For 4,810 reviews, this publication has graded:
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68% higher than the average critic
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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 3.7 points higher than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 65
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Positive: 2,904 out of 4810
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Mixed: 1,357 out of 4810
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Negative: 549 out of 4810
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movie reviews
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The storytelling is the series' best, with a zingy balance of drama, humor, and Deep Thoughts (in a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, directed with confident exuberance by Irvin Kershner). [Special Edition] -
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Ty Burr 100
Steven Spielberg overcame the lumpy plotting of Peter Benchley's novel to create an efficient, graceful fright machine in Jaws. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
This triumphant sequel to the hard-to-top 2002 original may be the first great comic-book movie in the age of self-help and CGI wizardry, an entertainment in which both the thrills and the therapeutic personal growth are well earned. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The new film, which unfolds in real time over the course of 80 minutes, is a deeper, darker, altogether more memorable experience. It doesn't extend the characters so much as fulfill them. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
One of the most revelatory rock portraits ever made. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Unfolds with a simplicity that's as breathtaking as its inevitability is harrowing. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
A conventionally heightened series of escapes and clashes and hide-and-seek gambits, yet the way the film has been made, nothing that happens seems inevitable -- which is to say, anything seems possible. There's a word for that sensation. It's called excitement. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
In spirit, Open Water reduces us to children peering through our fingers, waiting for the horrid deliverance we're not quite sure we want to see. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The film is at times harrowing to watch, yet it's also wry and delicate and absorbing. It's infused with the messy excitement of imperfect passion. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Potent and eye-opening documentary. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The result: This great work of art has the potential to change the world. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
It's an intoxicating feeling when a movie excites and enlivens us like this -- and there's a particular giddiness to be had in thinking about what movies can (but don't often) do for one's soul after imbibing such a fine vintage. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
A gripping documentary that uses voluminous period evidence — unedited news footage, tape recordings of SLA leader Cinque's rants — to brilliantly reconstruct the entire freak event. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Still the grandest of all science-fiction movies. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
The most resonant and haunting movie I've seen this year. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Beautifully edited, Go Tigers! is an enthralling look at the drama that can transpire in the autumn of one small town on any given Friday. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Almereyda excises big chunks of plot to shape his vision, but retains Shakespeare's language and pays such rigorous attention to meaning and subtext that what's missing isn't missed. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Tsai builds this shimmering story with deft, deadpan wit and a warm, understated love of the absurd, both in life and afterlife. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Yagira's performance is so extraordinary, it won him the best actor prize at the 2004 Cannes film festival. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
It took director-producer Leon Gast 22 years to edit and finance When We Were Kings, his thrilling documentary about the legendary 1974 heavyweight-championship fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire. But the lag time has only deepened the impact of this thrilling documentary: All sad thoughts of Ali as a wounded warrior fall away in the glow of seeing the champ at his best. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Nimble, engrossing, and journalistically eye-opening, a movie that pulls into focus 30 years of porn in America. It also pulls no punches. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Like a great novel from a more expansive bygone age, The Best of Youth is full of big thoughts; like a great soap opera, it's also full of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
Miller's theme is innocence, the loss of it, and the reclamation of equanimity in the face of that loss, and the music she makes is haunting. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum 100
The wry filmmaker has created an urbane society of family and friends as ridiculously pretentious and hypocritical as they are cultured, accomplished, and posh. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
It's been a while since a movie made the game of love this winning. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
A deeply straightforward yet beautifully crafted documentary. -
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Owen Gleiberman 100
Fast, convulsive, and densely exciting new British gangster thriller. -
