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For 2,968 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 The Peanut Butter Falcon
Lowest review score: 10 The Legend of Hercules
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,701 out of 2968
  2. Mixed: 1,148 out of 2968
  3. Negative: 119 out of 2968
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  1. Steve Jobs
    What Boyle and Sorkin are after here is a portrait of Jobs, not a photograph. And they have succeeded in making one, in wildly entertaining fashion.
  2. Skyfall
    The great success for Mendes and Craig, however, is that while Skyfall obviously has a great fondness for the past, it's not trapped there. It also anticipates Bond's future. In this immensely satisfying movie, so do we.
  3. Black Bag
    Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh’s outstanding new film, is sleek, cool, polished, smart, smooth — if Soderbergh were a thief, he’d leave no fingerprints.
  4. Beyond the Hills
    This is not an anti-religious polemic, though it easily could have gone that way. Instead it is a much more thoughtful film and in some ways more troubling. No one is trying to do the wrong thing here, but, as with most things in life, it becomes increasingly hard to know what the right thing might be.
  5. First Man
    The film gifts us with a fresh perspective, not just of the space race, but of ourselves.
  6. My Old Ass
    I love movies like this — sweet little surprises that stick with you.
  7. Star Trek Into Darkness
    Star Trek Into Darkness is a giddy homage to what’s come before it, but it also at least tries to go boldly where ... well, you know.
  8. Isle of Dogs
    Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs is delightful, giddy fun, but it’s more than that. It’s also insightful and relevant, all while existing inside one of the signature wildly creative, self-contained worlds Anderson creates.
  9. The Art of Self-Defense
    It’s a surprising film in many ways. Both for its thoughtfulness and the way the plot unfurls into thriller territory as Casey falls deeper under Sensei's spell.
  10. Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
    Directors Drew DeNicola and Olivia Mori’s film Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me looks at the band’s rise, such as it was, and its inevitable crumbling, as well as the influence its recorded legacy had on popular music. And it’s terrific.
  11. Son of Saul
    Son of Saul offers Nemes' harrowing vision of the possibility of peace, at least within oneself. And it is a singular vision, one that demands to be shared.
  12. Win Win
    Shaffer's inexperience pays off. He's completely natural as a mixed-up kid (and great on the mat).
  13. Marley
    It is gripping from the start, not just because of the quality of the music, but because of Marley's magnetic, challenging personality, as well.
  14. Buried
    In theory, we go to movies for enjoyment. Director Rodrigo Cortés inverts that notion with Buried, a terrific, claustrophobic, fist-clenching film in which he tortures his audience in exquisite fashion.
  15. Strange Darling
    Strange Darling is an original, well worth seeing — and then talking about.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Song of the Sea
    Song of the Sea is a lyrical treat for those willing to sit still and let it wash over them.
  17. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    A sparkling documentary in which we can't trust that anything in it is true. And yet you would never call it a hoax.
  18. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
    Jiro Ono is a magician.
  19. Enough Said
    You may or may not be surprised by developments here, but it doesn’t really matter. What does is the honesty of the characters and the absolute delight it is to spend time with them.
  20. Judas and the Black Messiah
    The story is infuriating — not in the way King presents it, not at all, but in its details. The manipulation of justice is heartbreaking. Though sadness isn't what you'll most likely feel while watching. Anger is. The betrayal in Judas and the Black Messiah extends far beyond the title character, making it an even greater tragedy.
  21. Two Days, One Night
    There is strength in simplicity, something the Dardenne brothers' Two Days, One Night and its brilliant star, Marion Cotillard, prove emphatically.
  22. Ilo Ilo
    Chen captures with both humor and heartbreaking realism the complicated mechanics of the family dynamic and how outside forces work to shape it.
  23. 28 Years Later
    It’s a horror-movie coming-of-age story, absolutely bonkers and gory and at its heart an art film about finding your own way in a world that has never made any sense since you’ve been in it, which is probably what the world feels like to any kid growing up, only most kids don’t have to protect themselves from zombies who want to devour them.
  24. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    It's a terrific movie.
  25. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    Long story short: Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a terrific movie and you should do whatever you can to see it.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wicked Little Letters
    Though that might not sound like the makings of a comedy, it is. And a really funny one, too.
  27. Jodorowsky's Dune
    [Jodorowsky's] a hoot, and so is Jodorowsky's Dune. But it's something more, too, a look at twisted genius and missed opportunities, a sad but intriguing combination.
  28. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
    Movies about movies don’t always work. Even in this case, the films Scorsese discusses are superior to the one we’re watching. (Most of them, anyway.) But “Made in England” is so good in its own right, as a gateway to so many remarkable films, that it’s a great starting point for the uninitiated and a great reminder for everyone else.
  29. Dear White People
    Simien's film is one of those rare works that teach by appearing not to — you laugh at some of the antics, cringe at others, but the film is so entertaining you may forget you're learning something.
  30. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    What Abrams has done is find and return the ingredient crucial to the original three films in the franchise that was sorely lacking in the second round: fun...There are some laugh-out-loud moments here, but also some touching ones. Happy, sad, exciting, silly — all that is included, along with the original sense of Saturday-morning-serial abandon that made what became known as “A New Hope” so wonderful all those years ago.
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