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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. Sex and the City
    The movie's beating heart is the friendship between the women, who had found some sort of happiness by the show's 2004 finale. Now they're all at a personal crossroads and need one another more than ever.
  2. The Two Escobars
    The Zimbalists have unearthed a trove of footage, which they effectively blend with a full range of surprisingly honest interviews. As a result, the story of two individuals expands into a portrait of an entire country, in almost unthinkable distress.
  3. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    Director David Yates, who helmed the last four "Harry Potter" films, is in his element with this mix of wand-waving and rollicking adventure. He keeps the overstuffed story zipping along for the most part. And he's thrown in all the eye-popping wonders that $180 million can buy.
  4. The Way Back
    The man-versus-the-natural world story is in Weir's wheelhouse, and Harris and Farrell get into a scene-stealing duel. Worth the trek.
  5. Kung Fu Panda 2
    Kung Fu Panda 2 plunks down squarely in the spot marked for "chop-socky action with heart."
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In the Name of My Daughter
    Best of all is Deneuve, who brilliantly justifies her position as French cinema's First Lady.
  7. Keep the Lights On
    A well-written, sensitively directed relationship drama. In most circumstances, that's all it would be - and that would be enough. But lead Thure Lindhardt pushes the picture into realms of such exposed intimacy, you almost feel like you're dating him yourself.
  8. Kubo and the Two Strings
    The tale is layered and lovely, although talk about the real self, eternity and death will stun the adults in the audience.
  9. Detropia
    What the movie captures overall looks like a scene from a sci-fi, postapocalyptic nightmare.
  10. Wonder Wheel
    It’s not top Woody, perhaps. What is, anymore? But on a cold day, it’s as welcome as the familiar smell of greasy fries, the feel of gritty sand, the winking of those far-off colored lights.
  11. Maidentrip
    Director Jillian Schlesinger’s documentary does a terrific job countering everyone’s assumptions. Maidentrip is a clear-eyed chronicle of Dekker’s record-breaking voyage. Think “All Is Lost,” but real, and with a teenage girl instead of Robert Redford (plus a very different ending).
  12. Ajami
    But don't worry if you miss some details; this is the kind of movie that rewards a second viewing.
  13. Ben-Hur
    The race alone is well worth the price of admission.
  14. Salt
    Fast-moving, exciting and contains more twists than a tunnel under Checkpoint Charlie.
  15. Red Sparrow
    People who crave a movie about a secret agent with her own sexual agency — and a mission to give male predators exactly what they deserve — are going to want front-row seats. And a sequel.
  16. Attack the Block
    The cast is splendid, the script quick-witted and the action satisfying.
  17. Wadjda
    This resonant film, detailing struggles in a far-flung place, represents world cinema in the classic sense.
  18. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Even those who adored Alec Guinness as the small-screen George Smiley will appreciate Gary Oldman's perfectly attuned turn as a Cold War spy drawn back from forced retirement.
  19. Green Zone
    The cast is strong, and Damon is a dependable center for all this, a classic American good guy wanting to know what's rotten and why.
  20. Cast Away
    The island phase of Hanks' performance is simply amazing.
  21. Return to Me
    This romantic comedy is about a love that is destined to be, and it celebrates that warm huddle of caring and craziness called family.
  22. Keeping Mum
    A giddy black comedy about a homicidal housekeeper in rural England, is a hilarious reminder of that 1944 Frank Capra classic about two old maids whose cellar is cluttered with the bodies of would-be suitors.
  23. Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda
    Lee pushes this joyride into stimulation overdrive, playing with colors and film speeds and surfaces and shadows until it makes perfect sense that a movie should be all about energy, rather than -- well, about anything else at all.
  24. Romance
    No other mainstream movie has so openly tackled the subject of female sexual experience.
  25. House of Sand
    This epic tale of survival, love and adjustment covers a 59-year period - from 1910, when a band of urban émigrés arrives to start a settlement, to 1969, when only one of them remains.
  26. Teacher's Pet
    By deftly blending silliness and sophistication, this little movie does its part to stem the technological tide.
  27. Music of the Heart
    No actress of her generation inhabits characters as thoroughly and convincingly as she (Streep) does, and this performance carries the movie
  28. Crazy/Beautiful
    An impressive portrait of the migraine of teenage girlhood, and also works on the more modest level of teen romance.
  29. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
    The results are impressive. Maybe, as the U.S. falls abysmally behind other nations in the sciences, it will get kids interested in that field again.
  30. Startup.com
    Some of the simplest shots give you the full picture of the price these guys paid for their dreams.
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