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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. American Splendor
    Such a stylistic inconsistency might be bothersome in another film, but here it's just part of the texture.
  2. Phantom Thread
    The movie feels both expansive and confining, depending on the story chapter. Anderson’s visual facility by now has become so intuitive, so fluid and effortlessly right, if you’re at all susceptible to the allure of a moving camera you’ll fall headlong into Phantom Thread.
  3. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
    Tati's fabulous comedy about a bumbling French vacationer in Brittany -- the first appearance of his hilarious pipe-smoking alter-ego Hulot -- is almost a silent movie done in sound, with spare dialogue, affectionate characterizations, sunny beach scenes and complex sight gags that recall the genius of Chaplin and Keaton. [19 Dec 1997, p.T]
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  4. Gosford Park
    It's a scintillating comedy-drama and one of Altman's most richly moving and entertaining pictures.
  5. To Have and Have Not
    The things that make me love the movie are the mood, the hardboiled but good-hearted morality, Hawks' consummately professional eye-level style and those wonderful characters. [28 Jul 2006, p.C7]
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  6. Finding Nemo
    Finding Nemo and its Pixar predecessors tap into the shared gene among the kids and adults that delights in imagination-engaging, eye-tickling and wit-filled storytelling. You connect to these sea creatures as you rarely do with humans in big-screen adventures. The result: a true sunken treasure.
  7. Topsy-Turvy
    Some movies delight you. Some stimulate and provoke. Some enlighten and inform. And some simply hand you a rousing good time-- does all of that and more.
  8. Samurai Rebellion
    Ferocious action saga about an old samurai (Mifune) taking a stand against his lord's cruelty and injustice. [03 Mar 2006, p.C5]
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  9. Being John Malkovich
    Weird to the max, smart, sneaky as a Wall Street pickpocket and revved up with cruel wit and brazen imagination, Being John Malkovich is a dark movie comedy that you couldn't forget if you tried.
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  10. The Incredibles
    Delivers the perfect union - a vivid, sublime parody and valentine to the superhero genre.
  11. A Prophet
    A Prophet pushes its protagonist into circumstances he did not choose but in which he watches and learns and kills and eventually becomes all he can be, albeit criminally. Certainly Muslims living in France have embraced the movie and Malik, played by Rahim
  12. Almost Famous
    I loved this movie madly, and so will many of you.
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  13. Oppenheimer
    The results are pretty gripping and occasionally brilliant; its peaks, particularly when Nolan suddenly changes gears, cuts out the sound and reveals the full weight of Oppenheimer’s tormented psyche, reach higher than anything this filmmaker has scaled to date.
  14. Paths of Glory
    Paths of Glory is an antidote to false movies about the glories of war, nonsensical fantasies like John Wayne's The Green Berets or Sylvester Stallone's Rambo. [25 Feb 2005, p.C2]
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  15. Cold War
    Kulig comes with everything the role of this sullen, reckless siren demands, and then some.
  16. Scarface
    Gangster classic. [21 Jan 2005, p.C6]
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  17. High and Low
    Superb crime thriller. [07 Sep 1998, p.1N]
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  18. The Truman Show
    Delicately subversive, hypnotically sardonic, full of terror, banality and wafer-thin lyricism.
  19. Once
    It's a very small piece, working in a deceptively casual storytelling style. But it's my favorite music film since "Stop Making Sense," and it's more emotionally satisfying than any of the Broadway-to-Hollywood adaptations made in the last 20 years.
  20. Hannah and Her Sisters
    A joy to behold, a complex film that never loses either its sense of purpose or sense of humor. [7 February 1986, Friday, p.33]
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  21. Cold Water (1994)
    As Assayas himself has pointed out, the passing years have magically transformed a movie made in 1994 into a seeming product of post-1968 cultural turbulence and unresolved matters of the heart. It feels honest, in other words.
  22. Going My Way
    It sounds slightly absurd, but McCarey was a master of on-set improvisation, and Going My Way has the easy-going rhythm, humanity and warmth of life itself. [09 Feb 2007, p.C6]
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  23. Raging Bull
    Filmed in black-and-white and shockingly well acted by De Niro, Raging Bull suggests that if you are looking for the source of evil in the world, you don't have to look any further than yourself. It's inside you or it isn't. And it comes out or it doesn't. [19 Dec 1980]
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  24. The Gold Rush (1925)
    The funniest -- and almost the saddest -- silent comedy. [20 Apr 2001, p.C1]
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      • Posted Jun 25, 2025
  25. United 93
    The superb United 93, from the British writer-director Paul Greengrass, does not waste time defining the undefinable. Nor does it strain for poetry when, with this story, prose is enough.
  26. Capturing the Friedmans
    The more you learn, the more questions you have about life in that Great Neck house. Leo Tolstoy wrote that "every unhappy family is unhappy in its own fashion," but not even he could have invented the Friedmans.
  27. American Hustle
    The whole movie, a feast of ensemble wiles and stunning hair, is juicy, funny and alive.
  28. The Passenger (re-release)
    Still packs a wallop. It's also a movie with no easy passage to its dark heart.
  29. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
    Star Wars is not a great movie in the sense that it describes the human condition. It simply is a fun picture that will appeal to those who enjoy Buck Rogers-style adventures. What places it a sizable cut about the routine is its spectacular visual effects, the best since Stanley Kubrick's "2001." [27 May 1977]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Persepolis
    Without significantly changing the books’ content, they bring in a wealth of emotional tones--particularly a playful, wry humor.
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