For 7,597 reviews, this publication has graded:
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Average Movie review score: 60
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,593 out of 7597
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Mixed: 3,234 out of 7597
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Substance is here in spades, along with the twisted, brilliantly controlled style on which filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen made a name. -
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David Stratton
Isn't only an outstanding documentary -- it's also a powerful personal drama. -
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Looks and sounds wonderful, and while more information about these giants of African-Latin music might have been welcome, the music's the thing. -
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Lisa Nesselson
The gleefully assured tale of a professional knife-thrower who finds a quirky new target... hits the bull's-eye. -
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Todd McCarthy
An irresistible treat with enough narrative twists and memorable characters for a half-dozen films. -
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A sexy, nuanced, beautifully controlled examination of how a quartet of people are defined by their erotic impulses and inhibitions. -
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A mesmerizing reconstruction and investigation of a senseless murder. It employs strikingly original formal devices to pull together diverse interviews. -
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Lisa Nesselson
The first-ever screenplay written in the Inuit language, Inuktitut -- and the first time's a charm. -
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Balkan probably gives her best performance to date to create a woman tormented by instability, sexual drive and psycho demons -- disjointedly portrayed in the script. -
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Todd McCarthy
Clint Eastwood has crafted a tense, hard-edged, superbly dramatic yarn that is also an exceedingly intelligent meditation on the West, its myths and its heroes. -
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A dazzlingly successful addition to his (Kurosawa's) distinguished career. -
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Had the aura of an instant classic when it was released, and the good news is that it looks at least that good, if not better, on the eve of its 20th anniversary reissue. -
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A mesmerizing thriller that will grip audiences from first scene to last. -
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Todd McCarthy
An astonishingly good and daring film that richly develops several intertwined thematic lines, The Crying Game takes giant risks that are stunningly rewarded. -
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Scott Foundas
A stunning work, revisiting controversial events with journalistic objectivity and a meticulous eye for detail. -
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He (Allen) makes nary a misstep from beginning to end in charting the amorous affiliations of three sisters and their men over a two-year period. -
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Todd McCarthy
A gemlike picture crafted with rare and immaculate precision. -
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Stunningly made and incisively acted by a large and terrific cast, Michael Mann's ambitious study of the relativity of good and evil stands apart from other films of its type by virtue of its extraordinarily rich characterizations and its thoughtful, deeply melancholy take on modern life. -
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Leonard Klady
The film pulls no punches, takes no prisoners and flies in the face of feel-good pictures. -
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Enormously ambitious and masterfully made, Traffic represents docudrama-style storytelling at a very high level. -
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A spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture, Pulp Fiction is the "American Graffiti" of violent crime pictures. -
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Todd McCarthy
This spirited and often very funny lark accomplishes something that most films in the bygone Hollywood studio era used to do but is remarkably rare in today's world of niche markets: It offers entertainment equally to viewers from 4 to 104. -
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A searingly visceral combat picture, Steven Spielberg’s third World War II drama is arguably second to none as a vivid, realistic and bloody portrait of armed conflict. -
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