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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. American Beauty
    A tart, funny and tremendously sobering movie about the deepest recesses of personal unhappiness.
  2. Unbroken
    When you get through it, though, you can’t help but feel uplifted by this tough-skinned movie that can stand with the best muscular wartime dramas in the American movie canon.
  3. The Iron Giant
    It's an antidote to complacency. The question is, whom is it trying to wake up?
  4. Life Itself
    The irony is that Ebert famously lost his actual voice. Yet as the extraordinary documentary Life Itself shows, that couldn’t quiet one of America’s most beloved critics and cultural commentators.
  5. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    This summer's best popcorn flick.
  6. The Hurricane
    Washington can bank on an Oscar nomination for the most forceful work of his career.
  7. The King's Speech
    Despite being about a royal family at a critical moment in history, The King's Speech doesn't shout about its many strengths. Rather, it urges you to lean in close, where its intelligence and heart come through loud and clear.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Grand Hotel
    Each and every performer in the screened Grand Hotel does a remarkable piece of work. To us, Garbo is the supreme of magnificence.
    • New York Daily News
  9. Annie Hall
    There are moments when it seems Allen’s comic muse has temporarily deserted him - but it has been replaced by something much greater. Annie Hall touches the heart.
  10. Inside Llewyn Davis
    An evocative vision of self-destruction, a gorgeously crafted time capsule, and a fantastic showcase for Oscar Isaac in the title role.
  11. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    Once in a great while there's a movie that's so funny, infectious and welcoming - a movie that makes you feel so good about America and the people in it - you just want to climb inside the screen and live there. That's the case with Dave Chappelle's Block Party - part comedy, part concert film, part avant-garde experiment, and all of it a joy.
  12. About Schmidt
    Payne achieves an impressive control over the look and tone, so that, melancholy as the movie is, it comes off as both comedy and comment on the human condition.
  13. Some Like It Hot
    The funniest comedy I’ve seen in years. There aren’t many of the hundred and four minutes of running time that doesn’t find the audience laughing its head off at the antics of Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe.
  14. Chicago
    At times, Chicago has the feel of a revue, with the major characters taking turns at their own show-stopping numbers. If it's too much of a good thing, I say, bring it on.
  15. 21 Grams
    As darkness falls over the movie landscape comes the year's darkest and best movie of them all - Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams.
  16. Vera Drake
    A marvel of character-driven drama that no serious filmgoer should miss.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Broadway Melody
    Zowie! What a picture! Humor, drama, romance, action, thrill! And how!
  18. Boyhood
    This bold movie may sound like a stunt, but it’s so much more than that. Linklater is an effortless, genial auteur, and his passions are woven through “Dazed and Confused,” “School of Rock” and the “Before Sunrise” trilogy. Here, his mellow groove becomes an everyday rhythm.
  19. Manchester by the Sea
    Despite his draw to tragic subjects, Lonergan holds onto a sharp, dark, Irish sense of humor, and a feel for the absurd that comes out at the most unexpected times. A playwright's sense of what actors do, too. Affleck gives a career-best performance here.
  20. The Truman Show
    A sunny-looking movie about the darkest paranoia.
  21. The Thin Red Line
    Here is something great and startling -- not necessarily the kind of comforting, consensus-creating film that wins Oscars, but unquestionably a movie that will live in the history of the medium.
  22. The Little Mermaid
    Audiences of all ages are bound to fall in love with this bubbly, thoroughly enchanting fish story.
  23. A Place at the Table
    As important and eye-opening a documentary as you’ll see this year, A Place at the Table makes it impossible to think of hunger as merely another symptom of a shredded social safety net.
  24. Snowden
    You might not agree with Stone that the man is a hero, but you probably do want to see the film so you can compute what the whole uproar was about.
  25. Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands
    It's said to be an autobiography, but that pertains only in the loosest sense. It's a comedy. It's a 1920s silent movie. It is practically indescribable. And it is pure genius.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Cimarron
    We can't describe the grandeur and the punch and the appeal of Cimarron. This is one picture you cannot afford to miss. It is 1931's first great contribution to the screen. We loved every minute of it!
  27. 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.
  28. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    Don't miss The Fast Runner. If you do, you will deprive yourself of not only one of the most intriguing feature-film projects in decades and enough plain-spoken anthropology for three credits at Harvard, but one of the most flat-out entertaining movies of the year.
    • New York Daily News
  29. Going My Way
    Paramount may have made a more appealing, more tenderly human and amusing picture than Going My Way, during its many years of film-making, but if so, I have missed it.
  30. Son of the Bride
    Exquisitely moving story.
    • New York Daily News
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