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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. Face/Off
    But it is the steady accretion of hundreds of small moments in this elegant, high-spirited, intensely satisfying production -- the director's third American movie, but the first to approach the dazzle of his Hong Kong stuff -- that, toted up, makes everything right about this des- perately welcome thriller.
  2. Let the Right One In
    If random arty blood thrills are your cup of fear, perhaps you'll enjoy Let the Right One In, a Swedish head-scratcher that has a few creepy images but very little holding them together.
  3. Rams
    The film’s glacial pacing and drily absurd tone mimic their relationship with a bit too much discipline.
  4. Certified Copy
    The end will haunt you.
  5. The Celebration
    Out of the zany strictures of Dogma 95...Danish newcomer Thomas Vinterberg has made a funny, volatile, visually dynamic story about the unraveling of one extended family during the course of a patriarchal 60th-birthday dinner.
    • 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.
  7. Taxi to the Dark Side
    Where "No End" is cool and measured, Taxi is hot, anguished, and sometimes as difficult to watch as pictures of torture ought to be.
  8. Repo Man
    Unlike Cox’s sneering Sid and Nancy, it’s defined more by a tone of affectionate disaffection than antipathy, celebrating a friendlier species of anarchy.
  9. Challengers
    Anchored by three arresting performances and playfully experimental direction, Challengers is fresh, exhilarating, and energetic.
  10. Marjorie Prime
    Marjorie Prime in itself feels not unlike Walter’s hologram — almost real and almost human, but not quite flesh and blood.
  11. Steve Jobs
    As sharp and slick as Steve Jobs is, it ends up feeling more interested in entertainment than enlightenment.
  12. Marley
    Marley was directed by the gifted Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), who shows off his chops not by doing anything dazzling - the film is documentary prose, not poetry - but by treating Marley as a man of depth and nuance, of inner light and shadow.
  13. The Agronomist
    As Demme's audienc we're at the mercy of political passion overshadowed by style.
  14. Touching the Void
    The story itself is so powerful and troubling, the moral geometry so vertiginous, and the photography so big that anything other than the natural sounds of snowfall and footfall is a Flat Earth Society intrusion.
  15. Le Havre
    The setting is somewhere between a post-WWII Brigadoon and the environs of Marcel Carn classic "Children of Paradise," but the story is as timely as this morning's news from Europe.
  16. The Holdovers
    Life is messy, and The Holdovers never loses sight of that truth. But the film never becomes self-indulgent either.
  17. Sound of Metal
    There's an intimately lived-in quality to the film that feels almost documentary.
  18. Embrace of the Serpent
    While its strange rhythms may not be for everyone, it does provide something unusual in today’s movies: a truly original experience for the mind and the soul.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
    The movie simultaneously exploits and condemns our fear of the other — we suspect the stranger we know nothing about simply because we know nothing about him, and we almost hope that he's the killer because we so desperately want to be right.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Da 5 Bloods
    Lee’s latest is a crackerjack drama, directed by a filmmaker who remains in total control of his once-in-a-generation gifts and utilizes them to synthesize story and history into something new.
  21. Side by Side
    It's a lesson in character to hear directors from David Lynch (digital believer) to Christopher Nolan (celluloid diehard) spout off.
  22. 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.
  23. Days of Glory
    The ensemble cast shared the best-actor award at the 2006 Cannes film festival -- and rightly so.
  24. My Summer of Love
    Pawlikowski has made a romance that becomes a horror movie in which love, more than anything around it, is a delusionary fever to fear.
  25. Isle of Dogs
    The movie’s darker allegory of persecution and internment isn’t hard to miss, though, and the dogs themselves, with their tactile tufts of fur and Buster Keaton eyes, have an endearing, complicated humanity.
  26. Read My Lips
    Expertly sinister, office-as-devil's-playground French thriller.
  27. The Return
    Can be interpreted politically or even biblically or not at all, as the elemental struggles between dominance and submission, impulse and action, man and nature, father and son, play out to their stunning conclusion.
  28. Mysteries of Lisbon
    This enveloping dream of an epic narrative experiment comes from the great Chilean-born, France-based filmmaker Raúl Ruiz (Time Regained).
  29. Certain Women
    It isn’t until the wonderful Gladstone comes along with her aching tomboy heartache and sad seeking eyes that the film finally burrows below the surface and finally hits a dramatic nerve. Unfortunately, by then, it’s too little too late.
  30. Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
    Hands On a Hard Body itself is sometimes as bumpy as a panhandle dirt road, but out of the low-budget roughness and moments of Lettermanesque ain’t-folks-nutty humor, sharp portraits emerge of contestants as well as of the families and friends who massage, feed, and revivify the flagging bodies.
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