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For 8,343 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 8.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Patriots Day
Lowest review score: 0 Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,334 out of 8343
  2. Mixed: 1,701 out of 8343
  3. Negative: 2,308 out of 8343
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  1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    The fight scenes are remarkably exhilarating and spontaneous for being, well, animated. And all of the jokes — written by Rowe, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, among others — are truly very funny and witty while still making sense for this vision of the five boroughs. They’re spoken by a genuine, young cast, who sound like they’re having a party after school instead of the usual stiff, one-day-in-the-studio delivery.
  2. The Red Chapel
    For boldness of execution as well as vision, The Red Chapel stands out as a singular, important comedy.
  3. Boys Don't Cry
    A haunting, superbly made film. But it's also an unrelentingly sad and depressing experience.
    • New York Post
  4. Dead or Alive
    I've seen three or four other movies by Miike, and I can tell you that he's one of the most exciting, versatile directors working today.
  5. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    It’s perhaps the most incisive and funniest Hollywood take on Broadway since Mel Brook’s original “The Producers.”
  6. Flanders
    Unspeakable brutality ensues, including a rape, a castration and cold-blooded murder. Dumont never mentions Iraq, but the parallels are clear.
  7. Capote
    A remarkably assured feature debut by Bennett Miller, a longtime director of commercials (and the documentary "The Cruise") whose no-frills style trusts that the powerful material and the uniformly excellent performances need little embellishment.
  8. Phoebe in Wonderland
    Phoebe in Wonderland happens to be at least partly a Lifetime movie, but this special little film is no disease-of-the-week tear-jerker.
  9. The Heart of the Game
    This distaff "Hoop Dreams" is less of an epic than the earlier movie, and less deep, but it's got more sunshine, too.
  10. John Tucker Must Die
    A slumber-party classic that belongs on the same shelf as "Bring It On" and "10 Things I Hate About You." This high-school comedy should do for its 20-year-old star, Brittany Snow, what those movies did for Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles.
  11. Moonlight
    There is so much pain in Moonlight that it’s a little hard to breathe at certain moments. But there are others, of connection and redemption, that positively glow.
  12. Frankenweenie
    Tim Burton's best film in years.
  13. Barbershop
    Combines big laughs, a big heart and thoroughly winning characters to become the first big surprise of the fall season.
  14. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    A technological landmark that couldn't look or sound better.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    North Dallas Forty
    North Dallas Forty wasn't intended to be a traditional sports flick as much as an examination of the cold business side of the game and its institutional pressures, especially during that era, when the paychecks usually weren't commensurate with the pain these disposable players endured. [17 Apr 2020, p.39]
    • New York Post
  16. Syriana
    Clooney, who gained 35 pounds for the role, gives a self-effacing but highly effective performance.
  17. Sully
    At its heart, this is a thrilling tribute to a modest hero who rose to an extraordinary occasion.
  18. Galaxy Quest
    An affectionate, often clever and unflaggingly funny satire.
    • New York Post
  19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    This movie belongs to its young stars, who have grown immensely as actors since they were first ideally cast by Chris Columbus, the hack who directed the first two movies.
  20. Much Ado About Nothing
    The first filmed Shakespeare comedy in decades that’s actually funny.
  21. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Morris' most gripping film since "The Thin Blue Line," is the year's scariest movie.
  22. Mudbound
    It’s a tale as messy as its muddy fields, and it’s a must-watch.
  23. Conclave
    While I needle “Conclave” for being far from realistic, its meticulous detail is evidenced immediately by the ceremonial removal of the papal ring from the corpse and the sealing of his apartment. Visually, the entire film’s a stunner.
  24. Chicken Run
    It is not only an amazing technical accomplishment, it's also the wittiest and best-voiced animated movie to come along in years.
    • New York Post
  25. The Last Mistress
    Beautifully composed, The Last Mistress, Breillat's 11th film, deals with the theme she has put forth in such previous work as "Romance" and "Fat Girl": how women deal with sexual desire.
  26. Gigantic
    The slacker comedy-drama-romance-whatever Gigantic will fulfill all your alterna-movie weirdness requirements.
