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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 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. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Like a sturdier Mr. Rogers who just happens to prefer red anoraks to cardigans, Dick comes off as both a kind of holy sage and an extremely good sport — a man whose gentle, pure-hearted exuberance swells to fill nearly every frame.
  2. The Quiet Girl
    With its English subtitles and small-scale epiphanies, Girl is the kind of quiet film that could easily get lost in a noisy season; lean in anyway, and listen.
  3. Letters from Iwo Jima
    Clint Eastwood's profound, magisterial, and gripping companion piece to his ambitious meditation on wartime image and reality, "Flags of Our Fathers."
  4. A Woman Under the Influence
    Rowlands gives a harrowing performance as a housewife coming unhinged.
  5. Anomalisa
    It’s obvious that Kaufman has always seen the world differently from the rest of us. And even if it takes a little time to settle into Anomalisa’s disorienting, herky-jerky groove, Kaufman ends up bewitching us with his fresh take on the oldest and most hackneyed of cinematic themes: boy meets girl…and anxiety ensues.
  6. I'm Going Home
    The result is something as original as it is unlikely: a study in grief that is flooded with happiness.
  7. Diva
    Diva is based on one novel in a series about Gorodish and Alba by the pseudonymous ”Delacorta,” but the movie’s mad excitement hinges entirely on the pleasure to be had in moving our eye from one gorgeously composed stage set of artifice to another.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Richard III
    Olivier’s spidery Richard — shuttling around with a black pageboy haircut and sleeves dangling to his knees — revels in his eloquence yet remains deliciously wicked.
  9. The Lion King
    Has the resonance to stand not just as a terrific cartoon but as an emotionally pungent movie.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    4 Little Girls
    Surprisingly, given Lee's penchant for experimentation, there's nothing remotely innovative about this sober, often intensely moving exploration of a community's lingering grief and outrage -- just the usual talking heads, stock footage, montages of stills, and such.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wild Strawberries
    A film that goes where many others have gone (yes, this is Scrooge for Ph.D.s) but with a subtlety few have dreamed of?
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How Green Was My Valley
    The acting is strong (especially that of 13-year-old Roddy McDowall as the youngest son and Maureen O’Hara as the lovelorn daughter), and Arthur Miller’s Oscar-winning photography gives the images a spooky luster, but a little bit of Ford’s salt-of-the-earth piety goes an awfully long way.
  13. Paddington 2
    A delightfully heartwarming tale about everyone’s favorite marmalade-loving bear.
  14. A Serious Man
    Working with affectionate mockery, the Coens take the cinder-block-synagogue banality of American Jewish life in 1967 and make it look as archly exotic as the loopy Scandinavian-American winterscape of "Fargo."
  15. Capote
    Capote honors its subject by doing just what Truman Capote did. It teases, fascinates, and haunts.
  16. The Death of Stalin
    Despite the rich settings and crowded cast, the film can’t help feeling a little airless too: These players aren’t history’s masterminds, they’re wasps trapped in a jar, bumbling against the glass in sting-or-be-stung chaos.
  17. Tulpan
    If you see only one comic love story from Kazakhstan this year, choose this prize-winning honey.
  18. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    A tar-black comedy so caustic it nearly burns a hole in the screen, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri banks a lot on the gale force of Frances McDormand, and nearly pulls it off.
  19. A Film Unfinished
    Hersonski quietly and insistently unravels reality from "reality"; her commitment to archival authenticity is its own tribute to those no longer able to testify.
  20. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    A marvelous contraption, a wheels-within-wheels thriller that's pure oxygenated movie play.
  21. A Star Is Born
    It’s Cooper, in his directing debut, who ultimately has to carry the film from both sides.
  22. Citizenfour
    For all its brio, the film is overcautious about pointing fingers.
  23. Time Out
    There's piercing sadness, and fury, too, in this Everyman's isolation, and Cantet is singularly skilled at evoking the universal condition of such tragic ordinariness.
  24. Away from Her
    Munro's stark lily needed none of this gilding.
  25. Mafioso [re-release]
    Mafioso does more than cast its fascinating shadow over "The Godfather." It captures, in a stark yet haunting way, the indelible fact that no man is born a mobster.
  26. The Father
    The skillfulness of the telling, paradoxically, can make The Father feel at times almost too painful to sit through; as the story shifts elliptically in and out of time, Anthony's losses become our own.
  27. Leave No Trace
    It’s a slower (at times probably too slow) and more contemplative movie than its predecessor, but it’s no less haunting, thanks to unshakable performances from Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie.
  28. Chicken Run
    A delightful, perceptive, funny, detail-perfect fable.
  29. The King's Speech
    Lest the audience miss a cue, Hooper and soundtrack composer Alexandre Desplat count on the ringing grandeur of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony - the famous second movement, no less - to amp the emotions.
  30. Fargo
    Dizzily rich, witty, and satisfying.
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