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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. Star Trek
    The new Star Trek is more than a coat of paint on a space-age wagon train. It's an exciting, stellar-yet-earthy blast that successfully blends the hip and the classic.
  2. Mumford
    Among the funniest and most satisfying films I've seen in years.
  3. The Cave of the Yellow Dog
    It's the perfect antidote to overprocessed entertainment, for moviegoers of any age.
  4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    A masterpiece? Probably. Ingenious? Absolutely! Unforgettable? I'll see you at the 10th-year anniversary.
  5. Notting Hill
    The overall result is a romantic comedy that indulges fantasies, calms insecurities (can an ordinary bloke stack up?), and breaks and mends hearts with surgical precision.
  6. Sunset Boulevard
    It is a realistic drama, conceived and written into a brilliant and provocative screen play. [11 Aug 1950, p.52]
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  7. Chimpanzee
    Chimpanzee lets everyone feel like a mini-Jane Goodall.
  8. Chasing Ice
    This amazingly beautiful, and amazingly frightening, documentary captures the immediacy of what climate change is doing to the Arctic landscape.
  9. The Deer Hunter
    In ferociously intense, chillingly brutal scenes, this bravely innovative, kingsized movie (one should be warned that it runs over three hours) enables one to fully understand why this particular war not only destroyed the hopes and dreams of America’s young men, but why it left so many of them permanently shattered and alienated from society.
  10. L.A. Confidential
    A juicy noir stew of amorality that's the best thing since "Chinatown."
  11. The Bridge on the River Kwai
    Brilliant performances are to be credited to Alec Guinness, as the British colonel, who insists on sticking to the rules of the Geneva Conference governing prisoners of war, and Sessue Hayakawa as the stubborn, cruel, proud Japanese officer.
  12. Crazy Heart
    Gyllenhaal is charming and makes unexpected choices in her performance, but this is Bridges' show, and he's as Best Actor-worthy as he's ever been.
  13. Racing Extinction
    If a documentary can be both alarming and oddly reassuring, it's the gripping splash of cold cinematic water Racing Extinction.
  14. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    The story Stiller tells manages to float in a most peculiar, satisfying way.
  15. Mad Max: Fury Road
    Strap in, load up and hang on because Mad Max: Fury Road is a freaky, ballsy, phenomenal ride.
  16. The Spectacular Now
    The focus in James Ponsoldt’s affecting, intelligent drama is a pair of teenagers, and in them is so much complexity and heart that this casually paced gem feels rich in scope. They’re two of the most carefully created figures on screen this year, and yet their normalness takes us by surprise.
  17. While We're Young
    Noah Baumbach’s sensational satirical drama While We’re Young is, finally, a movie for grownups to run out and see.
  18. Oldboy
    This hunt for revenge is really a quest for self-discovery. The story, acting and brilliant directing elevate Oldboy into a human struggle to know yourself and your place in the universe, and to live with that sometimes terrible knowledge.
  19. The End of the Tour
    One of the best movies of the year.
  20. Anomalisa
    The film’s thoughtful script and astounding craft portray a tragic inner psychological battle.
  21. Umberto D (re-release)
    Universally appealing story that plays as well now as it did on opening day a half-century ago. Maybe better.
  22. Affliction
    Schrader and Nolte are both at the height of their expressive powers in a film that, in its concentration and sobriety, leaves a lasting impression.
  23. Radio Unnameable
    Rarely has any film, fictional or documentary, captured the hypnotic effect of voices on the airwaves like this chronicle of Bob Fass.
  24. Silence
    Silence is a slowly unfolding, deeply thoughtful film about questioning yourself. About questioning authority. About taking stock of where you've failed as a human being, and wondering how you can make amends — to yourself, to others, and to God.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Holy Motors
    Each episode of director Leos Carax's film perfectly masters the exact tone of a different genre, finding precisely the saddest moment in each of its vignettes.
  26. The Sea Inside
    Based on a true story, the movie has abundant humor and uplift - but it's a heartbreaker of extraordinary dimension.
  27. Rachel Getting Married
    A film that is both deceptively modest and deeply resonant.
  28. Gone with the Wind
    The picture is real, full of vitality and of so much human waywardness and nobility of spirit that it tears your heart out in sympathy with its tender and tragic passages and makes you want to shout with joy at its hearty humor.
  29. Inception
    When was the last time you had your mind blown by a movie? Because when Inception ends and the lights come up, you'll be sitting in your seat, staring at the screen, wondering what the hell just happened.
  30. Army of Shadows
    It's a white-knuckler all the way, with most of that tension coming from the smallest facial expressions exchanged in uneasy silence between compatriots who knew what they were getting into, but were nevertheless unprepared for the moral and emotional fallout of their patriotic actions.
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