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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. Far from the Madding Crowd
    Vinterberg may rush the final act, but he gets pitch-perfect performances from Schoenaerts, Sheen and Sturridge and brings out the wild side in Mulligan, who can hold a close-up like nobody's business. She's a live wire in a movie that knows how to stir up a classic for the here and now.
  2. Our Kind of Traitor
    No knock on McGregor and Harris — fine actors both — but they never hold us rapt the way the plot demands.
  3. All the Money in the World
    Though the rest of All the Money in the World expertly skims the surface of this true-life drama, Scott makes it a hell of a ride.
  4. White Hunter Black Heart
    The film is talky and often stilted. But Eastwood’s compassion for the character, warts and all, feels genuine. His performance, like the movie, is a high-wire act that remains fascinating even when it falters.
  5. Inherent Vice
    Inherent Vice is packed with shitfaced hilarity, soulful reveries, stylistic ingenuity and smashing performances that keep playing back in your head. It may not demand repeat viewings, but it sure as hell rewards them. It's the work of a major talent.
  6. Maria Full of Grace
    Marston builds incredible tension. But it's the human drama etched on Moreno's young, weary face that gives Maria its potent punch.
  7. What Maisie Knew
    Cartwright, find something sadly timeless in a child torn apart in a custody battle that no one wins, least of all the child.
  8. The Plot Against Harry
    Of course, such Sixties films as Goodbye, Columbus and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice have trampled over similar terrain. But few can boast Roemer’s light touch, brisk pacing and anarchic comic spirit. The passing of time has given The Plot Against Harry a lost-and-found quality that is both innocent and seductive.
  9. The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
    As an actor, Burns has worked the Hollywood game from "Saving Private Ryan" to "Alex Cross." But his core passion is for making indie movies without studio interference, guerilla style. Because he takes his films personally, so do we. The Fitzgerald Family Christmas is one of his best.
  10. The Merchant of Venice
    The film itself occasionally plods, but Pacino, tackling a tough trap of a role, raises the bar in a mesmerizing acting triumph.
  11. Despicable Me
    Carell's genius for loading a comic line with mirth and malice is on joyous display.
  12. War of the Worlds
    It's those dark visions of destruction that stick, even when Spielberg pushes the script to an unlikely happy ending. Great foreplay, failed orgasm.
  13. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Perks deserves points for going beyond the typical coming-of-age drivel aimed at teens.
  14. Super 8
    This movie, a true beauty, will put a spell on you.
  15. Promised Land
    Director Gus Van Sant finds the human side of a knotty issue. No polemics. Just the face of a new America in crisis.
  16. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
    Whether you regard Stella's getting her groove back as a feminist battle cry or as a silly wish-fulfillment fantasy, the movie delivers guilt-free escapism about pretty people having wicked-hot fun in pretty places.
  17. Miracle
    You keep rooting for the team, mostly because director Gavin O’Connor (the terrific Tumbleweeds) cast real athletes instead of actors, a canny decision that pays major dividends when the big game is re-created.
  18. Ted
    It's hysterically, gut-bustingly funny.
  19. The Shape of Things
    The actors nail the comic sting in every line, punctuated by eleven prime Elvis Costello songs.
  20. Shoot 'Em Up
    This wet dream for action junkies leaves out logic and motivation --you know, all the boring stuff.
  21. Noah
    Hold off on burning Aronofsky at the stake till you see Noah, a film of grit, grace and visual wonders that for all its tech-head modernity is built on a spiritual core.
  22. 28 Weeks Later
    Hold on for a hell of a ride.
  23. Alice
    Alice may be a minor work in the Allen canon, but when its grace notes manage to be heard above the whimsy, they ring true.
  24. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    You don't want to miss Depp in this movie -- he knocks it out of the park.
  25. The Human Stain
    The Human Stain is heavy going. It's the flashes of dramatic lightning that make it a trip worth taking.
  26. The Hollars
    John Krasinski, as actor and director, tackles the most clichéd genre in the movie business — the dysfunctional family dramedy. The big difference is he pulls it off with uncommon humor and compassion.
  27. That Thing You Do!
    Hanks works like a sketch artist feeling his way before attempting a large canvas. His material is slight, but his writing and directing have an unforced humor and an unhurried grace that suggest he may be a natural.
  28. Elysium
    Like District 9, an allegory of apartheid that took four Oscar nods and put Blomkamp on the map, Elysium delivers sci-fi without dumbing it down. It's a hell-raiser with a social conscience.
  29. 21
    21 drags itself to a climax that puts credulity in splints. So what? In a multiplex of dumb-luck hits, it's a kick to watch Spacey and a gifted young cast use smarts to deal audiences a winning hand.
  30. All Good Things
    The result is a potent and provocative movie that will keep you up nights.
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