For 8,143 reviews, this publication has graded:
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48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.9 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 59
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,630 out of 8143
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Mixed: 3,387 out of 8143
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Negative: 1,126 out of 8143
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movie reviews
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Vincent Canby 100
It is a film of enormous visceral power with, in the central role, a performance by Tom Cruise that defines everything that is best about the movie. -
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A.O. Scott 100
An instant classic, a comedy that captures the sexual confusion and moral ambivalence of our moment without straining, pandering or preaching. -
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Vincent Canby 100
I'll go out on a limb: I can't believe the year will bring forth anything to equal The Purple Rose of Cairo. At 84 minutes, it's short but nearly every one of those minutes is blissful. -
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A.O. Scott 100
A nearly flawless piece of popular art, as well as one of the most persuasive portraits of an artist ever committed to film. It provides the kind of deep, transporting pleasure, at once simple and sophisticated, that movies at their best have always promised. -
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Critic Score 100
Scene for scene, The Camden 28 is a brilliant merger of political outrage and filmmaking chops, and the most suspenseful movie in theaters right now. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
Mr. Greengrass knows how to do his job, and there’s no one in Hollywood right now who does action better, who keeps the pace going so relentlessly, without mercy or letup, scene after hard-rocking scene. -
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A.O. Scott 100
In Summer Palace Lou nonetheless succeeds in finding a cinematic language that does more than summarize the important events of a confusing decade. He distills the inner confusion -- the swirl of moods, whims and needs -- that is the lived and living essence of history. -
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A.O. Scott 100
No Country for Old Men is purgatory for the squeamish and the easily spooked. For formalists -- those moviegoers sent into raptures by tight editing, nimble camera work and faultless sound design -- it’s pure heaven. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
The film is above all a consummate work of art, one that transcends the historically fraught context of its making, and its pleasures are unapologetically aesthetic. It reveals, excites, disturbs, provokes, but the window it opens is to human consciousness itself. -
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A.O. Scott 100
Something close to a masterpiece, a work of extreme -- I am tempted to say evil -- genius. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
It’s a pitiless, violent story that in its telling becomes a haunting and haunted intellectual and aesthetic achievement. -
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Critic Score 100
Not merely a technical landmark -- shot entirely in digital 3D -- but also an aesthetic one, in that it’s the first Imax movie that deserves to be called a work of art. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
Duchess of Langeais seems to me a nearly impeccable work of art -- beautiful, true, profound. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
A haunting, voluptuously beautiful portrait of a teenage boy who, after being suddenly caught in midflight, falls to earth. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
A film of startling originality and beauty -- feels like a communiqué from another time, another place, anywhere but here. -
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Stephen Holden 100
An astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history amid China’s economic miracle. -
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A.O. Scott 100
The first 40 minutes or so of Wall-E -- in which barely any dialogue is spoken, and almost no human figures appear on screen -- is a cinematic poem of such wit and beauty that its darker implications may take a while to sink in. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
To say that Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is one of the best films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now. -
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A.O. Scott 100
A movie that is almost indecently satisfying and at the same time elusive, at once intellectually lofty -- marked by allusions to Emerson, Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney as well as Nietzsche -- and as earthy as the passionate provincial family that is its heart and cosmos and reason for being. -
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A.O. Scott 100
An entire family chronicle, along with four decades of French social and economic history, is recapitulated as a lavish, hectic dinner, complete with music and belly dancing. It will leave you stunned and sated, having savored an intimate and sumptuous epic of elation and defeat, jealousy and tenderness, life and death, grain and fish. -
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A.O. Scott 100
Superior entertainment, the most elegantly pleasurable movie of its kind to come around in a very long time. -
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A.O. Scott 100
Grace is also what defines Mr. Bahrani's filmmaking. I can't think of anything else to call the quality of exquisite attention, wry humor and wide-awake intelligence that informs every frame of this almost perfect film. -
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A.O. Scott 100
It is both sad and hopeful, but the film's sorrow and its optimism arise from its rarest and most thrilling quality, which is its deep and humane honesty. -
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A.O. Scott 100
In spite of its modest scale, tactful manner and potentially dowdy subject matter, is packed nearly to bursting with rich meaning and deep implication. -
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A.O. Scott 100
The best nondocumentary American feature made yet about the war in Iraq. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
With Where the Wild Things Are Jonze has made a work of art that stands up to its source and, in some instances, surpasses it. -
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Manohla Dargis 100
The latest masterwork from Hayao Miyazaki, places emphasis on the natural world, its tumults and fragility. -
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A.O. Scott 100
That the film manages to be understated, calm and intelligent in spite of its wrenching subject matter is perhaps its most impressive accomplishment. In avoiding sensationalism, it feels very close to the truth. -
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Stephen Holden 100
This consistently gripping, visually intoxicating film stands as a landmark of contemporary Turkish cinema. -
