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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 Rabbi's Cat
    Though we wander a bit, the trip is a delight, thanks to the witty company.
  2. The Fighter
    By far the most rousing, expertly cast movie this year, David O. Russell's movie takes a roundabout way of telling its true story.
  3. Inglourious Basterds
    A fairy tale about the infinite power of film, it boasts all his swaggering trademarks: rapid-fire dialogue, gleeful violence, endless cultural references. But it's the sharp-eyed deliberation that makes the greatest impact.
  4. Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
    Karasawa captures the flinty, ferocious nature of her subject, Elaine Stritch, with just the right amount of clear-eyed respect.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
    This adaptation of a 10th-century folk tale is less sumptuous than Ghibli maestro Hiyao Miyazaki’s surreal classics, yet it’s also more affecting than most of them. An allegory about the irrecoverable joys of childhood, it may make parents hug their kids now.
  6. Slow West
    Slow West isn’t a grand epic of that genre. It’s more like “McCabe & Mrs. Miller,” “Dead Man” or the recent “The Homesman,” using familiar signposts to tell a simple, compelling, terrific story.
  7. Inequality for All
    The wonkiness is at a minimum and Reich delivers it with tales from his own life, since he’s the son of a dress store owner and a mom who helped in the shop. Essential viewing, no matter how you cut it.
  8. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
    Sure, Bay indulges some signature cinematic fetishes. But he shows restraint with the slowed-down, sexed-up shots. War is gritty here, not glamorous. Result: characters, stakes and emotions feel authentic — all the more so thanks to terrific actors including James Badge Dale and Pablo Schreiber as actual ex-military men and family men who battled terrorists.
  9. God's Pocket
    Gritty, funny, rich adaptation of a Pete Dexter novel.
  10. Wrinkles
    Ferreras is similarly frank, but heavy doses of humor and empathy, along with gorgeous hand-drawn animation, keep things from getting too morbid.
  11. Thor: Ragnarok
    Thor: Ragnarok, the latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is so delightfully funny that it’s almost a shame when the film reverts to its campy, melodramatic roots. Thankfully, that’s not hammered too hard.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Metallica: Through the Never
    One drawback: While the swooping and careening visuals capture the depth and darkness of an arena experience, the sound doesn’t. As burly as the acoustics in a theater may be, they’re spindly compared to the sucker-punch fans prize at an actual Metallica concert. Luckily — for its visuals alone — “Through the Never” has enough grit and power to deserve two fists up.
  13. Margin Call
    While Spacey, Tucci, and Bettany are the standouts, every cast member locates disturbing notes of villainy or humanity.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fist Fight
    It’s rare that a movie with so many F-bombs and drawings of male reproductive organs has such a witty Ken Burns gag. Fist Fight is a knockout.
  15. The Cabin in the Woods
    Not all of the twists work, but most are self-knowing enough to keep you guessing until its (literally) groundbreaking conclusion.
  16. An Education
    Watch Mulligan's face as she goes from weary to awakened, and see it all come together.
  17. Under African Skies
    Director Joe Berlinger mixes archival footage, concert scenes, interviews and present-day reunions to meld a harmonious, fair-minded, energetic and enlightening portrait of one masterpiece's moment in time.
  18. 35 Shots of Rum
    There is never a shortage of options if you're looking for an intimate foreign drama about family bonds. But the eloquent insights of director Claire Denis stand alone.
  19. Ocean's 8
    Both charmingly retro (dig that swingin’ score!) and confidently modern (girls run the world!) it’s a hip heist movie with a few laughs and some lovely fun.
  20. The Great Beauty
    Sorrentino’s dazzling tribute to Roman indulgence is a bittersweet, slightly surreal epic.
  21. Moonrise Kingdom
    Though not as impactful as Anderson's strongest works - including its adolescent cousin, "Rushmore" - "Kingdom" unfolds with an asymmetrical lyricism of its own.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
    This heartbreaking documentary should be shown in every high school and college — and everywhere intolerance is suspected.
  23. Potiche
    Neither Francophiles nor film fans could ask for anything more than François Ozon's latest, a charming comedy.
  24. Call Me Kuchu
    The very best — and, alas, the very worst — of human nature is captured in this heartbreaking and inspiring documentary.
  25. Loving
    It's a tough, understated part to play, and Edgerton does a terrific job.
  26. Sisters
    A gross-out comedy motored by girl power that’s funnier than hell. Raunchier, too.
  27. Nebraska
    Capturing family on film — the real rhythms of family, with all the annoyances, awkwardness and affection — is tough. Tougher still is wrestling a story around the murky emotional waters of Midwestern relatives. Yet one needn’t be cut from that cloth to see the hilarious beauty, and the beautiful honesty, in Nebraska.
  28. The Tree of Life
    Like so much in this astounding, consistently beautiful and challenging movie, the answer depends on what you bring to it. Think of it as the Ultimate Anti-Summer-Blockbuster.
  29. This Is Not a Film
    It's irrefutably art, and undeniably vital.
  30. Daddy Longlegs
    At its best, this beautiful, off-the-cuff comedy-drama recalls John Cassavetes' shaggiest, most honest work.
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