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For 7,949 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: 5,230 out of 7949
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7949
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7949
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  1. All Things Must Pass
    Lively and loving documentary.
  2. The Skin I Live In
    The Skin I Live in is Almodóvar reaching back to his sickest, kinkiest self, and it's nice to see him trying to luxuriate in sleaze again.
  3. Black Swan
    Some girls fight over men. Ballerinas fight over parts. But the occasional brilliance of Black Swan is that it's a one-way fight. Nina battles herself.
  4. Secret Window
    A jokey, junky potboiler.
  5. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
    In short, the film owns its immaturity. And the argument it appealingly offers in defense is that it’s healthy, even vital, to be able to laugh at scatological silliness, adults included.
  6. Gerhard Richter - Painting
    The man we meet is intelligent and good-humored. "They do what they want," he says with a shrug, indicating a set of just-completed canvases. "I planned something different."
  7. March of the Penguins
    Touching and brisk.
  8. Sade
    Sensationalism and doom are not on screen here; Jacquot offers a relatively peaceful moment in Sade's life.
  9. Ride with the Devil
    It's one of the few films that persuades you that it went out to meet the war and bring it to us with verisimilitude.
  10. The Descent
    A cult classic is born.
  11. Command and Control
    Kenner and Schlosser not only remind us of a danger that never went away, but honor the men whose bravery was never recognized.
  12. Frozen II
    With so much going on, it’s easy to overlook that the most profound and moving relationship in either film is the bond between Elsa and Anna. It’s the most human and least-calculated thing in “Frozen” or Frozen II. Their love is the ultimate special effect. Ice is nice. But sisterhood is what’s really powerful.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spoor
    Animal lovers stand to flinch at the hunting scenes and other moments of violence, all of which appear to have been staged aside from documentary footage of creatures fleeing from gunshots. By contrast, the movie makes a dark but compelling case that the people on the other end of the barrel deserve whatever’s coming to them.
  14. Space Jam
    Exuberantly mixing live action and animation, it's a high-energy dream teaming that shrewdly takes advantage of the chance to goof on Jordan's temporary retirement from basketball and unsuccessful fling at baseball, and even more winningly exploits the antic wildness that always distinguished Warner Bros.' bouncy Looney Tunes. [15 Nov 1996, p.D1]
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  15. Painted Fire
    This is that rare art flick whose subject goes nuts because his work is not self-indulgent ENOUGH.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Steel City
    Steel City may be the only movie released this year that's so observant you can hear what the characters AREN'T saying.
  17. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    The first 30 or so minutes of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story condense the entire Hollywood biopic genre into a sweet chewable tablet. It's the Flintstones vitamin of spoofs.
  18. Spirited Away
    Delivers chunks of ''Yellow Submarine'' and ''The Phantom Tollbooth'' -- a vividly timeless oddity suitable for many children and most stoners.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Jihad for Love
    Director Parvez Sharma, a gay Muslim himself, takes pains to show the wide range of Islam's attitudes toward homosexuality.
  20. Hipsters
    Hipsters is also kind of amazing, thanks to headlong enthusiasm and an endearing obliviousness to just how ghastly the whole thing keeps threatening to become.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Howl's Moving Castle
    The filmmaker's obsessions have got the better of him. That said, I can't recommend the film highly enough, since bad Miyazaki is still leagues better than anyone else.
  22. Storytelling
    Cleverly mocks the modern chronicler, raising questions that linger long after the film is finished.
    • Boston Globe
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Open Hearts
    Open Hearts, like all good melodramas, is ruthless in its insistence that people are dragged, uncomprehending, in the wake of events.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Puss in Boots
    The movie has a devilish wit that works for parent and child alike, and it moves like a bobsled. It's funny and fun, and if it's not up to Pixar level, it still represents the best of what the competition has to offer.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ben Is Back
    Any movie on this subject that’s not uncomfortable isn’t really doing its job, and Ben Is Back puts an audience through a wringer of emotional and physical suspense. If you’ve dealt with addiction, personally or in your extended family, the movie should probably come with a trigger warning.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Homesman
    This odd, ungainly western is harsh in its details, wayward in the telling, yet increasingly powerful as it wends its way back East toward civilization.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Caramel
    Warmly shot (by Yves Sehnaoui) and comes with a strong, burbling soundtrack of Arab pop; it slides down easily and occasionally too easily.
  28. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    A romantic comedy with film noir shadows.
  29. Splice
    The movie begins to run out of gas as it racks up a body count, but even the mad-scientist and I-created-a-monster clichés are contorted satisfyingly enough.
  30. Criminal
    Just as exciting and socially vivid as Bielinsky's. Yet, somehow it's more stressful. The American characters practically sweat desperation.
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