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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 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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Calamity Jane
    [Day] is dizzyingly kinetic (and funny) as Calamity Jane‘s tomboy cowgirl.
  2. A Mighty Heart
    Despite the best of intentions, an actress who makes her own headlines gets in the way of the big picture.
  3. Breakdown
    Breakdown feels at first so casual, so comfortable with its own small expectations (a good but unglamorous cast, a sturdy but unspectacular plot), that the authentic feelings of suspense are a surprise.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Body Snatcher
    The movie has those unmistakable, shiver-inducing touches Lewton (Cat People) is famous for: a loyal little dog refusing to leave the site of its master’s fresh grave, a blind singer’s song suddenly and shockingly stopping offscreen, and the surprise of that final coach ride.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Them!
    The movie’s then-state-of-the-art mechanical beasties aren’t entirely convincing, but this archetypal ’50s monsters-on-the-loose flick can still tingle your carapace, thanks to taut direction, an intelligent script, a believable cast, and a nail-bitingly effective climax in the sewers of Los Angeles.
  6. Invictus
    How is Invictus as a sports movie? Let's just say that its lump-in-the-throat climax is predictable, but that doesn't mean it's less than earned.
  7. Big Hero 6
    At times, Big Hero 6 gets a little too noisy for its own good, but that never manages to drown out its many quieter charms.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Edward Scissorhands
    Simple, funny, gorgeous, sad, and sweet, perfect for playing over and over.
  9. The Italian
    The result is a picture half sweet, half bitter. Charles Dickens would approve.
  10. Mommy
    It taps into every parent's worst nightmare — the horror of being unable to protect an out-of-control child.
  11. The Duchess of Langeais
    A highbrow chick flick that made me feel older, in a good way.
  12. Starlet
    Sean Baker's singular little ultra-indie is a strikingly unsentimental study in female friendship between unmoored souls in L.A.'s bleached, glamour-challenged San Fernando Valley.
  13. My Kid Could Paint That
    Amir Bar-Lev's engrossing film is as much about the stubborn ambiguities of art, truth, meaning, and relationships as it is about the authenticity of the Olmstead oeuvre.
  14. Two Lovers
    James Gray's Two Lovers really is a '70s movie, in the mode of such raw, unfiltered character studies as "The Panic in Needle Park," "Wanda," and "Fat City."
  15. Wag the Dog
    If the result is often as glib as the targets it's satirizing, it's also driven by a cruelly distilled joy. Wag the Dog is an ode to the thrill of deception, a thrill embodied in Hoffman's inspired performance.
  16. Sin City
    Glued tightly from page to screen, Sin City is so seduced by the visual possibilities of sin that style becomes its own vice.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    tick, tick...Boom!
    Tick, Tick… Boom! is a totem for the thrills and trials of making art, with all the sacrifices and empathy it requires.
  18. My Country, My Country
    Though the events have a rambling overfamiliarity, there's a real story between the lines: the resentment over the U.S. occupation on the part of non-insurgent Iraqis.
  19. She Said
    It's faithfully acted by an earnest, intelligent cast, and directed with fervent purpose by Maria Schrader. But the result, for all its galvanizing, well-oiled plot machinations, remains consistently earthbound, and often frustratingly schematic, a movie so bent toward education and edification that it feels a little bloodless in the end — human tragedy as PSA.
  20. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    One of the most revelatory rock portraits ever made.
  21. Shower
    Without ever dipping into indignity among wet, half-naked men, Shower sparkles with joy.
  22. Source Code
    Among all the chess-piece players on the board, the star is the only one who really builds a solid emotional foundation for his character.
  23. Beast
    Pearce takes his time laying out his sleeping-with-the-enemy tale, but his stinginess with plot lends the film an vice-tightening air of mystery that suits it.
  24. Joe
    Both Cage and Sheridan (who shined opposite Matthew McConaughey in Mud) give true and at times tender performances. It's a shame the film lacks the same subtlety and force.
  25. After Parkland
    What feels important in Parkland is less about pushing any kind of political agenda or viewpoint than about simply listening, and bearing witness.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Naked City
    Nearly 50 years later, The Naked City‘s Oscar-winning cinematography and editing still have resonance.
  27. Thor: Ragnarok
    Ragnarok is basically a Joke Delivery System — and on that score, it works. The movie is fun.
  28. Teacher's Pet
    The somewhat rococo songs and earthy pop-art animation tread a very fine line between heady and headachy.
  29. Bird
    Like the butterflies and pockets of natural beauty that Bailey is drawn to, there are glimmers of potential in Bird. But it never fully manages to take flight, leaving its provocative conclusion more jarring and confusing than revelatory.
  30. Splendor in the Grass
    With his ripe lips, flirty eyes, and pre-Calvin Klein-era androgynous appeal, the 24-year-old Warren is utterly believable as a boy who drives Natalie Wood plumb insane with sexual frustration in William Inge’s overheated melodrama.
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