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For 16,533 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 2.2 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: 8,703 out of 16533
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16533
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16533
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  1. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
    A crafty, brainy and uniquely stirring concoction.
  2. High Hopes
    The actors, many of whom are part of a loose Mike Leigh stock company, are miraculously deft at erasing that line between performing and being.
  3. Career Girls
    Though its plot frequently falls back on coincidence, so much so that the characters joke about it, Career Girls has the almost magical ability to involve us emotionally with these women even though there are points when we would've sworn that wouldn't be possible.
  4. Fame High
    It's not only this idealism that makes the subjects of Fame High so compelling, it's also their honesty, their willingness to open a window into their lives at that pivotal moment when they're taking their first tentative steps toward becoming their own person personally and professionally.
  5. Museum Hours
    It's a film whose pleasures are much more visual than dramatic, but that doesn't mean there aren't serious things on its mind.
  6. Dallas Buyers Club
    Even with some flaws and flailing, Dallas Buyers Club is a rough, raw, ragged and exhilarating ride.
  7. How to Make Money Selling Drugs
    As the filmmaker unfurls the harsh, essential facts, both past and present, about America's complex relationship with drugs — along with tobacco and alcohol's longtime place in the equation — the movie gains serious power and momentum.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    It is a warm celebration, positive and pleasurable. The humor is folksy and slapstick rather than cerebral, as if to confirm that our encounter is with a populist vehicle.
  9. Into the Woods
    What makes Into the Woods so entertaining is the cleverness of the tale itself and the way specific characters match the talents of its storytellers.
  10. Alan Partridge
    In taking Partridge to the movies, the writers go broader and deeper than they typically do with the story.
  11. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    The sense of film craft here is so delicate and assured that, even at its most razzle dazzle-prone moments, the movie never seems to be straining for effect.
  12. Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
    At the film's heart is a fitful conversation that unfolds like a string of koans, epigrams, jokes and silences.
  13. Gasland Part II
    With continued arguments and legislation over fracking, this follow-up seems inevitable and necessary.
  14. The Crash Reel
    The Crash Reel asks pointed questions about hazard, reward and consequence, forcing us to look anew at the rush attached to so many high-stakes sports.
  15. Still Mine
    The estimable James Cromwell splendidly anchors this tender, true-life tale.
  16. Terms and Conditions May Apply
    In inverse proportion to typically long-winded, inscrutable terms of service, the film is concise, direct and thoroughly engaging.
  17. Big Words
    Drumming is able to swing from lighter comedic moments to dramatic insights while making it seem effortless.
  18. Pusher
    The film practically vibrates with youthful aggression, sly humor and gathering tension, hurling itself forward like a junkie toward the next fix.
  19. Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands
    The introduction of a baby that Tonny supposedly fathered feels worrisome initially...but in Refn's skilled street-realist hands, the child becomes a potent, wailing metaphor for Tonny's own dilemma of rudderless need.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Our Nixon
    It's a haunting, thoroughly evocative ride.
  21. Terraferma
    A stirring commentary on our better angels.
  22. Snowpiercer
    [Bong Joon-ho] combines a great cast, a gripping idea and a gorgeously grimy retro aesthetic to keep this eerie examination of the train wreck of humanity racing along.
  23. The Artist and the Model
    The lovely and poignant drama The Artist and the Model stirringly presents art, life and death as one irrevocably tangled trio.
  24. A Single Shot
    The film charts no new territory but is terrifically cast and, like its source novel, long on atmosphere.
  25. Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
    The world's most successful ring of diamond thieves is inventively and insightfully explored in the documentary Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers.
  26. The Trials of Muhammad Ali
    The Trials of Muhammad Ali is a complex and involving documentary.
  27. Off Label
    With its focus on intimate detail, Off Label is not a conventional "issue film" reaching for conclusions. Palmieri and Mosher have taken on a huge and urgent topic, and their work's impact rests on their refusal to tell viewers how to feel.
  28. 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
    This gripping, innovatively constructed flashback commands attention.
  29. Neighbors
    This raunchy unrooting of a settled suburban idyll exposes the considerable angst of emerging adulthood with a kind of scatological fervor designed to elicit oodles of inappropriate laughs. It succeeds.
  30. The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
    [A] colorful, absorbing documentary.
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