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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. A Simple Life
    Though overlong, Hui's valentine never milks the drama for tears, maintaining an unsentimental focus on the central duo's playful chemistry and the loving way Ah Tao's attention to detail is repaid.
  2. Kedi
    While you don’t have to be crazy about cats to enjoy this documentary, it would certainly help.
  3. Love Exposure
    The film's maximalist storytelling, both expansive and precise, snatching specific emotions from its torrid swirl, is best exemplified by the fact that the title card doesn't appear until an hour in.
  4. Goldstone
    This is Pedersen's second movie for Sen in the same role (after "Mystery Road," with a reported Australian television series in the works), and his Jay is the kind of compellingly gloomy, intelligent and tough justice-seeker easily worth a whole series of politically thorny, culturally resonant crime sagas.
  5. Limbo
    Come for the cold case, stay for a couple of remarkably lived-in performances from Simon Baker and Natasha Wanganeen.
  6. Hitler's Hollywood
    A fascinating film that is as thorough as it is idiosyncratic.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gaslight
    What keeps "Gaslight" burning is its tantalizing aura of mystery. [10 Feb 1994, p.5]
    • Los Angeles Times
  8. The Substance
    If it weren’t for Moore and Qualley hurling themselves into the shared role, it’d be as flat as a scotch-taped pin-up. If it weren’t for Moore, I’m not even sure it would work.
  9. Murderous Maids
    Denis and Testud, in a wondrous collaboration of a gifted director and equally gifted actress, succeed in making Christine a tragic figure.
  10. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Mr. Death, which is shot through with one dark absurdity after another, emerges as a cautionary tale if ever there was one.
  11. Last Orders
    Gathering its forces slowly, this careful, thoughtful film, quietly but deeply moving, is dramatic without seeming to be.
  12. Ça commence aujourd'hui
    Although there is real pain and suffering in It All Starts Today, it is too impassioned, too brisk and too embracing of life and human foibles to be depressing.
  13. Afghan Star
    If you believe that bringing the questionable virtues of "American Idol" to Afghanistan would do that beleaguered nation no favors, the remarkable documentary Afghan Star will change your mind in an instant.
  14. The Aura
    Sublime psychological thriller.
  15. Paradise: Hope
    The most hopeful — and the best — of this solid and unsettling series.
  16. Logan Lucky
    If it verges on being a little too pleased with itself for its own good, that's an acceptable price to pay for something that makes you smile.
  17. James and the Giant Peach
    the first techno-misfire from Walt Disney Pictures, an over-elaborate film that leaves you feeling harangued, harassed and assaulted.
  18. The Starling Girl
    The Starling Girl doesn’t always hold our attention, mainly due to an occasionally shaggy pace that forgets we’re often ahead of the plot. There are also two endings: one built on a choice of Jem’s that’s incredibly stirring and naturally tense, but then a subsequent scene with music and dance that reads more like something scripted to be a meaningful bookend.
  19. High Life
    Denis’ coolly appalling vision gets an infusion of warmth from [Robert] Pattinson, an actor of brooding intelligence and remarkable physical grace.
  20. Nosferatu
    The film is a feat of maximalist and moody production design and cinematography, but the tedious and overwrought script renders every character two-dimensional, despite the effortful acting, teary pronunciations and emphatically delivered declarations.
  21. The Blue Trail
    This is a rebellious, empathetic adventure story about a grandmother who catches on that her society needs to learn how to think freely.
  22. The Betrayal - Nerakhoon
    Exploring a Lao family's experience during and since the Vietnam War, the film chronicles the treacheries of geopolitics and the upheaval of exile.
  23. 2046
    Wong brilliantly blends musical styles and eras to create an intoxicating mood.
  24. Transformer
    Transformer beautifully captures the process of Janae crafting her own sense of femininity, unique to who she was and who she continues to be.
  25. A Quiet Passion
    The stately rhythms of the dialogue — drawn out by the particulars of Davies’ blocking, framing and editing — become a kind of music. The effect is bewildering at first, then absorbing, then transfixing. Its purpose, in line with the loftiest ideals of poetry itself, is to clear the mind and stir the soul.
  26. My Darling Vivian
    The whole point of this illuminating and often moving film is that all of these people have a tale to tell — and one that’s not as simple as Hollywood would have it.
  27. 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.
  28. Abortion: Stories Women Tell
    If there is a through line that unites all the women in Abortion: Stories Women Tell, it’s that they take the potential responsibilities of parenthood very seriously. And no matter how tough and self-reliant they are, this decision is always an impossible one, and one that the outside world's unbending attitudes do not make any easier.
  29. Tickling Giants
    Tickling Giants surprises us on several levels. It reveals Egypt’s familiar Arab Spring experience through a lens, that of satiric comedy, which is very different from the way we usually see it. And it has the personal element of Youssef’s involving story, showing what can happen when your dreams come true to a completely unexpected extent.
  30. Kung Fu Hustle
    Brilliantly choreographed and shot, Kung Fu Hustle is often grisly, visually spectacular and unabashedly silly, sometimes all at once.
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