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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. Heat
    We're not watching McCauley and Hanna anymore; we're watching De Niro and Pacino trying to out-insinuate each other. For a few moments, Heat truly has some.
  2. Soul Power
    What's infectious in Soul Power is the almost shocking optimism of its America-meets-Africa '70s world-beat vibe.
  3. What's Love Got to Do with It
    The movie is far from perfect — it has the kind of clunky, episodic script that has bedeviled just about every musical biopic in history — yet it’s driven by an electrifying soundtrack and by two performances of staggering power.
  4. Hail Satan?
    Why end a rallying cry with a question mark? The devil is in the details, or at least in the punctuation of Hail Satan?, a movie that often seems to teeter on the line between doc- and mockumentary — a sincere examination of a social and political movement delivered with just a soupçon of Christopher Guest.
  5. Zola
    If Paige and Keogh weren’t both such indelible, fiercely charismatic characters, the whole thing could easily fall apart. But their presence, and Bravo’s singular vision, give Zola a sort of electric buzz: the thrill of watching something stranger than fiction, and somehow better than true.
  6. Cinévardaphoto
    What lights Cinèvardaphoto is Varda's ageless ability to merge her spirit with that of the images she shows us.
  7. Midnight Special
    As father and son speed toward some doomsday reckoning, Nichols keeps us guessing in a way that evokes "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Midnight Special is a more modest, more enigmatic film than that one was, but it’s no less gripping.
  8. The Unforeseen
    Add The Unforeseen to the catalog of artfully produced nonfiction films that show how humans are screwing up the planet.
  9. Tickled
    David Farrier and Dylan Reeve’s documentary Tickled is so crazy that it feels like a hoax. Only it’s not. At least, I don’t think it is.
  10. Brothers
    We do live in a fraught world of interconnections, Bier makes clear, and what happens far away matters, in unexpected ways, close to home.
  11. The Last Station
    A grandly entertaining historical drama.
  12. The Guest
    The coat of irony helps when the film takes a major pivot in tone, and Stevens is unnervingly placid as the corn-fed terminator.
  13. Margin Call
    You could describe Margin Call as a thriller (it's wired with suspense), yet the tension all comes from words.
  14. The Hand of God
    There are more cohesive coming-of-age movies to be sure, and subtler ones. But God doesn't really try too hard to make it all make sense; it's just one boy's dolce vita, drenched in Mediterranean sun, hormones, and salt air.
  15. Listen Up Philip
    I can't think of anyone under 40 who plays arrogant, self-absorbed jerks more convincingly than Jason Schwartzman. I have no clue what the actor's like in real life, but if he's not a complete prick, he deserves an Oscar.
  16. Wonder Woman
    Wonder Woman is smart, slick, and satisfying in all of the ways superhero films ought to be. How deliciously ironic that in a genre where the boys seem to have all the fun, a female hero and a female director are the ones to show the fellas how it’s done.
  17. Something in the Dirt
    Doubling down on COVID-era listlessness and QAnon paranoia, the impressively fidgety, crammed-to-bursting Something in the Dirt ends up with something like: Please let my life make sense. It's an understandable wish in an uncertain moment.
  18. Tito and the Birds
    The strength of Tito and the Birds lies in its imaginative touches like this and overall visual aesthetic, which mixes various painting and animating styles into a beautiful fusion, but the actual storytelling leaves a little depth to be desired.
  19. The Hidden Blade
    The Hidden Blade is tranquil, touching, and, in its climactic sword fight, excitingly real.
  20. (500) Days of Summer
    It's a feat of star acting, and it helps make (500) Days not just bitter or sweet but everything in between.
  21. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    Definition eludes the delicate pleasures of this marvelous, idiosyncratic movie collage.
  22. Spencer
    For all of Larraín's artistry, Spencer would crumble in the hands of the wrong actress, and Stewart gives one of the best performances of her career so far as this highly subjective version of Diana.
  23. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    Don't let unpleasant personal dental associations stand in the way of seeing a luminous specimen of independent filmmaking.
  24. The Revenant
    Gorgeously shot by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, Iñárritu’s savage endurance test of a film almost works better as a series of stunning images and surreal sequences than as an emotionally satisfying story.
  25. House Party
    The movie is slick and cartoonish but also extremely clever, and its unabashed conventionality is exactly what’s fun about it.
  26. Safe
    Safe gets messy, but you won’t be able to wash it out of your system anytime soon.
  27. Stronger
    There’s a raw, tangible humanity to nearly every scene that sets the film gratifyingly apart.
  28. Smoke Signals
    The film excels in small scenes of cannily chosen Indian everydayness.
  29. Horses of God
    Director Nabil Ayouch hammers his points rather bluntly, but his filmmaking is hypnotic.
  30. Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
    A spooky, heartbreaking documentary.
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