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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. Lantana
    The acting is top-notch, and LaPaglia, who makes the cop's torment palpable, gives the performance of his career.
  2. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    A dynamite bundle from British writer-director Guy Ritchie. Even when the accents are as indecipherable as the plot, Ritchie keeps the action percolating and the humor on high.
  3. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    Funny, poignant, personal and a rage-filled valentine to a metropolis that’s seen its fair share of gentrification.
  4. Ulee's Gold
    Nunez finds a striking lyricism in simple lives that inspires an uncommonly fine cast and ranks him as a world-class filmmaker.
  5. First Cow
    How it informs so much of what the movie is getting at is something you’ll find yourself mulling over for weeks after you’ve left the theater. The feeling that you’ve just witnessed a major work from a great American filmmaker, however, is instantaneous.
  6. Anora
    The writer-director gives these unsung, oft-judged heroes of labor empowerment via empathy and representation.
  7. Guinevere
    Offers something magical in the haunting and hypnotic performance of Sarah Polley...(the film) cuts deep.
    • Rolling Stone
  8. The Original Kings of Comedy
    A tornado of laughs based on the black experience as lived by these four insightful jokers, instead of as filtered through the Hollywood formula.
    • Rolling Stone
  9. Breaking the Waves
    "Waves" is a spellbinder.
  10. Together
    This hilarious and humane film nails its subject -- not just the unshaved armpits and the lack of underwear -- and marks Moodysson as a talent to watch.
  11. A Real Pain
    What Eisenberg accomplishes overall here, however, is beyond measure. It’s the real deal.
  12. The Vast of Night
    What makes it one of the best (and most unclassifiable) movies of the year is the hypnotic way it keeps re-inventing itself from scene to scene.
  13. Palm Springs
    Palm Springs suggests that repetition can kill sex drives, marriages, and even the will to live. Yet it still leaves you laughing gratefully at the resilience of love.
  14. The Believer
    Unique and unforgettable.
  15. The Remains of the Day
    Detractors will see the usual parade of repressed feelings in a Masterpiece Theatre setting. Those who look closer will find one of the best films of the year.
  16. birth/rebirth
    What gives birth/rebirth its dark, subtle, painful sense of humor, as well as its horror and its thoughtful gravity, is the sense that even the most profound problems of life and death can be approached like problems of science — that the act of trying to give someone you love more life can result in basic trial and error and scientific problem-solving.
  17. Best in Show
    Waggish fun like this is too good to miss.
    • Rolling Stone
  18. Unfaithful
    Lane is a force of nature. Her slow-burning, fiercely erotic performance charges the movie.
  19. First Man
    Concentrate on the abundant factors that make First Man unmissable and unforgettable. There have been astronaut movies before, good (Apollo 13) and better (The Right Stuff). But few have been as much a triumph of the imagination fueled, not by FX but by indelible feeling, as this one.
  20. Our Lady of the Assassins
    Setting it against the backdrop of a wanton city under siege, Schroeder crafts a film of whiplash urgency.
  21. Humanité
    It's a haunting, hypnotic film that exerts an escalating grip on the heart and the conscience.
    • Rolling Stone
  22. American Psycho
    An uneven movie that nonetheless bristles with stinging wit and exerts a perverse fascination.
    • Rolling Stone
  23. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    Mitchell gives this post-punk, neo-glam rock extravaganza everything in his loaded arsenal of talents. He gets the sound right, the look right, the fun right and - this is crucial - the pain right.
  24. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
    You can barely call it a movie. You can, however, recognize it as one of Wes Anderson‘s best attempts at transforming both his and his literary idol’s idiosyncrasies into something like art — and the most satisfying posthumous double act in ages.
  25. Barbarian
    While Barbarian‘s unexpected popularity outside of die-hard genre circles can be attributed to old-fashioned, organic word of mouth, it’s also a first-rate horror movie, full stop.
  26. Ghost World
    Let the unsettling secrets of this outrageously funny and steadily engrossing meditation on the life of two high school misfits after graduation catch you by surprise. It's that good.
  27. Hannibal
    It's unmissable, flaws and all, because riveting suspense spiced with diabolical laughs and garnished with a sprig of kinky romance add up to the tastiest dish around.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Kitchen
    There is such clarity of vision here, a rare feat from a first-timer, that it feels as though it was crafted by a seasoned pro. The script is tight and full of humanity, never falling into the trap of being too earnest, and blends some genuine comedy with sequences of pathos and heartbreak. Everything feels grounded without an ounce of pretension.
  29. Thelma & Louise
    Begins like an episode of "I Love Lucy" and ends with the impact of "Easy Rider."
  30. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
    Using their voices for demonstrations and protests, they helped pass 1990’s revolutionary Americans With Disabilities Act. This documentary proves that they are still changing the world.
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