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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 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. Before Night Falls
    Arenas' life zigzags before us in a manner as heady and unpredictable as it must have felt to the man who lived it.
  2. Waking Life
    An amazing thing -- a work of cinematic art in which form and structure pursues the logic-defying (parallel) subjects of dreaming and moviegoing.
  3. The Green Knight
    In a way, the movie feels almost like Marvel antimatter, an auteur's willful response to whiz-bang emptiness and Infinity Stones. Knight is ultimately a tale of honor though, and a deeply moral one — inscrutable, but haunting too.
  4. The Bourne Ultimatum
    A spectacular windup toy of a thriller -- a contraption made by an artist.
  5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    The thrilling conclusion to a phenomenal cinematic story 10 years in the telling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 is proof that authentic movie excitement is its own form of magic.
  6. Athlete A
    A measured if still-maddening look into the 2016 USA Gymnastics scandal.
  7. Take Shelter
    Writer-director Jeff Nichols builds his elegantly shot, weather-sensitive horror story in waves of tension that crest as if pulled by tempests.
  8. The Salesman
    By the film’s shattering end, you’ll feel the spirit of Arthur Miller, one of the great dramatists of the 20th century, reaching across the transom to touch one of the great dramatists of the 21st.
  9. You Can Count on Me
    Beautiful, compassionate, articulate domestic drama.
  10. The Pianist
    The result is a movie, and Cannes Palme d'Or winner, of riveting power and sadness, a great match of film and filmmaker -- and star, too.
  11. Get Out
    Peele is undeniably a born filmmaker with big ambitions and an even bigger set of balls. He’s made a horror movie whose biggest jolts have nothing to do with blood or bodies, but rather with big ideas.
  12. West Side Story
    It feels like a rare achievement to even attempt to scale the unscalable and still, after more than half a century, be able to make it sing.
  13. The Edge of Heaven
    Hopping from Germany to Turkey and back again, Akin is out to capture the ways that a globalized world can tear up our hearts, and repair them, too.
  14. The Savages
    The Savages is terrific -- a movie of uncommon appreciation for the nature and nurture that go into making us who we are, a perfectly calibrated drama both compassionate and unsentimental.
  15. Gimme Shelter
    Remains the only rock & roll film that exerts the saturnine intensity of a thriller.
  16. An Education
    Afterward, you'll want to listen to the Beatles sing ''She's Leaving Home.'' It might be a girl like Jenny the lads had in mind.
  17. Lebanon
    It took writer-director Samuel ''Shmulik'' Maoz nearly 30 years to make this disturbing, visceral, personal film.
  18. Eighth Grade
    Eighth Grade is an absolute delight that stings with truth. It’s heartbreaking, heartwarming, and a total charmer.
  19. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    An exhilarating hall-of-mirrors look at what happens when global art fame turns anonymous, artists become objects, fans turn into artists, and the whole what's-sincere-and-what's-a-sham spectacle is more fun than art was ever supposed to be.
  20. Kings & Queen
    Gripping, highly original.
  21. Sling Blade
    It's a beautiful contraption of a movie, a gothic backwoods fable that uses its naive yet murderous hero to walk a fine line between sentimentality and dread.
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  22. Let's Get Lost
    Just about the only documentary that works like a novel, inviting you to read between the lines of Baker's personality until you touch the secret sadness at the heart of his beauty.
  23. Offside
    Jafar Panahi's wonderfully funny, outspoken shaggy-dog story, a light counterweight to his sadder 2000 feminist drama "The Circle."
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sleeping Beauty
    Barbie-doll-slim Princess Aurora, cursed to enter suspended animation at 16, and her Abercrombie & Fitch-worthy savior Prince Phillip, who literally rides a white horse — aren’t as much fun as the three fussy-old-lady fairies who become their protectors. This movie is all about the lure of supporting ornamentation.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Easy Rider
    Biker classic, with memorable counterculture monologues.
  26. Knocked Up
    The very opposite of a storybook romance, and also the very model of a great comedy for our values-driven time.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Quiet Man
    Sentimental and sexist, John Ford’s gorgeous slice of the auld sod nevertheless moves like music.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Turtles Can Fly
    Lacks grace, coherence, and a surface vivid enough to make it an alarm that many will hear.
  29. The Departed
    The very title The Departed suggests a James Joycean take on Irish-Catholic sentiment when, of course, this story is anything but: It's Scorsesean, and he's in full bloom.
  30. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    The triumph of ''Spring, Summer'' is that even those of us who don't happen to be Buddhists can catch a glimpse of ourselves in the spinning wheel of hope, destruction, suffering, and bliss.
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