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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. Together
    A mordantly funny, clear-eyed view of an extended family's mounting dysfunction in a changing society.
  2. 13 Assassins
    13 Assassins is, at turns, thrilling and funny, visually exquisite and emotionally charged.
  3. Crazy Heart
    Crazy Heart is the real thing, and a real gem.
  4. De Palma
    It's great to hear a director talking candidly about the actors he's worked with, dishing out good, juicy stuff.
  5. Fighter
    The film speaks to fundamental issues of history, truth, and the philosophical conflicts of humankind.
  6. Adaptation.
    It's a testament to Cage's canny performance and Jonze's seamless use of special effects that you believe Charlie and Donald are two entirely different people.
  7. Fantastic Mr. Fox
    Witty and wonderful, Fantastic Mr. Fox is the perfect Thanksgiving entertainment.
  8. In the Loop
    A scabrously funny look at the cutthroat game of statecraft.
  9. Amores Perros
    An overpowering and original piece of bravura filmmaking that constitutes one of the most breathtaking and impressive directing debuts in years.
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  10. Osama
    It's a feminist nightmare, the world brought to life -- in hard-hitting documentary style.
  11. The Salt of the Earth
    The Salt of the Earth, has the power to draw you into its world, transfix, and perhaps eventually transform you.
  12. Chop Shop
    Beautifully observed, and beautifully acted by the novice thespian Polanco (culled from a New York City public school), Chop Shop is at once a heartbreaker and a story of hope and the American Dream.
  13. '71
    1971 is a testament to a generation's idealism, heroism, foolhardiness, fearlessness.
  14. Blackfish
    Very few of us would like to think about the physical and emotional toll that life in captivity takes on these magnificent creatures. Gabriela Cowperthwaite's powerful, heartbreaking, and beautifully crafted documentary, Blackfish, forces us to do just that.
  15. Corpse Bride
    Easily the best stop-motion animated necrophiliac musical romantic comedy of all time. It is also just simply, wonderful: a morbid, merry tale of true love that dazzles the eyes and delights the soul.
  16. Project Nim
    Nim is as unforgettable as the treatment of him is unspeakable.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Neil Young Trunk Show
    If you're a fan of the indomitable Canadian rocker - high-pitched voice, proto-grunge guitar, total immersion in the music - then you want to see Neil Young Trunk Show on the big screen, for sure.
  18. Spider-Man 2
    I also like that when Our Hero starts swinging from skyscrapers, he's not just emulating Tarzan, but is working out the Newtonian physics of action and reaction.
  19. Avatar
    Avatar delivers. Combining beyond-state-of-the-art moviemaking with a tried-and-true storyline and a gamer-geek sensibility - not to mention a love angle, an otherworldly bestiary, and an arsenal of 22d-century weaponry - the movie quite simply rocks.
  20. Pina
    The real 3-D experience of the season is Pina, Wim Wenders' shockingly beautiful and moving tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch.
  21. Animal Kingdom
    Like "The Square," the startling Down Under noir released a few months ago, Animal Kingdom explores the down and dirty side of human nature, fraught with greed, suspicion, and betrayal.
  22. Hugo
    What about the kids and families who have no connection to Méliès, little familiarity with Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton? Will Hugo keep them in their seats? I'm not sure.
  23. Wild Reeds
    Andre Techine creates living characters instead of sociopolitical symbols.
  24. Ladybird Ladybird
    It is social criticism written with tears. [15 Feb 1995, p.E01]
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  25. Gloria
    Gloria, spare and keenly observed, plays like a short story - there is no sweeping narrative arc, no momentous triumph or calamity. But there is a bit of justice meted out, and the act of its meting brings a slow, small smile to Gloria's face.
  26. Spider
    Spider is a difficult film, but an inspired one, the movie equivalent of eating a meal of artfully prepared eel or sea urchin. It's for those with adventurous tastes and no fear of squishy textures.
  27. Drag Me to Hell
    A Raimi-esque mix of gross-out madness and sick laughs.
  28. Seymour: An Introduction
    The polar opposite of the J.K. Simmons character in "Whiplash."
  29. Up in the Air
    Ryan may not be admirable, but Clooney makes him relatable. It's his deepest and nakedest performance.
  30. Milk
    For its mesmerizing first two-thirds, Van Sant keeps the film tightly focused on his subject, superbly played by Penn and intimately shot, home-movie style, by Harris Savides. But when the director pulls back to detail Harvey Milk's fight against gay backlash, Milk gets derailed. And - dare I say it? - didactic.
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