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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. Spirited Away
    Turns everything we know about the contemporary world on its head, and substitutes it with one in which spirits, monsters, magicians and animals mix it up in a carnival of energy, good humor and freewheeling illusion.
  2. Ride with the Devil
    The best movie I've seen this year.
  3. Amadeus
    Amadeus is about as close to perfection as movies get. [2002 Director's Cut]
  4. An American in Paris
    Kelly is superb as dancer and comedian, but a little less than that as a singer of Gershwin songs. Leslie Caron, who dances like an angel, is no beauty, according to Hollywood standards, but she is endowed with great grace and personal charm. She is an exquisite dancer. An American in Paris, in short, is definitely a picture to see.
  5. Amour
    Small victories that turn into defeats, long walks to gain little ground, little wounds that get deeper every day - growing old is a war, and movies rarely go there. Michael Haneke's amazing, dignified Amour is the exception.
  6. Ordinary People
    It is nearly impossible to look at this brilliantly executed movie without being moved to tears.
  7. Rushmore
    One of the freshest, richest, most original films to come out of Hollywood in a very long time.
  8. Mulholland Dr.
    For film buffs and Lynch fans, this is a glorious high.
  9. Her
    Will you relate more to the bitter, or embrace the sweet? The choice itself is Jonze’s ultimate gift to us: an invitation to leave his film ready to communicate, debate and, most crucially of all, connect.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Timbuktu
    The movie's Islamists aren't true believers but a bunch of thugs. A madwoman who dismisses them with a blunt word has much greater moral authority.
  11. Central Station
    Normally the sound in movie theaters is of popcorn crunching. But the sound at theaters where Central Station is showing is of hearts breaking.
    • New York Daily News
  12. Blackfish
    An extraordinary, must-see examination of what humans do to killer whales so that these amazing creatures can become one more entertainment.
  13. The Lion King
    Pure, eye-popping pleasure.
  14. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    Among an excellent cast, Douglas truly is the nexus; he and Stone make this sequel pay off big-time.
  15. I Wish
    Kore-eda does extraordinary work with his young cast, who deliver gentle, natural performances in a beautifully told story of heartbreak and hope. Deceptively modest and utterly lovely, it's one of the most magical films about childhood I have ever seen.
  16. A Man for All Seasons
    A faithful and beautifully impressive transition to the screen of Robert Bolt's superb historical play.
  17. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is awe-inspiring.
  18. Hugo
    All the actors are wonderful, including Sacha Baron Cohen as a villainous Inspector.
  19. Gone Girl
    Fincher is a fearless filmmaker who understands his audience’s intelligence (not to mention their cinematic blood lust). By the end of Gone Girl, we feel like we’ve lived through about four movies, not just one. Good luck letting go of any of them.
  20. Happiness
    Masterful.
    • New York Daily News
  21. American Movie
    Smith's gleeful, touching documentary records the agony and the ecstasy of realizing your dream, and intangible ways that such dreams help keep people alive.
  22. La La Land
    Stone, who wowed on Broadway in “Cabaret,” again shows off some beautiful pipes. She captivates completely from her first frame. Then again, so does La La Land — a singing love letter to musicals, romance and the City of Angels that feels almost like a gift from above.
  23. The Sound of Music
    Robert Wise has transformed the delightful Rodgers and Hammerstein musical stage production of "The Sound of Music" into a magical film in which Julie Andrews gives an endearing performance in the role of Maria, the governess.
  24. 42
    Boseman is watchful, winning and confident, but never saintly. Yet he keeps Robinson’s moral spine aligned with his skill and self-respect, showing how he needed all of those to succeed.
  25. All Is Lost
    Redford will surely earn a well-deserved Oscar nomination for this role, to which he commits with unerring dedication. But the real star is writer/director Chandor, whose painstaking approach is exquisite in its spare integrity.
  26. 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.
  27. The Wizard of Oz
    Judy Garland is perfectly cast as Dorothy. She is as clever a little actress as she is a singer and her special style of vocalizing is ideally adapted to the music of the picture.
  28. L'Enfant (The Child)
    Powerfully uplifting precisely because it's so horrifying.
  29. American Hustle
    There’s a great fever-dream quality to David O. Russell’s American Hustle that instantly reels you in.
  30. Oliver!
    Oliver! is a timeless classic that will be as lovable in 10 or 20 years as it is today.
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