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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. Stop-Loss
    Even when the script slips into sentiment, Peirce sticks with her troubled, questing soldiers, and through this raw and riveting movie, they stick with us.
  2. Brave
    A rousing, gorgeously animated good time.
  3. Sicko
    In a summer of dumb, shameless drivel, Moore delivers a movie of robust mind and heart. You'll laugh till it hurts.
  4. Caché (Hidden)
    Casts a spell that grips you and won't let go. The film works as a provocation, on a personal and a political level.
  5. Thank You for Smoking
    Both sides of the political fence will feel royally skewered. All that's lacking is a warning from the Surgeon General: This film will make you laugh till it hurts.
  6. Frank
    You're in for something funny, touching and vital. Director Lenny Abrahamson knows his way around eccentrics; just see "Adam & Paul" or "Garage" or "What Richard Did." And he makes an ideal guide into a bizarro world where music is made on the margins.
  7. The Impossible
    The go-for-broke intensity and emotional layering Watts brings to her role is an acting triumph. And McGregor matches her in a performance of ferocity and feeling.
  8. The Last Picture Show
    It's a snapshot of a small Texas town in the 1950s that's ostensibly filled with bighearted, god-fearing real Americans. But this exceedingly sad film spits in the eye of such homespun niceties: This is an Eisenhower-era world riddled with directionless teens, bored housewives and disenfranchised citizens who can't escape the futility around them.
  9. The Skeleton Twins
    What raises the movie above the herd and rocks our settled ideas of pop entertainment is the way Hader and Wiig resist the script's pull to tidy things up.
  10. Elle
    Huppert, an fearless actress (see The Piano Teacher), gives a performance that's a riveting mix of carnal and chilly – you can't take your eyes off her.
  11. 45 Years
    A mesmerizer that will creep into your dreams whether you let it or not.
  12. It Might Get Loud
    Does this sound like rock heaven? It is.
  13. The Bourne Supremacy
    If you've forgotten the kick you get from watching a globe-trotting, butt-kicking, whiplash-paced action movie done with humor, style and smarts, take a ride with The Bourne Supremacy.
  14. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    This dynamite thriller shivers with suspense. So if you ignore The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) because it's in Swedish with English subtitles, you probably deserve the remake Hollywood will surely screw up.
  15. Blue Jasmine
    Want to see great acting, from comic to tragic and every electrifying stop in between? See Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine.
  16. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Not only is this dazzler by far the best and most thrilling of the three Harry Potter movies to date, it's a film that can stand on its own even if you never heard of author J.K. Rowling and her young wizard hero.
  17. First Reformed
    Not only is this faith-in-crisis drama one of the legendary writer-director's most incendiary films ever, it's one of the year's very best – a cinematic whirlwind that leaves you both exhilarated and spent.
  18. Life, Animated
    In no way does Owen's story claim to be a cure-all. Instead of false hope, it offers up possibility, the chance of a stimulus that might get past the blocks of developmental disorder. That's more than encouraging. Life, Animated is truly inspirational.
  19. Love Is Strange
    Love Is Strange is, above all, a triumph for Lithgow and Molina, two consummate actors who bring decades of experience to artful performances that are as emotionally expressive in silence as they are in words. Acting doesn’t get better than this. Want to know what love is? Watch Lithgow and Molina and learn.
  20. The Ides of March
    A big, bruisingly funny moral fable etched in acid and Obama disillusion.
  21. Public Enemies
    Public Enemies comes at you like Dillinger did: all of a sudden. It's movie dynamite.
  22. A Ghost Story
    This is a poetic and profound experiment you do not want to miss.
  23. Finding Dory
    If Finding Dory lacks the fresh surprise of its predecessor, it still brims with humor, heart and animation miracles.
  24. Valmont
    The film is rapturously beautiful, enticing us into a lush, aristocratic world.
  25. Interstellar
    What the neg-heads are missing about Interstellar is how enthralling it is, how gracefully it blends the cosmic and the intimate, how deftly it explores the infinite in the smallest human details.
  26. The Fits
    The Fits is more than a transporting film experience. It's cinema poetry in motion.
  27. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    Pop-culture escapism can be thrilling when dished out by experts. Katniss is a character worth a handful of sequels. And Lawrence lights up the screen. You'll follow her anywhere.
  28. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    It will knock you for a loop like no other movie this year.
  29. The Way Back
    The director, 66, brings his passion for precision to every frame of the film, refusing to hype or Hollywoodize the detailed richness of the story.
  30. Circle of Friends
    Driver's tough core of honesty and wit is bewitching. So's the movie.
  31. Haywire
    Haywire comes close to achieving Soderbergh's goal of creating "a Pam Grier movie made by Alfred Hitchcock."
  32. Tim's Vermeer
    A stimulating detective story that holds you in thrall.
  33. Kinsey
    Scrappy, funny, hot-to-trot biopic.
  34. X-Men: First Class
    In this cheerfully perverse origin tale of Magneto, Professor X and their mutant team, Vaughn delivers a fireworks display of action, smarts and fun, plus a touch of class from actors who can really act.
