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For 4,652 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Arrival
Lowest review score: 0 A Hole in My Heart
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,348 out of 4652
  2. Mixed: 845 out of 4652
  3. Negative: 459 out of 4652
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  1. Flesh and Bone
    Flesh and Bone is all suspenseful buildup without shoot-outs, chases, and explosions, and its conclusion doesn't demand a neatly-packaged resolution. More importantly, it's one of the few successful '40s-type noir thrillers to grace the big screen in recent years.
  2. Firewall
    A thriller with enough of the right ingredients to provide a couple hours of escapism.
  3. MDMA
    The sense of verisimilitude helps to ground the drama. Although MDMA goes to some dark places and features its share of ugly scenes, it’s ultimately a story of hope and redemption. It helps to remember that Wang has become a successful businesswoman and now filmmaker.
  4. The Exorcist
    The Exorcist's strength is that it places character development on the same level as the horror elements, but it is not a ground-breaking motion picture. It is also too long, with a setup that could have accomplished the job with equal effectiveness in about 2/3 the time. [2000 re-release]
  5. Unstoppable
    a 95-minute thrill ride from director Tony Scott, delivers the right level of adrenaline.
  6. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
    As documentary biographies go, it's workmanlike but conventional – a solid effort and worthwhile investment of time though by no means a transformative or perspective-shifting film.
  7. Lost in Paris
    Despite a few instances of profanity, the film could be at home fifty years ago. Lost in Paris is a capricious diversion with enough English that subtitle-phobes won’t feel completely adrift.
  8. The Wolverine
    Finally - a superhero movie that doesn't feel like every other superhero movie.
  9. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    For fans of the genre, Wake Up Dead Man delivers exactly what they have come to expect: a sharp, stylish puzzle box that is a joy to unlock.
  10. Disclosure
    Dramatically, Disclosure isn't especially potent, but it isn't drama that Crichton and Levinson are striving for. On its own terms -- the fear of lost security that many thrillers prey upon -- Disclosure works, and that's all that anyone can reasionably ask from this kind of motion picture.
  11. Newsies
    It's a bit of a throwback and a solid family film and, at the time, represented a well-intentioned leap of faith of the sort that studios rarely take.
  12. Two Lovers
    In the movies, romantic love conquers all. In reality, it's a little different, and that's what Gray is trying to show.
  13. Paris
    Not much happens during the course of the movie but, as with all good dramas, the protagonists are richly drawn and the events of their lives become of interest.
  14. The Rainmaker
    The intelligence and subtlety of The Rainmaker took me by surprise. I don't know if this is because the novel is better than any of the prolific lawyer-turned-author's previous efforts, or if Francis Ford Coppola has performed a near-miracle in transforming the written pages into a screenplay.
  15. Hostage
    Hostage has suspense and momentum.
  16. The Infiltrator
    This isn’t "Miami Vice." In fact, the intent (perhaps intentional) is for the gritty, noir-tinged The Infiltrator to tilt in the opposite direction.
  17. Detroit
    Detroit, despite its flaws, is compelling and deeply unsettling. Its thriller and horror elements gain resonance because, at least to some degree, they’re based on real events.
  18. The To Do List
    The movie is pleasingly vulgar and, although there's no nudity, the whole thing is about sex.
  19. Over the Hedge
    Solid family entertainment, and it's better than 2006's previous tepid animated releases.
  20. The Hours
    I'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled, but, for those with at least a minimal appreciation of Woolf and Clarissa Dalloway, The Hours represents two of those well spent.
  21. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    For those with any interest in 18th and 19th century seafaring or naval warfare, this is a must-see motion picture. For others, it's an enlightening and entertaining experience.
  22. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    In order to appreciate I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, you have to be willing to absorb unhurried film noir, and to accept that the film's version of "closure" is a little frustrating.
  23. Real Steel
    By the time the two hour running length has expired, it's safe to say that Real Steel comes across as a legitimate crowd-pleaser.
  24. Personal Shopper
    It starts out small and reaches its crescendo 90 minutes later with an incredible sequence that generates more suspense from a series of text messages than I would have dreamed possible.
  25. Tesla
    It’s an arthouse production made with arthouse audiences in mind but I found it to be a more compelling experience than the equally “important” (but entirely too safe) "Radioactive," which played in the same general historical era with less zest.
  26. Herb Alpert Is...
    All of Alpert’s hits are present and accounted for and there are also a few lesser-known tracks.
  27. Horrible Bosses
    For something like Horrible Bosses to sparkle, the actors have to shine... and shine they do.
  28. Something New
    The film is not riotous, but it is sporadically amusing.
  29. Harsh Times
    Harsh Times occasionally echoes "Taxi Driver," Ayer's own "Training Day," and even "First Blood" in the way it examines the psychological disintegration of a character and the seduction of amorality.
  30. Searching for Bobby Fischer
    Searching for Bobby Fischer is an intensely fascinating movie capable of involving those who are ignorant about chess as well as those who love it. The focus of the film is less on the actual game than it is on the people, emotions, and pressures surrounding Josh. It is a tale of human trials and triumph, not a sports movie that panders to a certain segment of the population. Chess may not be the most exciting activity to watch, but Searching for Bobby Fischer makes for engaging entertainment.
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