For 4,198 reviews, this publication has graded:
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2% same as the average critic
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34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.8 points higher than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 65
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Positive: 2,814 out of 4198
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Mixed: 807 out of 4198
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Negative: 577 out of 4198
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Michael Wilmington 100
Viveka Seldahl and Sven Wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
An extraordinary work, grandly conceived, brilliantly executed and wildly entertaining. It's a hobbit's dream, a wizard's delight. And, of course, it's only the beginning. -
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Mark Caro 100
A visual and aural feast that combines elements of classic gangster melodramas, crime epics such as "The Godfather" and playful non-linear narratives such as "Amores Perros," City of God explores a deadly culture while feeling more alive than anything that's hit the big screen in years. -
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Deserves an encore anyway for its invaluable contributions to the vocabulary of rock'n' roll and pop culture. -
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Critic Score 100
Most important, several elements -- the film's tough, new ending; a sly, fleeting dissolve of a unicorn, not in the original; and a brilliant, trompe d'oeil flicker of life in a shot of a still photograph -- bring Deckard's existential dilemma into focus. [11 Sept 1992] -
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Gene Siskel 100
Sold as a romance, but actually is one of the funniest pictures to come out in quite some time. [15 Jan 1988] -
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Gene Siskel 100
Kubrick's contributions are his wit and his eye. The wit, too much at times, is as biting as in "Dr. Strangelove," and the production, while of another order, is as spectacular as in "2001." [11 Feb 1972] -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A powerful film made with minimal means, it's a story of poor people on the fringes of society, done without sentimentality or condescension but with wicked humor. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A watershed picture, for both Spielberg and war movies. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A landmark musical movie -- controversial, mercurial, even cheeky. It's the kind of film that wildly divides audiences and critics -- people tend to either love or hate it. I loved it. -
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Gene Siskel 100
What is surprising is how well Spielberg captures the horror, moving his camera with the fury of a combat photographer on the run. [17 Dec 1993] -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Splendid, soaringly ambitious Chinese period fantasy. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
This landmark movie's madcap humor and terrifying suspense remain undiminished by time. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A near-classic blend of mystery, personality, humor and terror, laced with one stunning shock after another. [18 August 1995, Friday, p.C] -
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Michael Wilmington 100
25th Hour struck me as one of the best movies of 2002, but it's also a film that will strike some of its audience as ethically dubious or threatening. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A magnificent throwback to an almost vanished era of epic filmmaking by great filmmakers in thrall to their own passions, rather than to the studio bookkeepers. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
An improbable masterpiece -- a bizarre mixture of grandly operatic visuals, grim brutality and sordid violence that keeps wrenching you from one extreme to the other. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
There's an incongruous but ravishing beauty in Far From Heaven, and in its three excellent central performances, that counteracts the seeming kitschiness of the story. -
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Mark Caro 100
Finding Nemo and its Pixar predecessors tap into the shared gene among the kids and adults that delights in imagination-engaging, eye-tickling and wit-filled storytelling. You connect to these sea creatures as you rarely do with humans in big-screen adventures. The result: a true sunken treasure. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Clean up the language, and this little roach of a movie could play the bottom half of a double bill with Rowan and Martin's “The Maltese Bippy.” [26 March 1999, Life, p.9E] -
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Michael Wilmington 100
A grand ride. Sleek, beautiful and packed with emotion, not too flashy but full of heart, this is a movie worthy of its unlikely yet glorious subject: Depression-era America's best-loved racehorse and the two races that made him a legend. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
This French documentary gives us unprecedented intimacy and sweep. -
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Critic Score 100
Fabulous for many reasons. Most important, this movie is Chiyoko's story, not an anime adventure. It's animated, but it's human and will touch the soul of anyone who has loved deeply. -
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Allison Benedikt 100
This is an amazing movie, released at a frightening time and made under remarkable circumstances. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Mystic River is classic Eastwood, classic noir. If there is still some doubt about whether this one-time macho star is actually a world-class moviemaker, Mystic River should end the argument for good. One of the best American movies of the year, crisply well-crafted and beautifully acted. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Stylish, ingenious and gleaming with charm, wit and malice, it's another expert blend of domestic drama and crime thriller, a vivisection of the bourgeoisie. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
1966 French masterpiece -- the finest, most deeply personal work of a filmmaker who has been compared, justifiably, to both Dostoyevsky and Bach. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
As magnificent as a high-masted 19th-century British warship, as explosive as a Napoleonic-era ocean battle seen above the cannon's mouth... probably the best movie of its kind ever made. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
Movies today rarely touch chords that are spiritual or deeply emotional, but Nathaniel Kahn's remarkable documentary My Architect: A Son's Journey does both. -
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Michael Wilmington 100
One of the screen's great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men in their 20s, hit Italy like a comic thunderbolt when it was released there in 1953 -- and it struck the American art-house audience in much the same way when it premiered here in 1956. Now it returns, and unlike its five aging-boy protagonists, this movie hasn't lost its first youth. -
