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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. Identity
    Something fresh, clever and confident.
  2. The Story of the Weeping Camel
    Strangely moving film.
  3. El mariachi
    This brilliantly naive, low-budget shoot-'em-up presents every action as if it were brand spanking new.
  4. Desperado
    The commercial transition has been remarkably successful. This is primarily thanks to Rodriguez, who not only retains the original movie's kinetic flair, but takes it further.
  5. Jeepers Creepers
    It may stir you, it may make you laugh. I am of the stirred variety. I do not want to meet this guy in the dark, though I've been meeting him in my dreams for years. We all have.
  6. Joy Ride
    In noir, everybody's guilty, and that's one of the pleasures of Joy Ride. The three youngsters aren't exactly innocent.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Dog of Flanders
    A beautiful, sad, spiritual story with joy and delicacy, visual chops and emotional depth.
  8. Enemy of the State
    An enormously entertaining visit to planet paranoia, but its escapist pleasures titillate only in direct proportion to the degree of persecution complex that you bring into the theater with you.
  9. The Princess Bride
    A percolating comedy. The laughs may not tear your belly up, but they're constant and they dovetail with the story.
  10. Owning Mahowny
    Kwietniowski has managed to create a surprisingly engrossing and suspenseful narrative without resorting to cosmetics, melodrama or hype.
  11. Iron Monkey
    Not only visually brilliant, it's funny, too.
  12. Shadow Magic
    It's a film about culture clash, the generation gap and the loss of tradition that inevitably accompanies the arrival of anything new.
  13. Bright Leaves
    We are hooked into a low-tech but compelling dynamic -- between relatively static images and McElwee's sensitive, connective narrative.
  14. Pretty Woman
    Roberts and Richard Gere costar in this bubbly scamper, which goes to the head like champagne -- the cheap, sweet kind that leaves you with a throbbing head. And yet this monstrously derivative romance is great giddy fun.
  15. Glengarry Glen Ross
    All the performances are exceptional.
  16. Runaway Jury
    Efficient, precise, carefully calibrated and terrifically entertaining.
  17. A Song for Martin
    August, who also made "Pelle the Conqueror" and "House of the Spirits," steers this story to its stirring conclusion with firm lack of sentimentality.
  18. Me Without You
    Michelle Williams turns in a performance that is seamless, canny and artistically mature.
  19. Rat Race
    Even though this will not go down as a great Zucker comedy, he has made Rat Race funnier than it could reasonably hope to be.
  20. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    What a superb job director Marcus Nispel has done re-creating, yet also revising, 1974's grisly, gristly, protein-centric masterpiece.
  21. Jesus' Son
    Crudup gives a performance that is by turns scary, heartbreaking, grotesque and funny as hell.
  22. Buffalo '66
    Personal and private almost to the point of self-absorption, the film is ultimately saved from neurotic narcissism by the director's self-deprecating humor and unapologetic honesty about his own dysfunction.
  23. Monsieur Ibrahim
    A movie suffused with a warm glow of nostalgia for times and music and movies gone by.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    Visceral to the point of overkill (and beyond), a berserk blizzard of kinetic images, it doesn't even give you time to be scared.
  25. Tomorrow Never Dies
    Tomorrow Never Dies isn't one of the great Bonds, by any means. But it's familiar, flashy and enjoyable in all the right places.
  26. Army of Darkness
    Few American directors would dare to show as much over-the-top glee in their chosen craft as Sam Raimi does in Army of Darkness. [19 Feb 1993, Style, p.c7]
    • Washington Post
  27. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
    Preserves and resuscitates the hard-boiled genre.
  28. Carandiru
    The movie is powerful, if numbing. What movie about a massacre isn't?
  29. State and Main
    Relentlessly funny satire.
  30. Beyond the Mat
    You don't have to love WWF scrapping to appreciate this movie.
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