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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. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    Fortunately, it never dips into bathos. These two actors SHOULD be noticed. They've crafted the most ingenious résumé of the year.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Name Is Albert Ayler
    Kasper Collin’s documentary puts a human face on Ayler’s legacy.
  3. Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
    What emerges is a portrait of a man whose fall was precipitous but whose sensibility and techniques outlive him and continue to evolve. This is the acid test for a good journalistic documentary: No matter how far back it reaches, Divide and Conquer always feels as if it’s in the present tense.
  4. Okja
    The film is packed with so many strange gems of moments, and while a few feel like Bong losing the plot (specifically any time Okja decides to loosen her bowels) it always snaps back together.
  5. Oh, Canada
    Oh, Canada might be a movie that was conceived in the long dark night of the soul, but it moves towards brightness and possibility.
  6. Paddington
    Paddington is decidedly, proudly unhip. It’s a lovely, endearing chocolate-box of a movie.
  7. Le Week-End
    Le Week-End is a marital ­disintegration–reintegration drama that opens with a dose of frost and vinegar and turns believably sweet—and unbelievably marvelous, in light of what had seemed a depressing trajectory.
  8. The Mitchells vs. The Machines
    Purposefully aggravating yet still beautiful, The Mitchells vs. the Machines is both a takedown and a celebration of our dissonant, tech-obsessed world. It gets us.
  9. Pieces of April
    Hedges keeps everything in balance: The sadness and frivolity all seem to be part of the same emotional continuum. He’s made a lingeringly poignant little movie.
  10. Passing Strange
    The cutting is hyperkinetic, yet Lee is always in synch with the cast’s phenomenal energy. He’s in their thrall--and so are we.
  11. The Sea Inside
    Operates as stealth art: stately, moving, beautifully acted, and urgently subversive to our own status quo.
  12. Testament of Youth
    Should you ever be tempted to wax nostalgic for an age in which wars were fought according to the laws of cause and effect and for reasons that may confidently be labeled “rational,” pick up Vera Brittain’s World War I memoir Testament of Youth or steel yourself for James Kent’s mournful, very fine new film starring Alicia Vikander as Brittain.
  13. Goodbye to All That
    Romantic comedies involving people moving on after divorce are a dime a dozen, but rarely are they as generous, sharply observed, and humane as Angus MacLachlan’s Goodbye to All That.
  14. Django Unchained
    Django Unchained doesn't merely hit its marks; it blows them to bloody chunks. It's manna for mayhem mavens.
  15. The Sea Beast
    Unlike many modern-day animated films, which find inspiration in fantasy and present us with unique, fanciful designs, the world of The Sea Beast is so realistically rendered, so detailed and physical, that much of the time it feels like a live-action adventure. It’s so thoroughly immersive it might make you believe in sea monsters.
  16. Ocean's Thirteen
    It's so money! It's so fun!
  17. The Italian Job
    An elaborate techno-heist thriller, The Italian Job features some spectacular chase scenes, but for a change, the people doing the chasing are also worth watching.
  18. Trolösa
    What she (Ullmann) does achieve is a couple of scenes of lacerating power.
  19. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    Still, in its own Saturday-morning-serial kind of way, Attack of the Clones is a commendable example of the sort of movie we once loved and then outgrew. Of course, if it was even better, we wouldn't feel as if we'd outgrown it.
  20. Far From Heaven
    It elevates female sacrifice into an aesthetic. The movie isn't about suffering, really. It's about how you look when you suffer, how you dress up for it. Style is all.
  21. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
    With a light touch but deep reserves of respect for fans both old and new Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda is an extremely fitting portrait of the influential composer. There’s an air of patience that presides over director Stephen Schible’s footage, even during a period that presents a lot of tumultuous questions for his seemingly unflappable subject.
  22. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
    Agathe is concave in both posture and spirit, but she feels right for this muted world of amorous contemplation, of long, uncertain glances met by equally long, equally uncertain glances. By the end, romance in the abstract becomes something much more real — and we can’t help but fall for all these characters ourselves.
  23. On the Road
    Salles hasn't reinvented On the Road, but rather turned it into a rambling, beautiful, and occasionally even heartbreaking museum piece.
  24. A Hijacking
    It’s an unshowy, quietly intense drama with grace notes in every scene — and a hellish punch.
  25. BlacKkKlansman
    Lee doesn’t do subtlety. But the movie is very entertaining and comes with a stupendous, lushly melodic score by Terence Blanchard.
  26. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    The first thing to know about The Diary of a Teenage Girl is that young British actress Powley is staggeringly good in it.
  27. Coming Home
    Coming Home works best on a more lived-in, emotional level. It presents a trajectory not uncommon in Zhang's films: a journey from howling passion to somber, almost tragic acceptance.
  28. Highest 2 Lowest
    Highest 2 Lowest is an old man’s movie, and I don’t mean that as a criticism.
  29. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    Narrated by Rhys Ifans with the dryness of a dessicated toad, Exit Through the Gift Shop is both an exhilarating testament to serendipity and an appalling testament to art-world inanity.
  30. Father Mother Sister Brother
    Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother finds the director in a minor key, which is sometimes his best key.
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