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For 2,872 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score:
Oldboy
100
Lowest review score:
Fair Game
0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,864 out of 2872
  2. Mixed: 801 out of 2872
  3. Negative: 207 out of 2872
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  1. Erin Brockovich
    All the up-from-under satisfaction of an underdog getting over, with the added oomph of the truth.
  2. Blood Simple.
    Filled with wonderful performances, especially by Hedaya and Walsh, Blood Simple remains a tight, beautifully ugly, neo-noir classic.
  3. The Score
    A snappy little heist movie with acting performances both deft and brilliant
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  4. The War Zone
    A masterfully varied set of images, paces and moods.
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  5. Master of the Flying Guillotine (re-release)
    Simultaneously modern and yet gorgeously primitive with its budget sets and simple but influential score, this is not just a film re-release but a film event.
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  6. Harry Is Here to Help
    A witty, frightening, well-acted picture with near-perfect cinematic timing.
  7. Sugar Town
    The moments of accidental sweetness that emerge from these odd, ultra-lives are meltingly funny and touching.
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  8. Sweet Smell of Success (re-release)
    Can a film so expertly capture the odious and bitter that it becomes deliciously, disgustingly beautiful? Yes, if that film is 1957's Sweet Smell of Success.
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  9. Wonderland
    Though Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland appears as gritty as they come, it uncommonly has a romantic heart.
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  10. I'm the One That I Want
    She (Cho) can tell a joke, mimic, offer commentary, play cute, play ugly and be so hilariously absurd that tears will run down your cheeks.
  11. Gimme Shelter (re-release)
    Movies don't get any more real than this.
  12. Fever Heat
    Not a masterpiece, but still fabulous.
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  13. The Limey
    A near-perfect movie.
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  14. The Woman Chaser
    It's a heap of contradictions that will leave your head spinning.
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  15. Wonder Boys
    One of the most joyous, diverting and original mainstream American movies in years.
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  16. Shallow Hal
    Unafraid of walking the fine line between the repellent and the human, Shallow Hal is wickedly funny but heartfelt.
  17. Gods and Monsters
    The film, built around McKellen's magnificent performance, is a sleek and deceptively artful work, a bio-pic that manages to encompass the whole of a man's rich life by concentrating solely on the final months of it.
  18. Affliction
    Searing, intense and unrelenting, Affliction moves to the deepest centers of experience and desire and brings its characters to unflinching life.
  19. The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)
    A gorgeous, engrossing, utterly alien and fresh movie that has the human truth and impact of classic Greek myth and the overwhelming beauty and mastery of the greatest epic films.
  20. The Count of Monte Cristo
    Utterly thrilling and enthralling, a commercial film that paces itself wonderfully, never allowing the action or romance to outweigh its story and characters. For mainstream adventure fare, that's quite an accomplishment.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Black Hawk Down
    Scott superbly re-creates the sense of individuals facing astounding odds, with barely a few minutes' respite over a 12-hour battle.
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  22. Dahmer
    It's a triumph of the film that it manages to make Jeffrey Dahmer a human being -- at least a member of the species -- without ever bending toward empathy with or excuses for him.
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  23. Chicago
    With its eye-popping color, bold personality and snazzy tunes, Chicago is a breathtaking experience.
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  24. Raising Victor Vargas
    One of the purest instances of indie cinema this year. "Pure" meaning that in every aspect of filmmaking and intent this picture is peerless, so truly real, funny, poignant and sexy that it almost feels like a watershed cinematic moment.
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  25. Russian Ark
    Audacious, gorgeous and unique.
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  26. The Piano Teacher
    Daring work of genius.
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  27. The Exorcist
    Isn't just a horror film, but an American classic. Watch again and reflect for days after -- at your own risk.
  28. No Man's Land
    Almost more valuable as a piece of foreign policy than as the highly accomplished work of cinema it is.
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  29. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    It's a remarkable, thoughtful achievement that will make you want to watch it twice. You should.
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  30. Ran (re-release)
    The adaptation of "King Lear" to feudal Japan is an extraordinary spectacle.
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