Christian Science Monitor's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 3,365 reviews, this publication has graded:
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56% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,994 out of 3365
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Mixed: 1,051 out of 3365
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Negative: 320 out of 3365
3,365
movie reviews
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David Sterritt 100
Von Trier sets the action on a theatrical stage, spotlighting the existential isolation that weighs on people who don't seek larger visions of life, individuality, and community. Challenging, dramatic, provocative. -
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David Sterritt 100
Like its star, it's quietly sincere and compulsively watchable. -
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David Sterritt 100
Subtle filmmaking and true-as-life acting make this an acute psychological drama with an engrossing sociological subtext. It stands with Doillon's best work. -
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David Sterritt 100
Beneath its surface of chronic suffering and hospital details, Chereau's best drama etches a humane, sensitive, and richly moving portrait of fraternal love struggling to mitigate human frailty. -
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David Sterritt 100
Kim's movie conjures a sense of spiritual discipline as suspenseful as it is stunning to watch and exhilarating to contemplate. -
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David Sterritt 100
What distinguishes the movie is its inventive, multifaceted way of questioning whether the "truth" of past events can ever be separated from the memories, longings, and scanty evidence that inextricably surrounds it. -
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David Sterritt 100
Almereyda's movie is riveting for several reasons: its inside look at Shepard in action, its vivid account of how a challenging play is brought from printed page to public stage, and its glimpses of Shepard's troubled youth. -
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David Sterritt 100
Everything about this subtly directed drama enhances its pathos and humor, especially an astonishing performance by Gorintin, a 90-something woman only a few years into her acting career. -
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David Sterritt 100
A deliciously weirded-out picture by Guy Maddin, a deliciously weirded-out Canadian filmmaker. -
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David Sterritt 100
A profound film by a legendary director in the greatest period of his career. -
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David Sterritt 100
Not that Honda's original Godzilla is a message movie first and foremost. It's a horror flick, and an ingenious one at that, with visual effects so vivid that gimmicky spin-offs became an enduring staple of popular film. -
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David Sterritt 100
The result is a history lesson both invaluable and horrific. -
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David Sterritt 100
A riveting new documentary about the Arab-run Al Jazeera network, reminds us that news programming can vary so widely from place to place that journalistic myths of "objectivity" and "impartiality" seem more naive than ever. -
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David Sterritt 100
This movie equivalent of Robert Rauschenberg's artwork "Erased de Kooning" is funny, ornery, and ultimately inspiring. -
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David Sterritt 100
Technical virtuosity and entertainment ingenuity. -
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David Sterritt 100
Blurring all the lines between fiction and documentary, this gentle and amusing movie blends real, unrehearsed material with delightful storytelling scenes. -
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David Sterritt 100
Riveting and revealing whatever views you have on the partisan issues involved. -
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David Sterritt 100
Like most of Sokurov's movies, this oblique parable is mysterious, elliptical, irresistible. -
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David Sterritt 100
Moore makes no pretense of being "fair and balanced." He makes a passionate case for his own perspective, and invites us to agree with him or not. "I fulminate, you decide" could be his motto. -
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David Sterritt 100
The movie is remarkably touching and engrossing, with Kline's spot-on acting and realistically second-rate singing balancing Judd's one-note performance as his wife. -
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David Sterritt 100
All told, he's (Linklater) one of today's most versatile American filmmakers, and Before Sunset finds his light shining as brightly as ever. -
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David Sterritt 100
One of a kind, turning Foreman trademarks such as self-satirical acting and out-of-nowhere music into powerful elements of an outlandish story. -
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David Sterritt 100
Timely, pointed messages about oppression and opportunity come poignantly through in strongly dramatic terms. -
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David Sterritt 100
At its best, A Home at the End of the World has great emotional strength. But it's not the towering achievement it might have been if Cunningham had stayed truer to his original inspiration. -
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David Sterritt 100
Thoughtful, exciting, moving. -
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David Sterritt 100
Acted as a drama, paced like a ritual, filmed as a slice of rural Iranian life. -
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David Sterritt 100
Moody, atmospheric, and bewitching, like other first-rate examples of modern Thai cinema. -
