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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 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. Dunkirk
    This is visceral, big-budget filmmaking that can be called Art. It’s also, hands down, the best motion picture of the year so far.
  2. Manchester by the Sea
    Affleck has never had a role that matches his minimal, anti-charisma style like this one. His tendency to be mumbly and awkward and withholding fits his character perfectly. And Hedges, as a temperamental teenager working through loss in his own authentically teenage way, is a real discovery. Michelle Williams, as Lee’s ex-wife, doesn’t get many scenes, but she cracks your heart open in the ones she has.
  3. Funny or Die Presents: Donald Trump's the Art of the Deal: The Movie
    It’s utterly demented, slightly terrifying, and most of all hilarious. It’s also one of the giddiest and most stinging political satires since Thomas Nast took on Tammany Hall.
  4. 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.
  5. Hell or High Water
    Hell or High Water isn’t a flashy movie, but it has an undeniably resonant sense of small-scale justice, not to mention an authentic sense of place that will remind you of other Texas-set masterpieces like John Sayles’ "Lone Star" and the Coen brothers’ "No Country for Old Men." See it, and then spread the word.
  6. The Red Turtle
    Lavish with stunning imagery, the experience will ripple into your dreams.
  7. 13th
    13th is a titanic statement by a major American voice. Viewing — right now — should be mandatory.
  8. Moonlight
    Easily one of the most personal and most powerful films of the year.
  9. Dekalog (1988)
    The stories are shocking, tender, sometimes funny, with a soap-opera abundance of plot. Always, the camera stares, respectfully neutral about ordinary people grappling — inconsistently, as men and women do — with the ordinary mysteries of being human. You’ll stare back, amazed it’s taken more than a decade to spread the word.
  10. Network
    Timeless and essential.
  11. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    It’s the kind of pure, straight-no-chaser pop fun that not only keeps taking your breath away over and over again, it restores your occasionally shaky faith in summer blockbusters.
  12. The Shape of Water
    It's both weird and wonderful.
  13. Gone with the Wind
    To see Gone With the Wind on a big screen again is to weep for the fearlessness with which Hollywood once believed the sublime was possible.
  14. Tag
    It’s a ridiculously raunchy and very, very sweet comedy about staying connected to the most important people in your life.
  15. Carrie
    One of the most important movies of my life. It’s one of the two films, the other being Robert Altman’s Nashville, that made me want to be a critic. And that’s because Carrie did more than thrill, frighten, and captivate me; it sent a volt charge through my system that rewired my imagination, showing me everything that movies could be.
  16. Downhill Racer
    One of the great unheralded films of the late ’60s.
  17. Hostiles
    Westerns can be a tough nut to crack, but Hostiles may be the finest example of the genre since "Unforgiven."
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Stranger Than Paradise
    Jim Jarmusch’s minimalist meditation on a trio of misfits who wander across the U.S. Shot in crisp black and white, the film is a series of 67 single takes punctuated by moments of black screen.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    All the President's Men
    A riveting, superbly acted political thriller.
  20. The Life of Jesus
    It’s only when you’re in the grip of the climax that you realize how richly the filmmaker has painted a landscape that to other eyes might appear so parched.
  21. Searching for Bobby Fischer
    A wonderful movie, a delicate and touching drama that takes us deep inside the eccentric competitive mystique of grandmaster chess.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Broadway Danny Rose
    Although the laughs are tempered with a seedy undercurrent and a lump-in-the-throat ending, Allen has rarely been funnier.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    The Bridge on the River Kwai is that rare film about something as seemingly black-and-white as World War II that is colored entirely in shades of gray, and the better for it.
  24. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
    It’s like a security blanket for our troubled times.
  25. The Favourite
    This couldn’t be further from the corsets and curtsies of your typical Hollywood prestige period piece. It’s more like "All About Eve" directed by a Satyricon-era Fellini all hopped up with enough sex, deviance, hypocrisy, decadence, and spicy profanity to make your average Masterpiece Theatre patron reach into their PBS tote bag for some smelling salts.
  26. Roma
    Experiencing the lovely and lyrical Roma, you get the impression that at age 56, Cuarón not only wanted to get these still-vivid memories down on film, but that he also needed to. You’ll be glad he did. Because movies with this much empathy and humanity don’t come along very often.
  27. The African Queen
    Bogart is hilariously crusty as a hard-drinking river rat who journeys downriver on a rickety steamer with a prim missionary (a flawless, lock-jawed Hepburn), trying to stay one step ahead of the Germans.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Maltese Falcon
    Boldly manipulating light and shadow, utilizing drastic camera angles, and introducing Bogart’s Sam Spade, the first-time director’s detective classic defines film noir.
  29. Eighth Grade
    Eighth Grade is an absolute delight that stings with truth. It’s heartbreaking, heartwarming, and a total charmer.
  30. Three Identical Strangers
    The best documentaries reveal the ways in which truth can be stranger (and wilder and weirder) than fiction. And director Tim Wardle’s stunning and tragic Sundance sensation, Three Identical Strangers, is stranger (and wilder and weirder) than most.
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