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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. No Time to Die
    The levity of the first half is soon sorely missed, and the run length alone — the movie clocks in at just under 165 minutes — dilutes the intended emotional resonance of the final scenes; Never Say Time might have been a truer title.
  2. Kisses
    A superior lyrical ragamuffin Irish drama.
  3. Honeydripper
    True to his stolid, humanist instincts and characteristically stodgy directorial style, writer-director John Sayles creates a story more educational than engrossing.
  4. The Double
    Director Richard Ayoade (Submarine) gets a huge impact from minimal expressionist sets, but the thin story — loosely based on Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novella — plays like a pale reflection of a more exciting tale.
  5. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
    Is Kumiko simply naive, or is she mentally ill? The film’s perfect ending doesn’t try to solve that riddle, but it will make you feel as if you’ve just seen something hypnotically original.
  6. The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    The documentary takes on its own engaging shape - one of edgy editorial and political ambivalence.
  7. Night on Earth
    Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth is an agreeably flaky comedy built around a surefire hook. Each of the film’s five segments consists of a single extended taxicab ride through a different city; the idea is that each excursion is taking place at exactly the same time. The movie is like a hipster’s ramshackle version of traveling around the world and never leaving the Hilton.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    French Connection II
    French Connection II is not exactly a fun flick (there’s a harrowing sequence where the bad guys shoot Hackman full of heroin, for example), but in its own twisted way it’s something of an art film — perhaps the most profoundly absurdist and pessimistic detective film ever made.
  9. Just Mercy
    It’s solidly rewarding to watch the wheels of Mercy turn, though the direction ... can’t seem to help falling into certain schematics that tend to follow movies like these: the original sin; the uplift; the leering good-old-boy sheriffs; the big-moment court scenes.
  10. The Place Beyond the Pines
    It's a slow-burner that burns so slowly its wick completely fizzles out.
  11. Notting Hill
    Blithe and exhilarating romantic comedy.
  12. Purple Butterfly
    Too often, Purple Butterfly is as impenetrable as Zhang's placid, obdurate beauty.
  13. Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
    It's not quite the same thrill as glimpsing the man behind the curtain of the great and powerful Oz, but for journalism junkies, the fascination of Page One: Inside The New York Times is something like that.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Rescuers Down Under
    The Rescuers Down Under, directed by Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel, carries its ambitions with an easy grace, expanding the art of animation to fresh ground without losing sight of the silly fun we love cartoons for.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    The result has the dingy grace of pigeons flying across an urban wasteland.
  16. The Cool School
    The rare footage of '50s and '60s L.A. alone is a treasure; the City of Angels has rarely looked so hip. Bonus: cool music from the likes of Charles Mingus and the Velvet Underground.
  17. Beatriz at Dinner
    Years from now, when the orbital politics of the film have dissolved, what will resonate about Beatriz at Dinner will be the sight of Hayek — leaps and bounds more enchanting a screen presence than the performers surrounding her — as a poignant object of neglect.
  18. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    The one figure in Revenge of the Sith who taps the true spirit of Star Wars is Ewan McGregor: With his beautiful light, clipped delivery, he plays Alec Guinness' playfulness, making Obi-Wan a marvel of benevolent moxie.
  19. Paris
    There are too many secondhand characters roving through Paris.
  20. Superman
    With a cast this excellent, there's a capacity for something truly super in a future film — if only Gunn chooses to put the characters' humanity first.
  21. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    The nervy style of this newfangled Western, with its eerie, insinuating score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, is so effective that long after Pitt and Affleck have left the screen, emotional disturbance lingers like gun smoke.
  22. Fracture
    Fracture is working on us, playing us, but that's its pleasure. It makes overwrought manipulation seem more than a basic instinct.
  23. Departures
    Departures is tender and, at times, rather squishy. It's sure to squeeze the tear ducts of anyone who has lost a parent.
  24. Ghost Stories
    Pretty light on scares and only hangs together with the thinnest (and hokiest) of narrative threads.
  25. No No: A Dockumentary
    The fact is, Dock Ellis was...complicated. Probably a lot more so than No No makes him out to be.
  26. The Valet
    A satisfying contraption of twists, missteps, and blithe repartee that produces old-fashioned, honestly earned guffaws.
  27. People Places Things
    Even though there’s not a lot to Jim Strouse’s new relationship comedy, it has a real warmth and charm thanks to the undeniable appeal of comedian Jemaine Clement.
  28. Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
    Boils down to a performance film with abysmal sound in which you rarely get to see a good, revealing close-up of the stars.
  29. The Italian Job
    There's a fair amount of filler in The Italian Job, but it all boils down to the big heist, which has been staged as if it were Fort Knox being robbed by Evel Knievel.
  30. Protagonist
    If all this sounds awfully classroom-bound, it isn't -- far from it. Each man's story as he tells it is riveting, truly stranger than fiction, and awesome, too, in the way of unfathomable humans.
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