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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
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. Waking Life
    That Linklater pulls off the innovative feat with hypnotic assurance is nothing short of amazing.
  2. The Green Knight
    This being a Lowery tale, the monolithic, the overwhelming, are only more powerful for being rendered in intimate, miniaturized terms. The creepiness creeps just that much more; fear is heightened; fantasies, mysteries tingle with a sense of the unpredictable.
  3. Five Easy Pieces
    A marvel of letting an antihero's restless wanderings dictate the terms of the story, Pieces doesn't explain its lead's ennui so much as honors it.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Tea with the Dames
    It’s delicious — sweet, tart, surprisingly moving and funny as hell.
  7. Take Shelter
    Nichols throws curveballs, but his film is unique and unforgettable.
  8. The Salesman
    A dazzling, darkly funny, quietly devastating human drama from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
  9. You Can Count on Me
    There may be bigger, costlier, weighter films this year. There's none lovelier.
    • Rolling Stone
  10. The Pianist
    Nothing can detract from the film as a portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake.
  11. Dahomey
    Easily one of the best and most modestly brilliant piece of nonfiction filmmaking you’ll see this year.
  12. Get Out
    A jolt-a-minute horroshow laced with racial tension and stinging satirical wit.
  13. West Side Story
    This West Side Story proves someone can still leave their mark on the legend without building it from the ground up. It’s a classic Spielberg joint, a classic hat-tip to Hollywood, and a classic, period.
  14. Amy
    What makes Asif Kapadia's documentary a devastating don’t-miss dazzler — like the lady herself — is the way he lays out her story without editorializing.
  15. The Savages
    With the help of acting giants, Jenkins turns The Savages into a twisted, bittersweet pleasure.
  16. Birds of Passage
    Part anthropological study, part rise-and-fall epic and all-out mesmerizing, this regional spin on the “family business” saga makes you rethink the notions behind why we watch crime flicks past the vicarious thrills. It’s both foreign and familiar.
  17. An Education
    An Education is remarkable for the traps it doesn't fall into. Jenny, for all her naive impulses, isn't a victim.
  18. The Rider
    Once The Rider hooks you – and believe me, it will – there's no way you will ever forget it.
  19. Varda by Agnès
    Varda by Agnès goes out not with a bang but a graceful farewell, as the director sits on a beach, a sandstorm whipping around her as vows to “disappear in the blur” and slowly fades from the image.
  20. Close Your Eyes
    You don’t have to know about Erice’s own backstory to appreciate this mournful, seeking work about life, art, loss, and the space where they all overlap.
  21. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham’s story about a 14-year-old misfit is one of the funniest, saddest and most heartfelt teen movies ever.
  22. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    The line between making guerrilla art and selling out has never blurred more provocatively.
  23. Knocked Up
    Rogen and Heigl step up to the plate with a tougher task from Coach Apatow: Nail every laugh and the emotions underlying them. No worries. They knock it out of the park.
  24. The Departed
    A new American crime classic from the legendary Martin Scorsese, whose talent shines here on its highest beams.
  25. Yes
    Yes is easily the most controversial film to hit theaters this year so far. It’s also, for all of the intoxicating rush of Lapid’s excessive style and cup-spilleth-over storytelling, one of the more sobering and vital ones as well.
  26. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Oldman gives a performance that is flawless in every detail.
  27. Support the Girls
    This is an actors’ film, one that proudly wears its women-run-the-world bona fides on its sleeve. They provide the sisterhood and the sense of boiling over. After a full-circle callback to its beginning, Support the Girls ends, pitch-perfectly, with a primal scream therapy session on the top of a strip-mall building, female voices being heard above highway noise.
  28. The Fabulous Baker Boys
    Pfeiffer is a knockout; she’s the sexiest presence in movies today and an exceptional comic and dramatic actress, to boot.
  29. The Insider
    With it's dynamite performances, strafing wit and dramatic provocation, The Insider offers Mann at his best -- blood up, unsanitized and unbowed.
    • Rolling Stone
  30. About Schmidt
    It is also Nicholson at his bravest and riskiest. By banking his fires and staying alert to the smallest details, he delivers a monumental performance that blasts your expectations and batters your heart.
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