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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 1.1 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. Little Fugitive (re-release)
    This is a world where people still put out wash to dry on fire escapes, watermelon has seeds, amusement park rides cost 9 cents. Joey is the little fugitive of the title, of course, but at the heart of the movie, as its makers could never have imagined 60 years ago, is a much bigger fugitive: time itself.
  2. The Brutalist
    The Brutalist reminded me of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood.” With both films, I found the first half spectacular, while the second half left me dissatisfied and scratching my head.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Before Sunset
    That rose in the desert, a sequel that improves in every way upon its beloved predecessor and a romance that slowly builds a fire from embers thought dead.
  4. The Worst Person in the World
    Visually, it’s the experience of falling in love turned inside out. “The Worst Person in the World” is showing how it looks to feel like the only couple in the world.
  5. Licorice Pizza
    The things in Licorice Pizza that are so good, like the performances from Haim and Hoffman and Cooper and the period fidelity, make you wish that the entire movie was just as good.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Only Yesterday (1991)
    Takahata and his animators balance aspects of nostalgia and the present day, urban modernity and rural timelessness, love and regret with a visual and aural sensitivity that draws a viewer in from the first frames.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    First Cow
    The movie’s of a piece with shaggy recent westerns like “The Sisters Brothers” and “Slow West,” and it owes a debt of gratitude as well to the work of Robert Altman, especially the classic “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.” (That First Cow marks the final appearance of Altman regular and “McCabe” costar Rene Auberjonois is a lovely poetic touch.)
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mad Max: Fury Road
    The shock, really, is how tender Mad Max: Fury Road ultimately becomes. The film just wraps that tenderness in one of the most epic action extravaganzas of recent years. It's enough to renew your faith in movies.
  9. Le Samouraï
    Melville's austere yet sensuous reinvention of the genre's macho honor and trenchcoated, fedora-wearing iconography, coolly projected by Delon's expressionless face, makes "Le Samourai" a pungent and pleasurable experience still. [02 May 1977, p.D7]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winter's Bone
    It's those noir bones that give this social-realist drama its punch, as if Humphrey Bogart had been recast as a 17-year-old girl and dropped into the poorest corner of America.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Queen
    A subtle, often very funny, ultimately touching tragedy of royal manners and meaning.
  12. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
    As powerful as it is as social commentary, Gett triumphs most as an examination of human relationships.
  13. All of Us Strangers
    It’s simultaneously cathartic and heartbreaking.
  14. Bloody Sunday
    The film is conducted in a delirious cinema-verite style; most of what you see has a brutal, you-are-there immediacy. You're not merely watching history, you're engulfed by it.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    Gorgeously stoic art film.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blue Is the Warmest Color
    If you don’t really understand women — or don’t even want to — it’s easier to just call them a mystery and let it go at that. For all the close-ups, that may be why Blue Is the Warmest Color never gets close enough.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Splendor
    The movie is pricelessly comic -- the Harvey/Joyce scenes catalog the couple's neuroses with glee -- but it just as often reaches for something richer.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Phantom Thread
    Absurdly pleasurable to watch and to listen to, an effortless display of poise from its camerawork and costumes to the characters and the things they say.
  19. Gosford Park
    Never has a film taken such relish in between-the-wars malice as Gosford Park.
  20. My Perestroika
    Offers a surprising and revealing look at Russia's past and present.
  21. The Souvenir: Part II
    Fortunately, both Souvenir films have two signal virtues: Hogg’s style and their star.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Is Not a Film
    In short, This Is Not a Film is the world within an apartment, and it is quietly devastating.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Finding Nemo
    Pixar is so good at what it does that every other kiddie-entertainment purveyor -- including parent company Disney -- flounders in comparison.
  24. Topsy-Turvy
    In the end, it's the snatches of music, mangled as it is, and the mechanics of staging it, in the absence of Leigh's usual raw, urgent psychic collisions, that keep Topsy-Turvy from seeming merely a gorgeous wax museum.
  25. Being John Malkovich
    But then Being John Malkovich is a brilliant juggling act, too, brilliantly brought off.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Incredibles
    Such smart, whiz-bang fun that you may not realize what it's about until you're safely home.
  27. A Prophet
    It’s imperfect, but it’s daring, bold, and from a director who isn’t scared of anything.
  28. Almost Famous
    Hollywood filmmaking at its best, brimming over with feeling, texture, spirit, and several kinds of keenness that transmute experience into big pop myth.
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  29. Oppenheimer
    What I can say for sure is that Oppenheimer far too often feels like a three-hour Wikipedia entry than a compelling movie.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cold War
    Cold War is a ravishment, a cinematic feast for the senses, and it packs an epic inner landscape into a dense 88 minutes.
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