  35. Philomena
    It's Dench, showing how faith and hellraising can reside in the same woman, who makes Philomena moving and memorable.
  36. Under African Skies
    Powered by Simon's brilliance, Under African Skies is a cultural lightning bolt that soars on its music and an unshakable belief in the transcendence of art.
  37. John Wick: Chapter 2
    Remember how the original John Wick snuck up and wowed us in 2014? Now he's back and better than ever. John Wick: Chapter 2 is the real deal in action-movie fireworks – it's pure cinema, an adrenaline rocket of image and sound that explodes on contact.
  38. Coriolanus
    Think "The Hurt Locker," which shares a cinematographer in Barry Ackroyd with no damage to the Bard's bruising poetry. Neat trick.
  39. Starred Up
    O'Connell, soon to head the cast of Angelina Jolie's "Unbroken," explodes onscreen in a star-is-born performance. Starred Up is a small indie film in danger of slipping through the cracks at the Hollywood-driven multiplex.
  40. The Post
    A rabble-rousing journalistic thriller filled with fierce commitment and fervent heart.
  41. Rachel Getting Married
    The acting is of the highest caliber. Winger, magnificent and too long between films, is a volcano of repressed anger.
  42. The Messenger
    Its truths are personal. It means to shake you. And does.
  43. Hell or High Water
    Chris Pine proves he can act. Ben Foster, well, he always could. And Jeff Bridges shows them both how it's done. Those are just three riveting reasons to pony up for Hell or High Water.
  44. Tarnation
    The result is a film that defies description. I'd call it some kind of miracle.
  45. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    Sam Peckinpah lives! The rampaging spirit of the late filmmaker, known as Bloody Sam for films such as "The Wild Bunch" and "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," is all over this blistering modern Western from first-time director Tommy Lee Jones.
  46. Fateless
    This unique and devastating look at the Holocaust is drawn from the autobiographical novel of 2002 Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz.
  47. The Queen
    One of the best and liveliest movies of the year - funny and touching in ways you can't predict.
  48. Shut Up & Sing
    For three years, the camera focuses on the Chicks as wives, mothers, entertainers and political flash points. Their fight to stay uncompromised is inspiring.
  49. Apocalypto
    Gibson has made a film of blunt provocation and bruising beauty.
  50. 10 Cloverfield Lane
    10 Cloverfield Lane comes loaded with everything a psychological thriller needs to shatter your nerves — and then kicks it up a notch.
  51. The Bourne Ultimatum
    The movie is thunderously exciting, but what makes it resonate is the wrenching story we read on Damon's face. We've waited all summer for a wild ride to grab us with more than jolts. Now it's here. Hang on.
  52. The Wind Rises
    It's a big story, and in this landmark film Miyazaki is up to every demand. Sit back and behold.
  53. Nebraska
    Just try to take your eyes off Dern. In his finest two hours onscreen, he gives a performance worth cheering. There's not an ounce of bullshit in it. Same goes for the movie.
  54. You Were Never Really Here
    Joaquin Phoenix is simply stupendous in You Were Never Really Here. His performance is damn near flammable — dangerous if you get too close.
  55. Capote
    Capote is a movie that doesn't pull its punches. It's a knockout.
  56. De Palma
    Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, filmmakers themselves and De Palma fans to the bone, haven't gathered a bunch of talking heads to debate De Palma's significance. They just put the man himself on camera, mic him up and let him rip. The result is heaven for movie lovers.
  57. Beasts of No Nation
    It's the remarkable Attah, whose young face reflects a hellish journey, that makes this fierce movie a blazing, indelible achievement.
  58. Spellbound
    By the time they're onstage, your pulse is pounding right along with theirs. Spell this movie: g-r-e-a-t.
  59. Get Low
    Funny, touching and acutely observed film.
  60. Howl's Moving Castle
    There's a word for the kind of comic, dramatic, romantic, transporting visions Miyazaki achieves in Howl's: bliss.
  61. Martha Marcy May Marlene
    It's Olsen, as a damaged soul clinging to shifting ground, who makes this spellbinder impossible to shake.
  62. A Quiet Place
    The acting is flawless, with Simmonds and young Jupe making every minute count. Blunt (Krasinski's wife off screen) is in a class by herself, taking a near-silent role and building a tour de force of expressive emotion.
  63. Love & Mercy
    Musically, the film is a miracle, right and riveting in every detail.
  64. Looper
    Lacing tremendously exciting action with touching gravity, Looper hits you like a shot in the heart.
  65. The Tillman Story
    This documentary succeeds triumphantly on so many levels that its full impact doesn't hit you until you have time to register its aftershocks.
  66. Loveless
    Aside from Alyosha, there's no one to root for here, and Zvyagintsev paints the bleakest of picture. But his filmmaking has a driving force that hurtles you along, and like his 2014 masterpiece "Leviathan," this micro-focused drama allows the director to turn the story of one family into an X-ray of a nation's bruised soul.
  67. Spy
    All the actors come up aces. And let's bottle the delicious byplay between McCarthy and Byrne, whose comic timing is bitchy perfection.
