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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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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  1. The Class
    In a class by itself.
  2. No Country for Old Men
    The breath of cinematic life, though, the sensibility, the energy, belong to Joel and Ethan Coen, and this is their stirring success.
  3. Chinatown
    It’s one of those rare puzzle-box mysteries where, even if you can’t work it all out, you trust that it all makes sense. And when you do finally solve it — for me, around the fifth viewing — it fills you with the giddy sense of accomplishment you get from polishing off a stubborn New York Times Sunday crossword.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    King Kong
    Granddaddy of beast-on-the-loose movies.
  5. Secrets & Lies
    A crowd-pleaser, all right, but, for all its appeal, a naggingly sanctimonious one.
  6. The Florida Project
    The story begins to feel more like a series of strung-together anecdotes: an intriguing project, incomplete.
  7. Timbuktu
    Visually dazzling and morally devastating.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Brief Encounter
    Director David Lean’s magnificent rendering of the short, passionate, and unconsummated affair between two middle-class, middle-aged Brits remains the most memorable treatment of extramarital romance in movie history.
  9. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
    E.T. is ultimately a tale of love, and the film becomes a cathartic leap into pure feeling. [2002 re-release]
  10. Apocalypse Now Redux
    I don’t think Apocalypse Now Redux is superior to the 1979 version. Quite the contrary, it’s draggier and more portentous, more inflated with its own importance.
  11. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    There’s no need to heavily editorialize here; Hittman is an assured enough filmmaker to portray this drama honestly and non-manipulatively, trusting her audience to interpret the complicated heartbreak of Autumn’s predicament without having to explain it to them.
  12. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    Vibrantly, intricately alive on its own terms. This is what magic the movies can conjure with an inspired fellowship in charge, and unlimited pots of gold.
  13. The Zone of Interest
    The Zone of Interest is a formalized and frightening Holocaust film, largely for the ways it displays the Hoss family as merely human beings. It's a stark reminder of our complicity and the capacity for great evil in the most mundane of circumstances.
  14. Quiz Show
    Working from a superb script by Paul Attanasio, Redford has caught the way a show like Twenty-One offered a carny-barker version of the American Dream.
  15. Leviathan
    As in the Coen brothers' great "A Serious Man," the Book of Job looms large here — which is likely how director Andrey Zvyagintsev secured support from his country's censorship-happy Ministry of Culture.
  16. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
    The antidote to every square tough-guy caper you've ever seen, and the inspiration for many great ones. It is an existential imperative to seek out a showing and burn rubber to get there, preferably in an excellent car.
  17. Toy Story 3
    Toy Story 3 is a salute to the magic of making believe.
  18. The Souvenir
    The story casts a spell, and Swinton Byrne is a milky, beguiling presence; it’s almost as if you’re watching her become a person in real time.
  19. Tower
    Tower allies itself with the heroes on the ground and the immeasurable courage they displayed, risking everything for the sake of strangers. That’s a story worth telling, one worth remembering, and what makes Tower a must-see.
  20. Moolaadé
    The result: This great work of art has the potential to change the world.
  21. A Summer's Tale
    Eric Rohmer’s sun-kissed love quadrangle remains as fresh and romantically profound as it was 18 years ago.
  22. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    Stunning, fully formed masterpiece.
  23. L.A. Confidential
    Voluptuously engrossing.
  24. Three Colors: White
    There’s something earthy and elemental in this tale that was missing in Blue, something quirky and (measured by Kieslowskian standards) energetic.
  25. Time
    It tells a story as urgent and beautifully human as almost anything on screen this year.
  26. The Killing
    The kind of Swiss-watch precision and attention to detail that would eventually get Kubrick labeled Hollywood's most notorious perfectionist.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Swing Time
    Top Hat is tops with two of the duo’s most sublime numbers. The George Stevens-directed Swing Time, featuring glorious Jerome Kern-Dorothy Fields songs, is just as good.
  28. Lost in Translation
    What's astonishing about Sofia Coppola's enthralling new movie is the precision, maturity, and originality with which the confident young writer-director communicates so clearly in a cinematic language all her own.
  29. After Life
    The simplicity and poignancy of the choices — riding a bus, swinging on a swing — and the great variety of interviewees result in a film of nonsticky freshness, as well as unforced profundity.
  30. Son of Saul
    It’s the rarest kind of moviegoing experience: an absolute masterpiece.
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