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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 1.9 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. Blue Is the Warmest Color
    Blue's raw portrayal of infatuation and heartbreak is both devastating and sublime. It's unforgettable.
  2. American Splendor
    American Splendor presents Pekar as drawn on the page, Pekar as brilliantly interpreted by Paul Giamatti, and the actual Pekar, in the double role of narrator and interview subject -- sometimes all at once. The magic act is thrilling, and truly surprising.
  3. Phantom Thread
    Like all of Anderson’s films (the best of which remain Boogie Nights and Magnolia), Phantom Thread is meticulously crafted, visually sumptuous, impeccably acted, and very, very directorly. But until the final act, this straight-jacketed character study is also pretty tame stuff — emotionally remote, a bit too studied, and far easier to admire than surrender to and swoon over.
  4. Gosford Park
    The movie might almost be winking at the fact that any single one of these performers could easily be the featured star of his or her own upper-crust period piece.
  5. The Souvenir: Part II
    Nothing in Souvenir Part II is obvious; one could argue it's even obtuse to the point of excluding most casual moviegoers. But surrendering to Hogg's slow alchemy still feels like a rare treat: a beguilingly meta portrait of the artist as a young woman learning to find herself not just in the mirror of others, but in her own hand behind the camera.
  6. This Is Not a Film
    This is a great film, and a triumph of creativity and courage over repression.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    To Have and Have Not
    The ”you know how to whistle, don’t you?” scene is justifiably famous, and there’s plenty more where that came from.
  8. Finding Nemo
    You could trawl the seven seas and not net a funnier, more beautiful, and more original work of art and comedy than Finding Nemo.
  9. Topsy-Turvy
    Topsy-Turvy reminds us that, in any age, creative expression is at once the most personal and most communal of enterprises.
  10. Being John Malkovich
    The most excitingly original movie of the year.
  11. The Incredibles
    Dazzlingly beautiful, funny, and meaningful.
  12. A Prophet
    There's also no romanticizing on the part of the director, who proceeds with calm, unshowy attentiveness (even in the midst of scenes of violence), creating a stunning portrait of an innately smart survivor for whom prison turns out to be a twisted opportunity for self-definition.
  13. Almost Famous
    Crowe, staying close to his memories, has gotten it, for perhaps the first time, onto the screen.
  14. Oppenheimer
    Though they may seem disparate, the many elements of Oppenheimer refract and reflect each other, like a bunch of atoms creating a chain reaction or a group of scientists building off each other's ideas to forge something new.
  15. Cold War
    Director Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War resembles a waking dream. And a ravishingly romantic one at that.
  16. The Truman Show
    A beautifully sinister and transfixing entertainment-age daydream.
  17. Once
    Until Once, I'm not sure that I'd ever seen a small-scale, nonstylized, kitchen-sink drama in which the songs take on the majesty and devotion of a musical dream.
  18. Big Men
    Rachel Boynton’s gripping doc shows you what happens when the greed of oil companies meets the chaos of postcolonial Africa.
  19. Paterson
    Even though Jarmuch has a distinct directorial style, it’s his style. It’s impossible to imitate. These days, I can’t think of a higher compliment.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Raging Bull
    Another harsh character study, with poignant echoes of "Taxi Driver."
  21. United 93
    Pulling the bandage of sentiment cleanly away from oozing concepts like ''heroism'' and ''our nation's war on terror'' in the aftermath of recent wounds, here's a drama about the most politically charged crisis of our time that grants the dignity of autonomy to every soul involved.
  22. Capturing the Friedmans
    An extraordinary film; it may be the most haunting documentary since ''Crumb.''
  23. American Hustle
    It's a film of jaw-dropping virtuosity and pleasure, one that leaves you revved, enthralled, tickled, moved, and amazed.
  24. The Passenger (re-release)
    The Passenger isn't finally the masterpiece some have made it out to be, but it retains a singular intrigue: It's the first, and probably the last, thriller ever made about depression.
  25. Persepolis
    The movie sparkles with witty self-awareness.
  26. The Age of Innocence
    Up through its first half, The Age of Innocence is a masterfully orchestrated tale of romantic yearning.
  27. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Watching Eternal Sunshine, you don't just watch a love story -- you fall in love with what love really is.
  28. The Best of Youth
    Like a great novel from a more expansive bygone age, The Best of Youth is full of big thoughts; like a great soap opera, it's also full of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema.
  29. Whiplash
    If you can appreciate the sight of two totally dialed-in performers simmering until they boil over, that's enough. And P.S., that's pretty much the definition of jazz.
  30. The Lives of Others
    Utterly riveting fictional drama.
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