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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 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. Bambi
    Naturally, if you’re putting it before youngsters’ innocent eyes for the first time, you’ll want to stick close by in order to play grief counselor when Bambi’s mother ”meets” a hunter in the woods.
  2. Paddleton
    Thanks to two pitch-perfect performances, Paddleton is bittersweet and poignant beyond words.
  3. Midsommar
    Like the fretful violins that stagger raggedly over the soundtrack, the skin-pricking pleasures of Midsommar aren’t rational, they’re instinctive: a thrilling, seasick freefall into the light.
  4. Brittany Runs A Marathon
    The thing that truly makes the movie, though, is Bell.
  5. Knock Down the House
    Officially, Knock follows four progressive female candidates, though the one who inevitably dominates is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Bronx-bred waitress–turned–congressional unicorn. It’s a lot of fun to ride along on her wildly improbable rise, from slinging margaritas and scooping out ice buckets to taking down one of the most powerful Democrats in the House.
  6. 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
    The fact that McQuarrie and Cruise routinely set and then raise the bar for the gold standard of action movies is the lure of the franchise — but it's the characters, their foibles, their wit, and their deep humanity that are Mission: Impossible's secret weapon.
  8. Yes, God, Yes
    The subject matter brings to mind another great teen indie, 2004's brilliant "Saved!," but Yes, God, Yes doesn't skewer "moral" sex ed with the same satirical bite as that much more heightened take on the subject (a highly satisfying needle drop in the closing moments, however, could be interpreted as a quiet nod to the earlier film).
  9. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
    The Rolling Thunder Revue was Dylan’s personal magical mystery tour — and in Scorsese’s hands, there’s no shortage of magic or mystery.
  10. Parasite
    A serrating, brilliantly stylized portrait of class and fate and family in modern-day Korea.
  11. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    There’s almost no single moment in Portrait of a Lady on Fire that couldn’t be captured, mounted, and hung on a wall as high art. That’s how visually ravishing it is to experience writer-director Céline Sciamma’s arthouse swoon of movie — winner of both the Queer Palm and Best Screenplay at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
  12. Anatomy of a Murder
    It’s a daring, cynical gem.
  13. Soul
    Like the best moments in Up or Wall-E or Inside Out, the alchemy of Soul's final scenes find Pixar at its most stirring and enduring, a marshmallow puff of surreal whimsy that somehow lightly touches the profound.
  14. Uncut Gems
    A vibrantly madcap dark comedy.
  15. Walkabout
    Nicolas Roeg’s art-house adventure is lyrical and intoxicating.
  16. Marriage Story
    Though it may not be an easy movie to watch, or even a particularly original one — there’s still Kramer vs. Kramer, after all — Marriage still feels like something special on the screen: a movie that somehow makes its intimacy seem like a radical act, one messy, heart-wrecking moment at a time.
  17. Jojo Rabbit
    Waititi ... finds such strange, sweet humor in his storytelling that the movie somehow maintains its ballast, even when the tone inevitably (and it feels, necessarily) shifts.
  18. 1917
    The film belongs to Chapman and more than anyone, MacKay, a 27-year-old Londoner with the long bones and baleful eyes of a porcelain saint or a lost Caulkin brother. His Lance Corporal Schofield isn’t just a surrogate Everyman; he’s hope and fear personified, and you couldn’t look away if you wanted to.
  19. Alligator
    Clever, funny, and wonderfully bloody.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eating Raoul
    Paul and Mary Bland stop at nothing to open a restaurant in Paul Bartel’s scabrous black comedy.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
    With impressive heroics, creepy villains, and the best popping eyeballs since Evil Dead II, the movie is relentlessly moral, cartoonishly violent, and consistently fun.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Black Sabbath
    Three tales of expertly building suspense. [10 Jul 2013, Issue#1268]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  23. First Cow
    A bittersweet comic absurdity, told in the rhythms of real life.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Polyester
    Polyester is a liberatingly crude satire of suburban mores.
  25. The Cave
    It delivers something more and better, too: a moving, beautifully humanistic story whose inevitable hardships are laced with real hope and levity.
  26. Sound of Metal
    There's an intimately lived-in quality to the film that feels almost documentary.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Victim
    While some may be put off by talk of ”abnormalities,” the inner struggle depicted so poignantly in Victim has not dated at all.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Time Machine
    The meat of Wells’ novel is sacrificed in favor of all-out spectacle, but in that respect the movie works marvelously.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    How the West Was Won
    Despite wooden performances, the final feature filmed in true Cinerama is great fun and holds a wiiiiiide spot in cineasts’ hearts.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
    Honey has enough charm, good humor, and wry gut laughs to smooth over the dull patches and flaws in logic.
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