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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. Rosewood
    Though Hollywood hyperbolizes the Gregory Poirier script -- Mann is a fictional character -- John Singleton ("Boyz N the Hood") directs the film with riveting urgency.
  2. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Woody Allen's sexiest movie ever.
  3. Public Enemies
    Public Enemies comes at you like Dillinger did: all of a sudden. It's movie dynamite.
  4. Sisu
    Should you want to spend 90 minutes watching Nazis get shot, stabbed, gutted, blown up, run over, and beaten with a variety of inanimate objects, in the most violent and gory manner possible, this war movie is the answer to your pulp-cinema prayers.
  5. Tsotsi
    Based on a play by Athol Fugard, Tsotsi is South Africa's entry in this year's Oscar race for Best Foreign-Language Film. This remarkable movie means to shake you, and boy does it ever.
  6. Final Portrait
    In Final Portrait, art achieves a permanence that trumps an evanescent feast. What holds us through all the exasperating starts and stops is Rush, a live-wire actor of such effortless charisma that we’re drawn to his every utterance and gesture. Hammer, as a stand-in for the audience, can only stare in wonder as we do.
  7. Her Smell
    Her Smell is a berserker infused a mad poetry. In her third film with Perry, following "Listen Up," "Phillip and Queen of the Earth," Moss takes a character who makes Courtney Love look like Mother Teresa and exposes the shards of humanity that once vitalized and defined her music. The effect is shattering.
  8. The Nice Guys
    There are even times when Black seems to be letting Crowe and Gosling make the whole thing up as they go along. Not a bad thing.
  9. Bob Roberts
    Robbins’s debut as a director is exceptionally accomplished. He shrewdly balances his sense of purpose with a flair for mischief.
  10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    What Button shows is that Ben is ultimately not the hero of his own life or his own movie. He gets inside our head, that's for sure, but, frustratingly, we never get inside his.
  11. Smoke
    A sharply observant and witty film that plumbs unexpected depths of feeling.
  12. Girlfight
    A strong, stinging film, alive with conflicts that defy glib resolutions.
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  13. Hedda
    The question posed by this impressive, if somewhat overheated take on a theater-canon staple is not, in the end, “What curse is it that makes everything I touch turn ludicrous and mean?” It’s more like: Why kill when you can overkill?
  14. Unstrung Heroes
    Keaton has crafted something rare: a screwball comedy that cuts to the heart.
  15. The Friend
    [Siegel and McGehee] get that this isn’t just a story about a woman bonding with a dog — it’s a tale of loss and sorrow that inherently knows such heavy feelings aren’t confined to a single species.
  16. Colossal
    Damned if this wildly witty and surprisingly touching swing at movie madness and gender politics isn't on to something deep.
  17. In & Out
    The butt of the hilarious and heartfelt screenplay by Paul Rudnick (Jeffrey) is homophobia, and his sting is wickedly on target.
  18. Emilia Pérez
    The result is both exhilarating and exasperating, swinging so wildly all over the map that you may want to pre-emptively wear a neckbrace before viewing.
  19. Sword of Trust
    Maron may not go wide in terms of range yet. But damned if he can’t go deep.
  20. Monkey Man
    Patel’s pet project is as much a mash note to a way of presenting bloody-knuckled spectacle as it is a standard thriller.
  21. Big Fan
    Comedian Patton Oswalt triumphantly nails every comic and dramatic nuance as Paul Aufiero, a New York Giants obsessive who has long ago moved from fan to fanatic.
  22. Ant-Man and the Wasp
    The thrill of the film is watching Ant-Man and the Wasp team up and raise hell together. Rudd is a winning combination of sass and sincerity. And it's a kick to watch Lilly break out and let her star shine.
  23. John Lewis: Good Trouble
    The subject’s virtues, however, outweigh any of the film’s weak spots.
  24. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    Captain America: The Winter Soldier is every rousing, whup-ass thing you want in an escapist adventure.
  25. Thirteen
    Brace yourself for Thirteen -- it'll cause a commotion.
  26. The King
    It's hard to pinpoint exactly when this random, scattershot, overreaching movie stops spinning its wheels and starts flying on a cumulative power that floors you. But when it happens – kapow! By the end we’re looking at Elvis, America and ourselves with new eyes and wondering, once again, if the truth really can set us free.
  27. Together Together
    If it’s an ASMR video for pandemic-raddled emotions you’re after, you could do so much worse.
  28. Gunner Palace
    A riveting and indispensable record of the war in Iraq because it comes from the men who lived it.
  29. The Skin I Live In
    Even when the film's frigid elegance, perfectly captured by cinematographer José Luis Alcaine, becomes off-puttingly clinical, Almodóvar's passion burns through. The skin he lives in is alive to challenge no matter what warped form it takes.
  30. Curse of the Golden Flower
    The final effect is stunning, but also sadly impersonal.
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