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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 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 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Argo
    Argo is never less than wildly entertaining, but a major part of its power is that it so ominously captures the kickoff to the world we're in now.
  2. 12 Years a Slave
    It's Ejiofor's extraordinary performance that holds 12 Years a Slave together.
  3. Pina
    The result, in Pina, is...wow.
  4. Rampart
    Oren Moverman's Rampart is a terrific film: tense, shocking, complex, mesmerizing.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1945)
    Controversy aside, ”Blimp” splendidly marries a sprawling narrative to stunningly imaginative filmmaking.
  6. Silver Linings Playbook
    Family nuttiness, football madness, romantic obsession, and certifiable mental illness coexist happily in Silver Linings Playbook - a crazy beaut of a comedy that brims with generosity and manages to circumvent predictability at every turn.
  7. Zero Dark Thirty
    Once in a long while, a fresh-from-the-headlines movie - like "All the President's Men" or "United 93" - fuses journalism, procedural high drama, and the oxygenated atmosphere of a thriller into a new version of history written with lightning. Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's meticulous and electrifying re-creation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is that kind of movie.
  8. Footnote
    Footnote is itself a perfect little piece of Talmud, full of text, commentary, and colorful argument.
  9. Inside Out
    There’s enough slapstick and silliness to keep kids entertained.... But the film also has a bittersweet streak about the loss of innocence and the fleetingness of childhood.
  10. The Kid with a Bike
    No one charts the wilds of childhood more precisely than the Dardennes.
  11. Killing Them Softly
    Killing them Softly is a lurid and nasty little nihilistic hitman noir, with an ingenuity that sneaks up on you.
  12. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    The movie is small, local, and idiosyncratic. Then again, it's also a thing of beauty and originality - and for that, sustained huzzahs are in order.
  13. Easy Money
    Easy Money is not merely an early-career curiosity. It's one of the best underworld films I've seen in years, and Kinnaman gives a fantastic performance in it.
  14. Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
    He (Spurlock) takes Comic-Con seriously. He talks to Kevin Smith, Harry Knowles, and other famous grown-up geeks, but mostly he follows a handful of people whose dream it is to pass through the fan/professional looking glass and carve out a place for themselves in the industry of fantasy.
  15. This Is Not a Film
    This is a great film, and a triumph of creativity and courage over repression.
  16. The Master
    It's also one of the great movies of the year - an ambitious, challenging, and creatively hot-blooded but cool toned project that picks seriously at knotty ideas about American personality, success, rootlessness, master-disciple dynamics, and father-son mutually assured destruction.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
    The pace is daringly languid — at times it seems more like a daydream on a sunny park bench than a movie — but you’ll emerge from this wonderland as if from vacation, and you’ll never look at the intersection between life and storytelling in quite the same way.
  18. The LEGO Movie
    It's hard to think of the last time a Pixar film made you go ''Wow!'' That's part of why The LEGO Movie is such outrageous and intoxicating fun.
  19. This Is the End
    It's the wildest screen comedy in a long time, and also the smartest, the most fearlessly inspired, and the snort-out-loud funniest.
  20. Flight
    Flight opens with one of the most harrowing in-flight-disaster depictions of all time.
  21. Oslo, August 31st
    Trier's compassion for what it takes to survive, mixed with the love he bestows on Oslo, is rewardingly profound.
  22. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    The movie is tough-minded: It zeroes in on Patrick's anger at dating a closeted football star, and it doesn't let Charlie off the hook for his cruelty or self-pity.
  23. The Queen of Versailles
    A succulently entertaining movie that invites you to splash around in the dreams and follies of folks so rich they're the 1 percent of the 1 percent. It's like a champagne bath laced with arsenic.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Harder They Come
    For those who saw it back in 1972, The Harder They Come was a revelation, evocative of a poor but vibrant Jamaican culture few Americans knew about, with a bombshell reggae soundtrack that for all intents introduced the musical genre here.
  25. Lincoln
    The movie is grand and immersive. It plugs us into the final months of Lincoln's presidency with a purity that makes us feel transported as though by time machine.
  26. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has achieved a prominence that makes him, in effect, the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of the Twitter age. He's also the least stuffy of dissidents, and Alison Klayman's stirring, important documentary catches his complex humanity.
  27. All Is Lost
    This is Robert Redford doing what too many stars should do and don't: taking a chance. And reinventing his art. It's an extraordinary thing to see.
  28. Side by Side
    It's a lesson in character to hear directors from David Lynch (digital believer) to Christopher Nolan (celluloid diehard) spout off.
  29. Holy Motors
    An exhilarating puzzle, one of the grand cinematic eruptions of the year.
  30. The Loneliest Planet
    One of the year's most original and emotionally profound movies masquerades as the tiny story of a young couple who take a backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains the summer before their wedding.
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