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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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    Alan Paton's haunting novel is brought rather splendidly to life in this moving production.
  2. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    As with many of his films, Rudolph creates an oyster of a work. You need to jimmy a little around the edges before its delicate wonder becomes apparent - which it does, beautifully.[23 Dec 1994, p.36]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Last Emperor
    That Bertolucci -- with his momentous visual choreography, and Vittorio Storaro's velvety cinematography -- manages to touch on all of this makes The Last Emperor a remarkable achievement. The politics and pageantry tend to overrun the story at times, but it seems appropriate -- Emperor Pu Yi was overwhelmed by such things.
  4. A Little Princess
    Cuaron approaches the film not as a fairy tale for children, but a work of magic realism. And perhaps best of all, he doesn't talk down to young folks, in the audience or in the cast. The performances are as natural as skinned knees and missing teeth.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Flower of My Secret
    [Pedro Almodovar] does what he does best-finding poignance in the most melodramatic of modern lifestyles.
  6. Unstrung Heroes
    Diane Keaton's kooky sensibilities as a director are ideally suited to the sweet madness of Unstrung Heroes.
  7. The Basketball Diaries
    It's a tough, intense, wrenching picture about drugs and growing up and surviving, driven by a fierce, skinless performance by its star, Leonardo DiCaprio.
  8. Cronos
    An enormously enjoyable gothic yarn from Mexico, transfuses the genre with wry grotesquerie, but retains respect for the old, classic films.
  9. Swimming to Cambodia
    It's not the monotonous, neurotic's ego trip you'd imagine, but a karate-chop crawl against a rising tide of complacency.
  10. Something Wild
    But for the first time in a long while, this is a movie that lets Demme be Demme, and the result is a film that's more than enjoyable. It's a blast.
  11. RoboCop
    With its droll underpinnings, Robocop does for cyborgs and Detroit what "Blade Runner" did for androids and L.A.
  12. Maurice
    Subtle, sensitive and every bit as swoony as a Barbara Cartland bodice-ripper, James Ivory's superb screen translation of E.M. Forster's Maurice.
  13. Naked Lunch
    There's a synergistic overlap here between Cronenberg's own particular brand of weirdness and Burroughs's; they're both twisted in ways that complement each other nicely.
  14. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
    This is painless sexual politics, a fiendish comedy full of prickles and pain and the bright shiny pinks of a matador's cape. The farce falters from time to time, the pace is imperfect, but who can resist this "Twilight Zone" of limitless coincidences?
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Poetic Justice
    Often graceful, sometimes brilliant, Poetic is an absorbing, amusing symphony of sound and image; it also gives equal weight to its male and female characters.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drugstore Cowboy
    Neither federally admonishing nor irresponsibly romantic, Cowboy stays high without being highhanded.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fatal Attraction
    Fatal Attraction rings the changes on your atavistic emotions. Walking out of the theater, you might have a sudden desire to club a woolly mammoth and hide your family in a dark cave -- away from people like Glenn Close.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Party Girl
    Party Girl, which director and co-writer Mayer made for less than $1 million, is hip and contemporary without being archly so.
  19. Tootsie
    Dustin Hoffman's on a roll in Tootsie, a role-reversal movie that plays like the flip side of "Victor/Victoria." Hoffman may be dressed as a woman, but this film is no drag. [17 Dec 1982, p.19]
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  20. First Blood
    Stallone is feral this film, physically powerful; he's muddy and bloody, but he's still pretty even in a tarpaulin. He's the wild child coming home. First Blood is good to the last drop, if you like that sort of thing. [22 Oct 1982, p.17]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Henry Fool
    It remains complex, offbeat and occasionally inscrutable - and worth the work. [24 Jul 1998]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Father of the Bride
    The movie, as a whole, isn't nearly so original. Still, it's a pleasing, well-crafted, surprisingly satisfying diversion. It's eager to entertain and has a quality that's genuinely rare these days, a spirit of gentle modesty.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Unbelievable Truth
    The unbelievable truth about The Unbelievable Truth is that this offbeat, accomplished darkish comedy is the feature film debut of its writer-director-editor-producer Hal Hartley, and lead actors Adrienne Shelly and Robert Burke.
  24. The Man Without a Face
    In The Man Without a Face, Mel Gibson reminds us that he doesn't need one-liners and explosive special effects to warrant our attention. Gibson, as actor and first-time director, is not only self-assured in these dual roles, but he seems relieved to let the drama carry him, rather than the reverse. The result is a movie that's both heartwarming and heart-wrenching.
  25. Class Action
    Grounded in a good cause but never puffed up or preachy, the father-daughter drama transcends the issues.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Doors
    It's a slick, smarter than average biopic.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Boomerang
    The movie benefits from a stylish, high-gloss look, a hit-filled soundtrack and up-to-the-minute dialogue (there's even a Korean shop-owner joke) that feels winningly off the cuff.
  28. Lethal Weapon 2
    Lethal Weapon, that BMW of buddy movies, spawns Lethal Weapon 2, a blacktop-blistering bad-guy-getter that's nearly twice as much fun.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hamlet
    Thanks to director Franco Zeffirelli and an impressive cast, both the tale and the telling are strikingly fresh.
  30. Kindergarten Cop
    Part cop caper, part coo-fest, it is a feel-good movie, a jolly little button-pusher about a street-smart cop who brings law and order to a classroom full of unruly but adorable youngsters.
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