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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. Narc
    A no-bull throwback to 1970s action films. It zips along with B-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special.
  2. Testament of Youth
    Harington and Vikander provide the spark the film needs to get us through the tribulations and tragedies that pile on with numbing regularity. You leave Testament of Youth feeling some of the impact that Brittain’s book must have had at the time.
  3. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
    It's a tense, terrifically funny action dazzler with a wow level in special effects that will be hard to top.
  4. Phoebe in Wonderland
    Let Clarkson and Fanning take you to the rabbit hole of seductive enchantment that defines this movie. And don't ask what to do -- jump.
  5. Gemini
    It may feel insubstantial at times, but somewhere out there, there's a twin of this film that lays on the L.A. Self-Owns Itself mojo in thick clumps. Gemini is the good-sibling version. It's worth a whirl.
  6. Nine
    Rob Marshall's flawed but frequently dazzling Nine is a hot-blooded musical fantasia full of song, dance, raging emotion and simmering sexuality.
  7. Filth
    Even when the film falls to pieces, McAvoy's bonkers brilliance will blow you away.
  8. The Killer Inside Me
    The movie does Thompson proud. It's a scorcher.
  9. Paris Can Wait
    If you’re longing for a delicious romantic romp to take your mind off the world going to hell in hand basket, Paris Can Wait is it.
  10. All or Nothing
    Leigh isn't breaking new ground, but he knows how a daily grind can kill love. Strong stuff.
  11. The Kingdom
    Matthew Michael Carnahan's caffeinated script isn't much concerned with balance, but it gets some anyway, from the resonant images of culture clash that Berg catches on the fly and a remarkable performance from Ashraf Barhom.
  12. Prometheus
    The ending isn't squishy scary or deeply satisfying. Bummer. Otherwise, Prometheus – especially in its spellbinding first hour – kicks ass so hard and often that it's impossible not to be thrilled by it.
  13. Safety Not Guaranteed
    Director Colin Trevorrow and writer Derek Connolly keep the film humming with funny and touching surprises. And Plaza is a flat-out enchantress.
  14. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Washington digs so deep under the skin of this complex character that we almost breath with him. It's a great, award-caliber performance in a movie that can barely contain it.
  15. The Eyes of My Mother
    If The Eyes of My Mother is occasionally stylistic to a fault and ends way too abruptly, it's also the mark of someone who isn't afraid to make something that leaves scars.
  16. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    The film's relentless pummeling grows wearying at 135 minutes. The first Terminator, a half-hour shorter, was leaner and meaner.
  17. Lean on Pete
    Sobs are earned the hard way in this moving drama, which grips you with such scrappy humor and no-bull grit and grace that you'll be hooked.
  18. Damsel
    Damsel won't work for everyone. It's too quirky for that. But it goes its merrily deranged way with prankish enthusiasm and a genuine sense of the absurd.
  19. Beginners
    McGregor goes bone-deep in a performance of shining subtlety. And a never-better Plummer is simply stupendous, refusing any call to sentiment as he shows us Hal's resonant lunge at life. Mills works the same way. Beginners is one from the bruised heart.
  20. The Fault in Our Stars
    Green made the wise choice to be funny in telling his sad story.
  21. Bitter Moon
    Polanski has great wicked fun with sex, love, cruelty, books, movies and, of course, himself. If you don’t go along with the joke, you’re in for rough sailing.
  22. Miss Bala
    Naranjo, a graduate of the American Film Institute, has a gift for staging action that defines character. The film is a harrowing experience. It cuts deep.
  23. How to Train Your Dragon
    Works enough miracles of 3-D animation to charm your socks off.
  24. American Animals
    American Animals is a high-style caper that touches a deeper chord of youthful indiscretion and moral imbalance. You won't be able to stop talking about it.
  25. Bridesmaids
    Kristen Wiig is an indisputable goddess of comedy. And this rowdy fem-friendship movie she stars in and wrote with Annie Mumolo is infused with the Wiig brand of wicked mischief.
  26. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Depp and Burton fly too high on the vapors of pure imagination. But it's hard to not get hooked on something this tasty.
  27. The Heart of the Game
    There's no denying the exuberant energy and emotional force of this movie. It gets to you.
  28. Higher Learning
    Higher Learning is seriously intended and seriously flawed. Singleton tends to shout his objectives. But in an era of cop-out escapism, it is gratifying to find a filmmaker who is spoiling to be heard.
  29. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
    The film is dawdling, sometimes maddeningly so, but Newman and Woodward deliver lovingly detailed and bruisingly true performances that not only command attention but richly reward it.
  30. The Kite Runner
    Both boys give such heart-rending performances that fear of reprisals for participating in the scene persuaded the studio to postpone the film's release to give them time to leave Kabul.
  31. The Humbling
    The Humbling is a dark dazzler shot through with mirth and delicious malice. But be warned. It is not Roth's novel.
  32. Chappaquiddick
    The film is corrosive in its take on the injustice that allowed Ted to live and prosper in a protective bubble of privilege. Clarke makes it clear that the man himself most likely felt the same way.
