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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. The Gift
    The Gift delivers the lurid goods as a scary, sexy, twist-a-minute whodunit.
  2. Midsommar
    Ari Aster is a bold new voice in psychological horror, the kind that messes ruthlessly with your head. He proved that last year with "Hereditary," featuring Toni Colette in one of cinema’s most memorable meltdowns. And now, with the hypnotic and haunting Midsommar, he ventures into fresh territory without losing his grasp of what nightmares are made of.
  3. The Wife
    Close plays this ignored, pushed-aside woman like a gathering storm, drawing us into the mind and heart of a heroine who’s not going to take it any more. The actress has received six acting nominations without ever winning an Oscar. The Wife, a funny and fierce showcase for her prodigious talents, might just end the drought. You can’t take your eyes off her.
  4. Inside Out 2
    This sequel knows that when you leave childish things behind, you risk leaving key parts of the child’s personality and personal growth as well. It also recognizes that young adulthood is a different game altogether.
  5. Girlfight
    A strong, stinging film, alive with conflicts that defy glib resolutions.
    • Rolling Stone
  6. The Stroll
    The Stroll is a vital work of recent urban history. Even if you wouldn’t want to have lived there, you won’t regret visiting.
  7. Bacurau
    There are some breathtakingly gorgeous images the movie throws at you — the townsfolk silently waving white handkerchiefs during a funeral — among the few giddily grotesque visuals that you can’t shake. (Pedro Sotero’s cinematography is as stunning as a painting and as psychotropic as the drugs the villagers take before the finale.)
  8. Armageddon Time
    Armageddon Time isn’t a movie about bad people or good people. It’s more shocking because it’s more banal: It’s a movie about people. It doesn’t excuse peoples’ choices. But it knows that it cannot change them.
  9. The Piano Teacher
    Watching Haneke's film is, aptly enough, a challenge and a punishment. But watching Huppert, a great actress tearing into a landmark role, is riveting.
  10. Wonder Boys
    Michael Douglas digs deep and delivers one of his best performances in Wonder Boys -- a comic dazzler of roguish wit and touching gravity that is driven by characters, not jokes.
    • Rolling Stone
  11. Ford v Ferrari
    Luckily, Mangold fuels his true-life plot with enough flesh-and-blood action to leave you dizzy.
  12. Beanpole
    It’s a demonstration of directorial chops that somehow never devolves into a look-mamushka-no-hands display, and a textbook example of how to use handheld camerawork (courtesy of cinematographer Kseniya Sereda) and splashes of red, green, and goldenrod effectively without being garish or grandiloquent.
  13. Final Account
    An oral history of a once-broken, brainwashed nation, Final Account is the end result of Holland’s efforts to collect testimonies on the unthinkable before those who were there are gone.
  14. Fyre
    You leave this movie knowing exactly why it never should have happened in the first place.
  15. Living
    It’s the star himself who, even more than the decor and the change of cultural scenery, lifts Living out of the realm of a remake and into something far more profound. It becomes another story of a man at long last learning how to embrace the world, yet one that is completely substantial and shattering and, yeah, even life-affirming on its own.
  16. U-571
    A rip-roaring action adventure.
    • Rolling Stone
  17. Judas and the Black Messiah
    Judas and the Black Messiah can’t do everything. What it accomplishes is nevertheless quite something. It is a bittersweet compliment to what’s here that we end the film wishing it’d done even more.
  18. Women Talking
    There’s a sensitivity in even the most grand-gesture flourishes Polley and her editors Christopher Donaldson and Roslyn Kalloo throw in, but you also know there’s a voice behind this camera. And it belongs to an artist who definitely has something to say.
  19. Waves
    Even in the face of grievous misfortune, the characters created by Schults exude a tenderness that allows this achingly intimate drama to move past sorrow and hit you like a shot in the heart.
  20. High Life
    With Denis there’s always more than meets the prism of snap judgements. Let the movie mess with your head.
  21. Rocketman
    The film owes its success less to shock value than to sheer cinematic inventiveness and Egerton’s total immersion in the role.
  22. C'mon C'mon
    Deeply felt sincerity of the kind that Mills offers can be a tough pill. You kind of have to be in the mood. But this isn’t a film that works despite those excesses. Instead, it makes a case for them.
  23. Dr T and the Women
    Altman orchestrates Dr. T's odyssey with the precision, heart and lively wit of a virtuoso.
    • Rolling Stone
  24. Haiku Tunnel
    A ragtag charmer. You will laugh.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The People Under the Stairs
    Since this is a movie about deranged racists driven by a virulent strain of midcentury Christian moralism to keep children in cages while conspiring to disenfranchise the poor, that’s not going to work. Everything that happens in this movie could happen next month and it would be a one-day cable-news story that Fox would probably not cover.
  26. Cecil B. DeMented
    DeMented is Waters the way we like him--spiked with laughs and served with a twist.
    • Rolling Stone
  27. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    For all of the painstaking work that went into making this intricate animated feature feel not just handmade but heartfelt, Marcel is a wisp of a wistful film, whether it’s being existentially deep or essentially silly. Most of all, it just feels like a salve.
  28. The Hate U Give
    It is impossible to over-praise Stenberg’s incandescent performance, a gathering storm that grows in ferocity and feeling with each scene.
  29. Synonyms
    It’s an exhilarating and profoundly sorrowful work.
  30. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
    Apollo 10 1/2 starts off as a fantasy, a family comedy and a loosey-goosey flashback. It exits as a tribute to imagination, which — like so many of Linklater’s best movies — uses something personal as a jumping-off point for something poignant, funny, expansive, and ultimately moving.
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