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For 16,524 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Arbitrage
    Writer-director Nicholas Jarecki squarely lands that punch, creating a tense and chilling horror story for financially fraught times.
  2. Somersault
    Dreamy and creepy, tender and terrifying, Somersault is a frank and visceral film that at the same time exudes an unexpected innocence.
  3. The Princess and the Frog
    The dialogue is fresh-prince clever, the themes are ageless, the rhythms are riotous and the return to a primal animation style is beautifully executed.
  4. Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
    The details are mesmerizing as is the rule-breaking psychology behind it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
    A demanding, harrowing drama of agonized love laced with sardonic humor. [19 Apr 1992, p.9]
    • Los Angeles Times
  6. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
    There’s a salve-like quality to Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, a balm for any battered romantic’s soul. It may be utter fantasy, but it’s the kind of escape you’ll want to revisit again and again, like a favorite Austen novel.
  7. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
    Crossing the Bridge does more than offer a wide variety of entertaining and intoxicating Turkish music. It also uses music to paint a portrait of a vibrant, cosmopolitan city and provide a window into a rich and varied national culture.
  8. The Two Escobars
    One of the best sports documentaries in recent memory.
  9. Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
    Like "Street Fight," Marshall Curry's account of the 2002 Newark, N.J., mayoral race, "Mr. Smith" captures ground-level political machinations in an utterly fascinating way. The question raised by the title makes for an interesting, if possibly disheartening, debate.
  10. Araya
    The 1959 film's style is dated, but it is visually glorious and tells a fascinating story.
  11. Coming Home Again
    Sometimes when the moment comes to reconcile our feelings, we freeze or fumble the opportunity; other times, when we finally process the emotions and can articulate the thoughts, it is too late to communicate them. Coming Home Again, sweetly, sometimes painfully, evokes this experience.
  12. The World to Come
    Though admirably sensitive to the inner lives of opened souls, The World to Come is more a journal with faded photographs than a past made vividly present.
  13. The Brothers McMullen
    While other films struggle for their effects, Brothers simply lives and breathes, thoroughly likable from beginning to end.
  14. Urbania
    Such a powerful experience that it is equally effective whether you have figured out from the start where it is headed or whether its denouement comes as a complete surprise.
    • Los Angeles Times
  15. Cuban Rafters
    The creators of the magnificent Balseros stayed involved with its subject, a group of Cuban boat people who made it to the United States, for a full seven years. If you put in that kind of time, you witness life happening in front of you in all its compelling, confounding drama. What could be better than that?
  16. Something Wild
    Demme finds haunting overtones in the somewhat old-hat situations of E. Max Frye's first screenplay. Something Wild also has three first-class performances: by Daniels, who seems to have resources that his earlier roles never touched; by electrifying newcomer Ray Liotta, and by Griffith as the maddening, mysterious Lulu. [6 Nov 1986]
    • Los Angeles Times
  17. School Life
    School Life is as charming, intimate and warm-hearted an observational documentary as you'd ever want to see.
  18. Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
    Fake Case assumes a certain familiarity with Ai and his work — explored more thoroughly in Alison Klayman's "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry." But as a follow-up and a companion piece to that 2012 documentary, Johnsen's new work is remarkably intimate and astute.
  19. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    As it marches its characters ever so slowly toward a suitably despairing climax, the movie feels increasingly like a self-satisfied but unsustained provocation, a rich display of craft in service of secondhand shocks and ideas.
  20. Wind River
    The focus here is always on character and storytelling and the acting that brings it all alive. With thrillers this good becoming a lost art, Wind River is definitely one to savor.
  21. Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
    Lynch's film is a work of steady chronological progression. Without straining for big-picture significance, it provides a composed look into the revolutionary spirit.
  22. Air
    In some ways, the movie is also carrying on a subliminal, more subtly nostalgic conversation with the ’90s, the decade that transformed Affleck and Damon into household names and saw some of their key supporting players here first rise to prominence.
  23. Black Cat, White Cat
    Kusturica works marvels with his endlessly amusing cast, and his film has an appealingly free and easy tone.
  24. Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
    As intriguing as the facts are, much of the documentary's charm is the way in which it embeds the work.
  25. Skin Game
    The remarkable script by Pierre Marton manages to be great fun while laying bare the evils of the institution of slavery. [11 Aug 1991, p.6]
    • Los Angeles Times
  26. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
    Actually witnessing the audience’s emotional connection to her lyrics makes “Hit Me Hard and Soft” feel like an epic coming-of-age movie as much as a concert film. Still, by the 50th mascara-smeared face, I needed fresh air.
  27. Spider-Man
    Spider-Man may look like an action comic come to life, but its best feature is its romance comic heart. It's that rare cartoon movie in which the villain is less involving than the love story.
  28. The Wings of the Dove
    Wings of the Dove is richly appointed and beautifully mounted, with lush location shooting in Venice given the place of honor.
  29. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    Parabellum excels when it tees up the sublimely inventive and wince-inducing close quarters fights with the lethally graceful Reeves baring John Wick’s psyche and soul between reloads and headshots.
  30. The Raid: Redemption
    It's exhausting, exhilarating, riveting stuff that fans of high-octane filmmaking should not miss.
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