  27. Gomorrah
    The film's disclosure that Camorra money is involved with the reconstruction of New York City's Ground Zero will give viewers something to think about.
  28. Nathalie...
    Similar to the recent Emmanuelle Devos drama "Gilles' Wife," but it's as cool as that one was melodramatic.
  29. The Iron Lady
    Sincerely directed by one woman (Phyllida Lloyd, who did "Mamma Mia!") and smartly written by another (Abi Morgan), the film stars an unsurpassable Meryl Streep, whose ability to empathize with her characters has never been more gloriously impassioned than it is in this titanic performance.
  30. Tony Manero
    After winning raves at last year's New York Film Festival, Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero, from Chile, is receiving a run here.
  31. Mistaken for Strangers
    Not since “American Movie” has there been such an entertainingly clumsy, warts-and-all documentary about making a movie, this time courtesy of Cincinnati filmmaker Tom Berninger.
  32. Palm Springs
    Perhaps the sharpest casting is J.K. Simmons as a gruff wedding guest named Roy, who got trapped in the time-loop earlier after a misguided cocaine binge with Nyles. He pops up occasionally to hunt Nyles with a bow and arrow or a shotgun to seek revenge. You will cherish the 65-year-old Oscar winner’s interpretation of being high on coke.
  33. Dot the I
    The less you know going in, the more you'll enjoy it. Suffice it to say that it's a hugely entertaining thriller disguised as a chick flick.
  34. The Pledge
    Not a film for all tastes, but it's a considerable artistic achievement.
  35. The Fearless Freaks
    It could turn someone who never heard of the Flaming Lips into a devoted fan.
  36. The Man Without a Past
    Brilliantly idiosyncratic.
  37. Kick-Ass
    A brutally funny deconstruction, a hybrid of “Watchmen” and “Superbad” filtered through John Woo. It’s a boisterously original piece of entertainment . . . that isn’t for everyone. Note the rating, which should be triple-R, as in Really, Remarkably R.
  38. Infamous
    Dizzy with celebrity, New York society and gay life (if all that isn't the same thing), Infamous is more fun. But "Capote" is a better movie.
  39. Auto Focus
    Schrader's strongest movie since "Affliction," is another meditation on American masculinity powerfully told with great wit and style.
  40. Eastern Promises
    Even with his clothes on, this is Mortensen's best and richest performance, worthy of serious awards consideration. He lends a moral complexity to Eastern Promises that makes it much more than just a very accomplished action thriller.
  41. 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
    Director Marc Silver expertly interweaves the courtroom drama and its larger social and human connotations.
  42. Failure to Launch
    This is a guy comedy being mismarketed as a chick flick, complete with a poster that looks like a page from Lucky magazine.
  43. American Splendor
    Davis, a hugely underrated actress..., is deadpan perfection as Joyce, wearing oversized glasses and a wig that makes her look like an older version of Thora Birch's character in "Ghost World."
  44. Black Christmas
    Not only does Black Christmas provide real chills, it introduces devices - like the opening, which is shot from the slasher's point of view - that inspired John Carpenter's Halloween and countless genre flicks to follow. [20 Dec 2009, p.61]
    • New York Post
  45. The Big Picture
    Much of the plot stretches credulity, but the way it's constructed keeps tension high.
  46. Kung Fu Hustle
    Gut-Bustingly funny moves are pretty rare, so hustle over to Kung Fu Hustle, actor-director Ste phen Chow's exhilaratingly hilarious and affectionate send-up of Hong Kong action flicks.
  47. Ghost Town
    The twists are executed superbly, right up to a climax that fits the David Mamet definition of what makes for a perfect ending: It is both surprising and inevitable.
  48. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    It’s the darkest, scariest and undoubtedly finest acted of the entire detective series.
  49. Brand Upon the Brain!
    Not many people are making silent horror serials these days, but Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin pushes his love of lurid melodrama to the limit in his latest demented treat, Brand Upon the Brain!
  50. X-Men: Days of Future Past
    Bryan Singer’s whip-smart and witty time-travel romp X-Men: Days of Future Past blows a breath of fresh air through the musty Marvel universe.
