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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. Drag Me to Hell
    Horror-movie heaven.
  2. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    Who would have guessed that a documentary about gamers obsessed with scoring a world record at Donkey Kong would not only be roaringly funny but serve as a metaphor for the decline of Western civilization?
  3. Spider
    What catches us in Spider's web -- besides the indelible performances of Fiennes and Richardson -- is the director's sympathy with this freak man-child who struggles to order his confused memories into a kind of truth.
  4. Seymour: An Introduction
    The twice Oscar-nominated actor appears onscreen only briefly. Hawke knows where the spotlight belongs. Believe me, the 81 minutes spent in Bernstein's funny, touching and vital presence is something you don't want to miss.
  5. Up in the Air
    One-word reaction: bravo.
  6. Milk
    It's a total triumph, brimming with humor, heart, sexual heat, political provocation and a crying need to stir things up, just like Harvey did. If there's a better movie around this year, with more bristling purpose, I sure as hell haven't seen it.
  7. Lilya 4-Ever
    Lukas Moodysson, a young Swedish director, crafts a stunner of a film out of familiar turf.
  8. One Night in Miami
    One Night in Miami is an act of imagination. It does not reinvent the wheel. It polishes and clarifies the spokes — all while moving and entertaining us in the process.
  9. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    You'll thrill to the action, savor the tasty dialogue and laugh like bloody hell.
  10. Vera Drake
    Using Staunton's face as his canvas, Leigh crafts a powerfully moving film that is unmissable and unforgettable.
  11. Private Life
    What you ultimately get out this chronicle of people trying to get in the family way, and who end up experiencing their own sense of parenthood via their young guest/partner-in-crime, is enough to sustain you through the rougher patches.
  12. Moonage Daydream
    It could have been a straightforward documentary about the David Bowie story — but who wants straightforward when it comes to Bowie? Instead, Moonage Daydream is a gloriously innovative trip into the Thin White Duke’s mind, written, directed, and edited by Brett Morgen.
  13. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee is coming at you with his greatest and most galvanizing movie in years. BlacKkKlansman is right up there with "Do the Right Thing" and "Malcolm X" in the Spike’s Joint pantheon of game-changers.
  14. Janet Planet
    It’s the kind of minimalist, yet emotionally rich memory piece that’s so quietly attuned to people, place and the passing of time that, ironically, it makes you want to shout hosannahs from a mountaintop until you’re hoarse.
  15. Under the Skin
    A brave experiment in cinema that richly rewards the demands it makes. The result is an amazement, a film of beauty and shocking gravity.
  16. Red Army
    Red Army deserves a big boo-yah from audiences for being illuminating and hugely entertaining. And if some of the talk is in Russian, live with it.
  17. The Post
    A rabble-rousing journalistic thriller filled with fierce commitment and fervent heart.
  18. The Magdalene Sisters
    Mullan errs by making all the sisters dragon ladies. Still, the film gets to you; it's a powerhouse.
  19. Tyson
    You won't know what hit you after watching Tyson. This power punch to the gut is one of the best movies of any kind this year.
  20. Eastern Promises
    In Eastern Promises, shot to envelop by the great Peter Suschitzky, Cronenberg brings us face to face with the horror of self.
  21. Trouble the Water
    Lessin and Deal have made Trouble the Water a spellbinder you do not want to miss.
  22. Saint Maud
    It’s a genuine revelation, and the sort of holy terror that restores your faith in a genre.
  23. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
    Be warned that it is a gateway drug. It’s also the sort of movie that makes you understand why people fall in love with movies in the first place.
  24. 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.
  25. James White
    Some movies are so good and true and tough-to-the-core they should just sneak up on you. James White is one of them.
  26. It Follows
    Mitchell has his own twisted gift for letting atmosphere help define character. It Follows creeps you out big-time in that cool way that freezes the blood.
  27. Is That Black Enough for You?!?
    Mitchell has an inside-scoop aptitude for titillating details and unexpectedly insightful connections, a gift for association and cool, collected storytelling that propels the documentary along at a fast, satisfying clip, overwhelming us the number of nods to stars, to movies — big and small — and to his own impressions.
  28. Driveways
    The director’s sophomore feature brims with so many tender mercies, so many quietly observed moments, that even its light touch leaves a mark.
  29. Don't Think Twice
    It feels lived it, honest and painfully funny.
  30. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    This Sweeney is a bloody wonder, intimate and epic, horrific and heart-rending as it flies on the wings of Sondheim's most thunderously exciting score.
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