For 4,805 reviews, this publication has graded:
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2% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.6 points higher than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 65
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,899 out of 4805
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Mixed: 1,357 out of 4805
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Negative: 549 out of 4805
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movie reviews
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
You could trawl the seven seas and not net a funnier, more beautiful, and more original work of art and comedy than Finding Nemo. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Memento, which may be the ultimate existential thriller, has a spooky repetitive urgency that takes on the clarity of a dream. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
A movie that re-creates its object of satire with such pitch-perfect flair that it all but erases the line between derision and love. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
What's astonishing about Sofia Coppola's enthralling new movie is the precision, maturity, and originality with which the confident young writer-director communicates so clearly in a cinematic language all her own. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
So superb, so graceful, so strong -- another beauty in this year of good documentaries -- that I do believe it will influence career choices, sending inspired viewers to study pedagogy, or cinematography. -
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Critic Score 100
One of those rare gems that prove equally stunning on both aesthetic and cerebral levels. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The School of Rock was made by gifted veterans of the American indie scene, but it's still the most unlikely great movie of the year. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Eastwood directs Mystic River with an invigorated grace and gravitas. This is a true American beauty of a movie, a tale of men and their bonds told by and for adults who value the old-fashioned Hollywood-studio notion of narrative. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Pay attention to the enhanced detail audible in a new six-track sound mix, which may be the most important cleaning job of all; silence and Jerry Goldsmith's score have never twined so hauntingly. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Presents Glass as a masterfully corrupt fabulist who convinced himself of the ultimate seductive lie, which is that there can't be anything wrong with telling people what they want to hear. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The conclusion of Peter Jackson's masterwork is passionate and literate, detailed and expansive, and it's conceived with a risk-taking flair for old-fashioned movie magic at its most precious. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Errol Morris may have been put on earth to make The Fog of War, a stunning portrait of Robert S. McNamara that closes a year of outstanding nonfiction movies on a high note. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Ceylan, who also served as cinematographer, frames the affecting, unstudied performances in gorgeously chosen shots and nonevents that sometimes teeter on the edge of comedy before knocking us breathless with their emotional power. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The movie is a rare uncensored postcard from a ruined place, a document at once depressing and hideously beautiful that sketches the real hardships of trampled people -- specifically women -- with authority and compelling simplicity. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Can be interpreted politically or even biblically or not at all, as the elemental struggles between dominance and submission, impulse and action, man and nature, father and son, play out to their stunning conclusion. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Sophisticated, funny, and joyously subversive animated bug epic. -
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Critic Score 100
It's all somehow both familiar and dazzling, just as Ricci's kidnapped tap student, forced to pose as the protagonist's wife for his horrifically indifferent parents, is somehow both nondescript and heartbreaking. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
A highly original Death in Venice-scented comedy drama written and directed with flair by British feature novice Richard Kwietniowski. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Harrison Ford as the President of the United States is such a perfect piece of casting that it's at once a fantasy and a joke: The joke is how perfect the fantasy is. [25 Jul 1997, p. 48] -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The beauty of Two Girls and a Guy is that it presents us with a hero so craven, so indefensible in his duplicity, that his twin victims leapfrog past vengeance into an almost physical state of curiosity. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Watching Eternal Sunshine, you don't just watch a love story -- you fall in love with what love really is. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Don't leave before the final frame -- if you're still breathing. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Unusual, unhurried tour de force--a seamless match of strong artistic vision and physical performance. [19 Dec 1997, p. 52] -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
There's no denying that when it comes to communicating a certain delirious romanticism of character shaped by thousands of hours spent sitting in the dark, the artist who made this showpiece is a master. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The movie version, directed with unobtrusive precision by James Foley, stays amazingly true to the play's feisty spirit. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
As he rises to each challenge, you realize that von Trier, the most exalted of prankish sadists, has orchestrated the filmmaking equivalent of the story of Job. The Five Obstructions glories in art, life, and the faith that binds them. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
It reveals Bukowski to be a far grander artist than his bum's armor would suggest. -
