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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. Being John Malkovich
    Gloriously inventive, delightfully nutty comic treasure is unlike anything you've ever seen. It's lunatic.
  2. Captain Phillips
    The most gripping based-on-fact film so far this year.
  3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    This year’s foreign language Oscar scandal – there is always at least one – is the snub of director Cristian Mungiu’s disturbing, masterful realist drama following two college roommates as they carry out plans for one’s black market abortion in Communist Romania.
  4. Don't Look Now
    The movie is set in a gloriously creepy and crumbling Venice. It's the off-season, and every deserted canal and alleyway reeks of bad vibes. Roeg plays masterfully with this menacing atmosphere, jangling the nerves with quick cuts and quixotic possibilities. [16 Oct 1998, p.72]
    • New York Daily News
  5. 95 Miles to Go
    If you've had a hole in your heart since "Everybody Loves Raymond" ended, Tom Caltabiano's low-key documentary about star Ray Romano ought to fill the gap nicely.
  6. Happy Feet
    In the year of the animated movie, this one soars above them all.
  7. Monkey Kingdom
    If you don’t love monkeys already — and really, we all should — then Monkey Kingdom will swing you in the right direction.
  8. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
    Spielberg's direction and Melissa Mathison's script never lose sight of the realistic, low center of gravity world of childhood, in which such marvelous adventures happen every day that an alien knocking around the garage is not really such an unusual occurrence. [2002 re-release]
  9. Hairspray
    A great big sloppy kiss of entertainment for audiences weary of explosions, CGI effects and sequels, sequels, sequels.
  10. Toy Story 3
    While the vocal performances of Hanks, Allen and company make up a perfect ensemble, and its visual leaps astound, TS3's real power sneaks up on you.
  11. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    Director Werner Herzog's latest cinematic mind trip blows you away with its beauty.
  12. Rebecca
    The suspense of the story is magnificently sustained throughout the film, which didn't surprise us, as maintaining suspense in a story has always been Director Hitchcock's forte
  13. Mutual Appreciation
    Andrew Bujalski's considerable gifts begin with his deep appreciation of the miserable, hilarious awkwardness of real life.
  14. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Handsome, passionate and fun. It's everything we go to the movies for.
  15. Star Trek Into Darkness
    The result is a stunningly nervy sequel that vaporizes any worries that Abrams’ terrific 2009 reboot was a fluke.
  16. American Honey
    The film slowly, slowly blossoms into an emotional wildflower by the end, leaving us with a scene that is kind of spontaneous road baptism, an unsure note of spiritual birth.
  17. 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.
  18. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    Remains funnier than almost any comedy made in this generation. And since we are, once again, embarked in global warfare, it's as timely as it has ever been. [24 Apr 2004, p.67]
    • New York Daily News
  19. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    Perfectly delightful screen entertainment. The film is as charming as it is novel in conception and execution and it is so bound to appeal as strongly to grown-ups as to youngsters.
  20. The Pirogue
    Every moment feels human and true, from the naive optimism of the trip's sendoff to its unsparingly realistic conclusion, which trades reckless hope for quiet honor.
  21. Traffic
    Borderline brilliant. Tackles the war on drugs from a kaleidoscope of perspectives.
  22. Singin' in the Rain
    In this picture, the screen’s greatest dancer contributes some of his art of choreography for the special pleasure of movie audiences.
  23. On the Waterfront
    Outstanding performances are turned in by Karl Malden in the role of a priest who makes the waterfront characters his particular charge, by Lee J. Cobb, as the big bully who bosses the boys, by Rod Steiger, John Hamilton and a couple of well-known pugilists, Tony Galento and Tami Mauriello.
  24. Inside Out
    Inside Out is the year’s best film so far. After you see it, you’ll say that’s a no-brainer.
  25. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    The sunny, funny, toe-tapping Lagaan is the answer to those who ask why they don't make movies like they used to: They do, but in India.
  26. Memento
    One of the most original and ultimately confounding mind games to reach the screen since "The Usual Suspects."
    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    It's action-packed, darker, more epic and thankfully schmaltz-free. And it's the best "Harry Potter" film yet.
  28. The Avengers
    Most impressive of all, The Avengers makes superhero movies new again - a colossal task indeed.
  29. The Tillman Story
    Mary's search drives The Tillman Story, and throughout this taut, true epic, we see a smart, sometimes angry, always loving family find their destiny: to speak truth to power, to call wartime myths what they are and to show how the American character is not about blind obedience.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
    Among the ties with the past, the opening portion introduces a comic orgy that is deliberate parallel cantina scene in “Star Wars” and among the new thrills there is an airborne vehicle chase through a forest, projected at a speed to leave audiences dizzy.
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