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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Coco
    Pixar’s latest animated film may lack the volume of out-loud laughs of the “Toy Story” series, but the fantasy set in Mexico doesn’t skimp on the tears. It’s as if the studio turned the touching first seven minutes of “Up” into a nearly two-hour feature film.
  2. Shaun the Sheep Movie
    From the company that gave us “Chicken Run” and “Wallace and Gromit,” this adorable tale about a sheep who leads his comrades on a big-city adventure is some of the most pure visual storytelling you’re going to see this year.
  3. White Material
    As Claire Denis' stunning new movie reminds us, she expects a lot of her audience but gives considerably more in return.
  4. The Station Agent
    Everyone involved can claim credit, but it's Dinklage, in an understated, outstanding performance, who turns this unlikely tale into art that will strike a chord with any open-minded audience.
  5. Foxcatcher
    Rare is the drama that plumbs the quirky, unsettling depths of human nature like Foxcatcher. Simultaneously understated and grippingly edgy, this is an arresting examination of naivete, mismatched worlds and old-fashioned American oddness.
  6. Autumn Tale
    One of Rohmer's more engaging slices of life. The acting is impeccable.
  7. Bamako
    Heated speeches about the International Monetary Fund, debt relief and global responsibility may not sound like your idea of Friday-night entertainment, but Sissako makes a strong case.
  8. Beginners
    Beginners is filled with crises of identity, but underneath it all is a beautifully humane, sweet and intelligent movie that knows exactly what it is at every moment.
  9. Bright Star
    There's nothing exceptional about Jane Campion's historical biography, but it's a sufficiently lovely tale to suit romantics with a taste for intimate period dramas.
  10. Jackie
    Whenever the movie begins to falter — it cuts, sometimes confusingly, among at least three different timelines — Portman pulls it back together, and sets it back on course.
  11. Tropical Malady
    This challenging, inventive movie from Thailand is not for everyone.
  12. Happiness
    Masterful.
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  13. Inherent Vice
    They’ve turned Thomas Pynchon’s work into a slapstick noir homage that doesn’t just reward but demands multiple viewings.
  14. Wrinkles
    Ferreras is similarly frank, but heavy doses of humor and empathy, along with gorgeous hand-drawn animation, keep things from getting too morbid.
  15. Fish Tank
    Arnold generally steers clear of cinematic melodrama, and Jarvis infuses the entire film with the sort of kinetic spirit that heralds a new talent.
  16. No
    The result was remarkable, but the story of it, while true to the moment, needed — ironically — much more dynamism.
  17. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
    The film’s second act packs a bittersweet punch, along with the fact that the failed show is now much-respected. But all of that could have been tied up in a quicker epilogue. The chorus, so to speak, lacks a hook. Too bad, considering that, to quote a Sondheim song from the show, they “had a good thing going.”
  18. My Architect
    Apparently Louis Kahn was not much of a father, raconteur or businessman. But he was a genius, and he left his mark on all the people whose lives he touched.
  19. Hot Fuzz
    Pegg and Wright are armed with an endlessly impressive arsenal of attention grabbers, from witty editing tricks to a wry soundtrack and a joke-packed script that demands multiple viewings.
  20. Django Unchained
    Just when we thought Quentin Tarantino had shown us all the cojones he has, in rides Django Unchained.
  21. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
    While the plot is too light to sink your teeth into, the dreamlike, David Lynch-style imagery is engrossing.
  22. Grin Without a Cat
    By turns brilliant and tedious, imaginative and mundane.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Big Short
    Taking Michael Lewis’ seminal book about the meltdown as source material, director Adam McKay channels his own anger into something rarely even attempted by Hollywood, let alone pulled off: a comedy about a tragedy.
  24. Closed Curtain
    Pahani’s films have become increasingly indistinguishable from his complex life, making them a challenging but often thrilling experience.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Moana
    Yes, The Rock can carry a tune and his big song-and-dance number "You're Welcome" is a hoot.
  26. Still Life
    There is no turning back; the biggest project in China since the Great Wall and the Grand Canal has claimed its human cost and now must prove its own worth. -
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gimme the Loot
    Director Adam Leon, 31, has slyly and reverentially crafted a perfect New York movie, including the class tensions, relentless hustling and spontaneous connections that best define the exuberant strain of the city. The soundtrack, filled with mostly soul oldies, somehow feels exactly right for the sweaty New York summer of this scrappy kid-venture.
  28. Skyfall
    Though a notch below "Royale," Skyfall follows that reboot's lead, making a now 50-year-old icon as cool as when he began.
  29. Thunder Soul
    Warm memories of one school under a groove and a moving ending that no screenwriter could improve upon.
  30. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier's end-of-days drama Melancholia feels as if it's something from another world...but even by his standards this remote yet lovely funereal dirge is in its own orbit.
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