For 1,456 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 1.1 points higher than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 63
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 789 out of 1456
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Mixed: 538 out of 1456
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Negative: 129 out of 1456
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movie reviews
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Peter Rainer 100
One of the sharpest and funniest movies about the music business ever made. -
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Peter Rainer 100
No other concert film has ever expressed so fervently the erotic root of rock. Seeing it is the opposite of taking a trip down memory lane; it's more like a plunge into the belly of the beast. -
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Peter Rainer 100
So intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics. -
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Peter Rainer 100
A hushed, small-scale masterpiece that moves into the shadowlands of tragedy. -
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Peter Rainer 100
Jackson has a genuine epic gift: Few filmmakers have ever given gross-outs such resplendence. -
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Peter Rainer 100
A love affair between performer and filmmaker. The director shows off his ardor by eliciting from his actors aspects of their gifts that they themselves may not have known they had. -
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Peter Rainer 100
The most visceral and cumulatively powerful account of civil war since Gillo Pontecorvo's "The Battle of Algiers." -
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Peter Rainer 100
The most deeply and mysteriously satisfying animated feature to come along in ages. -
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Peter Rainer 100
It has what the most heartfelt Disney animated features used to have: rapturous imagery matched with real wit. -
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Peter Rainer 100
The most joyously cinematic movie I've seen this year. Chomet's astonishing imagination conjures images you could swear you've seen in your dreams. -
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Peter Rainer 100
Jackson is rare among the makers of epic movies in that he knows how to do the small stuff, too. The Return of the King has “heart”--how else could it pump out all that blood? -
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Peter Rainer 100
The most powerfully entrancing children's film in years. Of course, a true kid's classic is just as magical for adults. -
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The sleek beauty, crafty wit, family warmth, and impeccable slapstick suffusing The Incredibles immediately vaults it to a new, higher level of entertainment. -
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Ken Tucker 100
The visually stunning Sin City has grit to spare and a thrilling undercurrent of morality. -
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Ken Tucker 100
Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is huge and scary, moving and funny--another capper to a career that seems like an unending succession of captivations. -
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One of the most realistic documentaries I've ever seen--and, dry as it is, one of the most devastating in its implications. -
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David Edelstein 100
The Queen is the most reverent irreverent comedy imaginable. Or maybe it's the most irreverent reverent comedy. Either way, it's a small masterpiece. -
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David Edelstein 100
You should see Happy Feet--not only because it's stupendous, but also because it features the best dancing you'll see on the screen this year. -
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David Edelstein 100
Bird clearly knows the great silent clowns: The slapstick he devises is balletic. -
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David Edelstein 100
For all its portentousness, this is the best Harry Potter picture yet. In some ways, it improves on J.K. Rowling’s novel, which is punishingly protracted and builds to a climactic wand-off better seen than read. -
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David Edelstein 100
Might be the most provocative teen sex comedy ever made; it is certainly one of the most convulsively funny. -
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David Edelstein 100
Above all is Langella, achingly vulnerable under layers of flesh. In one scene, alone, he eats peanut butter intensely, thoughtfully, and nothing he could do as Hamlet would seem deeper or more poetic. -
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David Edelstein 100
The film is a masterpiece in which “locked-in” syndrome becomes the human condition. -
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David Edelstein 100
Anderson’s fearless, bighearted filmmaking is an antidote to the toxic cloud of Manifest Destiny. He has made a mad American classic. -
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David Edelstein 100
The new Pixar picture Wall-E is one for the ages, a masterpiece to be savored before or after the end of the world. -