  33. Alien: Covenant
    It's true that the film is covering old ground – the shocking originality of the first Alien is a one-time thing. No worries. I'd rank Alien: Covenant with the best of the series, right after the first two chapters. Fans are going to freak out. Join in.
  34. The Hero
    It's not perfect, but it is a gift to Sam Elliott – and to us.
  35. Everything Must Go
    Ferrell delivers a performance of implosive intensity that rings true in every detail.
  36. Splice
    Played as a child by Abigail Chu and as an adult by Delphine Chanéac, Dren morphs into a special-effects miracle, sexy and scary in equal doses.
  37. Money Monster
    Foster's film doesn't doubt that money rules our lives. But it does wonder, provocatively, why we're dumb enough to let it.
  38. Hesher
    As played by the spectacular Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hesher is the id run rampant.
  39. Neighbors
    You expect hardcore hilarity from Neighbors, and you get it. It's the nuance that sneaks up on you.
  40. Cookie's Fortune
    Altman clarifies a convoluted plot with a magician's ease, creates an atmosphere that brims with the pleasures of the unexpected and explores character nuances.
  41. Ocean's Thirteen
    Brad Pitt doesn't really act in Ocean's Thirteen, he just glides through the third chapter in Steven Soderbergh's heist-flick annuity on the magic carpet of his own unimpeachable cool. Don't knock it. Genuine star power is rare. Pitt has it in spades -- all aces.
  42. Religulous
    Maher can be a smartass, but his attempts to apply reason to religion are more a challenge than a threat.
  43. The Deep Blue Sea
    The film is a striking cinematic tone poem.
  44. Greenberg
    See this darkly comic character study unburdened by preconceptions.
  45. Kung Fu Hustle
    Does the plot spin out of control? You bet. But dumb fun this smart is a gift.
  46. Palo Alto
    A hypnotic movie of harsh truth and healing compassion. It sticks with you.
  47. Submarine
    Ayoade, the British comic making a remarkable feature debut with his adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel, blends mirth and malice with deadpan brilliance.
  48. Thor: Ragnarok
    The whole movie is a grab-bag of insanity so off-the-chain hilarious that you stick with it even when the convoluted plot goes haywire.
  49. Fed Up
    Fed Up has a fire in its belly to change things. Naïve? Maybe. So what. I say, Godspeed. Here is something rare at the multiplex: a movie that matters.
  50. Beautiful Boy
    Blazing performance will burn in your memory. Same goes for the film.
  51. Jane Eyre
    Fukunaga, son of a Japanese father and a Swedish mother, is a filmmaker to watch. He has reanimated a classic for a new generation, letting Jane Eyre resonate with terror and tenderness.
  52. Memoirs of a Geisha
    Any doubts about three Chinese actresses speaking English with Japanese accents vanish in the face of their deeply felt performances and the world Marshall conjures with magical finesse.
  53. Strictly Ballroom
    Luhrmann is a director with the style and snap to have these tired routines on their feet and kicking like a line of Rockettes.
  54. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    The line between making guerrilla art and selling out has never blurred more provocatively.
  55. Pitch Perfect 2
    The sequel is more musically varied, though Kay Cannon's script amps the sass at the expense of structure. But the MVP here is Elizabeth Banks.
  56. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    Hanging with Quill and his mercenary space misfits is still everything you'd want in a wild summer ride.
  57. Kick-Ass
    The movie belongs to Moretz, whose sensational performance will be talked about for years. Her scenes with Cage, who wears a Batsuit and uses a voice borrowed from Adam West, are a hoot.
  58. Good Kill
    Writer-director Andrew Niccol, who worked impressively with Hawke on the topic of genetic modification in 1997's "Gattaca," puts a lot out there.
  59. Obvious Child
    Obvious Child is a romcom with a sting in its tail. And Slate is a dynamo, nailing every laugh while showing a true actor's gift for nuance.
  60. Neil Young Journeys
    Journeys, shot on the last two nights of Young's 2011 solo world tour, is essential Neil Young.
  61. Wakefield
    The role is a beast, and Cranston, in a tour de force of touching gravity and aching humanism, gives it everything he's got. It's astounding to watch, and an award-caliber performance from an actor who keeps springing surprises.
  62. Near Dark
    Bigelow's artful handling of the magic & menace of the night is hauntingly apparent.
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  63. Blackhat
    Best of all is the excitement of watching Mann use his kinetic powers as a filmmaker to tackle the new face of 21st-century warfare.
  64. High-Rise
    Wheatley and screenwriter Amy Jump (his wife) have energized Ballard's parable of class warfare in the technology age with a daring approach that will touch a nerve or have you bolting for the exits.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Suburbia
    The antithesis to the parent-friendly punks of Valley Girl, director Penelope Spheeris' stark, sobering look at the new generation gap pits aging California hippies against their disillusioned kids.
  66. Paddington
    It's funny. So is Nicole Kidman, very Cruella De Vil as Millicent Clyde, a taxidermist with an eye on adding Paddington to her stuffed collection. It's an excuse for some chase scenes and physical comedy (Paddington gets his head stuck in a toilet bowl) that manage to suggest both the Marx brothers and Wes Anderson. I mean that as a good thing.
