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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 3.3 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. Human Resources
    A fresh, striking and rewarding piece of work.
  2. Deep Water
    The story of Donald Crowhurst is not one of remarkable courage or remarkable endurance. But it is remarkable.
  3. Lorna's Silence
    On a deeper level, the Dardennes' film offers a portrait of a fragile yet determined woman set on making a home for herself in the world, even as that world unravels before her eyes.
  4. Clouds of Sils Maria
    Hugely affecting - and reflective and witty.
  5. Coraline
    A macabre mystery for children and a cautionary tale for their folks, Coraline is a yarn - twisty, knotty, taut - about a perennially bored girl whose parents are too preoccupied with work to pay her much mind.
  6. Demon
    At once a shocking, baroque freak-out and a finely tuned, brilliantly paced surrealist black comedy.
  7. Eternity and a Day
    Although Angelopoulos' film is not for all viewers, it rewards the patient moviegoer with an incomparable emotional journey. [09 Jul 1999, p.04]
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  8. Little Miss Sunshine
    Family. Can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em. Little Miss Sunshine, a stormy quasi-comedy destined to polarize audiences, is a perfect specimen of this unsentimental attitude.
  9. Last Resort
    Quiet, finely etched and beautifully acted by Dina Korzun and the wise-beyond-his-years Artiom Strelnikov.
  10. Frost/Nixon
    Frost/Nixon is not the epic gladiatorial face-off, the ricocheting verbal shoot-out that writer Morgan and filmmaker Howard imagined.
  11. Eat Drink Man Woman
    A sort of full-course Father of the Bride, Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman is tender without being mushy, sweet without being syrupy - and surprising in ways that can only make you smile. [17 Aug 1994, p.E01]
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  12. Senna
    Exhilarating and tragic.
  13. The Piano Teacher
    A squirmingly strange and brutal study of sexual power, masochism and mother-daughter madness.
  14. Monsters, Inc.
    "Shrek" is a scintilla funnier, "Toy Story 2" a hair's breadth more poignant, but "MI" is every bit as imaginative and lovable as these other contemporary animation classics.
  15. Beyond the Hills
    Based on reports of a real 2005 incident, it is a film that asks its viewer to consider the nature of good and evil, love and trust - and trust that turns into something like blind faith.
  16. Two Family House
    Sweet-natured but overdone, over-long film.
  17. Spring Forward
    A little gem that's everything a fine independent film used to be.
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  18. City of God
    An epic docudrama - electric and raw.
  19. Pariah
    Rees tells Alike's story in vignettes that are sometimes slapstick, sometimes heartbreaking, always tender.
  20. Red Rock West
    Bringing a wily, slow-burn energy and a southern accent to the role of Lyle, Dennis Hopper adds just the right touch of warped malevolence to Dahl's film. [29 Apr 1994, p.5]
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  21. Pride
    British screen stalwarts Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton appear as locals - he twitchy and reticent, she chatty and full of cheer, both with their hearts in the right place.
  22. Hotel Rwanda
    A gut-punch of a drama.
  23. Eureka
    A work that demands patience, and it will easily exasperate some moviegoers.
  24. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    Stern and Sundberg, best known for their Darfur documentary "The Devil Came on Horseback," did not shrink from the atrocities in Sudan; nor do they shrink from the fame-hungry excesses here.
  25. Chunhyangdyun
    Chunhyang is a movie — and a heroine — for all times.
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  26. High Fidelity
    With its knowing take on men, messed-up romance and music, is like one long, hook-filled pop song for the eyes.
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  27. Coriolanus
    Brian Cox is especially good, and slippery, as Menenius, a Roman senator.
  28. A Most Violent Year
    Gritty, suspenseful and almost poetic in its depiction of an unforgiving town, A Most Violent Year is just shy of being great.
  29. I Am Love
    It is not to everyone's taste. But if you like the lush film operas of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Douglas Sirk, or Luchino Visconti, this one's for you.
  30. Kinsey
    Compared to "Ray," which takes Ray Charles' unique life story and manages to make it feel like a cliche, Kinsey is total sophistication and nuance.
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