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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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    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Double Indemnity
    Barbara Stanwyck cracks wise too, while dripping pheromones.
  2. Rear Window
    Masterpiece of voyeurism.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    King Kong
    Granddaddy of beast-on-the-loose movies.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Secret of NIMH
    Bluth and his animators, bless them, chose to revive an endangered art form — classically detailed animation. They drew their characters exquisitely and gave them individual personalities. The entire ensemble — artists, actors, animals, and musicians — created something unique: the world’s first enjoyable rat race.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Once Upon a Time in America
    A brilliantly detailed Lower East Side Jewish version of The Godfather.
  6. Reality Bites
    Ryder, good as she was in The Age of Innocence, gives her first true star performance here. Beneath her crisp, postfeminist manner, Lelaina is bristling with confusion, and Ryder lets you read every crosscurrent of temptation and anxiety, the way her tentative search for love slowly grows into a restless hunger. Yearning, hilarious, lost within their precocious self-awareness, these slackers have soul.
  7. Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
    If you see only one movie this year about a twisted, cuddly, courageous, fatally diseased, self-mutilating love slave, make sure that movie is Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aladdin
    Despite a similar setting-the never-never land of the Arabian Nights — the new movie is hipper, faster, more topical.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
    The film is so deeply sorrowful that it’s sometimes hard to watch, yet so filled with painterly beauty that you cannot look away.
  10. Touch of Evil
    A film noir great... Just to see and hear the extraordinary 3 minute and 20 second opening sequence — a fluid tour de force tracking shot — without impediment of opening credits and street-sound-masking movie score is accomplishment enough.
  11. The Fabulous Baker Boys
    Nearly every scene is a jazz-tinged, virtuoso actors’ duet.
  12. They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
    More narratively straightforward (but also masterfully edited in F for Fake style), the documentary takes its title from a Welles quote about the fickle hypocrisy of the movie business and about his other favorite subject: himself. And that quote couldn’t have been more spot-on for a man who was most appreciated most only when it was too late.
  13. The Gunfighter
    A ruthlessly heartbreaking tale of a famous gunslinger (Gregory Peck in a black mustache and a little black hat) grown weary of facing down an increasingly young bunch of challengers to his quick-draw supremacy.
  14. Trees Lounge
    Trees Lounge is so deft, funny, and light-handed it may not be until the film’s shattering final image that you realize you’ve been watching one of the most lived-in portraits of an alcoholic ever made.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    An extremely tight, beautifully made film.
  16. REC
    Shot in shaky handheld style, [REC] is a bit like George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead, but, you know, actually scary.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pinocchio
    Among all of Disney’s endangered-tot stories, including Cinderella and 101 Dalmatians, only Pinocchio plucks the heartstrings with such incomparable resonance. Why? One reason is that this movie consistently sprinkles adorable comedy relief (has there ever been a more endearing sidekick than guardian Jiminy Cricket?) over scenes of malice, dismay, and outright horror.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Rescuers Down Under
    The Rescuers Down Under, directed by Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel, carries its ambitions with an easy grace, expanding the art of animation to fresh ground without losing sight of the silly fun we love cartoons for.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bambi
    Whatever Kleenex moments it causes, Bambi is unmissable.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Lady and the Tramp
    The first animated feature filmed in CinemaScope.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Cinderella
    The character gags work, the dreamlike ball sequence still induces swooning, and if you aren’t on the edge of your seat for the climactic fitting, it’s time to get back on the romanticism meds.
  22. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a beautiful and transporting experience — the best, I think, of Disney’s serious animated features in the multiplex era.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pumping Iron
    Arnold conquers all comers, your heart, and the world!
  24. Pink Flamingos
    In Pink Flamingos, Waters did something subversive and, in its gross way, quite spectacular: He created his own hell-bent, sick-joke Oz, with Divine as its wicked-witch queen.
  25. Apollo 11
    The NASA mission at the heart of the must-see documentary Apollo 11 reminds you what it feels to be truly awestruck.
  26. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    It’s not a movie for admiring in freeze frame; it’s the kind you fall into with your whole heart and emerge from feeling, for two hours at least, what it is to fully be transported by the magic of film.
  27. Nomadland
    It's hard, too, to picture any actress other than McDormand (who also has a producer credit) in the part. She doesn't just become Fern, she creates her: melding Zhao's screenplay to her own fierce character in a way that feels almost uncannily real. Together, they've managed to make that rare thing: a film that feels both necessary and sublime.
  28. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
    Gazzara struts like a polyester peacock, playing a doomed nightclub owner in debt to the wrong people.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Nashville
    One of the greatest American films of the ’70s, Nashville remains Altman’s crowning achievement.
  30. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    It features the best real-life husband-wife pairing onscreen ever.
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