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For 8,784 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: 4,778 out of 8784
  2. Mixed: 2,559 out of 8784
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8784
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  1. Marie Antoinette
    In casting an all-American Jersey girl and surrounding her with Manolo Blahniks and the Strokes, Coppola draws a connection between her audience (domestically, at least) and the doomed dauphine, who is likewise insulated and distracted from her country's pointless involvement in a disastrous foreign war that is bankrupting its government and starving its people – and all the while she spends, spends, spends.
  2. Boy Erased
    Yes, Boy Erased is a horror movie, but it bears pointing out that the emotion is by definition intertwined with both empathy and a certain sense of compassion. Terror elicits a shriek. Horror hits you in the heart, and the next thing you know you’re sobbing. Bring some tissues.
  3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Timely metaphors abound in The Order of the Phoenix, but the story (of which there is much) stands on its own magical merits, dark and darker still though they may be.
  4. Princess Mononoke
    A film for the young at heart and those who still appreciate honor, valor, love, and the earth.
  5. A White, White Day
    There’s a restrained minimalism that becomes captivating, as Ingimundur tries to work out what to do with his grief.
  6. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    Benjamin Walker, as Lincoln, may not have the gangly gravitas of Raymond Massey's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" – he looks like a young Liam Neeson doing a younger Bruce Campbell, frankly – but he does have a sly, self-effacing sense of humor that feels ever so Lincoln-esque
  7. Daughters of Darkness
    Although slowly paced, it is always stunning to look at -- decadent and perverse in that certain Eurotrashy way.
  8. Liberty Heights
    Minus much of the rose-tinted nostalgia his films have occasionally engendered. There is a nostalgic tone to the film, but it's a quiet, subtle one.
  9. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    A movie about life and death; its underpinnings are soaked in the perfume of artistic expression.
  10. Bram Stoker's Dracula
    Interestingly, Coppola has eschewed state-of-the-art special effects in favor of a panoply of archaic film-school tricks -- reversing the film, multiple exposures, playing with the shutter speed -- that give his Dracula a stylized, almost hyper-real clarity and a wonderfully singular weirdness.
  11. Love Liza
    Me, I’ve now seen the movie three times and I’ve laughed and I’ve cried. It comes the closest to any movie experience I’ve had in re-creating the aftermath of unexplained suicide. Sometimes there just aren’t any answers.
  12. To Be and to Have
    100 minutes spent watching children struggle and delight in learning is, at least in my book, 100 minutes happily spent.
  13. Happy Endings
    Happy Endings is unabashedly sentimental (cheekily couched in a black-comic guise), with Roos acting as a sort of benevolent god over his characters.
  14. Custody
    A peerless fusing of dumbshow performance and background sound editing, there's a rising panic that allows the final, violent closing act to seem shockingly organic.
  15. 300: Rise of an Empire
    While very much a “hard R” movie, Rise of an Empire is, nevertheless, the perfect sort of film for rainy weekend afternoons. It’s a spectacle right down to its shattered ships and duplicitous warcraft, and this time out the story’s been leavened and enlivened with plenty of old-school girl power.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Charlie Says
    At its strongest, Charlie Says remembers that true justice is never easy, nor should it ever be. Its importance is in Harron asking those very questions, putting the audience in the uncomfortable position of contemplating at what point punishment is enough, and that gives Charlie Says true worth.
  17. Machete
    In the end, Machete may not be all that original, but it is fresh – fresh as a steel blade to the gut.
  18. Baghead
    Kind of funny and kind of scary, Baghead's central horror motif is merely a structure on which to hang its four-character story about the depth of relationships and the drive to find meaningful work.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    What We Leave Behind
    If you’ve ever missed a beloved grandparent, the beautiful What We Leave Behind will hit home.
  20. A Star Is Born
    Most of all, this rendition of A Star Is Born oozes with romantic chemistry between Cooper and Gaga, as well as the stunning command of rock & roll visual tropes evidenced by Cooper and his director of photography Matthew Libatique (Black Swan).
  21. Mr. Peabody & Sherman
    The spirit of the thing – the way it champions intellectual curiosity and critical thinking – warmed this nerd’s heart tremendously.
  22. Cross of Iron
    Cross of Iron is a WWII movie seen through the eyes of German protagonists. Incredible montage sequences and another parable about Peckinpah’s embattled position within the film industry can be found within.
  23. The Deep End
    Swinton is heartbreaking. She's not just craft; she's high art.
  24. North Country
    A welcome and appropriate treat is the flurry of Bob Dylan tunes that can be heard playing in the background of this northern Minnesota story.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Lez Bomb
    While rarely feeling heavy-handed, Lez Bomb manages to be both over-the-top funny and yet incredibly realistic, sans the doom and gloom of yesteryear.
  26. Creed
    Creed isn’t a complete TKO, but it goes all 12 rounds with vitality and flourish.
  27. Mother
    Moments of great suspense are sometimes invested with intrinsic humor, moments of trauma can yield great compassion. Often, these seemingly conflicting tones exist all at once, while the oblique mystery never clearly identifies the correct emotion.
  28. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Monster is, at its best, simply a chronicle of people trying to get along, which makes it compelling viewing indeed.
  29. Jungle Cruise
    Dwayne Johnson may not be the world’s most nuanced actor, but he’s a marvelous showman. His and co-star Emily Blunt’s combined “it” factor transcends the sillier stretches of this somewhat forgettable but still chuckling good-times ride.
  30. Sideways
    A smart and delightful romantic comedy, yet in the course of creating his new charmer Alexander Payne has sheared off some of the rambunctious edges that made his previous films, About Schmidt, Election, and Citizen Ruth, such marvelous studies in social parody.
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