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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. The Edge of Heaven
    The Edge of Heaven is powerfully unsettled--it comes together by not coming together.
  2. Jauja
    Jauja is a rapturously bizarre movie that resists knowledge. That’s its secret, intoxicating power; the less you understand, the more mesmerized you are.
  3. Cadillac Records
    The ensemble is stupendous--howlingly great--and the music goes deep.
  4. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    Very entertaining (and doesn’t overstay its welcome) but it’s a little depressing to contemplate.
  5. Drag Me to Hell
    Truly, this is manna from hell.
  6. A Serious Man
    A Serious Man is not only hauntingly original, it’s the final piece of the puzzle that is the Coens. Combine suburban alienation, philosophical inquiry, moral seriousness, a mixture of respect for and utter indifference to Torah, and, finally, a ton of dope, and you get one of the most remarkable oeuvres in modern film.
  7. Rose
    Not an image is wasted. Not a single line of dialogue feels unnecessary, or a subplot tangential.
  8. Mystic River
    Sean Penn is so frighteningly good in this movie that he outdoes even the best of his earlier work.
  9. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
    The new Star Wars, Episode VIII: The Last Jedi is shockingly good.
  10. Apocalypse in the Tropics
    It’s rich and dense, but it’s also propelled along by current events, accelerating as things reach their fearsome climax with the assault on Brasília — on those very federal buildings that 60-plus years ago held such promise. The terror and the tragedy on display are matched by the beauty of Costa’s filmmaking.
  11. Crazy Love
    It takes some time to realize we're in a maelstrom--going down down down into a saga of obsession, sadism, masochism, and codependency that was and remains one of the great, sick tabloid stories of all time.
  12. Another Round
    The delight of the exuberantly bittersweet closing sequence comes from the way it fulfills a promise the audience doesn’t realize, until that point, has been made.
  13. Battle for Haditha
    Battle for Haditha has some of the raw energy of Sam Fuller's war pictures, which weren't subtle but left you energized by their ambivalence (there was no good or evil). It's a hell of a picture.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Gambler
    The Gambler is a perceptive and remarkably paced drama, with director Karel Reisz in full command of his medium. [07 Oct 1974, p.93]
    • New York Magazine (Vulture)
  15. The Aristocrats
    Gloriously filthy, ramshackle, endearing documentary.
  16. Jurassic World
    Whatever else you say about Jurassic World, its amazing special effects — not just hurtling dinosaurs but flying killer pterodactyls — make it one of the most rousing people-running-away-from-stuff movies ever made. At its best, it’s good enough to take your mind off its worst, which is saying a lot.
  17. Chop Shop
    Bahrani’s concentration is close to supernatural as he tracks the young, prepubescent Ale (Alejandro Polanco) from job to soul-numbing job, some legal, some extralegal, to the point where you’re forced to suspend altogether your moral judgments and watch with a mixture of pain and awe.
  18. Source Code
    It's a crackerjack ride, shot and edited for maximum discombobulation.
  19. Manakamana
    It’s the closest I’ve seen a film come to an act of genuine hypnosis.
  20. Entrapment
    Connery and Zeta-Jones not only look great together, they work well together.
  21. Katyn
    It is filmed with simplicity, a purity of intent, and I wanted to watch the faces of these men in their last seconds of life--not for the sake of history, but because of Wajda's imperative to put his father's death onscreen. He needed to do this. And somehow, sanity is restored.
  22. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    The film’s set pieces are built around comedy, with bits of (cleverly choreographed and directed) action and suspense to add some urgency, not the other way around.
  23. The Handmaiden
    I still don’t know how a gore-meister like Park Chan-wook could have made the year’s most irresistible romance. Maybe it’s that he hates oppression — chauvinist, colonialist, Sadean — so deeply that in hoisting his old boys on their own petards, he has discovered the wellsprings of love.
  24. Cairo Time
    Think "In the Mood for Love" with hookahs instead of chopsticks.
  25. The Salt of the Earth
    It’s a fascinating meeting of three minds, and perspectives. Chief among them is Salgado himself.
  26. Get On Up
    Tate Taylor’s film cares less about narrative clarity and more about portraying a life lived between the extremes of sin and grace, between the abject and the sublime. It’s lively, stylized, and genuinely surprising.
  27. Nicholas Nickleby
    Showcases some of the world’s finest and funniest actors having a high old time. It’s best enjoyed as a kind of traveling music-hall revue.
  28. The Naked Kiss
    The Naked Kiss is a gut punch with the rhythm of a dream.
  29. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    As Jay and Silent Bob, Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith are the perfect comedy team for smart, dirty-minded 15-year-olds, which means just about all of us.
  30. A Complete Unknown
    A Complete Unknown doesn’t attempt to offer up a solution to the enigma that is Bob Dylan. It does something more achievable — shows us what it’s like to bob around the wake of greatness.
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