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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 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. Elvis
    It may not be slavishly devoted to the facts (this isn't your typical birth-to-deather), but as with Todd Haynes's glam fantasia Velvet Goldmine, the movie achieves something trickier and more valuable, mining shocking intimacy from sweeping cultural changes.
  2. Vénus beauté (institut)
    Clever and smooth, yet, like Angèle herself (or Nathalie Baye), the film is almost too placid for its own good.
  3. American Psycho
    Funny, pungent, and weirdly gripping.
  4. Identity
    The hardest work falls to Cusack, a subtle actor with a valuable gift for conveying the sadness and loneliness beneath the skin of even the most jaded and self-contained men-about-town.
  5. Intermission
    The first Irish creation I've seen in ages to pull off the high-difficulty feat of trafficking in grit, drollery, and emotion without turning to blarney as a crutch.
  6. Team America: World Police
    I was amused more or less throughout by the ingeniously designed and executed stunt that is Team America.
  7. You Kill Me
    Inert dud of a hitmen-are-people-too comedy.
  8. Living Out Loud
    Living Out Loud is like "An Unmarried Woman" recast as a sitcom-cute update of Marty.
  9. Killing Them Softly
    Killing them Softly is a lurid and nasty little nihilistic hitman noir, with an ingenuity that sneaks up on you.
  10. Downsizing
    The result is a dadaist swirl of satire, pie-eyed whimsy, and speculative futurism — like "Gulliver’s Travels" through the wrong end of a telescope.
  11. Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
    Like some of the old-timey classics it recalls — Blazing Saddles, Airplane, the first Austin Powers — Barb and Star commits to its deep silliness so sweetly and completely that you can't help falling a little bit in love with them too.
  12. Bound
    The true pleasures of Bound lie in the Wachowskis' inventive updated take on film noir traditions, sensuously realized by cinematographer Bill Pope ("Clueless").
  13. Brideshead Revisited
    The one performer who seems at home with the gravity of it all is Emma Thompson.
  14. Fifty-Fifty
    Working from a script cowritten with accomplished Siberian filmmaker Sergey Bodrov, the director creates a taut picture of a place, and a liberating moment of choice.
  15. Comedy of Power
    Chabrol has fashioned a mystery that caves in on itself, but unfortunately, it caves in on the audience, too.
  16. Cloverfield
    Cloverfield, a surreptitiously subversive, stylistically clever little gem of an entertainment disguised, under its deadpan-neutral title, as a dumb Gen-YouTube monster movie, makes the convincingly chilling argument that the world will end -- or, at least, Manhattan will crumble -- with a bang and a whimper.
  17. Fury
    Pitt, for instance, could've used a scene like Tom Hanks' in "Saving Private Ryan," where we learn something — anything — about his life back home and what he's fighting for besides the Stars and Stripes. Instead, Fury (the title comes from the name of the tank) just plods from one brutal, bloody combat scene to the next.
  18. Tamara Drewe
    This rotely cheeky, Anglo-plastic adultery comedy is set in the golden-green English countryside, and it makes a few quirky nods toward artistry, but it's really just a glib concoction.
  19. To the Bone
    For young people suffering, the movie offers both hope and clarity; for more experienced viewers, it may come off a little too much like "Girl, Interrupted" through a Lifetime lens.
  20. The Young Victoria
    The Young Victoria has a subtler flow than you might expect, and at times it's calmer than you may like. Director Jean-Marc Vallée's images have a creamy stateliness, but this is no gilded? princess fantasy.
  21. The Road
    There's enough foreboding in America right now to make sitting through a movie such as The Road seem like one more heavy burden that, frankly, no one needs.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    True Crime
    Woefully misconceived reporter-saves-innocent-man-from-execution cheese grater.
  23. Surf's Up
    An animated family movie about penguins -- in the wake of "March of the Happy Feet," they're the Angelina Jolie of animals, both cute and admired everywhere. Plus, it's about surfing.
  24. Miss Sloane
    Chastain fully commits to her boss-bitch persona, even if we only obliquely learn why she might have chosen such a lonely, mercenary life.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Luzhin Defence
    Fine candy for mind and eye.
  26. The Dancer Upstairs
    The movie has a mystery, and moral unease, that lingers.
  27. Inside Deep Throat
    Nimble, engrossing, and journalistically eye-opening, a movie that pulls into focus 30 years of porn in America. It also pulls no punches.
  28. The Road to Guantanamo
    Here's one case where it's no praise to say that a movie leaves you with more questions than answers.
  29. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    An 
unexpectedly revealing, disconcerting documentary that benefits from the filmmaker's unmediated approach, his home-movie-
quality visual style, and his controlled use of on-the-fly moments.
  30. The Happy Prince
    Everett’s utterly fantastic performance as Wilde slightly exceeds his grasp as a first-time filmmaker.
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