  68. Room
    Room deserves to be seen unspoiled. All you need to know is that the performances of Larson and Tremblay will blow you away.
  69. Trouble the Water
    Lessin and Deal have made Trouble the Water a spellbinder you do not want to miss.
  70. A Very Long Engagement
    An emotional powerhouse.
  71. SPECTRE
    Craig puts heat and heart into Spectre, as if he's taken Bond as far he can. The movie is a fever dream of all the Bond villains and all of Bond's efforts to see a life past them.
  72. The King
    It's hard to pinpoint exactly when this random, scattershot, overreaching movie stops spinning its wheels and starts flying on a cumulative power that floors you. But when it happens – kapow! By the end we’re looking at Elvis, America and ourselves with new eyes and wondering, once again, if the truth really can set us free.
  73. We Are the Best!
    What we have here is an exhilarating blast of a movie, full of heart but still punk rock. So don’t get all pissy because it’s in Swedish (with English subtitles) and you never heard of anyone in it and coming-of-age movies about girls make you puke.
  74. The Informant!
    There is devilish fun in this look into 1990s white-collar crime. But the jokes are the kind you choke on.
  75. Eastern Promises
    In Eastern Promises, shot to envelop by the great Peter Suschitzky, Cronenberg brings us face to face with the horror of self.
  76. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    A raucous ride through one man's pain.
  77. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Acting doesn't get much better than the subtly brilliant display put on by Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin.
  78. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    What an exhilarating gift to watch Harry and Company go out in a blaze of glory and amazing grace.
  79. Mudbound
    The director and her cinematographer Rachel Morrison do wonders with the elements that batter the people of every race and social class in the Delta. But it's the storm raging inside these characters that rivets our attention and makes Mudbound a film that grabs you and won't let go.
  80. La Vie en Rose
    Dahan's impressionistic heartbreaker of a movie gets it all in. And Marion Cotillard, lip-syncing Piaf's songs and digging into her soul with gale-force urgency, gives a performance for the ages.
  81. Passing Strange
    As for Lee, he clearly relates to this material and the questions of political, musical and family identity he himself raised in films as diverse as "Malcolm X," "Mo' Better Blues" and "Crooklyn."
  82. Damsels in Distress
    Welcome Damsels in Distress, an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention.
  83. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
    Best Worst Thing brims over with moments of humor and heartbreak that reflect the feeling of knowing "we're what's new." This movie is more than good, pal. It's indispensable.
  84. Margaret
    Margaret, for all its flaws, is a film of rare beauty and shocking gravity.
  85. Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
    So cheers to a movie as gloriously entertaining and bluntly honest as the lady herself. Everybody rise.
  86. Gomorrah
    So fasten your seat belts for Gomorrah, just snubbed in the wussy Oscar race for Best Foreign Film (so you know it's dynamite).
  87. Bubble
    A potent and provocative look at life unhinged. Bubble is said to be the first in a series of six low-budget films from Soderbergh. If they all rock the boat like this one, bring 'em on.
  88. L'Enfant (The Child)
    Renier and Francois give deeply affecting performances that help soften the film's harsh blows. But only in the compassionate eye of the Dardennes do these three children achieve a state of grace.
  89. Juno
    There's a special kick that comes in finding a new star. So step up, Ellen Page, and take your bows.
  90. Love & Friendship
    I can't think of a more wickedly modern romantic comedy.
  91. Mad Max: Fury Road
    Mad Max: Fury Road kicked my ass hard. It'll kick yours. So get prepped for a new action classic. You won't know what hit you.
  92. Leave No Trace
    You don't just watch it as much as you absorb it until the film's ebb and flow become a part of you.
  93. Tell Them Who You Are
    Funny, touching, vital.
  94. Elephant
    To those who see no purpose to this film, I say the purpose is learning not to turn a blind eye. The unique and unforgettable Elephant keeps its eyes wide open.
  95. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
    It's a first-class ride. All aboard.
  96. The Lobster
    The Lobster, with a score that samples everyone from Beethoven to Nick Cave, comes at you with images that burn and laughs that stick in the throat. Take the challenge of this movie — it'll keep you up nights.
  97. Edge of Tomorrow
    Liman keeps the action and surprises coming nonstop. OK, the end is a head-scratcher. Until then, Cruise and Blunt make dying a hugely entertaining game of chance.
  98. The Hateful Eight
    At three hours, this Western whodunit can feel like too much of a good thing. But Tarantino writes like a flamethrower. His incendiary dialogue feels like profane poetry. And the dude thinks big.
  99. You Only Live Twice
    From the Eastern flavor of the opening theme, hauntingly sung by Nancy Sinatra, to the Japanese setting, the fifth film is the Bond series just gets better and cooler with age. The tasty script by Roald Dahl junks most of the Fleming novel, spinning its own witty Cold War fantasy.
  100. Let the Right One In
    Stick your neck out for this Swedish horror show. It's a winner, full of mirth and malice, plus a young romance you'll never see on the Disney Channel.
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