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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 1.3 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. Amour
    Small, sure and stunningly acted, this is a picture of exacting control.
  2. The Hurt Locker
    Vivid, assured and extremely suspenseful.
  3. Anatomy of a Murder
    Director Otto Preminger excelled at intellectual thrillers and he's at his peak here. [07 Feb 2007, p.C12]
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  4. Pulp Fiction
    Pulp Fiction isn't just funny. It's outrageously funny. [14 Oct 1994]
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Zero Dark Thirty
    The key American film of 2012 ... Its stance is extremely tricky. It's not a documentary. It's not a load of revenge nonsense. It's not '24.' I'm still arguing with myself over parts of it. And that's a sign that a movie will endure.
  6. Collective
    Gripping, incisive and shockingly powerful, Collective is easily the documentary of the year.
  7. A Separation
    The film is a singular achievement, a piece of realist cinema with the pull of a suspense thriller.
  8. Sunrise
    Murnau's silent masterpiece about a troubled young country couple (Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien), a vamp from the city (Margaret Livingstone), murder plots, fate and redemption contains some of the most glorious visual set-pieces in the history of cinema. [01 Aug 2008, p.C8]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. La Dolce Vita
    One of the cinema's true classics.
  10. Schindler's List
    The movie is a triumph on almost every level-of artistry, technique, humanity, entertainment and spirit.
  11. WALL-E
    While I may argue with the little guy's taste in musicals, it's remarkable to see any film, in any genre, blend honest sentiment with genuine wit and a visual landscape unlike any other.
  12. His Girl Friday
    Ex-Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page" may be the greatest of all newspaper plays, but none of the other movie versions matches this snazzy remake. [04 May 2001, p.C1]
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  13. Carol
    This excellent film works the way Blanchett's characterization of Carol works: It's meticulous about appearances, while fully aware that appearances can deceive.
  14. Before Midnight
    Delpy has always challenged Hawke to find a simpler, more direct form of acting in Linklater's films, which gives them their unique suspense and rolling tension.
  15. Dunkirk
    With a bare minimum of dialogue, and a brutal maximum of scenes depicting near-drowning situations in and around Dunkirk, France, in late May and early June 1940, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is a unique waterboarding of a film experience.
  16. The Searchers
    John Wayne's Ethan is his all-time top performance: funny, romantic, hard-bitten, scary, the personification of machismo.
  17. 45 Years
    It's more than a first-rate film showing up and doing its job. It's cathartic, and moving, without any of the usual obvious contrivances or manipulations.
  18. Yi Yi
    Great, bittersweet family drama.
  19. The Manchurian Candidate
    It seems a small miracle that The Manchurian Candidate is able to maintain its mad balancing act as long as it does. That the film slips near the end is a sign of how very hard it is. [11 Mar 1988, p.A]
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  20. Mr. Turner
    Leigh's film — one of the year's best — honors its subject in all his tetchy ambiguity.
  21. The Irishman
    So, yes, it’s an epic of sorts. But many years have passed since a Scorsese movie found so much life in such small moments: at a bowling alley, around a dinner table, at a telephone in the room next to the dining room, where a killer stumbles through a sympathy call to the wife of Jimmy Hoffa, missing presumed dead.
  22. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
    The protracted scenes of eating, cooking and cleaning carry neo-realism to its end point -- and to a violent climax which emerges logically and terrifyingly from the welter of daily trivia preceding it. [24 Oct 1997, p.L]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Splendid, soaringly ambitious Chinese period fantasy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. The Wild Child
    A glorious work. [26 Dec 2008, p.C7]
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. Stop Making Sense
    It’s an unexpectedly emotional experience, seeing and hearing this luminous source of happiness again.
  26. Shadow of a Doubt
    Shadow is the acme of Hitchcock's special principal of dramatic counterpoint. The surface is sunny and buoyant; dark, deadly currents flow underneath. [26 Nov 1999, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Inside Out
    The life of Riley is not exotic; her troubles are not unique. But they are rendered with serious imagination by Docter and company.
  28. Sideways
    A boisterous, brilliant, heart-warming comedy--strikes me as just about perfect.
  29. Meet Me in St. Louis
    Hollywood's great holiday musical is this sparkling adaptation of writer Sally Benson's memoir: a movie that takes us on a Currier and Ives 1903 holiday tour of St. Louis with the postcard-perfect Smith family. [08 Jan 2004, p.N1]
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  30. Sunset Boulevard
    Sunset Blvd. remains one of the best, truest, funniest, saddest and scariest of all movies about Hollywood. [09 Jun 2006, p.C8]
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