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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 6.7 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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    What Happened Was...
    What Happened Was … dissects the interminable hopefulness of dating. Noonan, who also wrote the script, has an ear for believable dialogue, and Sillas (Simple Men, Risk) allows every conceivable emotion to ripple across her face, which is a landscape unto itself.
  2. Everyone Else
    This romance isn't a sunshine-dappled meadow, it's a thicket of thorny rosebushes atop a rocky precipice. Both actors are alarmingly natural in their roles and Ade's direction is a model of subtly shifting tones and tempers.
  3. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    Boden and Fleck's unabashedly warmhearted film is a sensitively wrought but also very funny portrait of the way we respond to pressure.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    While We're Young
    While We’re Young struggles to reconcile its protagonists’ rival impulses to either welcome an unexpected source of youthful vitality with open arms or embrace such an individual so as to better displace them from one’s lawn.
  5. The Lunchbox
    The Lunchbox offers us a naturalistic glimpse of middle-class life in modern Mumbai.
  6. The Nomi Song
    Thankfully, The Nomi Song should go a long way toward re-cementing this striking creature's legendary status.
  7. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    Despite these biases, the movie helps the average American understand the nature of the shell games perpetuated by Enron and how "synergistic corruptions" can corrupt absolutely.
  8. Mike Wallace Is Here
    Ultimately, it asks the one vital question: Was Wallace worth his cost?
  9. In This Corner of the World
    While In This Corner of the World is bracingly honest in depicting the hardships and tragedies Japanese civilians endured during World War II, it steadfastly remains Suzu’s story all the way through to its – dare I say it? – hopeful conclusion.
  10. Bad Lieutenant
    What it lacks in charm, it compensates for with audacity and single-mindedness of vision.
  11. 49 Up
    What the series means in the long run is anybody's guess; I just know I sleep better at night knowing it's out there.
  12. Funny Games
    It's an uncomfortable, distressing, and altogether provocative take on the global culture of media violence that not only draws in hapless viewers, but also forces them into fait-accompli acceptance, like it or not.
  13. White God
    Blending political allegory with the tropes of teen coming-of-age films, White God begins as a tale about a girl separated from her dog, and ends up being the Battleship Potemkin of canine mutiny.
  14. The Rental
    Take out the masked menace, this is still tense: Add them in, and it's stomach-churning. Brutal, smart, wild and mean, The Rental savagely reinvents the summer camp slasher for the vacation rental generation, and delivers a punchline payoff that will leave you reeling.
  15. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Funny, bewildering, giddy spectacle.
  16. Compartment No. 6
    For a while, you wonder whether the movie will become a thriller about the perils of solo travel, particularly for single females. But the intimacy of director Kuosmanen’s Dogme 95-inspired camerawork hints that something more is happening here.
  17. OT: Our Town
    Backed by a soundtrack of hip-hop and edited to within an inch of its life, Kennedy’s film has sleek gutter charm to spare.
  18. The Wretched
    The Wretched may be guilty of stealing shamelessly from "Rear Window," "Disturbia," and the best summercamp slasher and small-town supernatural chillers, but none of those were exactly raw innovators, either.
  19. Cinderella
    Mention must be made of James’ guileless turn as Cinderella. Like the beautiful crystalline-blue ballgown worn in the film’s centerpiece section (you can’t take your eyes off it; it literally dazzles), she looks as if she’s lit from within.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The Way We Were
    This tear-jerkiest of rom-coms about a couple struggling through fundamental differences will hit you right in the feels.
  21. Exotica
    Egoyan's greatest strength as a filmmaker may be his ability to create and sustain particular moods and atmospheres. In that sense, Exotica lives up to its name.
  22. Femme Fatale
    A triumph of style over logic. Although this is not necessarily a good thing, it works spectacularly in this instance.
  23. Master
    An arresting feature debut from director Mariama Diallo, Master gingerly walks the tightrope between outright supernatural horror and a criticism of the enduring power of monied white privilege.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The Bob's Burgers Movie
    It doesn’t matter if you’ve seen every episode of all 12 seasons of the show or if you’ve never watched the Animation Domination mainstay on Fox in your life. The Bob’s Burgers Movie is a summer fun carnival ride through the Belcher universe.
  25. Central Station
    The story is much less about its resolution than the experience along the way. At its best, Central Station is a movie of small textures and fleeting moments, the intangibles that pass between people.
  26. The Italian Job
    A zippy, energetic, automotive free-for-all, a caper extravaganza minus the bleak overtones that have come to figure in so many 9mm movies these days.
  27. Rachel Getting Married
    The upshot to a ticking bomb is that it only explodes the once, but Rachel's sister, Kym (Hathaway), goes off again and again.
  28. Bullhead
    A persistent narrative thread that pits Flemish-speaking Belgians against French-speaking Belgians will whiz past most American viewers, but hopefully not distract from its overall impact because this movie grabs the bull by the horns and takes viewers on a surprising ride.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Grosse Pointe Blank
    A wacky joyride.
  30. The Current War: Director's Cut
    The Current War is a remarkable period piece, one that evokes the transition from the era of soot and gaslights to the electrical age. The script by Michael Mitnick does not take sides, instead letting the two forefathers of the age of amperes jostle for a multitude of reasons: commerce, ambition, greed, intellectual drive, hubris, and a genuine aim to make the world a better place.
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