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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. Baadasssss!
    Sobering and wildly entertaining.
  2. Trainwreck
    Trainwreck is anything but.
  3. About a Boy
    The film is a sharp, funny, touching tale.
  4. The Believer
    It is a challenging film, if not always a narratively cohesive one.
  5. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Hugely entertaining catalog of MPAA follies.
  6. Point Blank
    A breakneck French thriller, Point Blank is so ridiculously successful at keeping its momentum going - and keeping the audience tense with suspense - that it's likely to leave you with your heart pounding, gasping for breath.
  7. Omar
    Bakri, a newcomer to acting, has presence and power. His intensity and determination become Omar's.
  8. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    There's a difference between velocity and momentum, and while the chases, shootouts and close-quarters combat rarely flag, our interest does.
  9. Frozen
    Frozen establishes a strong, confident tone: Cool mythology, rich, vivid animation, and 3-D effects that are actually worth seeing, not just migraine-inducing distractions.
  10. Waitress
    Shelly left her daughter - and her audience - a wonderful gift, this movie about the transforming effects of motherhood. Waitress shows how, in giving birth, a woman gives birth to herself - as artist and mother.
  11. The Skeleton Twins
    If a movie with suicide as a central theme can be deemed funny, then writer/director Craig Johnson has pulled it off, mixing heartache and humor and giving Wiig, especially, the opportunity to shine.
  12. The Bridesmaid
    A merrily macabre things-we-do-for-love yarn.
  13. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
    What makes Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead feel particularly vibrant is how the Lampoon's specific art direction is put to use.
  14. Sicko
    It is not a polemic but a plea.
  15. Monster
    Monster brings the horror stories of everyday life down to a recognizable level -- even as the actress inhabiting that story remains startlingly unrecognizable.
  16. The Lady and the Duke
    Rohmer pulls off a wonderful feat: celebrating the elegance, and artifice, of another era at the same time he brings this tale of social upheaval boldly into the present.
  17. A Bigger Splash
    Guadagnino, who directed Swinton in the 2009 Italian gem "I Am Love," has kept the core premise - and the sensuality - of Jacques Deray's original. (Delon and Schneider go skinny-dipping, too.)
  18. Tabloid
    There's nothing mean-spirited, or judgmental, about the way Morris goes about his business - he must have been kicking himself with glee as one bizarre strand of the story unravels to reveal the next.
  19. What Maisie Knew
    The result is a film that deeply engages us on multiple levels. Not only do we wonder what Maisie knows and how she knows it, we want to get this seedling to a place where she won't have to be transplanted every day.
  20. The Watermelon Woman
    The Watermelon Woman is a thoughtful, charming movie that takes its audience along on a journey of self-discovery - without ever taking itself too seriously.
  21. Frankenweenie
    It's not so much a miscalculation of his audience by Burton as it is a disregard. What lingers after Frankenweenie, far more than its stunning technique, is a sad suggestion of solipsism.
  22. Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
    One of the finest pieces of screen acting in the career of Juliette Binoche -- the actress playing the actress in this extraordinary film.
  23. Black Hawk Down
    Throw in the music -- a wall-to-wall whorl of Eastern modal dirges, thumping rock and Celtic-y skirl -- and you've got a veritable cinematic rhapsody of war.
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  24. Southside with You
    Relative newcomer Parker Sawyers (Zero Dark Thirty, Survivor) is terrific as Barack, embodying the character in each line and gesture without mimicking the real Obama.
  25. Rize
    Rize shows how clowning led to krumping, and argues that its practitioners' fierce dedication to dance has saved countless kids from drugs, crime and gangs.
  26. Wild
    Something about the way the film has been assembled doesn't feel altogether organic.
  27. Humpday
    While at times the improvisational dialogue sounds like audio filler, the three leads are poignant and perceptive.
  28. My Mother's Smile
    In the end, Bellocchio suggests in this spiritual thriller that perhaps faith is the dream from which we do not awaken.
  29. Polisse
    The mosaic of cases and caseworkers is like a season of "The Wire" distilled into two hours.
  30. The Sea Inside
    For the most part, the film stays steady-on, celebrating one man's crusade - and one family's heartbreak.
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