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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. Thelma
    There's too much undeniably impressive filmmaking to dismiss Thelma; there's too much uncertain storytelling to actually recommend it. Trier undoubtedly has a great horror-movie character study in him. We can't wait to see it.
  2. Colette
    This is the firebrand Colette that Knightley plays with every fiber of her being. She’s something to see.
  3. Little Sister
    Clark is a talent to watch. He's made a transfixing film about a family that looks touchingly and unnervingly like yours and mine.
  4. Disobedience
    A gorgeously acted, written and directed spellbinder.
  5. Judy Berlin
    Some movies are too good to miss. Judy Berlin is one of them...It works like magic.
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  6. East Is East
    Get your titles straight -- this is the good one, and a roaring good time.
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  7. Woman of the Hour
    Please welcome to the stage Anne Kendrick, Genre Auteur!
  8. In the Line of Fire
    Eastwood hasn't had this much fun with a role in years, and his joy is contagious.
  9. Love, Gilda
    You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. You’ll leave still loving Gilda. The movie, not so much.
  10. Hidden Figures
    Lots of movies are labeled as "inspirational" – Hidden Figures truly earns the right to the term.
  11. Sylvie's Love
    When the spell gets broken, temporarily or otherwise, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the craft and care of this affectionate reclamation and still feel that all the swooning that heaven allows is almost, but not quite, enough.
  12. Eno
    It was a singular experience, impossible to replicate and uninterested in being definitive on anything, much the gent at the center of it all.
  13. Gods and Monsters
    Elegantly witty and haunting . . . McKellen gives the performance of his career . . . and Brendan Fraser excels.
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  14. Higher Ground
    Farmiga expertly guides a large and gifted ensemble cast and proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground and makes it funny, touching and vital.
  15. The Town
    Affleck and Hall make this unlikely love story palpably moving. And Renner (The Hurt Locker) is dynamite - he radiates ferocity and feeling.
  16. Ain't Them Bodies Saints
    Ain't Them Bodies Saints offers no glib answers or smooth resolution, but there's no question that Lowery is a filmmaker with a striking future.
  17. In Darkness
    In Darkness is an agonizing experience, especially when Jews are publicly humiliated in the streets and a driving rainstorm nearly drowns those cowering in the depths. Holland means to shake you. In Darkness has the power to haunt will haunt your dreams.
  18. Cyrus
    Cyrus, the summer's best, most original and crazily inventive comedy, is potently funny and painfully real.
  19. Hollywoodgate
    The film’s effect comes from the access, the editing, and the disconnect between how the Taliban think they come across, as righteous liberators, and what we see, a gang of insecure bullies who scoff at the idea of their wives working and compare a woman with an uncovered face to a piece of chocolate that has been dropped on the ground.
  20. Sully
    The movie earns your attention and respect by digging deep, by finding the fear and self-doubt inside a man who'd never accept being defined as a hero. It's an eye-opener.
  21. 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.
  22. Harry Benson: Shoot First
    Bare and Miele do more than track a remarkable career here; they reveal the essentials of what makes Benson unique. Any paparazzo with moxie can get into the action and shoot first. But what this shutterbug's eye arranges, sometimes in a split second, is the work of a singular craftsman with a rare gift: raising the click of a camera shutter to the level of art.
  23. The Heart of the Game
    There's no denying the exuberant energy and emotional force of this movie. It gets to you.
  24. Billy Elliot
    Bell explodes onscreen in a performance that cuts to the heart without sham tearjerking. Look for Billy to blast off.
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  25. Joy Ride
    Sex, drugs, profanity, penises, puke, poop, the use of “party” as a verb — Joy Ride embraces these reliable gross-out-comedy standbys with a gleeful sense of gusto. It’s also out to prove that you can make something novel without reducing it to being a novelty.
  26. 40 Acres
    Deadwyler is what makes 40 Acres feel like there’s something special happening here. The script has brains. Her Hailey has heart and soul. She gives us the postapocalyptic hero we deserve.
  27. Crazy Rich Asians
    It’s the war between the bonds of family vs. the pull of wealth — a global theme across wide borders and cultures — that gives the film heft. But even when the script drifts into moralizing, it’s the emotions that hold sway.
  28. The History Boys
    The film can't hide its stage origins, and in cutting almost an hour on the journey from stage to screen some resonance is lost. But Bennett's dialogue sparkles and skewers with killer wit. Dig in.
  29. A Mighty Heart
    The film belongs to Jolie. She won an Oscar for 1999's "Girl, Interrupted," but this is by far her best performance.
  30. Dream Scenario
    Part horror movie and part sideways swipe at cancel culture and social pariahdom, Dream Scenario is the sort of high-concept, surreal comedy that Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Charlie Kaufman used to do on the regular — think Eternal Nicshine of the Spotless Cage.
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