For 3,656 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 6.2 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 55
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F. X. Feeney 100
The Godfather traces the arc of this doomed idealism with a beauty that is still fresh. -
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Critic Score 100
The Conformist is a great film, drunkenly beautiful and deeply disturbing. -
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Scott Foundas 100
The result is a brilliant and relentless thriller, painted in Melville's trademark shades of charcoal and midnight blue, marked by daring escapes, unimaginable moments of self-sacrifice and unconscionable acts of betrayal. -
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Ella Taylor 100
Pan's Labyrinth Like his terrific 2001 "The Devil’s Backbone," Mexican horrormeister Guillermo del Toro's new movie offers us both real-life and fantastical monsters, and if you know his work, you won't waste time figuring out which to root for. -
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Ella Taylor 100
Though the frighteningly late-term abortion at its center hints at larger sins in the last gasp of Nicolae Ceausescu’s iron-fisted regime, it’s no metaphor, but a sordidly visceral transaction conducted in the next best thing to a back alley. -
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Kim Morgan 90
Like Proust's madeleine unleashing a flood of reminiscences in the narrator of his novel, Wong works the elements of his aesthetic — music, beautiful people and emotion — into a mood that so overtakes you it's nearly impossible to emerge from his films without feeling slightly drunk. -
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David Chute 100
Does full honor to Miyazaki’s teeming and often unsettling landscape, and to the conflicted complexity of his characters: Not a single frame was cut, and the voice casting and performances are uniformly excellent. -
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Paul Malcolm 90
The film's real power to move flows from its low, childlike angles, which, rather than infantalize its audience, bring it down to where the hurt and fear, and hence the comfort, loom larger. -
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Ella Taylor 90
A classic of politically engaged filmmaking, based on a book by Saadi Yacef, a former FLN leader who also produced the picture and played a version of himself. -
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Kim Morgan 90
A trenchant American satirist in his previous films, Payne moves in a different direction with Sideways -- one less mordant but just as pointedly observant. -
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Scott Foundas 100
The deep satisfaction of The Return of the King is in surrendering ourselves to the finale, in letting Jackson's superb storytelling (with due credit to co-screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens) surround us like a blazing campfire tale -- which it does, gloriously. -
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Ella Taylor 90
In the nearly 30 years since the movie was released (it won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1972), one forgets how falling-about-funny is this mad caper. -
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Ella Taylor 90
Has the sprawling canvas of an epic and the emotional heat of classical melodrama. -
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F. X. Feeney 100
Remains the most popularly successful film ever to render the inner life of an artist. -
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Ella Taylor 90
The movie survives beautifully both as an elegant thriller and as a study of the twisted infantilism that shapes the fanatic heart. -
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Critic Score 90
Almayer's Folly is lush and dreamy (if not quite dreamlike), but it never feels unanchored or given to pointless meandering. However hypnotic it at times becomes, this is a sober(ing) endeavor that never strays far from its post-colonial backdrop.- Posted Aug 7, 2012
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Scott Foundas 100
With There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson has taken a stab at making The Great American Movie -- and I daresay he’s made one of them. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
The film is a virtuosic triumph, but parlor tricks don't make movies, and it's Jackson's unwavering sincerity that elevates The Fellowship of the Ring into the increasingly rare Valhalla of the rousing, well-told tale. -
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Scott Foundas 90
Quite possibly the most buoyant, exuberant film ever made on such an unpleasant topic. -
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Paul Malcolm 90
The first REALLY great mythic film of the summer has arrived. -
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Scott Foundas 90
Melville seems to peer out from behind the camera with a reassuring wink and nod. Le Cercle Rouge is the most self-consciously cool of his famously underheated films noirs. -
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Ella Taylor 100
This divinely eccentric movie feels as if it came straight to the screen from one man’s wild and wantonly free imagination. -
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Scott Foundas 100
Politically shrewd, unexpectedly funny yet immaculately tasteful docudrama. -
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Critic Score 90
Leaving the theater, you feel not only as if you've been in a foreign country, but as if you'd gone there inside someone else's skin. -
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Critic Score 50
Save for one startlingly staged battle sequence. . .might as well have been titled "Also Ran." -
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Ella Taylor 80
If Steven Spielberg's emotional intelligence matched his visual genius, his honorably flawed new film might qualify for one of the greatest-ever American WWII movies. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
To look at Apocalypse Now is to realize that most of us are fast forgetting what a movie looks like -- a real movie, the last movie, an American masterpiece. -
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John Patterson 90
A scrupulously even-handed account, free of ideological or tribal partisanship, based on eyewitness accounts by survivors and the anonymous "Paras" themselves. -
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F. X. Feeney 90
Has power not only as film scholarship, but as an inquiry into cinema's interplay with our collective memories and the nature of history itself. -
