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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    Heartbreaking and hilarious.
  2. Drag Me to Hell
    Drag Me to Hell is an eyeball-gouging lesson in how to make a genre flick and live to tell about it.
  3. The Selfish Giant
    Both leading actors are teenagers who’ve never acted before — and they are both phenomenal.
  4. Seymour: An Introduction
    Intimate and intellectual, the film — with a title taken from J.D. Salinger — focuses on the type of person you pass on the street, see in a coffee shop or sit next to on the subway who makes you wonder what life he’s led. One full of melody and muse, it turns out.
  5. Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    Not since Cary Grant offered Joan Fontaine a gleaming glass of milk has a bedtime toddy looked as suspicious as it does in Claude Chabrol's wittily enigmatic Merci pour le chocolat.
  6. 56 Up
    It shows that life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. And how, in case we forget, every age can predict the next.
  7. Triad Election
    Plenty of films owe a debt to "The Godfather," but it's rare to see inspiration used as successfully as it is here.
  8. Up in the Air
    Perhaps it's no surprise that Reitman has come out with a lovely Hollywood romance that floats buoyantly along on a sea of sadness.
  9. Milk
    The final result somehow undersells a man whose life and death were watershed moments in the gay rights movement.
  10. Lilya 4-Ever
    a despairing movie that you can't look away from, though you'll wish you could.
  11. Cutie and the Boxer
    Watching Ushio Shinohara and his wife Noriko make their art, we’re reminded of how much life is inside even the most abstract of pieces.
  12. U2 3D
    You have never seen a concert film like U2 3D, and it may change your expectations for the rest of your rocking years.
  13. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    All this frenzy, all these "quotes" from other movies, and yet Vol. 2 is strangely static - a dulling experience that can safely be admired from afar without it ever engaging the senses.
  14. Vera Drake
    A marvel of character-driven drama that no serious filmgoer should miss.
  15. Under the Skin
    There’s atmosphere here, but nothing else.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Red Army
    You don’t have to be a sports fan or a Cold War buff to relish the compelling political investigation and fierce rink action in this brisk, terrific movie.
  17. The Post
    True, sometimes director Steven Spielberg lays it on so thick you think he has a trowel. Inspiring scenes are flooded with sunshine. John Williams’ score swells and kvells. (Of course, Spielberg didn’t become America's most popular director by being its subtlest.)
  18. The Flat
    Ultimately, this is not a film about one specific event but about human nature - most notably, the instincts toward denial and delusion, acceptance and forgiveness. From start to finish, revelations abound.
  19. The Magdalene Sisters
    The whole system was sadistic and indefensible, and the church, looking the other way as long as profits rolled in from the laundries, deserves the scorn that Mullan and his fine cast heap on it.
  20. Tyson
    The result is an often-anguished monologue built on pride, despair and self-defense. Accuracy aside, Tyson does work hard to analyze his own, clearly complex character. So while we only get half the picture, it makes for consistently compelling viewing.
  21. The Sting
    But the look of a movie is not as important as how it feels. The Sting feels like a cold shower. One dashes into it primarily because of its superior cast.
  22. Eastern Promises
    The first must-see adult film of the young fall.
  23. Trouble the Water
    Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal utilize the footage Kim and Scott Roberts had taken throughout the disaster, showing how residents suffered, survived and came together to help when official assistance let them down.
  24. Don't Think Twice
    Jack and Sam share a wonderful scene when performance and real life blur, which is the whole point of the movie.
  25. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Depp may not be a trained singer, but his voice is more than passable, and his presence - his Sweeney is Edward Scissorhands gone bad - is perfect. Bonham Carter sings well, too, and young Ed Sanders, as the pie shop's Dickensian apprentice, is a delight.
  26. Election
    The actors are solid at every position, but Broderick, who seems to get better with each performance, is especially good at playing the impulsively self-destructive yet sympathetic loser.
  27. Memento
    One of the most original and ultimately confounding mind games to reach the screen since "The Usual Suspects."
  28. Creed
    Creed packs a mighty punch.
  29. Pride & Prejudice
    Seeing the splendid new version of Pride & Prejudice can be hazardous to your health: There's a very real danger of swooning.
  30. Monsieur Lazhar
    Falarde, in adapting a play, has a sweet, humanistic approach reminiscent of Bill Forsyth's '80s dramedies that lets "Lazhar's" protagonist and his class shine.
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