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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. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    The storytelling is the series' best, with a zingy balance of drama, humor, and Deep Thoughts (in a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, directed with confident exuberance by Irvin Kershner). [Special Edition]
  2. Sugar
    The film's style is so ''objective'' it's a bit subdued, yet this is a sports drama of total originality, as well as the most authentic inside view of the immigrant experience the movies have given us in quite a while.
  3. Marwencol
    This tender documentary considers the mysteries of both art and coping.
  4. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    If Loach had given full voice to each side of this division, he could have made a great film -- maybe THE great film -- about the Irish struggle.
  5. The Lobster
    If you’re willing to surrender to his singular vision, you might just walk out of the theater seeing the world in a new way — which is probably more than you can expect from the new Kevin Hart comedy.
  6. Forrest Gump
    It is also glib, shallow, and monotonous, a movie that spends so much time sanctifying its hero that, despite his "innocence," he ends up seeming about as vulnerable as Superman.
  7. The Nightmare Before Christmas
    Is it any wonder this Nightmare never coalesces? He couldn’t make up his mind about whether to be naughty or nice.
  8. Paris Is Burning
    Paris Is Burning is the most passionately empathetic piece of documentary filmmaking I’ve seen since Streetwise, the brilliant portrait of homeless teens in Seattle, and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II, Penelope Spheeris’ sly and galvanizing heavy-metal collage.
  9. Breaking the Waves
    True art is a journey to somewhere you've never been, and there has never been a movie quite like Breaking the Waves.
  10. The Squid and the Whale
    In hovering, The Squid and the Whale becomes its own realistic display of family entropy, as cautionary as it is educational.
  11. Winged Migration
    Mesmerizing.
  12. School of Rock
    The School of Rock was made by gifted veterans of the American indie scene, but it's still the most unlikely great movie of the year.
  13. Star Trek
    The clever and infectious reboot of the amazingly enduring sci-fi classic, director J.J. Abrams crafts an origin myth that avoids any hint of the origin doldrums. That's because he rewires us back into the original Star Trek's primal appeal.
  14. A Quiet Place
    When A Quiet Place has one finger on the panic button and the other on mute, it’s a nervy, terrifying thrill.
  15. The Namesake
    Moving and marvelous new cross-cultural family saga.
  16. Frances Ha
    Gerwig, who previously starred in Baumbach's "Greenberg," is charmingly awkward. And Sumner (Sting's daughter) is an ace with deadpan one-liners.
  17. C'mon C'mon
    Another rich creation in Mills' bittersweet, gently profound collisions of art and life.
  18. Hunger
    A disturbingly avid re-creation of the last six weeks in the life and slow, self-imposed wasting of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands.
  19. Howl's Moving Castle
    The worldview, the sense of childlike fun shaded with adult melancholy, and the joyful, serene attention to visual oddity and wordless beauty could only be made in Japan. And, specifically, made by Hayao Miyazaki.
  20. Cold Comfort Farm
    Around town, Stephen Fry ("Peter's Friends"), as a fluty artiste, dogs Flora with his devotion and declares, "I'm engorgedly in love with you!" That's how I feel about this gem.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Black Sabbath
    Three tales of expertly building suspense. [10 Jul 2013, Issue#1268]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  22. Crimson Gold
    A fable of money as the root of jealousy, discord, violence, but the film's slippery fascination as sociological exposé is the flip side of its thinness as drama.
  23. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
    The facts are so awful that Dear Zacharycan be forgiven much of its antsiness--as a memorial, as a condolence to Bagby’s parents (who became activists for judicial reform in their late son's honor), and as a howl of grief.
  24. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
    It's a hilarious, and unexpectedly moving, documentary about the greatest metal band you've probably never heard of.
  25. The Trip
    The Trip looks like a lark - and is - yet there's a sneaky resonance to the way it celebrates what acting means to these two rogue cutups.
  26. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Shot in spooky gradations of silver and shadow, The Prisoner of Azkaban is the first movie in the series with fear and wonder in its bones, and genuine fun, too.
  27. Michael Clayton
    It's better than good; it's such a crackling and mature and accomplished movie that it just about restores your faith.
  28. Downfall
    If I respect Downfall more than I was enthralled by it, that's because its portayal stops short of revelation. Once you witness Hitler's denial, the film has little more to say about him.
  29. Knives Out
    A silly, stabby, supremely clever whodunnit that only really suffers from having too little room for each of its talented players to fully register in the film’s limited run time.
  30. The Spectacular Now
    The Spectacular Now doesn't shrink from being an all-out teen movie (it has hookups and a senior prom). Yet it's one of the rare truly soulful and authentic teen movies. It's about the experience of being caught on the cusp and not knowing which way you'll land.
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