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For 8,786 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,780 out of 8786
  2. Mixed: 2,559 out of 8786
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8786
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  1. Reality Bites
    It's Stiller's knowledgeable use of these smaller touches that (along with the excellent cast -- it's great to see Winona relinquishing period gowns and back where she can do some real damage) pushes the film along a solid, fresh line and toward its admittedly Hollywood conclusion. Stiller and company imbue their film with an honest, sarcastic wit that's all too familiar: apparently, somebody's been filming our lives. Does this mean we'll all be getting royalties?
  2. Rosewater
    Rosewater, along with his nightly mockery of the news, shows that freedom of the press has no greater champion than Jon Stewart.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Stranger Than Fiction
    A good movie but not a great one, Stranger Than Fiction is reminiscent of the films of Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) but lacks that writer's conceptual rigor and imaginative power.
  4. Cairo Time
    Cairo Time may be your ticket if you're in the mood for love, but the excursion is a cut-rate journey.
  5. Damsels in Distress
    Stillman inserts chapter headings and written asides into the proceedings, but none of it helps explain what is before us. The authorial voice in Damsels in Distress lacks definition.
  6. Selena
    Unfortunately, for all his large soul and exquisite mastery of image, Nava is also one of the worst writers to ever accrue more than two major-movie screenwriting credits.
  7. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    Holy hell, having to sit through nearly three hours of M:I making like Ethan Hunt is the Messiah is not just exhausting: It’s a total misread of what makes these movies so fun. What a bummer.
  8. The Gospel According to André
    While Kate Novack’s documentary suffers from a certain vagueness in the telling of Talley’s life, what’s clear is that it’s been an exceptional one.
  9. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    The interpersonal storylines, the tackling of the connections between grief and rage and flight, are some of the deepest and most nuanced in the franchise's history, as is the underlying narrative of two powerful nations heading to a needless conflict in the fog of war. When Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is at its best when it looks at confusion rather than adds to it.
  10. Chevalier
    The extraordinary performances on the Paris stage and fencing piste come early in Chevalier: They set a bold and lively tone the remainder of the film has trouble matching. Instead, it melodramatically proceeds, trope by trope, as Bologne receives his comeuppance for believing in his own brilliance.
  11. Nowhere Boy
    Nowhere Boy reveals the magnitude of the good women behind the grand icon.
  12. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Favreau keeps the picture throttling forward with a carefree charm.
  13. Medusa
    What begins as a punchy, feminine-biting satire becomes fuzzy after the first act. It’s an admirable effort, but an overstuffed, demanding one as well.
  14. The Darjeeling Limited
    It’s a hard film to shake, and there’s an awful lot to be said for that.
  15. The Peanuts Movie
    The comic strip’s late creator Charles M. Schulz would undoubtedly approve of The Peanuts Movie, given his progeny have ensured the film remains true to his artistic and humanist vision.
  16. Ronin
    It remains head and shoulders above what little competition there is by virtue of its stellar casting, editing, and above all, Frankenheimer's fluid, explosive direction.
  17. Barney's Version
    The performances are superlative, as is much of the film's Jewish flavor. The ham is barely noticeable.
  18. The Last Tree
    Rich with technical strategies that enhance our view into Femi’s emotions, The Last Tree uses slow-motion, diffused sound, and many Spike Lee-like camera shots to make the story extremely personal and unique.
  19. Over the Hedge
    Like a lot of animated fare, it's overly busy, lacking the comic's gentle, contemplative air.
  20. The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
    The very concept of such an assassination isn't so absurd as to be wacky – at least not since somebody fired a rocket at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last Thursday.
  21. Cinemania
    A couple of the cinemaniacs are less defined than others, but the portrait that emerges is a detailed composite of life on the fringe.
  22. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    A great, bizarre, and ultimately very, very unique film.
  23. The Way I See It
    The film does much more than showcase eight years of a top photojournalist’s career. This is a film about evolution, about how Souza learned to use his voice.
  24. Solaris
    As things turn out, Clooney’s butt is just one of the many delights to be found on a trip to Solaris.
  25. As Good as It Gets
    In between all the laughs and tears, it becomes painfully obvious that there's not a whole lot of story here to prop up the constant emotional yanking.
  26. No Man of God
    Director Amber Sealey gives the last word to Hagmaier, not Bundy. It's subtle, and may not be enough for the growing group of critics and viewers that worry that the cinematic obsession with serial killers ends up lionizing them, but it makes Bundy what he always was: pathetic.
  27. Rudo y Cursi
    Living up to its title, Rudo y Cursi is appealingly tough and corny but contains little that causes these elements to congeal into anything greater.
  28. Trust
    There's a serious teen angst movie somewhere in all this as well as an unflinching look at suburbia.
  29. Nancy
    Nancy’s dark appeal is not just in Riseborough’s remarkable performance. It’s in how Leo (Buscemi) catches himself saying “you,” and corrects himself to talk about what he and Brooke did before she disappeared.
  30. Fight Club
    Fight Club's dirty little secret is it's one of the best comedies of the decade.
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