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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. House of Flying Daggers
    Forget "Hero" -- that cult hit was just Zhang Yimou's warm-up for this martial-arts fireball that throws in a lyrical love story, head-spinning fights and dazzling surprises.
  2. Minding the Gap
    Liu creates an unforgettable film experience that will knock the wind out of you.
  3. Searching for Bobby Fischer
    A riveting screen adventure.
  4. Two Days, One Night
    From the theme of global downsizing, the filmmakers wring humor, heartbreak, suspense and stirring social drama. Cotillard, a consummate actress, fits like a natural into the workaday world of the Dardennes (Rosetta, The Son, The Kid With a Bike).
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Elle
    Huppert, an fearless actress (see The Piano Teacher), gives a performance that's a riveting mix of carnal and chilly – you can't take your eyes off her.
  8. Thelma & Louise
    Begins like an episode of "I Love Lucy" and ends with the impact of "Easy Rider."
  9. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    You won't know what outrageous fun is until you see Borat. High-five!
  10. The Farewell
    In The Farewell, Wang builds a funny, touching and vital film about what makes a family in any culture. It’s simply stunning.
  11. Marty Supreme
    It’s the sort of performance that feels like early Pacino or Dustin Hoffman, all twitches and vibrations and seeming like he’s in a constant state of motion even when standing still. And it fuses so well with what we, the viewer, think we know about Chalamet that it begins to blur the boundary in the best possible way.
  12. The Madness of King George
    Comedy and tragedy cohere in this extraordinary film of Alan Bennett's play.
  13. Gunda
    The movie is a film-length argument against our usual, overly personified, cutesy depictions of animals. It is also, not incidentally, a plea to stop eating them.
  14. Columbus
    Delicate business is being transacted in Columbus, a whisper-soft debut from Kogonada that nonetheless results in something unique and unforgettable. It's pure cinema.
  15. The Artist
    The Artist encapsulates everything we go to movies for: action, laughs, tears and a chance to get lost in another world. It just might leave you speechless. How can Oscar resist?
  16. Zama
    Poetic is a word that gets thrown around willy-nilly, but it fits perfectly here. So does woozy. It feels less like a film than a high fever, burning slow but hot in order to incinerate a virus.
  17. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    For all its playfulness, it’s the real, stinging, joyful, inconvenient reality of life that Dick Johnson Is Dead gives us. It’s a committed act of preservation: a looping, reeling, repeatable act of love.
  18. The Quiet Girl
    The Quiet Girl is, quite simply, a genuine work of art by a genuinely empathetic artist, and one of the single most moving, heartfelt, and heartbreaking movies from any country in the last decade.
  19. Letters from Iwo Jima
    Eastwood's direction here is a thing of beauty, blending the ferocity of the classic films of Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) with the delicacy and unblinking gaze of Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story).
  20. Anomalisa
    Filtered through Kaufman's searching mind and soulful brilliance, the result is a masterpiece.
  21. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    The movie pulls you in through the sheer immersive force of its filmmaking. In Long Day’s Journey, the search is everything with meaning as elusive and haunting as a dream.
  22. The Lion King
    A hugely entertaining blend of music, fun and eye-popping thrills, though it doesn't lack for heart.
  23. A Serious Man
    This seriously funny movie, artfully photographed by the great Roger Deakins, is spiritual in nature, barbed in tone, and, oh, yeah, it stings like hell.
  24. Capote
    Capote is a movie that doesn't pull its punches. It's a knockout.
  25. The Death of Stalin
    Who'd have thought the demise of a kill-happy Russian dictator could leave you laughing helplessly? That's The Death of Stalin for you, a slapstick tragedy – and for the funniest, fiercest comedy of the year so far – from the fertile mind of Armando Iannucci, the British political satirist behind the HBO's Veep and the sensational, Strangelovian In the Loop (2009).
  26. Hard Truths
    Leigh and all of his cast are so on-point here, so dedicated to breathing life into these everyday people, that every time he cuts away from Pansy and allows us unfettered glimpses into their lives outside her sphere of influence, you want to follow them into their own two-hour movies.
  27. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    It's a renegade masterpiece that will get you good.
  28. Quest
    In the end, what Quest gives you is not just well-earned empathy but the pleasure of the Raineys' company, and that is what genuinely makes it worth seeking out and seeing ASAP.
  29. Things to Come
    Huppert's brilliance is indisputable, her performance alternately playful and deeply moving.
  30. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    His (Anderson) abiding love for a vanished past, real and imagined, is at the core of The Grand Budapest Hotel. The thrill comes in watching as this rare talent gives his movie wings.
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