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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. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    A masterpiece? Probably. Ingenious? Absolutely! Unforgettable? I'll see you at the 10th-year anniversary.
  2. The Best of Youth
    After all the observations on heartache, politics, art, commerce, passion, identity, mortality, even mental health, six hours begin to seem downright compact.
  3. Whiplash
    Teller delivers a career-making performance as Andrew Neyman, a 19-year-old jazz drummer who wants to be great. Like Buddy Rich great.
  4. The Lives of Others
    Except for Hempf, every character is under incredible duress, and the performances are exceptional. With his first feature, an Oscar nominee for foreign-language film, von Donnersmarck has certainly left his mark.
  5. House of Flying Daggers
    The most gorgeous movie of the year. This smashing martial-arts romance from Chinese director Zhang Yimou is stunning in other ways, too, like the eroticism that ripples just beneath the surface.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Treasure Island
    Newton's eye-rolling Silver has been much impersonated but never equaled. Disney's first live-action feature was vividly shot in Technicolor by Freddie Young. [10 Nov 2002]
    • New York Daily News
  7. Man on Wire
    History has made his midair stroll meaningful, but the film shows how even then, everyone - from Petit to his accomplices to the cops who were waiting for him atop the North Tower - recognized the stunt's crazy poetry.
  8. Y Tu Mamá También
    Like watching an American teen-sex comedy through a glass darkly.
    • New York Daily News
  9. Still Walking
    An usually insightful rendering of an ordinary family, Hirokazu Kore-eda's contemplative Japanese drama is the sort of movie that makes its greatest impact long after you've seen it.
  10. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    Though Borat has been likened to "Jackass," there's a huge difference. The "Jackass" movies are about extreme stunts. Borat is about interaction and gullibility, and its success is unique to both Cohen and to this one-time-only movie.
    • 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.
  12. No End in Sight
    The most compelling and least partisan of all the Iraq documentaries.
  13. It's a Wonderful Life
    The film is too sprawling in extent, too noisy as to background music and voices and much too obvious in the application of its social significance notes. But while it isn’t the best picture to come out of Hollywood this year, nor is it Capra’s masterpiece, it tells a good story and its conclusion has a heart-warming effect on the audience.
  14. The Artist
    In this film, a single word is worth more than all the expensive effects imaginable.
  15. Letters from Iwo Jima
    "Letters" isn't about numbers or the battle or even the morality of war. It's about the sanctity of life and how we value our own.
  16. Anomalisa
    The film’s thoughtful script and astounding craft portray a tragic inner psychological battle.
  17. Funny Girl
    You can reexperience the humor and magic -- and the essence of Streisand -- in this William Wyler classic.
  18. I'm Going Home
    With this moving, contemplative portrait of an artist who has suddenly become an old man, de Oliveira refuses to patronize either his hero or his audience.
  19. The Lion King
    Pure, eye-popping pleasure.
  20. How Green Was My Valley
    The dialogue follows the quaint Welsh dialect of the book and the picture is as faithful a transcription of novel to screen as it is possible for a scenarist and director to achieve. The screen play, by Philip Dunne, retains all the honest vigor and tender charm of the book.
  21. The Little Mermaid
    Audiences of all ages are bound to fall in love with this bubbly, thoroughly enchanting fish story.
  22. A Serious Man
    The humor is sharp and so are the judgments, which pile on until the characters are nearly suffocated under the weight of so much disdain.
  23. Capote
    What "Capote" fails to reveal to the audience is the sense of a homoerotic attraction between the author and Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.). It is more than implied that one exists, but there isn't a scene between them that supports it or even makes it believable.
  24. Miracle on 34th Street
    It is light, it is charming, it is delightfully funny and completely captivating. It is all that, and something more. It has an undefinable spiritual quality that raises the spirits of the beholder into a happy, hopeful mood.
  25. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    In the end, it's all about McDormand, who’s great at playing ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances.
  26. Overlord [re-release]
    Though made 31 years after D-Day, the dramatic scenes have the period look of a '40s movie, which links them perfectly with the stunning archival footage.
  27. A Film Unfinished
    A kind of historical detective story made up of haunting montages, including a theater performance featuring a heartbroken musician that's absolutely chilling.
  28. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    The result is a film almost too reliant on its players to push it through.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Winter Sleep
    Winter Sleep won’t appeal to action lovers, but if you like endless verbal warfare, this is a joy.
  30. Citizenfour
    So is he a martyred patriot or a misguided traitor? And is it possible he’s both? Poitras comes down firmly on one side, and she makes a strong case. But the movie would have been stronger still if she’d acknowledged the alternative view.
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