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For 6,819 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: 3,007 out of 6819
  2. Mixed: 3,654 out of 6819
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6819
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Accused
    Foster is simply fantastic as the tough Sarah, unshakeable in her belief that justice has not been done and that she has a right to demand it. McGillis, from a slow start, builds beautifully and by the time the action has switched to the courtroom, she has shed her starchy persona for a true advocate's passion.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Field of Dreams
    What it's really about is taking a second chance to make good on old regrets and dead hopes. Never mind the baseball, this is one for the heart, made beautifully.
  3. The Raid: Redemption
    Remember your first time with Hard Boiled? Die Hard? This is how it's done - a clean, hard, constant hit of adrenalin. If it's not the best action movie of the year, we'll eat a fridge.
  4. Picnic at Hanging Rock
    A fascinating film that is by turns fascinating and mysterious.
  5. 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.
  6. Battleship Potemkin
    If you only ever see one silent film, this is the one it should be. A masterpiece.
  7. To Kill a Mockingbird
    Storytelling doesn't get much better than this.
  8. Weapons
    A hugely accomplished horror achievement, and a significant step up from Barbarian: tense, sad, hilarious, unsettling, ridiculously entertaining, and ultimately oddly uplifting.
  9. Flow
    A mesmerising, wondrous example of animation’s potential; a thoughtful allegory about ecocide and death; and an adorable ode to four-legged (and two-legged) friends. No ebbs here: Flow is the real deal.
  10. The Wages of Fear (1953)
    Clouzot achieves an analysis of the human condition at least as bleak as Huston's The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre but without the grandstanding speeches and with more subtle performances.
  11. Desperately Seeking Susan
    A whimsical but optimistic tale of mistaken identity, it starred the Material Girl as the cheekily irresistible Susan, and turned Rosanna Arquette (repressed housewife Roberta) into a star.
  12. The Shawshank Redemption
    A thumpingly good ode to friendship, hope, wit, wiles and wisdom, brimming with crackling characters and topped with the most twisteroo of twists since "The Crying Game."
  13. Withnail and I
    Fans can mouth the words of Grant's big speeches along with him, relishing every viperish turn of phrase...this is and always will be a perfect dark comedy and a student staple.
  14. Superman
    Manages to capture the pure heart and spirit of this comic book Americana.
  15. Mildred Pierce
    Wow! It may not be art or good taste, but throbbing melodrama doesn't come with more conviction. Even to those usually turned off by the tough Crawford, Mildred is compelling.
  16. First Man
    Astonishing. The definitive take on a monumental moment in history — without ever losing sight of the man underneath the visor.
  17. Spider-Man: No Way Home
    A monumentally successful Spider-instalment which pulls off a tricky and ambitious narrative trick with all the grace of a balcony-top backflip. At the risk of getting cheesy, it won't just make you cheer, it'll make you want to hug your friends, too.
  18. The Haunting
    It's one of the most highly-wrought (indeed, overwrought) films ever made, with art direction, editing, sound effects, weird camera angles and lighting orchestrated to fill every frame with hints of the unsettling.
  19. Booksmart
    No ceremonious life lessons here — Booksmart lives in a euphoric moment of unapologetic youth that knows what it deserves. Cherish it, revisit the time capsule of our boisterously ambitious era endlessly.
  20. 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.
  21. Breaker Morant
    Intelligent and moving depiction of the futility of war with a superb script and mesmerising performances from all.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Chinatown
    Boasting some of the greats of Hollywood's '70s golden age on top form, this is a never-bettered noir masterpiece.
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