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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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    • 100 Critic Score
    The Conversation
    Under Coppola's direction it succeeds on a variety of levels; as sheer thriller, as psychological study, as social analysis, and as political comment. [08 Apr 1974, p.78]
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  2. She Dies Tomorrow
    It’s intensely disturbing and hilarious in equal measure, as if somebody decided to let David Lynch remake Contagion.
  3. Sound of Falling
    It’s an astonishing work, twining together the lives of four generations of families with an intricacy and intimacy that feels like an act of psychic transmission.
  4. My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
    Loktev’s film is a stunningly stressful experience in what it’s like to actually decide when the desire to stay and fight should give way to the need to cut and run.
  5. No Other Land
    Perhaps the greatest achievement of No Other Land lies in the way it compresses time.
  6. Incredibles 2
    Brad Bird’s The Incredibles 2 is, much like its predecessor, delightful as an animated feature but really, really delightful as a superhero picture. It’s proof that someone (not anyone, mainly Bird) can make a Marvel-type movie that’s fleet and shapely, with action sequences rich in style rather than tumult.
  7. Tosca
    A rare example of first-rate filmed opera.
  8. Blackfish
    It’s true that the number of whales in captivity isn’t huge. But they’ve now become the mightiest symbols of our cultural hubris — of our inability to manage creatures we have the power to capture and imprison. It’s a metaphor for the ages.
  9. The Queen
    The Queen is the most reverent irreverent comedy imaginable. Or maybe it's the most irreverent reverent comedy. Either way, it's a small masterpiece.
  10. Monkey Kingdom
    Fun, touching, and expertly assembled.
  11. Amazing Grace
    The result was one of the most acclaimed albums of her career — and one of the most elusive film projects of all time, full of twists and turns that would have made Orson Welles order a stiff drink.
  12. Her
    In Her, Jonze transforms his music-video aesthetic into something magically personal. The montages — silent, flickering inserts of Theodore and his ex-wife recollected in tranquility — are sublime.
  13. The Secret Agent
    In The Secret Agent, there’s no line between a refugee and being part of a resistance movement — there’s only the state and the people who’ve been designated its enemies.
  14. Nickel Boys
    In finding a new way to adapt Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross changes the way we perceive the world itself.
  15. Spotlight
    This tight, relatively low-key, step-by-step procedural has a stronger impact than any horror movie.
  16. Tower
    I love when non-fiction filmmakers stretch the form and attempt, with as much honesty as they can muster, to put us in the middle of the events they describe. They give us stunning hybrids like "Waltz With Bashir," "Persepolis," and, now, Tower.
  17. Superbad
    Might be the most provocative teen sex comedy ever made; it is certainly one of the most convulsively funny.
  18. Rachel Getting Married
    I've never seen a movie with this mixture of fullness and desolation. Rachel Getting Married is a masterpiece.
  19. TÁR
    It’s a total knockout, both austere and dryly hilarious, and its quality is impossible to consider separately from its colossal lead performance.
  20. Amour
    Something sacred passes between Trintignant and Riva. The actress's eyes signal deep awareness as the sounds coming out of her mouth become animalistic.
  21. The LEGO Movie
    The LEGO Movie is the kind of animated free-for-all that comes around very rarely, if ever: A kids’ movie that matches shameless fun with razor-sharp wit, that offers up a spectacle of pure, freewheeling joy even as it tackles the thorniest of issues.
  22. Best of Enemies
    Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville’s masterful Best of Enemies leaves you with an overwhelming sense of despair. It’s not just a great documentary, it’s a vital one.
  23. Ford v Ferrari
    The movie is an old-fashioned rouser with a lot of new-fashioned virtuosity.
  24. No Bears
    While No Bears is profoundly powerful in its own right, the knowledge that its maker is incarcerated gives its explorations of exile, truth, and freedom a throat-catching urgency.
  25. The Florida Project
    This is a near-perfect film, and a heightening in every way of everything that was great about Baker’s last movie.
  26. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
    There’s a vulnerability to being touched by something, to finding something sexy or scary, and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is filled with a wry but immense compassion for its heroine and her habit of holding up concepts to ward off her own reactions.
  27. Heart of a Dog
    Anderson says that as a child she dreamed of making something that had never been made before, and, with the help of some gifted artists and editors and camera-people, she has done it again — with bells on. The only thing that would make it more pleasurable would be Anderson narrating it in person.
  28. Daughters
    The accrual of human detail pays off masterfully when we get to the dance itself — especially when the girls see their fathers for the first time.
  29. Moonlight
    Hype would bruise Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, which is so delicate in its touch that the usual superlatives sound unusually shrill. It’s the gentlest, most suggestive of great films.
  30. Petite Maman
    The mechanics of Sciamma’s film are simple, but they’re realized so delicately, and with the help of such unaffected child performances, that they feel miraculous.
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