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For 7,601 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    The result is a mixture of unified atmosphere and lived-in character study, and while Vasiliu’s role is not as indelible as that of her co-stars, Marinca’s Otilia and Ivanov’s steely abortionist are just about perfect.
  2. Parasite
    Like Jordan Peele’s “Get Out,” Bong’s Parasite expresses consequential ideas that matter to the filmmaker about the way we live today, and the prejudice and malice we create for ourselves and others. The best social satires, like this one, dwell in the underworld where the sinister, the sobering and the bitterly funny swirl in the same stream of consciousness.
  3. Battleship Potemkin
    Eisenstein's incandescent creativity remains strikingly obvious. The most brilliant of all Soviet silent films. [30 Jan 1998, p.N]
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. A Streetcar Named Desire
    It's full of cinematic invention, rich verbal and visual poetry, packed with raw life and nonpareil acting. [Dirctor's Cut]
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. 12 Angry Men
    Based on Reginald Rose's legendary TV play, under Sidney Lumet's sympathetic hand, this is one of the great '50s actors' showcases. [16 May 1999, p.27]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Roma
    Roma gives you so much to see in each new vignette, in every individual composition, in fact, that a second viewing becomes a pleasurable necessity rather than a filmgoing luxury.
  7. Spirited Away
    It's a movie full of bewitching images and timeless fun and beauty.
  8. Toy Story
    Toy Story is a complete joy.
  9. Killer of Sheep
    Of all the memorable feature film debuts, Charles Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep” may be the freest from contrivance, disinterested to a lovely degree in conventional story machinery or in anything more than moments in time and the daily lives of people Burnett knew in his Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.
  10. The Shop Around the Corner
    Lovingly designed, impeccably stylish and heartwarming.
  11. Breathless
    It's a low-budget romance-thriller that changed the face of cinema. [14 May 2000, p.8]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. 12 Years a Slave
    While this is very much a McQueen picture, with visual flourishes and motifs unmistakably his, the historical urgency and staggering injustice of the events keep McQueen and company utterly honest in their approach and in their collective act of imagining Solomon Northup's odyssey to hell and back.
  13. Manchester by the Sea
    The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful.
  14. A Hard Day's Night
    One of the most excitingly contemporary musicals ever made.
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Nashville
    Altman's great kaleidoscopic ensemble comedy-drama about a frenzied few days in country music's capital, with an unlikely, quirky, explosive crowd of musicians, hangers-on and politicos all converging on a fateful concert crossroads.
  16. Red River
    The best of all cattle-drive westerns. [11 Oct 1998, p.16C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. Sansho the Bailiff
    The star, again, is Mizoguchi's favorite actress, Kinuyo Tanaka, and the style is magisterial, exquisitely controlled--with Mizoguchi moving the story inexorably to an almost sublimely redemptive climax. [24 Mar 2006, p.C7]
    • Chicago Tribune
      • Posted Jan 11, 2022
  18. Ratatouille
    Its sense of humor is more sly, more sophisticated and more interesting than most PG-13 or R-rated comedies at the moment. The film may be animated, and largely taken up with rats, but its pulse is gratifyingly human.
  19. The Grapes of Wrath
    One of the great American social films: strong, ribald, deeply compassionate. [30 Sep 2005, p.C6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Children of Paradise (1945)
    The screen's most magical tale of the world of theater is this lush, intoxicating period epic: the summit of the collaboration of writer Jacques Prevert and director Carne. [12 Jan 2007, p.C3]
    • Chicago Tribune
      • Posted Apr 16, 2020
  21. Gravity
    It's a nerve-wracking visual experience of unusual and paradoxical delicacy. And if your stomach can take it, it's truly something to see.
  22. Beauty and the Beast
    The beautiful title song, performed poignantly by the richly textured voice of Angela Lansbury, makes the case for all lovers to look past their partners' faults and into their hearts.
  23. Don't Look Now
    More a triumph of tone and texture than of storytelling....But what makes Don't Look Now one of the creepiest movies of all time is the artful way director Roeg leads us around blind corners and down dark alleys (both literally and figuratively), straddling the line between reality and mysticism. [4 May 2001, p.4]
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. One Battle After Another
    One Battle After Another isn’t just an explosive revolutionary text but a story of fatherhood — the values we pass down to the next generation, and how we care for them, with love and generosity; with fear, anxiety, a little bit of hope, and above all, a whole lot of faith.
  25. The Social Network
    Is director David Fincher's film the stuff of greatness? Not quite. But the picture is very, very good.
  26. My Fair Lady
    Audrey Hepburn is a physical wonder; Rex Harrison defines his role; and production designer Gene Allen is the hidden star. A big screen production for the entire family.
  27. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Not much music finds its way on the soundtrack, but what’s there is crucial. Vivaldi’s “Violin Concerto in G Minor," heard twice and strategically, ends up crystallizing the love story in ways we don’t see coming.
  28. I Am Not Your Negro
    This movie isn't just a tribute to Baldwin. It's a warning bell regarding leaders who, in Baldwin's words, care only about "their safety and their profits."
  29. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
    It is a bracing and chaotic and memorable experience.
  30. Aftersun
    Most films would take pains to spell out the answers, eventually. “Aftersun” works more obliquely and poetically, leaving prosaic touches to other filmmakers.
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