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For 7,947 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Drive My Car
    Over the course of just under three hours, Hamaguchi reworks and expands a Haruki Murakami short story (it first ran in The New Yorker) into an intimate epic.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Moolaadé
    It's worth stressing how deeply pleasurable Moolaad is to watch.
  3. It Was Just an Accident
    I found it too repetitious at times, and Hamid’s constant raving, though understandable, wore thin. Despite those flaws, this is still a good film — and an important one worth seeing.
  4. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    Magically transports the viewer across time and space. As it does so, it becomes a humbling reminder of the universality of the human experience.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Time
    Time is not a cut-and-dried chronology. Rather it’s a poetic rumination on atonement and endurance, one that chops up and reorders time itself to give us a powerful portrait of a woman who refuses to take no for an answer.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lost in Translation
    Longer on atmosphere and observation than on story, but you don't mind: Coppola maintains her quietly charged tone with a certainty that would be unbelievable in a second film if you didn't suspect genetics had a hand.
  7. After Life
    It isn't conventional drama or plot twists that make After Life moving. Rather, it's the exquisitely tender memories that come floating to the surface of this or that interviewee's mind. [11 June 1999, p.D6]
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    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Son of Saul
    On the whole it’s daring and committed, and in Röhrig’s tremendously focused performance, it honors all the saints we’ll never know. And that’s worth any risk.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Her
    It is a love story. Also a profoundly metaphysical meditation on what it means to be human. Also one of the more touchingly relevant movies to the ways we actually live and may soon live. Oh, and the year’s best film, or at least the one that may stick with you until its story line comes true.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Little Women
    The achievement of this wonderful movie goes beyond the specifics of its production. Gerwig has reimagined the novel back to its roots, as the story of not just one woman but all the women Louisa May Alcott may have lived with or known or been. It is an offering — to her, to them, and to us.
  11. I Am Cuba
    The film is a marvelous visual and emotional record. Alas, at 2 1/2 hours, the shallow stories of "I Am Cuba" become trying and redundant. [01 Dec 1995, p.52]
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    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Tropic
    Ghost Tropic is a slender 85 minutes, but it expands in your minds even as you watch it.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Triplets of Belleville
    All you really need to enjoy "Triplets" is a taste for the weird and the wonderful.
  14. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    Nobody ever placed brilliance in the service of silliness quite the way the Python gang did. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is stuffed with both.
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  15. Flee
    If it weren’t such a good and distinctive film, “Flee” would still have a strong claim on the attention of moviegoers, since it’s that powerful a rendering of the refugee experience. But it is that good and definitely that distinctive.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    EX LIBRIS: The New York Public Library
    Ex Libris has no narration and it lasts three hours and 17 minutes, which sounds like torture (or, alternately, 3½ episodes of “Game of Thrones”). Somewhat surprisingly, the movie rushes by at the speed of life.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stories We Tell
    Stories We Tell is one of those movies you watch on a screen and replay in your head for days, moving between its many levels of inquiry and touched, always, by Polley’s compassion toward her relatives in particular and people in general.
  18. Nickel Boys
    Perhaps by making the audience walk a mile in the shoes of Black characters, Ross is engendering some much-deserved empathy.
  19. The Boy and the Heron
    The Boy and the Heron leaves us with questions about our place in the universe and whether it’s worth saving. You may also exit the theater contemplating the afterlife. Regardless of the ideas swirling around in your head, you’ll have witnessed the work of a director who has not lost his ability to stoke your imagination.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On the Waterfront
    The chance to watch a four-star classic the way it was meant to be seen -- fresh print, big screen -- is so rare as to be worth the trip.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jafar Panahi's Taxi
    Those who’ve followed Panahi’s career over the decades will catch echoes of and references to his earlier movies, and at times Taxi is as much a tour of his filmography as it is of Tehran.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ida
    The first three-quarters of Ida are as astonishing as anything you’ll see at the movies this year.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Waltz with Bashir
    Waltz With Bashir not only breathes but it howls - and sobs and curses and croons and, in the end, when sound proves useless in the face of calamity, falls into awful silence.
  24. Hit the Road
    With his fondness for long takes and unobtrusive camerawork, Panahi has a real knack for maintaining a balance between comedy, usually courtesy of the younger son, and deeper feeling.
  25. Anora
    What saves “Anora,” and makes it worth seeing, is the performance by Madison.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Favourite
    The movie itself is great fun before it curdles intentionally into nastiness and drift.
  27. Ghost World
    Whatever portion of the alienated teen angst championship Thora Birch left unclaimed after ''American Beauty,'' she nails down brilliantly in Ghost World.
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  28. Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
    If you love food porn, this movie will satiate your appetite for visions of French food while providing much insight into how that food is prepared.
  29. Nostalgia for the Light
    What starts out as a beautifully depopulated filmic exercise - it's 14 minutes into the movie before Guzman introduces any people - becomes toward the end a nearly unbearable examination of good and bad in the human heart.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Gatekeepers
    It’s about spycraft, but it goes to the source. If for no other reason, it deserves to be seen for arranging decades of events in the Middle East into a chronology that, to an outsider, makes dreadful sense.
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