  51. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    It’s fresh, it’s alive, it’s not the same old Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  52. The Devil's Rejects
    A yellow dog of a movie that delights in offending the offendable. It's also a whitesploitation classic, from its menacing sideburns to its demented laughter.
  53. Crazy Rich Asians
    The rom-com ain’t dead yet. Crazy Rich Asians is a defibrillator for a genre that flatlined ages ago. This heartwarming, well-acted — and decadent — film takes you back to the greatest hits of Nancy Meyers, Richard Curtis and Nora Ephron.
  54. My Golden Days
    Desplechin draws uniformly superb performances from his young cast, making the coming-of-age genre seem fresh and vital.
  55. At Any Price
    One of the best films released so far this year, At Any Price signals the arrival of Iranian-American Ramin Bahrani in the ranks of major US directors.
  56. Planet of Snail
    Gentle, simply told love stories are as rare in documentaries these days as they are in narrative film. That alone makes Yi Seung-jun's Planet of Snail a standout.
  57. The Substance
    I enjoyed this ride of titillation, torment, insanity and exploitation to such a preposterous extent that I’ve considered signing up for online therapy to wrestle with it.
  58. Photographic Memory
    Utterly delightful.
  59. 45 Years
    At some point in her 50-year career, Rampling became one of the world’s great actresses. Driven by her and Courtenay’s work, and by director Andrew Haigh’s limpid style, the film is devastating.
  60. Mud
    Mud runs over two hours, climaxing with a shootout that belongs in a different movie. It’s a rare misstep in an art-house movie that will pull mainstream audiences along as inexorably as the Mississippi River. Go see it.
  61. A Man's Story
    Showing the personal toll that produces a star in any field could be a soggy, predictable drag, but the documentary A Man's Story never slides into easy sentiment or bromides.
  62. The Good, the Bad, the Weird
    The Good, the Bad, the Weird may owe a lot to other films, but it is always fresh and never boring.
  63. Machuca
    You don't have to know Chile's bloody history to be moved by the poignant new film Machuca, the first movie made by a Chilean about the country's 1973 military coup.
  64. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Like Roald Dahl's book, Tim Burton's splendidly imaginative and visually stunning - and often very dark and creepy - new version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is squarely aimed more at children than their parents.
  65. Youth
    Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel do some of the best work of their careers playing longtime friends navigating their twilight years in Paolo Sorrentino’s witty, wise and swooningly beautiful dramatic comedy Youth.
  66. Gozu
    The film is less violent and bloody than much of the director's work, but the absurdity level is sky high. Takashi Miike is at the top of his game, loving every minute of his surreal visit to the twilight zone.
  67. There Will Be Blood
    Between D-Day, the sheer ambition of Paul Thomas Anderson's historical epic and Robert Elswit's dazzling cinematography, this is a must-see movie - even though its emotional temperature rarely rises above freezing and the climax goes way, way, way over the top.
  68. House of Sand and Fog
    A grim, challenging movie that will amply reward audiences willing to go along with its ride into the dark depths of its characters' souls.
  69. Whip It
    Sweet without being sticky and funny without getting silly, Whip It introduces Barrymore as a director with a keen eye, a good ear for tone and an inspired touch with actors.
  70. Everybody's Fine
    After seeing Everybody's Fine, Paul McCartney offered to write a song that plays over the closing credits. That may be because the whole movie is like a celluloid McCartney tune: warm and playful and sweetly earnest, but lightly funny, too, and crafted with consummate skill.
  71. The Station Agent
    [McCarthy] marries beautifully spare compositions with comically abbreviated dialogue to craft something magnificent from a vaguely precious premise that could easily be the foundation for a parody.
  72. Nuts!
    You may or may not connect Brinkley to a certain presidential candidate, but, either way, this is one of the most entertaining documentaries to come along in some time.
  73. Bigbug
    While Bigbug is characteristically eccentric, it also has the most mainstream appeal of any Jeunet film since “Amélie.”
