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For 3,962 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: 2,221 out of 3962
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3962
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3962
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  1. Y Tu Mamá También
    The funniest and most emotionally charged erotic road movie since Bertrand Blier's "Going Places."
  2. Pig
    As it proceeds, it expands its vision and compassion, even as it de-escalates the tension. It’s not about the thing it’s about, except that it ultimately is totally about the thing it’s about.
  3. The Yes Men Fix the World
    Outrageously entertaining.
  4. Stories We Tell
    So Polley has gone meta — exuberantly, entertainingly, with all her heart.
  5. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is instead an incandescent work that examines Goldin’s personal life, her evolution as an artist, and her later turn toward harm-reduction advocacy, and understands them to be part of the same journey.
  6. Loving
    It’s the damnedest thing how the longueurs of Loving have such a cumulative power. I was still crying as the credits ended.
  7. The Lost Bus
    The picture thus combines the excitement of an old-school disaster spectacle with a fly-on-the-wall portrait of institutions struggling to function in the face of a calamity. The effect is singular: We enjoy the thrill ride immensely, but it’s the realism that sticks with us. Movies end, but the fires are here to stay.
  8. Broken Embraces
    This movie is utterly irresistible.
  9. The Half of It
    In most good rom-coms you fall in love with the characters; in The Half of It you fall in love with their sheer longing.
  10. Our Brand Is Crisis
    It's hard to know whether to marvel or weep when James Carville goes into his Bill Clinton–meets–Looney Tunes act in Rachel Boynton's knockout documentary Our Brand Is Crisis--the context is so morally topsy-turvy.
  11. Beasts of No Nation
    Fukunaga’s hurtling camera and taut cutting keep Beasts of No Nation only just this side of hallucinatory, and Elba is the kind of titanic actor to kick it to a near-mythic level.
  12. Baran
    It's an elliptical tragedy in which the fate of its characters takes on a larger significance while never losing its intimacy.
  13. The Taste of Things
    Perhaps most importantly, The Taste of Things offers a perfect match between Hung’s artistic impulses and his subject matter.
  14. Gone Girl
    The movie is phenomenally gripping—although it does leave you queasy, uncertain what to take away on the subject of men, women, marriage, and the possibility of intimacy from the example of such prodigiously messed-up people.
  15. This Is Not a Film
    In totalitarian societies, artists have found all sorts of ways - some brilliantly imaginative - to disguise their political protest, but Panahi has no subterfuges left. This Is Not a Film ends with a whimper that is a bang. He must be freed.
  16. She Dies Tomorrow
    She Dies Tomorrow is one of the scariest movies I’ve seen in a long time.
  17. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    The off-kilter, absurdist vibe of the picture is enchanting, but it’s rooted in deep horror: The whole movie is about the ways that cruelty and injustice become codified. Sometimes, the only way to preserve your sanity is to go a little insane yourself.
  18. The Invisible Woman
    With her swanlike neck and ever-flushing complexion, Felicity Jones has a perfect nineteenth-century look, but there’s something forward and modern about her physiognomy, her huge eyes and strong nose and overbite. As she gazes down in enforced modesty, you feel her soul about to burst. The performance is startlingly vivid.
  19. The Assistant
    What makes the film such a spare but searingly insightful treatment of the issues at the core of Me Too is the way it refuses to separate its unseen executive’s sexual predation from the larger structures that enable it.
  20. Familiar Touch
    Chalfant is one of those acclaimed theater actors who has never found the same showcase for her talents onscreen, and the delicacy of what she does in this role is astounding.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Perfect Murder
    Andrew Davis, the director of "The Fugitive," one of the best thrillers of recent years, has added pace and heat and explicit sexuality to the material without whipping up phony excitement.
  22. Grand Tour
    The film returns us to a childlike gaze, marveling at a world alive with possibility, where every sight lives on a continuum of meaning.
  23. Persepolis
    Satrapi’s parents ship her off to a French school in Vienna, but she’s rudderless, ungrounded. She’s drawn back to a devastated Tehran, where she can’t design a life, either. This great film, by Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, is that life, designed. It freed her mind; it frees ours.
  24. Once Within a Time
    Once Within a Time runs 52 minutes, and it’s so lovely, funny, and charming that it feels like 15. But when it’s over, you feel like you’ve seen the world.
  25. Run Lola Run
    A movie that really zips along; it offers some of the same pleasures as the silent slapstick comedies, particularly the Keaton films, with their sense of how sheer velocity carries its own wit.
  26. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Burton, bless him, constricts the space and concentrates the melodrama; he finds the perfect balance between the funereal and the ferocious. Above all, he treasures these ghouls: He digs both their bloodlust and their melancholy.
  27. Chris & Don. A Love Story
    Chris & Don is the rarest of documentaries: a realistic portrait of the human spirit.
  28. An Honest Liar
    Whatever his foibles, An Honest Liar depicts a great American original — a man who has taught a generation of scientists, magicians, and even certain film critics that our senses must be trained to detect the smell of bullshit.
  29. Notes on a Scandal
    Anyone who loves live-wire acting will gasp in awe at Blanchett, more emotionally exposed than ever, and, most of all, at Dame Judi, who’s so electric she makes you quiver.
  30. Vortex
    There’s an unflinching, near-clinical relentlessness to the picture, but therein lies its compassion and empathy.
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