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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. Battle of the Sexes
    A warm, earnestly entertaining film.
  2. River's Edge
    At its worst, River's Edge is crackpot sociology. Jimenez and Hunter use the characters' lack of affect as an indictment. The film has a hectoring, hysterical tone. It wants to find out why these kids, who have grown up in splintered, lower-middle-class homes, are like they are. They want to blame somebody.
  3. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    There's a place in the movies for wish fulfillment, no doubt, including the wish for it all to be over.
  4. Cold in July
    The first half of Cold is tense and suspenseful, albeit in a conventional way; the second half is sickeningly compelling. It’s hard to watch and hard to look away from.
  5. Layer Cake
    The director Vaughn has a flair not merely for action and ambiance but also for character.
  6. The Company
    It is sheer brilliance and testament to the vitality of an old master.
  7. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    A compelling French Canadian drama.
  8. Ray
    It is to the film's credit -- and Foxx's -- that we are able to see, behind the flash and fury, a man who didn't know how to love, and was so much the lonelier for it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mask
    Mask is a tear-jerker in the sense that your dentist is a tooth jerker -- it yanks on your heart with pliers. That said, the story it has to tell is so unutterably sad and inspiring that the movie works in spite of itself. [22 Mar 1985, p.C1]
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  10. Suburbia
    All the kids are believable and Suburbia's shortcomings are mostly in its script, not in its characterizations. [11 Feb 1984, p.G1]
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  11. The Inspection
    Two things distinguish writer-director Elegance Bratton’s lyrical debut feature from its predecessors: a clanking, droning, energizing score by experimental rock band Animal Collective and a central character — based on Bratton himself — who’s Black and gay.
  12. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    It seems to celebrate him more for his attitude, his fashionably leftist politics, his fame and his friendships than for any meaningful accomplishment.
  13. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    Macabre, yes, but the movie's also inventive and funny. You get a lot of smart bang-bang for your buck.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
    Bridge never quite gels into anything.
  15. Crossing Delancey
    What it establishes is hard to put your finger on. It's not a sensibility, exactly; it's more of a sense that the filmmaker's heart is in the right place -- that she is a sophisticated, caring, feeling person.
  16. Three Monkeys
    It's a film filled with excellent acting, beautifully composed shots, and one or two legitimate storytelling surprises.
  17. The Long Walk Home
    One of those rare movie history lessons that don't make you feel as if you're facing the chalkboard. It's an impassioned movie, with vehement, soulful performances from Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek, but it's also a work of great restraint and proportion. 
  18. Bowfinger
    Lacks emotional depth and intellectual sincerity.
  19. The New World
    The New World is stately almost to the point of being static and thus has trouble finding a central story around which to arrange itself; it's not quite the thin dead line, but it's close.
  20. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    In a textbook example of the have-it-both-ways ethos of self-loathing narcissism, Carell has succeeded in creating a character of old-fashioned decency in a movie that otherwise flouts it at every turn.
  21. In This Corner of the World
    “Corner” is a deeply sympathetic tale, using the possibilities of animation not just to pique curiosity, but to devastate.
  22. A Royal Affair
    But even appreciated simply as a little-known chapter of European history, it proves consistently engrossing, edifying and affecting.
  23. Bull Durham
    You may catch yourself trying to remember where you parked a little before the end.
  24. Dark Waters
    Dark Waters is an effective outrage machine: If you like “Erin Brockovich,” you’ll probably like this too.
  25. The Puffy Chair
    A charming, if limited, romantic comedy that examines post-collegiate angst with easy, unself-conscious humor.
  26. The Original Kings of Comedy
    There's nothing stodgy about these court jesters or their humor, even though their act is a decidedly grown-up affair.
  27. Innocence
    A sweet but labored love story.
  28. Shattered Glass
    In a sense, Shattered Glass is a parenthetical horror movie in which someone discovers (or worse, denies) the monster within themselves.
  29. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
    It's a masterful little film, and, thanks to Zhang's seasoned hands, it's subtly heartfelt but never manipulative.
  30. War of the Worlds
    As is his wont, Spielberg can't resist stuffing the ending of the movie with a bit too much cheese and baloney. Despite those quibbles, War of the Worlds is taut, gripping and surprisingly dark filmmaking.
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