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For 8,158 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 25% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Falling from Grace
Lowest review score: 0 Jupiter Ascending
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,087 out of 8158
  2. Mixed: 1,243 out of 8158
  3. Negative: 828 out of 8158
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  1. Brittany Runs A Marathon
    Thanks to an ambitiously layered script from Paul Downs Colaizzo (who also directs with a steady grasp of comedic pacing and a nice visual eye), and a resonant and rich performance by the terrific Jillian Bell in the title role, Brittany Runs a Marathon has some refreshingly sharp edges and occasionally charts a relatively unorthodox course for such a comfort food-type movie.
  2. Girl with a Pearl Earring
    A quiet movie, shaken from time to time by ripples of emotional turbulence far beneath the surface.
  3. JFK
    Stone and his editors, Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia, have somehow triumphed over the tumult of material here and made it work - made it grip and disturb us.
  4. Promising Young Woman
    Writer-director-producer Emerald Fennell (who is also an actor and plays Camilla Parker Bowles on “The Crown”) delivers a sensational first feature film with this well-crafted, bold, visually stunning and emotionally resonant gem.
  5. Working Man
    Gerety delivers a performance that is simply great.
  6. Love, Simon
    A wonderful, uplifting, endearing, thoroughly entertaining story.
  7. Diplomacy
    Volker Schlondorff’s talky drama...is less than persuasive.
  8. Dogtooth
    Dogtooth is like a car crash. You cannot look away. The Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos tells his story with complete command of visuals and performances. His cinematography is like a series of family photographs of a family with something wrong with it.
  9. Prick Up Your Ears
    The great performances in the movie are, of course, at its center. Gary Oldman plays Orton and Alfred Molina plays Halliwell, and these are two of the best performances of the year.
  10. In the House
    After a while, it seems to run out of places to go, but for most of its running time, it’s a wickedly clever divertissement.
  11. Exotica
    Exotica is a movie labyrinth, winding seductively into the darkest secrets of a group of people who should have no connection with one another, but do.
  12. The Thomas Crown Affair
    The remake has a superior caper but less chemistry.
  13. Rejoice and Shout
    A consistently entertaining documentary bringing together a remarkable variety of surviving performances on films and records, going back to circa 1900.
  14. M3GAN
    For all its cleverness and pop-culture savvy and meta references, M3GAN also indulges in tropes we’ve seen in a hundred slasher movies, but the dark laughs keep coming, and of course we get an ending that leaves the door open for a potential franchise. She’s the living doll of your nightmares, and you can’t just power her down, kiddo.
  15. Belushi
    Even though the Chicago-born and Wheaton-raised Belushi’s life story and legacy has been examined time and again, the documentary simply titled Belushi is a work of great value.
  16. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Right now, she's like the grade-school girl at the spin-the-bottle party who changes the rules when the bottle points at her.
  17. Aimee & Jaguar
    This is the kind of story that has to be true; as fiction, it would not be believable.
  18. Seabiscuit
    The movie's races are thrilling because they must be thrilling; there's no way for the movie to miss on those, but writer-director Gary Ross and his cinematographer, John Schwartzman, get amazingly close to the action.
  19. Mickey 17
    It’s a variation on the teletransportation paradox as filtered through a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon, with some B-movie creatures thrown in for good measure.
  20. Earth
    Filled with unexpected facts.
  21. The Hospital
    It has been criticized for switching tone in midstream, but maybe it's only heading for deeper, swifter waters.
  22. Risk
    Risk is filled with dramatic scenes straight out of a spy thriller.
  23. Let Them All Talk
    The result is one of the smartest, funniest and most visually captivating movies of the year.
  24. Am I OK?
    This is sweet and smart film.
  25. Nine Days
    This is a movie that introduces you to a bold and original concept and asks you to just go with it, and if you’re willing to take the leap of faith (in more ways than one), you’ll find this to be a unique and special fable.
  26. Mike Wallace Is Here
    This is a time capsule — an expertly crafted time capsule — of an astonishing career.
  27. Superman Returns
    When the hero, his alter ego, his girlfriend and the villain all seem to lack any joy in being themselves, why should we feel joy at watching them?
  28. Men in Black
    When the plot finally does click in, it slows down the trajectory a little, but not fatally.
  29. Infinity Pool
    There are moments in Infinity Pool where it’s a test of wills to keep your eyes fixed on the screen, but beyond all the gruesome violence, Cronenberg’s screenplay is filled with sharply honed observations about culture and class differences, and some wickedly satisfying twists and turns. This is a film that is bat-bleep crazy but knows exactly what it is doing.
  30. Dances with Wolves
    This movie moves so confidently and looks so good it seems incredible that it's a directorial debut.
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