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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. Crazy Heart
    Crazy Heart is the real thing, and a real gem.
  2. The Lobster
    The Lobster is what would happen if Wes Anderson set about doing Franz Kafka, with a hefty dash of George Orwell thrown into the mix: surreal, comic, sad, strange, beautiful, sublime.
  3. Caché (Hidden)
    Like Hitchcock, only creepier, Haneke slowly cranks up the suspense.
  4. Topsy-Turvy
    A triumph.
  5. Million Dollar Baby
    This heartbreaking film, with its rich performances and simple eloquence, lays claim to greatness.
  6. The King's Speech
    Under Hooper's deft direction, it packs the suspense of a thriller.
  7. Gravity
    A wildly suspenseful zero-g tale of survival 350 miles beyond the ozone layer, Alfonso Cuarón's space saga is emotionally jolting - and physically jolting, too.
  8. Locke
    That is the sum of writer/director Steven Knight's movie: a man, a car, a hands-free mobile device. And it is extraordinary.
  9. The Bourne Ultimatum
    Unstoppable fun.
  10. Persepolis
    Persepolis, the superb film based on Satrapi's graphic memoirs of the same name, is a riveting odyssey in pictures and words. It's unlike any journal you've read or any animated movie you've seen.
  11. Lost in Translation
    This year's must-see film.
  12. Far From Heaven
    The movie is, start to finish, candy-colored angst.
  13. Chicken Run
    It's aimed at adults as much as children, with jokes that work on multiple levels, and contraptions.
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  14. Enough Said
    The first date that James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus embark on in Enough Said - has to be one of the great getting-to-know-you encounters in movie history.
  15. Spirited Away
    Wondrously strange and just plain wonderful.
  16. Trolösa
    The movie may be the meditation of an old man, but rarely has a supreme artist's twilight been so richly illuminating. Faithless makes other films on the same subject seem clueless.
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  17. Toni Erdmann
    An immensely rich, deeply felt exploration of human relationships that draws you in and holds you fast for nearly three hours.
  18. Poetry
    Yun's performance is remarkable. The journey Mija takes is painful and hard and - for us, watching - sublime.
  19. Captain Phillips
    Captain Phillips is harrowing, inspiring, a must-see piece of moviemaking.
  20. Since Otar Left
    At turns funny, sweet, sad, trenchant and telling. It's a gem.
  21. Killer of Sheep
    It is the most influential movie you've never seen, deeply affecting many artists and experimental directors who saw it on the museum circuit in 1977 and 1978.
  22. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    With no-nonsense narration by Peter Coyote and a soundtrack that's at once apt, ironic and really, really good, The Smartest Guys in the Room is anything but a dry dissection of a major Wall Street debacle.
  23. La Vie en Rose
    For Piaf fans, La Vie en Rose is a must-see. For fans yet-to-be, Dahan and Cotillard's film is an opportunity rich with discovery.
  24. La La Land
    Some of it is wistful, some of it whimsical, but it's all wonderful, impossibly so.
  25. Still Alice
    Moore is nominated this year, and whether she wins or not, her performance deserves attention. It is one of this very fine actress' defining roles. And it resonates with humanity and heartbreak.
  26. The Artist
    Strangely, wonderfully, The Artist feels as bold and innovative a moviegoing experience as James Cameron's bells-and-whistles Avatar did a couple of years ago. Retro becomes nuevo. Quaint becomes cool.
  27. The Queen
    Piercingly funny and unexpectedly moving account of that odd couple, Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) and HRH Elizabeth II (majestic Helen Mirren) and their back-channels affair.
  28. Take Shelter
    Take Shelter, which, it should be said, boasts haunting but seamless visual effects, is a movie for this moment in time, this moment in our lives.
  29. The Color of Paradise
    The film's climax involves a father and son reunion that is tense, tragic and, finally, as transcendent as Mohammad himself.
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  30. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    Wily, sad, funny, and full of life.
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