For 7,243 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 1.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,412 out of 7243
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Mixed: 3,106 out of 7243
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Negative: 725 out of 7243
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movie reviews
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Critic Score 100
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 100
Isn't only an outstanding documentary -- it's also a powerful personal drama. -
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David Stratton 100
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 100
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 100
An irresistible treat with enough narrative twists and memorable characters for a half-dozen films. -
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Critic Score 100
A sexy, nuanced, beautifully controlled examination of how a quartet of people are defined by their erotic impulses and inhibitions. -
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One of the most entertaining, best executed, original road pictures ever. -
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Critic Score 100
A mesmerizing reconstruction and investigation of a senseless murder. It employs strikingly original formal devices to pull together diverse interviews. -
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Critic Score 100
Possesses a stylistic boldness and verisimilitude that is virtually matchless. -
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Lisa Nesselson 100
The first-ever screenplay written in the Inuit language, Inuktitut -- and the first time's a charm. -
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Critic Score 100
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 100
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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Critic Score 100
A dazzlingly successful addition to his (Kurosawa's) distinguished career. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
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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Critic Score 100
A mesmerizing thriller that will grip audiences from first scene to last. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
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 100
A stunning work, revisiting controversial events with journalistic objectivity and a meticulous eye for detail. -
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Critic Score 100
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 100
A gemlike picture crafted with rare and immaculate precision. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
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 100
The film pulls no punches, takes no prisoners and flies in the face of feel-good pictures. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Enormously ambitious and masterfully made, Traffic represents docudrama-style storytelling at a very high level. -
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Critic Score 100
A spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture, Pulp Fiction is the "American Graffiti" of violent crime pictures. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
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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Todd McCarthy 100
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. -
