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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. Cast Away
    If there's anyone who can make this ordeal -- and when you're plumb out of characters, it can be an ordeal -- tolerable, and even entertaining, it's Hanks.
  2. Monsters, Inc.
    Whatever its ultimate position on the greatest hits list, Monsters, Inc. is supple and technologically sophisticated entertainment.
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  3. Galaxy Quest
    The wisecracks fly fast and furious
  4. The Usual Suspects
    This thriller is like a game of life-and-death chess, with quick double-crosses and wild gambits.
  5. An Everlasting Piece
    The movie finds charming humor in a world full of sectarian strife between Protestant and Catholic.
  6. Bandits
    As for Billy Bob, they all steal the money, but he steals the show.
  7. The Boxer
    If you view it passively, as a well-crafted melodrama set in danger among passionate antagonists, The Boxer is rewarding enough. If you attack it intellectually, you see the degree to which it is informed by ideas and realize the power of its argument.
  8. Bridget Jones's Diary
    Grant is casually fabulous and very amusing, but all power to Firth the actor. He's the compleat Darcy, and he never wavers.
  9. The Sweetest Thing
    That cameraderie is bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly trashy time.
  10. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    This is cinema as oral tradition. And one heck of a cheap-seat deal.
  11. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
    Star Wars had all the right stuff, and unlike its confounding progenitor, "2001: A Space Odyssey," it was fairy-tale simple: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away," good met evil. [Special Edition]
  12. Gods and Monsters
    Eminently watchable thanks to strong performances from its three leads (McKellen, Redgrave, Fraser).
  13. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    The spare and unsparing tone of I'll Sleep When I'm Dead makes it as existential -- and as original -- a whodunit as they come.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fear and Trembling
    This quietly odd and hilarious tale is a bit like a Japanese version of the popular BBC comedy series "The Office" or perhaps the "Dilbert" comic strip at its peak.
  15. Strayed
    Strayed has the strange clarity of a fable. It strips everything away until only instincts and emotions are left.
  16. The Inheritance
    The cast, all classically trained on the stage, is simply commanding.
  17. Something's Gotta Give
    Generally quite amusing, with a brilliant cast.
  18. Hearts and Minds (re-release)
    Davis, who won an Oscar for Best Documentary, may not have agreed with presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon on the war, but he heeded Johnson's call to fight for hearts and minds. His aim was dead on target.
  19. Zhou Yu de huo che
    It's a terrific film because each of the characters is so fiercely felt.
  20. My Flesh and Blood
    Poignant, heartbreaking proof that, sometimes, love is just not enough.
  21. All About My Mother
    It's enough to make your head spin, but Almodovar, whose mastery of the medium has never been more assured, gives you plenty to think about, ultimately grounding the dizzy whirl of his idiosyncratic fictional world in a story that feels not just true but universal.
  22. Under the Tuscan Sun
    The cliches are obscured by the sheer fun of it all.
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  23. One Swallow Brought Spring
    The movie, which Carion wrote with Eric Assous, has a calming quality. The story moves slowly but, given the milieu and pace of life, this seems perfectly appropriate.
  24. Intermission
    Very, very funny, thanks to a lively first script by Mark O'Rowe, who has a good ear for earthy dialogue and a sense of life's absurd little synchronicities.
  25. The Barbarian Invasions
    A movie that, in the story of one man dying, shows us all how to live.
  26. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
    Sharp, lively, funny and ultimately sobering film.
  27. Pieces of April
    Belongs, wholly and completely, to Clarkson, who delivers Joy's mordant asides and withering observations with a flawless balance of tartness and vulnerability.
  28. Vengo
    Feels like a song you may have heard before, but one whose aching beauty makes it endlessly listenable.
  29. Batman
    The Batblast of the summer.
  30. Enduring Love
    It's the best kind of movie: so alive in its storytelling that only in retrospect do you realize that the ideas represent a metaphysical inquiry.
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