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  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
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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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    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    National Velvet
    No other child actor — nor adult one — has ever captured the pure, unconditional love between human and animal as Elizabeth Taylor does here. And few other films have caught the can’t-wait-another-second excitement of childhood fixation.
  2. The Lighthouse
    The mannered aye-matey dialogue often gives Lighthouse the performative feeling of a play, but Eggers (The Witch) is also a masterful stylist; judging by several cues, the story is set in some version of the 19th century, though it tends to treat time less as a set fact than a sort of metaphysical condition.
  3. Spider-Man 2
    This triumphant sequel to the hard-to-top 2002 original may be the first great comic-book movie in the age of self-help and CGI wizardry, an entertainment in which both the thrills and the therapeutic personal growth are well earned.
  4. Mandy
    It’s a fully immersive experience that begs to be anchored by someone who’s lit from within by blinding neon, but who also, amidst all of the nutty squalls of genre scuzz can still wear his broken heart on his sleeve. And, these days, that list is a short one. In fact, there’s really only one name on it. Thankfully, Cosmatos found him.
  5. When We Were Kings
    It took director-producer Leon Gast 22 years to edit and finance When We Were Kings, his thrilling documentary about the legendary 1974 heavyweight-championship fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire. But the lag time has only deepened the impact of this thrilling documentary: All sad thoughts of Ali as a wounded warrior fall away in the glow of seeing the champ at his best.
  6. Avatar
    As visual spectacle, Avatar is indelible, but as a movie it all but evaporates as you watch it.
  7. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
    It proves that Morgen isn’t interested in hagiography. He wants to show us the real Kurt Cobain, warts and all.
  8. 20th Century Women
    Plotwise, Women is a wisp; as a mood piece, though, it’s almost irresistibly rich.
  9. Pina
    The result, in Pina, is...wow.
  10. Animal Kingdom
    Don't be fooled: In this unpeaceable kingdom, the den mama is also ready to eat her young.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Room with a View
    A movie with exquisite period detail. [8 Apr 1994]
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  12. Hugo
    Hugo both ticks and flies by, a marvel meant to be pulled from the cabinet and enjoyed again and again.
  13. Tenebrae
    Directed by Dario Argento, a.k.a. the Italian Hitchcock, the remastered giallo Tenebre is crammed with artsy camera work, intricate Rube Goldbergian death scenes, and a gruesome final reel where blood flows like the Tiber.
  14. 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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ladybird Ladybird
    Although based on a true story, Ladybird Ladybird is also a parable of how government’s giant cogs sometimes crush individuals and never miss a turn. Loach puts us where we can hear the people crying.
  16. Gloria
    Both actors still manage to show something we rarely see on screen: the heartache and happiness that come with love late in life.
  17. Drag Me to Hell
    Raimi has made the most crazy, fun, and terrifying horror movie in years.
  18. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    A funny and madly arresting new documentary.
  19. Spider
    Fiennes' very skin participates in the project -- his fingernails are nicotine-stained the color of tea bags. The performance works; it's a ballet, a concerto of big, big Acting.
  20. Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    Huppert has never been this cheerful, or lethal, and the movie itself is like Hitchcock's ''Rebecca'' reshot for House & Garden, with all the ghosts pulled out of the closet.
  21. Triad Election
    A muscular sequel to To's riveting 2005 gangster picture "Election."
  22. Up in the Air
    Up in the Air is light and dark, hilarious and tragic, romantic and real. It's everything that Hollywood has forgotten how to do; we're blessed that Jason Reitman has remembered
  23. Milk
    A fascinating film -- more docudrama than biopic.
  24. Lilya 4-Ever
    A haunting and incandescent work of art.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Grey Gardens
    It’s almost impossible to look away.
  26. Enter the Dragon
    A sequestered island, a slinky score, a villain with a secret scheme and a deadly prosthesis — it’d be good, cheesy fun even without the centerpiece fight sequences.
  27. U2 3D
    The 3-D visuals envelop you, majestically, and that effect fuses with the band's surround-sound rapture to create a full-scale sensory high. U2 3D makes you feel stoned on movies.
  28. One Night in Miami
    A quintessentially American tale; profane, profound, and beautiful.
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