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For 3,961 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,220 out of 3961
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3961
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3961
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  1. Meeting with Pol Pot
    Rithy’s aim goes beyond a history lesson, however. This film is about something more alive, more present tense.
  2. Beginners
    Mike Mills's marvelously inventive romantic comedy Beginners is pickled in sadness, loss, and the belief that humans (especially when they mate) are stunted by their parents' buried secrets, their own genetic makeup, and our sometimes-sociopathic social norms.
  3. The Last King of Scotland
    The film is phenomenally well directed by Kevin Macdonald and edited by Justine Wright to bring out every bit of scary volatility in the most casual interactions.
  4. Tracks
    In the end, the point of this ridiculous, arduous, oft-interrupted odyssey turns out to be elusive — and is all the richer for it.
  5. Wanted
    It takes about an hour after it's over for the heart to slow, the brain to recalibrate, and the nonsensicalness of the thing to sink in.
  6. Iron Man
    Loyal assistant, Pepper Potts, isn't much of a part, but Gwyneth Paltrow is a presence. She stands around looking amused and flabbergastingly pretty, slinging wisecracks with serene aplomb.
  7. Avatar
    Avatar may be derivative, but it’s not insincere. Cameron clearly feels every beat of the story along with his viewer. He lets us discover Pandora through Jake Sully’s (Sam Worthington) eyes, first as a fearsome, terrifying place, then as a land of unimaginable awe and delight. [2022 re-release]
  8. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    Demme is in such perfect sync with Young's music that even the painted prairie backdrop (and the painted farmhouse interior screen, complete with hearth, that slides in front of it) only makes you roll your eyes in retrospect.
  9. Shiva Baby
    A perfectly engineered and performed piece of comic cringe.
  10. Time
    Time is an extraordinary documentary from director and artist Garrett Bradley, who didn’t make a film about Rich and her family so much as make one with them.
  11. Paterson
    I’ve never seen a film that captures the inner world of an artist with such delicacy.
  12. Pompei: Below the Clouds
    Shot in black and white and filled with images of collapse, Below the Clouds is nevertheless a strangely hopeful work.
  13. A Prairie Home Companion
    Sometimes you forget how great an actor is, then he or she is reborn in an Altman movie.
  14. Lost in La Mancha
    A mesmerizing documentary.
  15. Holler
    Getting sucked into these people’s lives means experiencing the story in all its immediacy, sans judgment. Holler is too entertaining and well-made to be overly dour, too full of suspense and throwaway bits of cinematic elegance. It marks the arrival of a major new directorial talent.
  16. 45 Years
    The movie has momentously disturbing ideas but a fine grain, its images suitable for framing — or hiding away in the attic.
  17. A House of Dynamite
    The director’s latest, her first film in seven years, is an absurdly riveting thriller with the kind of ticking-clock, military-grade suspense the director does so well.
  18. The Pinochet Case
    The Pinochet Case is a searing album of remembrance from those who, having survived, suffered most.
  19. The Power of the Dog
    Campion preserves the simplicity of Savage’s prose with the understated ease of her own storytelling, and she even finds a compelling way to navigate the novel’s somewhat outdated dime-store Freudian conceits.
  20. Shirkers
    Shirkers is a joy, but it also feels haunted, as if Tan had the unique opportunity to unearth a perfectly preserved clone of her younger, more idealistic self.
  21. Neptune Frost
    Neptune Frost is a mission statement by way of a musical, and its defining image is a middle finger taking up the whole lens.
  22. Krisha
    There’s an extended shot in Trey Edward Shults’s remarkable debut feature, Krisha, that’s a showstopper of bad vibes, a psycho-symphony that bumps the film to a different — more ominous — level of reality.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Night of the Living Dead
    Witness as the African-American protagonist (who has kept the panicked survivors alive) meets a fate that has more to do with prejudice than carnivorous appetites. Sometimes reality can be as brutal as any nightmare alternative in celluloid.
  24. The Quiet American
    Beautifully directed by Phillip Noyce, the film -- is a full experience, a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence.
  25. The Lighthouse
    The Lighthouse is such an effective exercise in projecting claustrophobia, in both a physical and psychological sense, that it’d be unbearable to watch if it weren’t so funny. Thankfully, it’s a scream.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Love and Death on Long Island
    Writer-director Richard Kwietniowski has never made a feature before, but this debut effort is a triumph, a buoyant and elegant achievement -- romantic and ruminative yet always precise, a comedy of longing propelled by a strong current of satirical observation.
  27. Win Win
    Blessed is the go-for-it movie that can make room for dissonances and weirdness.
  28. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
    Utterly demented and magnificent.
  29. Dahomey
    If the rest of the film takes a somber, poetic perspective on the symbolic and literal nature of this partial restoration of a lost heritage, its youth represents a bold, discordant, and exciting counterpoint — vital and engaged, looking toward a future they demand be better than the past.
  30. The Card Counter
    What makes The Card Counter so delicious, aside from the Mad Libs quality of the way it connects card playing and government-sanctioned torture, is that the movie undermines the Spartan swagger of William’s half-existence as often as it basks in it.
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