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For 7,798 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 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. The Name of the Rose
    The film’s packed with messages in invisible ink, secret staircases, and corpses in cauldrons of pig’s blood. And since ? Connery’s bald as a cue ball, that means no distracting Hanksian haircuts!
  2. She Dies Tomorrow
    Wildly unsettling and original.
  3. To the Stars
    To the Stars seems downcast, at first glance, but it serves as a gentle, lovely reminder that one true friendship, even forged amid adversity, can be enough to keep you looking skyward.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Random Harvest
    Garson and Ronald Colman beautifully play the delicacy of two aching souls trying to recapture their lost romance.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Salvador
    It serves as testimony to the ghosts that continue to haunt such men as ex-senator Bob Kerrey.
  6. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    What's especially welcome about the humor in Honor Among Thieves is that it doesn't wink or mock its material; the characters just say funny things and bounce off each other as organically as a real-life friend group. The fantasy elements are played straight, and the central story is a relatable romp about how people who fail as individuals can still succeed together.
  7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    It's a little sad to say that aside from certain surprises, much of Across the Spider-Verse's contents were in the trailers. The job of a trailer is to show viewers the premise of a movie without spoiling the conclusion — but there's no conclusion here!
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Grey Gardens
    It’s almost impossible to look away.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Pat and Mike
    Pat and Mike is notable for featuring such actual female sports stars as Babe Didrickson Zaharias and Betty Hicks, and for displaying Hepburn’s own athletic prowess.
  10. Get on the Bus
    In Get on the Bus, director and material come together with perfect ease — one of those occasional confluences of subject and strengths that make a moviegoer go, ”Of course!” Of course Spike Lee throws all of his bravado, all his storytelling talents, and all his artistic chutzpah into a movie about last year’s Million Man March.
  11. For They Know Not What They Do
    Director Daniel Karslake (For the Bible Tells Me So) does that by homing in on singular tales — and letting them unfold largely without judgment or editorializing.
  12. The Rental
    A neat, nasty little thriller with a brutally effective final third.
  13. The Bellboy
    This is where the brilliant second act of Lewis' career begins.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Bishop's Wife
    Grant’s turn is thoroughly convincing because he himself appears to be having a terrific time: He’s expansive, graceful, and seems always on the verge of chuckling with goodwill.
    • 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Little Big League
    Filled with baseball lore, trivia, and cameos by major-league players, this fable covers its bases with sincerity and humor.
  17. Project Power
    For all the patently corny bits and some 17 attempts at an ending, Power still somehow makes it easy to suspend your disbelief and your imaginary degree in biochemistry, and just let it ride.
  18. Spider-Man: No Way Home
    The way that the movie eventually manages to bridge all those multiplicities and pull them into focus feels both obvious and ingenious.
  19. South Central
    Whatever its melodramatic shortcomings, South Central offers a wrenching view of modern youth-gang violence by demonstrating, with desperate candor, that the civilized alternatives are fast disappearing.
  20. The Way I See It
    What it does have in happy excess is Souza’s affable presence, and his remarkable trove of images.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Imitation of Life
    A prime example of a brilliant director’s stealthy use of a denigrated genre to slip in subtle social comment and genuine pathos.
  22. Enola Holmes
    While the mystery might be elementary (my dear, notably absent, Watson), the storytelling is winkingly subversive, proclaiming that a new and welcome game is afoot.
  23. Class Action Park
    The movie's just pure fun; a cock-eyed Valentine to a place so outrageous that death or dismemberment was an actual acceptable risk — but so was the chance to live, as one former security guard fondly recalls, in “an ‘80s movie that was real life. And it will never happen again.”
  24. Luca
    The story's bright swirl of Pixar pixie dust, jangle soundtrack, and gentle lessons on accepting otherness and learning to move past fear feel like a temporary passport: a sweetly soulful all-ages dip in la dolce vita.
  25. David Byrne’s American Utopia
    Lee's hand in all this seems to be a light one; aside from his intimate but unobtrusive camerawork, the show appears essentially unaltered from the live performance.
  26. Wolfwalkers
    Wolfwalkers deserves a new level of praise for the way it takes previous Cartoon Saloon themes (such as the porous relationship between man and nature) to new heights of artistry.
  27. Pillow Talk
    Nominated for five Oscars, Pillow Talk led to two more Day/Hudson collaborations, but this is by far the best.
  28. Supernova
    It's the combined incandescence of the stars at the center of the screen, not the ones meant to be gazed at through telescopes, that carries the movie; its best and truest source of light.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Incredible Shrinking Man
    The most unpretentious and poignant sci-fi film of them all.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Nothing Sacred
    Ben Hecht supplied the cynically amusing script, but the brilliant Lombard makes it fly — wringing laughs from an arsenal of loopy gestures and cacophonous outbursts.
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