Into Liquid
    This is pretty much a feel-good film for committed fans and moviegoers looking for some spectacular combination of travelogue, athleticism and slo-mo grace.
  25. L.A. Story
    Martin's poetic elegance turns to sappy mysticism. And if the material had been presented more insistently, it might have been insufferable, too goopy and new-age. Its modesty, though, is its prime virtue.
  26. Lost in La Mancha
    Like rubbernecking motorists, we can't help but watch with lurid fascination.
  27. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Only the title is clunky in this felicitous marriage of cinematic trickery, theatrical whimsy and the Bard's fabulous tale.
  28. Better Luck Tomorrow
    An exhilarating ride.
  29. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Elle fans will likely ignore the narrative shortcomings in favor of a well-loved character.
  30. I Capture the Castle
    The psychological darkness that underpins this film doesn't seem inappropriate to its wit and charm, but rather amplifies it, makes it more real.
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