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For 6,818 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,006 out of 6818
  2. Mixed: 3,654 out of 6818
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6818
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  1. La La Land
    Audacious, retro, funny and heartfelt, La La Land is the latest great musical for people who don’t like musicals – and will slap a mile-wide smile across the most miserable of faces.
  2. Petite Maman
    A story even more delicate and moving than Sciamma’s last effort, this takes an unusual and thoughtful look at girlhood, motherhood and friendship. It’s enchanting.
  3. Lady Bird
    A coming-of-age story like no other, Lady Bird is smart, emotional, funny and completely original. Rarely has a directorial debut been so assured, so singular and so heartwarmingly affecting.
  4. The Magnificent Ambersons
    It's a tragedy that someone else' happy ending is tacked onto his tale, but the film retains enough brilliance to make us glad it's been re-released.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reversal of Fortune
    An intriguing and absorbing movie, reeking of class and quite packed with powerhouse performances.
  6. Rio Bravo
    Faultless, freewheeling-and very funny.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All We Imagine as Light
    Writer/director Payal Kapadia delivers a memorable and compassionate slice-of-life drama, making a clear statement about the constraints faced by working-class women in India.  
  8. David Byrne’s American Utopia
    Bolstered by Lee’s trenchant, intimate direction, Byrne reframes a peerless setlist of songs as a testament to hope and humanity that implores himself and his audience to keep going. A much-needed source of comfort and joy.
  9. Shoplifters
    The spirits of the old masters pervade this disquieting but deeply moving drama. But Kore-eda stands alone as the chronicler of family life in a country facing an identity crisis.
  10. Duck Soup
    The Marx brothers on top form with their quickfire comedy and banter.
  11. Toni Erdmann
    Set in the unpromising world of German business consultancy, Toni Erdmann is a low-key triumph, especially for writer-director Maren Ade and star Sandra Hüller. A weird, thoughtful, affecting treat.
  12. Uncut Gems
    A monumental thriller, which vividly captures its world’s specifics and calibrates its snaky plot for maximum nail-bitability. Also easily the best film to ever extensively feature Adam Sandler yelling at a TV.
  13. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    They say that great actors are never knowingly caught acting; Altman's best movies are similarly effortless - experiences to be lived in, rather than simply watched.
  14. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Inside Llewyn Davis throbs with melancholy, hunches under heavy skies, revels in music history's unsexiest scene and unapologetically leaves you dangling. It is also beautiful, heartfelt and utterly enthralling.
  15. The Best Years of Our Lives
    This is intelligent, admirably unsentimental and utterly involving for its full three-hour running time.
  16. Band of Outsiders
    Less audacious than A Bout de Souffle, this is, however, one of Godard's most accessible pictures. A good place to learn how much of a debt modern cinema owes him.
  17. Stagecoach
    What drew the crowds back in 1939 and what has kept them coming is not the film's simmering subtexts but the absolutely fantastic ambush sequence as the stage thunders across the salt flats of Monument Valley. With this, Ford transformed the western.
  18. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1945)
    A wonderful salute to British decency and a touching portrait of a friendship that bridges national boundaries.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Style over substance, but very stylish indeed.
  20. TÁR
    TÁR is a masterwork. A gripping, grown-up movie superbly orchestrated by Todd Field and perfectly played by a virtuoso, career-best Cate Blanchett. 158 minutes rarely flies by so quickly.
  21. Sherpa
    Refocused on the hoof after the catastrophic 2014 earthquakes, Jennifer Peedom's film pulls no punches in exploring the culture and work of this unheralded group, as well as their frequent exploitation by Westerners.
  22. There Will Be Blood
    Uncompromising, intelligent and searing cinema. Along with The Assassination Of Jesse James... and No Country For Old Men, this is the best batch of Western-set dramas in decades. John Huston would have been proud.
  23. The Last Picture Show
    Bogdanovich’s perfect recreation of the sense of time and place, and his ability to mix wit with poignancy that make this such a charming, timeless film.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Do the Right Thing
    As before, Lee's acute observation distils humour from accuracy rather than caricature but his growth as a filmmaker is impressive.
  25. Top Hat
    If you want only one Astaire-Rogers musical, Top Hat is obligatory for Astaire at his most debonair with Irving Berlin's title number and Cheek to Cheek in this screwball confused identities plot.
  26. Crumb
    A biting exploration of family dysfunction and artistic catharsis.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    8½
    A sprawling anything-goes portrait of the artist and the creative process in crisis.
  28. Yojimbo
    Less visceral than the battle scene in Seven Samurai, this is more of a free-for-all, with brute force leaving no room for skill.
  29. The Band Wagon
    A perfect backstage musical.
  30. Late Spring (1949)
    Not as affecting as Ozu's classic Tokyo Story, Late Spring still charms with it's similar theme of development of the parental bond as the children mature and become more independent. Although well acted, the visual are equally arresting but when the themes are so similar a new approach is required to keep it interesting.
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