  67. Shame
    Michael Fassbender delivers a bold and brilliantly immersive performance as a sex addict in Shame. He is so raw and riveting you won't be able to take your eyes off him.
  68. Still Alice
    Moore shows us acting at its best, alive with ferocity and feeling and committed to truth.
  69. Ready Player One
    Spielberg's visual inventiveness is unflagging.
  70. Outrage
    This film is a muckraking provocation whose time has come.
  71. March of the Penguins
    Michael Moore might want to look into this before more animal docs steal his thunder.
  72. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    What makes Crazy Stupid Love a cut above is actors who let pain seep into the laughs. Here's a comedy you really can take to heart.
  73. Ghost Town
    It sounds sappy, and sometimes it is, but director Koepp and co-writer John Kamps stay alert to the humor and pathos of Bertram's isolation.
  74. Creative Control
    Creative Control goes its own playful, provocative way. For a film about technology's growing dehumanization, this stylized beauty is a frisky, formidable temptation.
  75. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    The film, sometimes talky and overemphatic, is also literate, erotic, brutally funny and touched by brilliance in its quartet of live-wire performances.
  76. The Russia House
    At its best, The Russia House offers a rare and enthralling spectacle: the resurrection of buried hopes.
  77. The Bank Job
    Dull title for a juicy, fact-based caper movie that's full of surprises I have no intention of spoiling.
  78. The Station Agent
    The three actors could not be better. Huge feelings are packed into this small, fragile movie. It's something special.
  79. City of Gold
    In essence, City of Gold is a celebration of a critic who helped define a city by what it eats. And at a bargain price. So take notes, and dig in.
  80. Always at The Carlyle
    Dazzling, sometimes hilarious and surprisingly emotional documentary.
  81. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    The movie rises and, at times, even soars. This is all - and I do mean all - thanks to what human actors in league with computer technology can now achieve to bring the apes to life. No more guys squeezed into monkey suits and talking in posh accents. Performance-capture makes all the difference.
  82. Megan Leavey
    Mara is funny, fierce and altogether wonderful, even up against an irresistible costar.
  83. The Matador
    Writer-director Richard Shepard gives Brosnan his meatiest role ever, and he digs in with relish.
  84. Spider-Man 3
    There are delicious bits aplenty in Spider-Man 3 for those who care to notice.
  85. Backbeat
    Backbeat catches the Beatles in the act of discovering themselves. It’s a thrilling spectacle that rocks the house and a lot of lazy misconceptions about how legends are made.
  86. Run Ronnie Run
    Though the material isn't up to Mr. Show's high standards, some great laughs abound.
  87. World War Z
    World War Z is still as smart, shifty and scary as a starving zombie ready to chow down on you, baby, you.
  88. Beatriz at Dinner
    The funny, touching and vital Beatriz at Dinner probably tackles way more than it can handle, but so what? Godspeed. You won't know what hit you.
  89. Monsters University
    It's all infectious fun, despite the lack of originality. In the art of tickling funny bones, Crystal and Goodman earn straight A's.
  90. Unfinished Song
    Stamp's award-caliber performance as a closed-off man on the brink of turning into stone is a miracle of subtlety and feeling. This is acting of the highest order. Redgrave partners him superbly, bringing warmth and nurturing humor to a role she refuses to play for easy tears.
  91. Straw Dogs
    Peckinpah rubbed our noses in the bloodlust. Lurie invites objectivity. He gets strong, complex performances from actors who won't be painted into corners.
  92. Waitress
    This sweetheart of a comedy boasts a hilarious and heartfelt performance by Keri Russell.
  93. T2 Trainspotting
    This Trainspotting sequel may feel like that for many who raised a fist in unison with the first film's f--k-the-world defiance. There's a hard-won wisdom at work here, as well as an aching sense of loss. Any way you look at it, T2 takes a piece out of you.
  94. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Woody Allen's sexiest movie ever.
  95. The Fate of the Furious
    The Fate of the Furious doesn't have a thought in its head to match the best of Bond and Bourne. What it is, in every sense of the term, is insanely entertaining.
  96. Children of the Revolution
    Duncan zips through five decades and dozens of characters without reducing the participants to cliches or slogans. A remarkable cast helps him to keep focused on the core of the piece.
  97. Kalifornia
    This kinky game of murder and eroticism is preposterous but never boring.
  98. The Other Guys
    Ferrell is effortlessly uproarious. And watching hardass Wahlberg, in his first starring shot at farce, shake his sillies out is not to be missed.
  99. Keanu
    Even when the laughs don't always snap, Key and Peele are ready with another one or a dozen that do. These dudes really are the cat's meow.
  100. Middle Men
    Ribisi and Macht are sleaze incarnate. James Caan, as a conniving lawyer, and Rade Sherbedgia, as a Russian crime boss, are even more cootified. Best of all is Wilson, digging into his juiciest role in years and putting a human face on this mesmerizing morality tale, a journey into the toxic heart of the American dream.
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