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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. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Above all, it’s a Martin Scorsese picture, brimming with reverence for a culture that survived a horrible trauma as it is filled with exhilarating flourishes, film history references, and explorations of the faultline between the sacred and profane. And yes: It’s a masterpiece.
  2. Gangs of New York
    Gangs of New York is something better than perfect: It's thrillingly alive.
  3. The Fugitive
    For dynamite suspense loaded with thrills and wicked fun, you can’t beat The Fugitive — the summer’s best action blaster.
  4. 12 Years a Slave
    Proving himself a world-class director, McQueen basically makes slaves of us all. It hurts to watch it. You won't be able to tuck this powder keg in the corner of your mind and forget it. What we have here is a blistering, brilliant, straight-up classic.
  5. The Wild Bunch
    The hard action, bracing wit and mournful grace of Peckinpah’s cowboy classic shames every new movie around. It’s a towering achievement that grows more riveting and resonant with the years.
  6. Da 5 Bloods
    This is a lobbed grenade. But it’s also personal filmmaking at its prodding, profound best. This is a Spike Lee joint and a Spike Lee history lesson. Prepare to be schooled.
  7. Menace II Society
    Nothing the Hughes brothers have done in their videos for Tone Loc, Tupac Shakur and others prepares you for the controlled intensity and maturity they bring to their stunning feature debut.
  8. Kids
    Cautionary tales aren't new. What sets Kids apart as daringly original, touching and alive is its authenticity.
  9. Before Night Falls
    In uniting to honor Arenas, Bardem and Schnabel create something extraordinary.
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  10. 24 Hour Party People
    Like the music, the film is outspoken, roaringly funny, defiantly sexual and relentlessly in your face. I couldn't have liked it more.
  11. Anomalisa
    Filtered through Kaufman's searching mind and soulful brilliance, the result is a masterpiece.
  12. Zero Dark Thirty
    Hang on tight. The knockout punch of the movie season is being delivered by Zero Dark Thirty.
  13. Caught by the Tides
    On paper, the endeavor sounds like the equivalent of a B-sides and rarities compilation. On screen, it plays like a sucker-punch masterpiece.
  14. Fighter
    Fighter shapes up as one of the great documentaries of this year, or any other.
  15. Time
    What distinguishes this documentary from other movies about mass incarceration is the novelty with which Bradley subverts the mass and trains our eye, frequently literally, on the particular.
  16. Chuck & Buck
    One of the year's best and most provocative films.
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  17. Monsters, Inc.
    It's the Pixar animators who keep grown-ups as riveted as the kids with visual marvels that dazzle and delight.
  18. The Zone of Interest
    It’s a work that forces you to reexamine how we’ve processed this chapter of history and restores a proper sense of ungraspable horror.
  19. The Snapper
    This rip-roaring Irish comedy is the freshest surprise of the season.
  20. Y Tu Mamá También
    Cuaron's hot-blooded, haunting and wildly erotic film revels in the pleasures of the flesh without losing touch with thought and feeling.
  21. Croupier
    Taut, tense and enthralling, as smart and surprising as it protagonist.
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  22. Showing Up
    That this moody, woozy character study falls closer to the “masterpiece” side of the fence isn’t a surprise, considering it comes from Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams, one of the best filmmaker-actor duos of the last quarter century.
  23. The Irishman
    With The Irishman, America’s greatest living director creates his late-career masterpiece, a deeply felt addition that vibrantly sums up every landmark in his crime-cinema arsenal, from 1973’s "Mean Streets" through "Goodfellas," "Casino," "Gangs of New York," and the Oscar-
winning "The Departed."
  24. Priscilla
    People may fault Coppola for dipping her toe in familiar terrain, but it’s hard to argue with the result: a transportive, heartbreaking journey into the dark heart of celebrity, and her finest film since Lost in Translation.
  25. The Hospital
    This blisteringly cynical satire, written by Paddy Chayefsky, is one of the darkest movies ever made, a cold-eyed lament for a society torn apart by upheavals of the Sixties.
  26. Reversal of Fortune
    What makes it such a mesmerizing, wickedly witty entertainment is the revealing portrait it paints of an era in which everyone is presumed guilty where greed is concerned... It's an often chilly movie, but the chill cuts to the bone.
  27. Nope
    This is a movie that knows the power of images. It has learned, from the greats of the genre, that what we fear most is what can’t be seen, what’s merely implied.
  28. Ida
    Ida is an art film in the finest sense of the term — it is austere technique counterbalanced by emotions that bleed.
  29. Fresh
    The acting by Esposito and Jackson is exceptional, but it is on the remarkable face of Nelson that Yakin shows what gets lost when a child beats criminals at their own game.
  30. Night on Earth
    Jarmusch is a true visionary; he knows his films can't bring order to the ravishing chaos around him, but he can't resist the fun of trying. In this compassionate comedy of missed connections, he makes us see the ordinary in fresh and pertinent ways. But the flickers of humanity in those taxis are soon dulled by barriers of time, sex, race, language and money. They are flickers in a vast emotional void.
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