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For 7,603 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: 5,107 out of 7603
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7603
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7603
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  1. Compliance
    The very antonym of "fun," writer-director Craig Zobel's new film Compliance is one of the toughest sits of the movie year 2012. But it's an uncompromising and, in its way, honorable drama built upon a prank call that goes on and on.
  2. A Dry White Season
    This is filmmaking meant to engage the heart-and other visceral organs-more than the mind; its effects are simple, broad and directly put.
  3. Infamous
    Though stylistically all over the place, it's not without interest.
  4. Star Trek Beyond
    The latest, produced by Abrams and directed by "Fast and Furious" alum Justin Lin, isn't quite up to the 2009 and 2013 movies. But it's still fun, you still care about the people and the effects manage to look a little more elegant and interesting than the usual blue blasts of generica.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    North Country
    A potentially great movie--with talent and plot points to spare--that settles for being just okay.
  6. Bullhead
    Schoenaerts is often affecting and just as often scarily intense. The film's intensity, by contrast, beams on and off.
  7. Like Crazy
    It's entirely possible, maybe even inevitable, that Like Crazy will win over a good many moviegoers despite its bouts of semipreciousness. In the end, I was one of them.
  8. The Hunger Games
    The games have begun, and so far they're pretty gripping.
  9. Così ridevano
    This is a film precisely constructed, brilliantly imagined.
  10. Chain Camera
    Absorbing in places, but considering the large and diverse pool the filmmakers had to draw from, it's a surprisingly repetitive and predictable collection of big-city sagas.
  11. The Yes Men
    These are some terrifically funny and gutsy guys who want to draw attention to what they see as the natural limit of WTO policy.
  12. Jump Tomorrow
    Dry and irreverent, Jump Tomorrow plays like a Hal Hartley ("Henry Fool") comedy with a lighter tone and more laughs.
  13. A Housekeeper
    Whatever the final message of The Housekeeper, its love story engages both the heart and the head.
  14. In My Skin
    As psychological drama, In My Skin falls short. But as pure horror, it's unforgettable.
  15. I Used to Go Here
    The lightly carbonated fizz of I Used to Go Here has everything to do with Rey’s deftly chosen ensemble.
  16. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    The filmmaker's access was impressive, the results moderately entertaining.
  17. Class Action Park
    The documentary infers a good deal about Mulvihill’s underworld connections and political maneuvers without quite nailing them down.
  18. Akira
    Akira remains the work of a cartoonist, rather than a born animator: Too much of the movie is played out in the static frames of a comic strip, and when movement is used it isn't to define character (as in Disney) or establish a rhythm (as in the Warner cartoons) but simply for its physical impact. Pounding away, it becomes monotonous. [30 Mar 1990, p.D]
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  19. Babe: Pig in the City
    It's refreshing that a family movie dares to be as emotionally charged as this one, but you wish Miller had paused before he piled everything on and said to himself, "That'll do."
  20. Braveheart
    At its best, it's an exhilaratingly grandiose Highland fling. [24 May 1995, Tempo, p.1]
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  21. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    This is the "Babel" or "Crash" of ensemble romantic comedies, with screenwriter Dan Fogelman mapping out several narrative surprises that throw you for little loops as they're delivered.
  22. Deepwater Horizon
    Berg sticks to the job at hand, imagining what it is was like to be there, and to be the victim of sloppy, deadly safety practices in the name of a good day on Wall Street.
  23. Limbo
    At its worst, Limbo is ersatz Conrad. But at its best, the film makes us feel that uncertainty and darkness, casting us into the cul-de-sac of modern life and love. [04 Jun 1999, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. Lamb
    In what is essentially a three-human story (they’re outnumbered by their animal co-stars), Rapace brings the heart and soul to every close-up.
  25. Fighting with My Family
    In other words, nothing much held me back from enjoying writer-director Stephen Merchant’s engaging, charismatically acted underdog fable.
  26. End of Watch
    The drawback of the film's visual approach, however, is a considerable one. The relentless first-person shooting in End of Watch - figurative and literal - is less about YouTube factuality than it is about Xbox gaming reconfigured for the movies.
  27. Apocalypto
    With "Braveheart," "Passion" and now Apocalypto, Gibson clearly has established his priorities as a director. History is gore, plus a few hearthside family interludes. The trick is instilling the audience with enough rageful bloodlust to make the story work.
  28. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
    A character comedy requires some notion of respect and integrity. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels has none. [14 Dec 1988, p.1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Potiche
    Potiche is very "Touch of Class" and "House Calls" in its comic vibe and trappings, and if you're old enough to remember those Glenda Jackson rom-coms, you'll probably respond favorably to Potiche.
  30. Alice et Martin
    It's a lovely, terrifying sight.
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