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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. Booksmart
    If the storyline doesn’t so much unfold as burst out in glittery puffs — and if music cues seem to make up about 40 percent of the plot—it’s still an endearing kind of chaos.
  2. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    Mitchum looks like a doomed slab of granite and gives a dynamite performance. The tough-guy dialogue and working-class Boston locations are so realistic it almost feels like you’re watching a documentary.
  3. Séraphine
    Moreau is bewitching -- she simply breathes her role, without a hint of vanity.
  4. 49 Up
    49 Up is a precious document, and must viewing.
  5. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    There’s something uniquely, transcendently beautiful in Campillo’s particular vision and the unhurried way he unfurls it.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Joy Luck Club
    A sumptuous two-and-a-quarter-hour emotional epic built on one lachrymose climax after another. What little plot there is exists only to set up the next Big Cry.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Trafic
    There’s a balletic car crash, a faux-dead-dog gag, a joke involving a baby’s bare bum, and…oh, treat yourself and see it.
  8. American Beauty
    You know you're in the hands of a true filmmaker when you feel invited, at every turn, to share his sense of entrancement. I got that feeling in just about every frame of American Beauty.
  9. Blade Runner
    This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Kagemusha
    An often breathtaking but slightly bloodless samurai epic.
  11. That Obscure Object of Desire
    The lightness with which Buñuel was able to insert the little jokes and knife stabs of surrealism he loved so much is, in fact, divine.
  12. Far From Heaven
    Bold and brilliant.
  13. No Man's Land
    It's a merciless and mirthlessly funny antiwar weapon from a filmmaker who has seen battle firsthand and has lived to make art from memories of hell.
  14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Nicholson’s live-wire performance turns what could have been a standard movie malcontent into a martyr.
  15. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    The unlikeliest enthralling movie to be released so far this year.
  16. Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
    Farhadi’s intrigue doesn’t feel like the stuff of a Hollywood thriller. It’s more realistic, more pedestrian than that – which gives it a real ring of low-key emotional truth.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    All the President's Men
    A riveting, superbly acted political thriller.
  18. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    Still the grandest of all science-fiction movies.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  19. Toy Story 4
    Toy Story 4 doesn’t hit the emotional highs of the previous films. There are good jokes that work and heist setpieces that don’t. The ending is moving, though now you distrust any finality with this saga. It does feel a bit cheap, somehow.
  20. Darwin's Nightmare
    Darwin's Nightmare points an all-purpose finger at globalization, yet the movie, as raw and vivid as it is, meanders terribly and - bigger problem - never hints at how the disasters it shows us are rooted in Africa's colonial past.
  21. My Winnipeg
    Both the definition of ''my'' and the definition of ''Winnipeg'' become profoundly fluid in this exquisite ''docu-fantasia'' (Maddin's term), an entrancing riffle through the olde curiosity shoppe of the filmmaker's psyche.
  22. On the Record
    If the subject ultimately proves to be more slippery and diffuse than in the duo’s previous films (The Invisible War addressed sexual assault in the military, The Hunting Ground, campus rape), it also never feels like less than required viewing: brutal, heartbreaking, and — with or without Oprah’s co-sign — utterly necessary.
  23. The White Ribbon
    Shot in vivid black and white, the movie is like "Village of the Damned" directed by Ingmar Bergman, only without Bergman's intensity.
  24. In the Heights
    For all its rich tapestry and radiant ingenues, it's that casual centering of so many marginalized voices that makes the movie feel, in its own way, revolutionary: a Technicolor marvel as heady as Old Hollywood, and as modern as this moment.
  25. Fire of Love
    The romance of the documentary emerges out of its deep, unfaked appreciation for nature: long, uninterrupted stretches where these self-described "weirdos" go off on their own to explore alien worlds like astronauts in their protective gear.
  26. Blood Simple
    All in all, Blood Simple looks better than ever.
  27. Oslo, August 31st
    Trier's compassion for what it takes to survive, mixed with the love he bestows on Oslo, is rewardingly profound.
  28. The Witch
    What makes this chillingly creepy little black-magic folk tale work so beautifully is its evocative sense of time and place.
  29. Looper
    The time swivels in Looper evoke some of Inception's fancy temporal tricks... But it's the glimpses of Children of Men-like societal dystopia that give the movie its real weight, and distinguish Johnson's third feature as a marked step forward.
  30. Kubo and the Two Strings
    A visually stunning, richly imagined oasis in a sea of candy-colored safety, and one of the first truly original movies of the year so far.
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