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For 361 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Lowest review score: 0 Seventh Son
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 246 out of 361
  2. Mixed: 88 out of 361
  3. Negative: 27 out of 361
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  1. Boyhood
    Boyhood is more than a movie; it is a vibrant, living thing, and it is beautiful, and it is sad, and it is wise, and it is sprawling, and it is intimate, and it is painful, and it is more than any filmmaker could have intended, and, yes… when it comes to trying to capture truth in a way that cannot be argued or denied or even summarized… I am sure that nothing will ever be this good again.
  2. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By The Sea is an extraordinarily wise and well-observed film about what can happen to someone when life gives them more than they can handle, and Casey Affleck's lead performance is, simply put, the model of what great film acting should look like.
  3. Carol
    Only the combined talents of both Blanchett and Mara can make the film's powerfully realized finale work.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mr. Turner
    Mr. Turner's passions and neuroses feel more peculiar to Leigh and his own work. It's tempting, even, to view the film as biopic-as-self-portrait, revealing shades of one life through another.
  5. Inside Out
    Co-directors Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen have told a very, very small-scale story when you look at what happens in the actual physical world. But in doing so, they've done something very powerful, because they have paid full respect to just how turbulent and important the inner life of a child can be.
  6. Spotlight
    Like any creative endeavor a film is the sum of its parts. In the most elementary terms it needs a screenplay as a base, a cast to bring the script to life and a director to orchestrate the pieces into something of considerable impact. Excuse the hyperbole, but Tom McCarthy's Spotlight is an example of when all those pieces fit together almost perfectly.
  7. Son of Saul
    In terms of filmmaking prowess, "remarkable" may not do Laszlo Nemes' holocaust drama "Son of Saul" justice.
  8. Mad Max: Fury Road
    There is nothing easy or predictable about what George Miller delivers with Mad Max: Fury Road, a stone-cold action master class, beautiful and brainy and startling in the ways it throws off the current definition of the blockbuster.
  9. Whiplash
    By far, the best part of the film is the last twenty minutes or so, and it's so good that it almost makes up for some of the missteps along the way.
  10. Anomalisa
    Anomalisa is an extraordinarily wise film about the reasons we turn to other people and the enormous difficulty of doing so.
  11. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    It is safe to say that The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of those breakthrough moments, a movie that is so beautifully realized from start to finish that I almost doubted myself on the way home. Could I really have enjoyed that film that much?
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Citizenfour
    CITIZENFOUR is an expertly crafted expose with unprecedented urgency.
  13. Brooklyn
    It's a damn good movie.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    Birdman dares to be ambiguous, but unlike most essays in ambiguity, it is also a hell of a lot of fun.
  15. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    For all of Heller's impressive direction, she could have delivered something soulless without Powley's contributions.
  16. Gideon's Army
    What Gideon's Army does is make a respectful case on the behalf of a profession that too often gets maligned.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Life Itself
    Life Itself gives measured and pragmatic reflection to many of the things that are most interesting about Ebert's personal and professional life.
  18. Force Majeure
    Force Majeure is an impressive and adult piece of work, bracing and intelligent.
  19. Room
    Room is simply a movie about mother and son trying to adapt to the outside world after years of forced captivity. And the surprise is how succinctly it captures this drastic life change from the perspective of five-year-old.
  20. Amy
    Amy also turns the camera back on the viewer who saw, mocked and ignored Winehouse’s descent as it transpired across the media landscape. How could the world collectively denigrate a woman whose addiction was destroying her? In this era of reactionary social media it’s a warning to all of us to be wary of stoning the next Amy in the digital town square.
  21. Everybody Wants Some!!
    Everybody Wants Some!! offers a mature and crystal-clear voice, a filmmaker of enormous muscle who makes it all look ridiculously easy.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Watchers of the Sky
    [Edet Belzberg] wants this to be a documentary that doesn't just prompt casual discussion, but rather raises the biggest issues imaginable. Her approach is analytical, poetic and, when one of the subject tells the story that gives the film its name, unexpectedly emotional.
  23. The Witch
    Eggers manages to create a sense of mood and dread that is so suffocating at times that it feels like we're watching something genuinely transgressive, something we should not be seeing.
  24. Kubo and the Two Strings
    Kubo works because it is so direct, so honest about the emotional story it’s telling. Knight may have epic ambitions, but he keeps the stakes very personal.
  25. Snowpiercer
    The action sequences in the film are spectacular, and there's one in particular that I think is an all-timer, both in the way it's imagined and in the way it's accomplished on film, but this isn't a film about empty sensation. It's a richly realized science-fiction world, and the cast is just tremendous.
  26. De Palma
    DePalma emerges as a charming storyteller, funny and slightly wicked, and he offers up some terrific anecdotes about his casts, his process, and his choices over the years.
  27. The LEGO Movie
    Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, and with a voice cast that nails it in every role, large or small, "The Lego Movie" is a genuine delight.
  28. Red Army
    Gabe Polsky has made a smart and incisive film about an important moment in the history of a now-fallen empire, and he happened to make it wildly entertaining as well. No easy feat.
  29. It Follows
    At its best, the film has moments that are creepy and that work on some strange primal level.
  30. Creed
    By the time Coogler wraps things up, his film manages the difficult trick of looking back with earned nostalgia and standing alone as a genuinely strong dramatic piece.
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