Film.com's Scores

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For 1,216 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
1,216 movie reviews
  1. A delight to the eye, ear, and mind
    • Metascore: 92
    • Critic Score 90
    More than a family saga, this is a family meditation.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 90
    Don't miss it.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 90
    A multi-layered, experimental film, a film about storytelling, but the beauty of it is that it transcends the story at its center while still celebrating the virtues of a tale well-told.
  2. This is a beautiful, surprisingly uplifting movie, made by someone who actually understands people.
  3. L.A. Confidential is at the same time his (Hanson) most personal movie and Hollywood filmmaking at its best.
  4. Everything clicks here.
  5. Entertaining as it often is, Outside Providence feels as if it were a collection of installments from an unusually raunchy television series.
  6. Levinson is at the top of his game with Liberty Heights, his instincts acutely cinematic, his purpose clear.
  7. An exquisite trio.
  8. One of the best films seen in many years about the mysterious workings of time and memory.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 90
    Will test your powers of attention. The effort is worth every minute.
  9. A rich and challenging variation on the serial-killer genre.
  10. Audiences willing to wade knee deep in the muck and mire of the human abyss are advised to seek out Humanité at the local arthouse.
  11. Kat's English assignment, which provides the movie's title, is a sweet finish to an entertaining movie -- and makes 10 Things I Hate About You quite likable.
  12. It's as wise and funny and revealing as anything ever created by Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
  13. An unleashed Raimi may be a more exciting moviemaker, but there's something to be said for the virtues of a good story well told, which describes A Simple Plan down to its last shivery snowflake.
  14. What's best about the film is not the hot romance, but the coldness that lies at its heart.
  15. Certainly one of his (Scorsese's) most profound works.
  16. The fact that this film, so sensitive to woman's plight, was made by a man is perhaps cause for a little hope.
  17. A strange and lovely combination of cinematic nostalgia and offbeat (gay) love story.
  18. We marvel at the almost perfect realization of a character whom we're not necessarily meant to like.
  19. A terrific piece of neo-realistic filmmaking.
  20. Little Voice is that rarity, a filmed adaptation of a stage play that actually works.
  21. Firmly establishes Crowe as a standard-bearer of original thinking in the dispiritingly redundant state of American cinema. Don't miss this one.
  22. Eye-popping, exhilarating and occasionally a bit stomach-churning.
  23. In his finest, funniest, most poignant film to date, Tim Burton plays cinematic alchemist, turning drive-in schlock into movie gold.
  24. What makes the film so special is that while tickling your postmodern funnybone, it never forgets to make you care for its characters, in a welcome, and almost traditional way.
  25. Not a film for everyone. And though I deeply admire it, it's not a film that even I want to see again in the immediate future.
  26. Perhaps the most remarkable documentary project ever undertaken, and certainly the longest, is Michael Apted's Up series, which he began shooting for the BBC in 1962.