  74. Nope
    The movie is a bit long, and the culmination overstays its welcome. That is the only section of the movie where the viewer is a step ahead — and therefore it doesn’t sizzle like what came before. Yet the visual splendor of the sequence also proves the director has a flair for the epic we didn’t know about before. And that makes me all the more excited for the next “Untitled Jordan Peele Project.
  75. Renoir
    Like the paintings of the master, Renoir is beautiful to look at, but it would be a mistake to call the film (or its subject) shallow.
  76. Series 7: The Contenders
    The most devastating spoof of reality TV since Albert Brooks' 1978 "Real Life."
    • New York Post
  77. A Late Quartet
    Walken was largely typecast in quirky roles as a result of playing the title character's brother in "Annie Hall," so it's something of a delightful irony that 35 years later, Walken finds his most rewarding role leading a terrific ensemble in what amounts to one of the best Woody Allen movies that Allen wasn't involved in making.
  78. F1: The Movie
    Is “F1” too long? Absolutely. But not once did I say, “Are we there yet?”
  79. God's Pocket
    As for Hoffman, the shambling Everyman naturalism he shows here gives God’s Pocket an added elegiac layer that makes its bitter ironies that much more painful.
  80. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    Summer blockbusters don’t get much better.
  81. Get Low
    Duvall and Spacek are so in tune with each other's rhythms -- despite their 20-year age difference -- that it's hard to believe they've never acted together before.
  82. The Great Beauty
    There’s an exhilarating sadness to it all that amounts to cinematic poetry.
  83. Being the Ricardos
    I’ve always had my reservations about Sorkin as a director. His scripts tend to be better than his final products. Those druthers started to fade with the moving “Trial of the Chicago 7” and are now completely gone after “Being the Ricardos.” His vision of ‘50s TV production is spot-on — nostalgic, quick, boozy, but without the glamor of Hollywood movie-making.
  84. Antwone Fisher
    Emotionally honest, feel-good saga with a universality that stands out in a season of singularly depressing and cynical Hollywood product.
  85. Stone Reader
    A remarkable accomplishment, an absorbing documentary about the joy of reading that's also a positively gripping literary mystery.
  86. Ghosts of the Abyss
    An enthralling 3-D IMAX documentary.
  87. The Master
    It's a sharply written, unforgettably directed character study with brilliant performances by Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams - far more intimate but no less intense than director Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-winning last film, "There Will Be Blood.''
  88. Moneyball
    A crowd-pleasing baseball movie for people - like me - who don't like baseball movies...Probably the finest baseball movie since "Bull Durham".
  89. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Thanks to his (Oldman) mastery, and Alfredson's, no film this year left me hungrier for a sequel.
  90. Monsieur Lazhar
    Like a dedicated teacher, this is a film that stays with you.
  91. The Hunt
    Thomas Vinterberg (“The Celebration”) directs with restraint that makes the story all the more affecting.
  92. Soul
    Soul amounts to more than technical wizardry and intelligent dialogue. Why artists keep pounding the pavement despite never finding commercial success is a meaty topic.
  93. Frozen River
    There is no shortage of indie movies about economically challenged women. This one is different, in that the women actually do something besides just talk about it.
  94. Graceland
    Morales’ spin on the old ransom plot is fresher and more gripping than most big-budget Hollywood products.
  95. Beware of Mr. Baker
    A fantastically entertaining biography.
  96. The Biggest Little Farm
    In a time when climate news is near-uniformly depressing, this is a nature documentary that pays loving and hopeful tribute to the complex web of life — and it won’t scare your kids.
  97. Trance
    This exhilarating brain-twister is a nonstop visual, aural and intellectual delight, steeped in movie conventions and yet fizzing with freshness. It’s what happens when film noir goes out to a rave.
  98. The Martian
    The Martian is a straightforward and thrilling survival-and-rescue adventure, without the metaphysical and emotional trappings of, say, “Interstellar.’’ It’s pure fun.
  99. High Fidelity
    The quirky High Fidelity really deserves being called the first must-see movie of the century.
    • New York Post
  100. White God
    White God has been compared to “The Birds,” but there are also echoes of “Lassie Come Home” and even “Dirty Harry.” Director Kornél Mundruczó goes big with allegory, violence, drama and sentiment, and the results are riveting.
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