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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 2.2 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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    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
    The pace is daringly languid — at times it seems more like a daydream on a sunny park bench than a movie — but you’ll emerge from this wonderland as if from vacation, and you’ll never look at the intersection between life and storytelling in quite the same way.
  2. Dekalog (1988)
    The stories are shocking, tender, sometimes funny, with a soap-opera abundance of plot. Always, the camera stares, respectfully neutral about ordinary people grappling — inconsistently, as men and women do — with the ordinary mysteries of being human. You’ll stare back, amazed it’s taken more than a decade to spread the word.
  3. Citizen Kane
    What’s magical about Kane — the sheer transformative thrill of invention — is there in every shot, every performance, every narrative surge.
  4. Rear Window
    Masterpiece of voyeurism.
  5. Boyhood
    Like Michael Apted in his "Seven Up!" documentary series, Linklater makes you feel as if you're watching a photograph as it develops in the darkroom.
  6. Touch of Evil
    A film noir great... Just to see and hear the extraordinary 3 minute and 20 second opening sequence — a fluid tour de force tracking shot — without impediment of opening credits and street-sound-masking movie score is accomplishment enough.
  7. Army of Shadows
    The picture was made in 1969 and is only now being released in the U.S., in a beautiful restoration supervised by original cinematographer Pierre Lhomme.
  8. Moonlight
    Easily one of the most personal and most powerful films of the year.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pinocchio
    Among all of Disney’s endangered-tot stories, including Cinderella and 101 Dalmatians, only Pinocchio plucks the heartstrings with such incomparable resonance. Why? One reason is that this movie consistently sprinkles adorable comedy relief (has there ever been a more endearing sidekick than guardian Jiminy Cricket?) over scenes of malice, dismay, and outright horror.
  10. Pan's Labyrinth
    Like any great myth, Pan's Labyrinth encodes its messages through displays of magic. And like any good fairy tale, it is also embroidered with threads of death and loss.
  11. Hoop Dreams
    Hoop Dreams is an astonishing emotional experience — it has highs, lows, and everything in between.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Jules and Jim
    Seminal Truffaut.
  13. Gone with the Wind
    To see Gone With the Wind on a big screen again is to weep for the fearlessness with which Hollywood once believed the sublime was possible.
  14. Rififi (re-release)
    It becomes as savage as ''Reservoir Dogs,'' ''The Killing,'' or any of the other dozens of films over which it still casts a shadow.
  15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    Nothing good happens in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the riveting, horrifying chronicle of an illegal abortion performed in 1987 when Ceauescu's dictatorial hand still gripped Romania's throat. And yet no lover of greatness in filmmaking will want to look away from one of the very best movies of 2007.
  16. Parasite
    A serrating, brilliantly stylized portrait of class and fate and family in modern-day Korea.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Battleship Potemkin
    It’s required viewing in virtually every Film 101 class. Look at any MTV video or any slick million- dollar minute of advertising, and you’ll see its origins in that assemblage of shots in Potemkin.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Maltese Falcon
    Boldly manipulating light and shadow, utilizing drastic camera angles, and introducing Bogart’s Sam Spade, the first-time director’s detective classic defines film noir.
  19. Roma
    Experiencing the lovely and lyrical Roma, you get the impression that at age 56, Cuarón not only wanted to get these still-vivid memories down on film, but that he also needed to. You’ll be glad he did. Because movies with this much empathy and humanity don’t come along very often.
  20. Spirited Away
    A triumph of psychological depth and artistic brilliance offered as the magical adventures of one skinny little girl.
  21. Toy Story
    The first animated feature produced entirely on computer is a magically witty and humane entertainment, a hellzapoppin fairy tale about a roomful of suburban toys who come to life when humans aren't around.
  22. Killer of Sheep
    Way ahead of its time 30 years ago, and just as stunning today, Killer of Sheep is one of those marvels of original moviemaking that keeps hope of artistic independence alive.
  23. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
    The interviews are their own historical document, though it's the visceral thrill of being inside all those archival clips — the flick of Simone's wrist, an ecstatic face in the crowd — that makes Summer of Soul comes most fully alive, somehow both as fresh as yesterday and as far away as the moon.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Shop Around the Corner
    What makes Shop timeless, ironically, is the specificity of its setting: a small department store in Budapest at the end of the global Depression.
  25. 12 Years a Slave
    It's Ejiofor's extraordinary performance that holds 12 Years a Slave together.
  26. Manchester by the Sea
    Affleck has never had a role that matches his minimal, anti-charisma style like this one. His tendency to be mumbly and awkward and withholding fits his character perfectly. And Hedges, as a temperamental teenager working through loss in his own authentically teenage way, is a real discovery. Michelle Williams, as Lee’s ex-wife, doesn’t get many scenes, but she cracks your heart open in the ones she has.
  27. The Battle of Algiers
    Nearly four decades ago, Pontecorvo anatomized the very form of modern terrorist warfare: the hidden cells, the cultish leaders, the brutish cycle of attack and counterattack.
  28. A Hard Day's Night
    They're like gods at play, paragons of pure delight, as they mock and feign their way through a universe of mere mortals. To see the movie again is to realize that they were never entirely of this earth and that they never will be.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Nashville
    One of the greatest American films of the ’70s, Nashville remains Altman’s crowning achievement.
  30. Rosemary's Baby
    Using New York’s famed apartment house the Dakota for all its cavernous shadowiness, and exploiting the 23-year-old Farrow’s tremulous space-child vulnerability to underscore her terror and solitude, Polanski worked with an elegant restraint that less talented filmmakers have been trying to mimic ever since.
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