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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Big Short
    Taking Michael Lewis’ seminal book about the meltdown as source material, director Adam McKay channels his own anger into something rarely even attempted by Hollywood, let alone pulled off: a comedy about a tragedy.
  2. Gifted
    Comparisons to the classic 1979 Oscar winner "Kramer vs. Kramer" are inevitable. But Gifted stands on its own because it feels more like reality than a Hollywood take on family crisis.
  3. The Edge of Seventeen
    Steinfeld is brilliantly able to weave together a character who's both typical and yet surprising in her multidimensional emotions that Nadine slowly works through. She's not a cookie-cutter character.
  4. 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.
  5. Baby Driver
    Amid all the high-speed action, this “Baby” is also spiked with humor. In large part that's thanks to Spacey and Foxx, as well as Jon Hamm, who makes the bank robber Buddy, one of his better movie roles. Having such strong actors also brings a gravitas to the story.
  6. Wonder Woman
    We get it, and DC finally should, too: Superhero movies can be fun. And Wonder Woman is a movie that'd send even the Suicide Squad home smiling.
  7. Chungking Express
    Experimental in form, it's also open and appealing in its vision of romantic redemption, an avant-garde romp that's also a great date movie. [8 Mar 1996, p.40]
    • New York Daily News
  8. Breaking the Waves
    One of the most emotionally devastating movies of the decade.
  9. Gigi
    The direction is excellent and Freed is to be congratulated on the production as a whole, as the story is presented in an original and enticing manner.
  10. Out of Africa
    Out of Africa is still an absolute knockout. It provides such an enchanting glimpse of the paradise that Dinesen tragically lost that audiences will completely understand her other grand passion for Africa itself.
  11. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    It’s not just “Impossible,” it’s irresistible.
  12. Do the Right Thing
    In the final analysis, the best thing one can say for Lee is that he takes risks, like all true artists. For unlike most of today's film makers, he's not afraid to really challenge a movie audience to do some serious thinking.
  13. Elizabeth
    A fascinating whirl of politics and palace intrigue.
  14. Away from Her
    Even those who've long noted Polley's intelligence on screen will be amazed by the perception she displays as a filmmaker.
  15. Rosemary's Baby
    Polanski’s direction is smooth and the film itself happily understated. The tension created is practically unbearable.
  16. Jerry Maguire
    Working from his own original screenplay, Crowe builds a story line full of unexpected twists and digressions.
  17. The Anniversary Party
    A caustic, funny, low-budget treat, shot on digital video.
  18. Nine Queens
    Clever, compelling, funny and unpredictable, and it has a lollapa-looza of an ending.
    • New York Daily News
  19. Shot in the Heart
    As wide-ranging, and yet as sharply focused, as Mikal Gilmore's book.
  20. Secret Ballot
    Yet another film from Iran that has the leisurely pace, sly humor and incontrovertible wisdom of a Sufi parable.
  21. Stardust
    While it won't rival the Harry Potter movies as a cultural milestone, the luminous, irresistible Stardust is no less industrious at scavenging myths and legends and making something altogether new from the familiar pickings.
  22. Underground
    Delirious in its excess, but never less than ferociously intelligent and operatically emotional, Underground represents one of those rare, exhilarating moments when an outsize artistic vision is fueled by an apparently unlimited budget. Not to be missed.
  23. Capturing the Friedmans
    This extraordinary film refracts truth through the prism of memory, until what you get is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, full of sacrifice and betrayal.
  24. Corpse Bride
    The story itself is a smooth little gem.
  25. Ever After
    The pleasure of Ever After is that it never takes itself seriously. [31Jul1998, Pg. 47]
    • New York Daily News
  26. Chop Shop
    Ale's community is like a band of pirates - collegial, bickering, larcenous and supportive - and his life within it is both heartening and heartbreaking.
  27. Occupation: Dreamland
    Straightforward and immensely powerful, the movie offers a blunt assessment of the war from soldiers currently fighting it, and their perspective is not pretty.
  28. La Ciudad (The City)
    Sensational...as authentic as news footage, and far more intimate.
  29. Solas
    A simple story that resonates deeply, largely thanks to the actors' ability to invest it with inner life.
  30. Shrek 2
    Shrek 2 delivers more fun than there is slime in a green ogre's swamp. Much of that is thanks to Antonio ­Banderas, who runs away with Shrek 2 on little cat feet.
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