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For 4,492 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 'Round Midnight
Lowest review score: 0 Couples Retreat
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,780 out of 4492
  2. Mixed: 1,361 out of 4492
  3. Negative: 351 out of 4492
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  1. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
    This time capsule of a movie is timeless.
  2. Brothers
    A triumph of psychological drama, owing as much to Ms. Bier's sensitive style as to Anders Thomas Jensen's smart screenplay, based on Bier's own story idea.
  3. Palindromes
    Like all this adventurous filmmaker's work, it's truly one of a kind.
  4. Howl's Moving Castle
    You run across animation this ingenious about as often as a moving castle comes your way.
  5. Killer of Sheep
    A lyrical, yet intensely rooted, tragic vision.
  6. Wendigo
    A smart and scary voyage into the uncanny realm where hard realities,mind-spinning myths, and hallucinatory visions blur.
  7. Junebug
    This low-key drama is a miracle of mood, atmosphere, and sensitivity.
  8. Baran
    Expressively filmed story of rivalry, romance, and cultural conflict.
  9. Mayor of the Sunset Strip
    Like its star, it's quietly sincere and compulsively watchable.
  10. In the Heights
    The rhythms are Latin; the beats come from the heart. Miranda’s character-based story culminates with a twist that illustrates that home isn’t a locale, it’s a state of consciousness.
  11. Reversal of Fortune
    Barbet Schroeder directed the ingeniously made film, which weaves fact, hypothesis, and conjecture into a harrowing yet continually gripping and often highly amusing narrative. [12 Oct 1990]
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  12. Lost in Translation
    Smart, funny, and splendidly acted.
  13. Topsy-Turvy
    Brilliantly acted, sumptuously filmed, and overflowing with mellifluous music.
  14. The Queen
    Helen Mirren gives the mostly subtly expressive performance based on a living historical figure that I've ever seen.
  15. Another Year
    A quintessential Mike Leigh performance. It deepens as it goes along until, in the end, in its final close-up, it overwhelms.
  16. Tarnation
    Harrowing, extremely disturbing at times, but brought to the screen in dazzling pop-art images that make the movie's grim content very much worth watching.
  17. Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
    A travelogue unlike any other.
  18. The Three Marias
    This strikingly unusual movie is at once an old-fashioned melodrama, a boldly stylized spectacle, and a very grim fairy tale, acted and directed with originality and flair.
  19. Russian Ark
    Well worth seeing on the wide screen before its video release next year. It's guaranteed to take your breath away.
  20. 8 Women
    The secret to enjoying 8 Women is to check your analytical mind at the popcorn counter and settle back for almost two hours of cinematic mischief.
  21. Let's Get Frank
    Feisty, funny, and smart.
  22. Daughters of the Sun
    Acted as a drama, paced like a ritual, filmed as a slice of rural Iranian life.
  23. Beauty and the Beast (re-release)
    The timeless fairy tale about a young woman who agrees to dwell with a mysterious monster, as interpreted in 1946 by one of cinema's most brilliant visual stylists and mythmakers.
  24. S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
    The result is a history lesson both invaluable and horrific.
  25. Army of One
    Concise, humane documentary.
  26. My Summer of Love
    Superbly acted, movingly written, and directed with a tough-minded lyricism rarely found in today's films. A summer movie to love.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    8½
    Mastroianni gives what might be the greatest performance of his legendary career, making an ideal focus of attention for Fellini's cinematic pyrotechnics. [09 Apr 1999, p.14]
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  28. Beyond the Mat
    Stay far, far away unless you can handle the copious amounts of blood--and agonizing psychological problems-- that its participants face on what seems like a daily basis.
  29. The Florida Project
    An astonishingly fine movie about the vagaries and frolics of childhood as seen largely through the eyes of its pint-sized protagonists.
  30. Rushmore
    Anderson fulfills the promise of his inventive "Bottle Rocket" with this quirky, often hilarious comedy, and Murray gives his most uproarious performance since the groundbreaking "Groundhog Day."
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