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For 16,523 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 16523
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16523
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16523
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  1. Set Fire to the Stars
    Gorgeous, evocative and well performed.
  2. Cemetery of Splendor
    Each scene, beneath its surface calm, throbs with longing, dislocation and intricately woven layers of time.
  3. The Farewell Party
    The Farewell Party succeeds as well as it does because the core dilemma always feels real and the filmmakers take great care to see that the inevitable emotions put into play are never overdone.
  4. Amy
    It is the achievement of Amy, Asif Kapadia's accomplished, quietly devastating documentary, that it makes the story of this troubled and troubling individual surprisingly one of a kind by allowing us to, in a sense, live her life along with her.
  5. Hitchcock/Truffaut
    Smart, thoughtful and elegantly done, Hitchcock/Truffaut is more than an authoritative look at the careers and interpersonal dynamics of directors Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut, a pair of unlikely soul mates; it's also, as director Kent Jones intended, a love letter to film itself, to the value and lure of the cinematic experience.
  6. Something Better to Come
    Beyond her tenacious and intimate reporting, director and cinematographer Polak has made a work of powerful images — heart-rending, elegiac, charged with hope.
  7. Green Room
    While thrashing chords score this gutbucket nightmare, Saulnier's way with overwhelmed characters, pressing evil and dangerous escape mechanics is practically symphonic.
  8. Our Little Sister
    A delicate, unforced meditation on the bonds of family and the joys and wonders hidden in everyday life, this film is able to move audiences without apparent effort, and that must be experienced firsthand to be appreciated and understood.
  9. Embrace of the Serpent
    Beautiful, strange, disturbing, Embrace of the Serpent is a film with a lot on its mind.
  10. Glass Chin
    Punchy dialogue, sharply drawn characters and excellent performances fuel Glass Chin.
  11. Cartel Land
    If the key to price in real estate is "location, location, location," the key to success in vérité-style documentaries is "access, access, access." Which is what Cartel Land has in compelling amounts.
  12. Stray Dog
    Expertly playing with our preconceived notions, Granik's multidimensional portrait also serves as a telling state-of-the-union address, as seen through the caring eyes of her philosophical main subject.
  13. Breathe
    The entire piece is precisely woven together, from script to performance to execution, and the result is a chilling study of emotional annihilation and its aftermath.
  14. Twinsters
    Twinsters is a lively — and quite lovely — take on contemporary notions of family and identity.
  15. Two Step
    Giving flair to the inevitable and imbuing those stakes with emotional heft are key to this type of patiently nasty, slow-boil noir. That Johnson understands this makes his feature debut a particularly confident and enjoyable one.
  16. We Come as Friends
    Because Sauper views himself as a storyteller first, as political as "We Come as Friends" may be, it is always dramatic, never didactic.
  17. A Brilliant Young Mind
    A Brilliant Young Mind doesn't fit into any familiar inspirational box. Many of its characters are complex, contrary individuals who are not even close to being comfortable in their own skins, and this film refuses to shortchange how frustratingly edgy and difficult they are to interact with.
  18. Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
    The details are mesmerizing as is the rule-breaking psychology behind it.
  19. Baby Driver
    This is movie craftsmanship and showmanship of a very high order.
  20. Butterfly Girl
    Sometimes it's those with the hardest struggles in life who remember to appreciate life more than anyone else. This message comes through loud and clear in Cary Bell's documentary, Butterfly Girl.
  21. Wildlike
    Wildlike is an uncommon and deeply sensitive take on this type of story.
  22. Chevalier
    For all the mysteries it chooses to leave off screen and on dry land, Chevalier speaks for itself: Scene by scene, it builds a vision of group dynamics as calm, violent and finally unyielding as the sea.
  23. Right Now, Wrong Then
    No filmmaker better understands the revelatory properties of small talk and soju, and few could make the art of repetition seem so rife with possibilities.
  24. Lost in Hong Kong
    This rollicking crowd-pleaser might just be smart and substantive enough to be one of the year's best.
  25. The Clan
    Francella and Lanzani are excellent, not only in their charged moments together, but throughout this nervy and provocative picture.
  26. Becoming Bulletproof
    The term "inspirational" gets bandied about a lot, but Becoming Bulletproof is thoroughly deserving of that tag.
  27. The Big Short
    The film packs in so much information and comedy, it would be fun to see it twice: not just to take in what it has to tell us, but also to laugh all over again.
  28. The Boy and the Beast
    Hosoda brings emotional depth to what could easily have become a formulaic martial arts saga. Instead, Boy and Beast is a bracing tale of two flawed individuals who find the love and discipline they need to assume their rightful places in their respective worlds.
  29. Microbe and Gasoline
    There’s an immensity to the small dramas of this awkward in-between stage, where Microbe and Gasoline revel in no longer being boys, but not yet men. Gondry brings a sense of heartfelt nostalgia, pathos and humor to this portrait of a short, unique adolescent moment.
  30. Northern Soul
    The electrifying Northern Soul captures the 1970s British club scene of the same name with ethnographic detail and ebullient style.
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