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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. Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
    "Ain't in It" offers a warm and largely satisfying look at a man and his music and, for some, the end of an era.
  2. Lore
    At its heart Lore qualifies as a coming-of-age story, but it is far from the ones we usually see.
  3. A Prayer Before Dawn
    It’s a haunting and masterful effort, but be warned: This is tough stuff.
  4. I Carry You with Me
    Its imperfections and its beauties are inextricable from each other, and also from the sad, inspiring real-life story it has to tell.
  5. When Harry Met Sally...
    The summer's uncorseted, unqualified delight. [14 July 1989, Calendar, p.6-1]
    • Los Angeles Times
  6. Jesus' Son
    In a sea of one-note symphonies, this touching feature is bleak and comic, heartbreaking and affirmative, romantic and tragic, gimlet-eyed and sympathetic, all at the same time.
  7. In America
    A recklessly emotional film that is so committed to feelings it occasionally overflows its banks. Which may be a little messy, but it's a lot more welcome than the drought-stricken alternatives.
  8. Corsage
    Overall, Corsage shows a tantalizing way forward for the hopelessly staid biopic genre: honoring, provoking and upending with verve and humor as it liberates a complex woman from iconography’s deadening glamour.
  9. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
    Hara-Kiri builds and builds as well, but its revelations are more character-derived that action-oriented, so the film never reaches the cattle-on-fire craziness of its predecessor.
  10. Dirty Wars
    The ambitions toward '70s-era paranoia thrillers aside, as a connect-the-dots narrative, Dirty Wars is eye-opening, a fierce argument that there are chilling ramifications to endless, vague aggression.
  11. Grosse Pointe Blank
    A wild at heart, anarchic comedy that believes in living dangerously.
  12. Machuca
    One of those special films that broadens and deepens as it goes on.
  13. Boyz n the Hood
    If people here feel trapped, despairing of a way out, it is Singleton's gift to make us empathize with their hopelessness, and make us wonder, along with them, how long this must go on.
  14. Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
    Thankfully, filmmaker Bruce David Klein finds the sweet spot between admirer and honest broker with the warm, engaging tribute biodoc Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story.
  15. Night School
    Cohn’s slickly edited verité-style storytelling lets each person’s humanity rise to the top, just enough to mix expected poignancy with a simple clarity about the struggles of low-income, opportunity-challenged souls.
  16. Red Rocket
    Red Rocket is both a laser-focused character study and a scrappy, scrupulously observed portrait of a tight-knit community.
  17. 3:10 to Yuma
    James Mangold directs it with such energy and passion that it's as if he didn't know it's all been done before.
  18. Jane Eyre
    With Fassbender's charisma igniting his costar as well as himself, these sparring interchanges, both captivating and entertaining, are where this Jane Eyre finally catches fire.
  19. Wolf Children
    Wolf Children is rather an odd story, told in a one-of-a-kind style that feels equal parts sentimental, somber and strange.
  20. Breaking Fast
    Mosallam’s incisive and heartfelt, if occasionally on-the-nose, approach to matters of love, religion, family and culture sets the film apart.
  21. Children of the Revolution
    A gloss on the disillusion that came with the embracing of communist ideals that is part playful farce, part dark satire, this unclassifiable film, both comic and strange, always holds your attention even when it doesn't seem to know where it's going.
  22. A Monster Calls
    "Monster" is almost too ambitious to be completely realized. But when it works, which is most of the time, its story has a power which lingers in the mind.
  23. Buck
    The film is deeply moving yet never maudlin in telling this hard-knocks-but-hope-infused story.
  24. Machines
    It never succumbs to making poverty a graphic ornament.
  25. Shaun of the Dead
    It's a grisly but sweet ode to friendship, love and the George Romero zombie trilogy.
  26. Their Finest
    Their Finest is a treat that has something on its mind, a charming concoction that adds a bit of texture and bite to the mix. Genial and engaging with a fine sense of humor, it makes blending the comic with the serious look simpler than it actually is.
  27. Creepy
    Creepy uses silence as a tool of terror, following its characters through long, tense scenes where everything’s a little too quiet, and where each creak sounds like a scream. The director has always excelled at making the ordinary seem unsettling.
  28. The White Tiger
    The movie naturally pulses with life and energy, invigorated by its narrative sweep, its nimble camerawork and propulsive musical score composed by Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans. But Bahrani scrupulously resists the temptation to turn India into a flashy, exoticizing spectacle, as more than a few critics accused “Slumdog Millionaire” of doing.
  29. Syriana
    A fearless and ambitious piece of work, made with equal parts passion and calculation, an unapologetically entertaining major studio release with compelling real-world relevance, a film that takes numerous risks and thrives on them all.
  30. Rising Phoenix
    For anyone missing this summer’s Tokyo Olympics, postponed to March, Rising Phoenix is a fitting bridge for one night, resoundingly demonstrating that an athlete is an athlete. You will never watch the games in the same way.
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