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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. Violation
    The film falls prey to its own smoke and mirrors. It is less subversive than it aspires to be, and more emotionally real than than the filmmakers seem to realize.
  2. Thumbsucker
    Pucci is an actor to watch: He rides this spellbinder without softening the truths that plague the thumbsucker in all of us.
  3. Inglourious Basterds
    For anyone professing true movie love, there's no resisting it.
  4. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
    Dragon errs by trafficking too much in what made Bruce Lee sell instead of what made him tick.
  5. Never Let Me Go
    The melancholy attached to the impermanence of life and love suffuses this film, making it memorably haunting and hypnotic.
  6. Babel
    In the year's richest, most complex and ultimately most heartbreaking film, Inarritu invites us to get past the babble of modern civilization and start listening to each other.
  7. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Any resemblance between this Bad Lieutenant and the 1992 Abel Ferrara landmark is purely in the head of the dude who thought up the title.
  8. Unstoppable
    a bang-up ride that means to wring you out. Mission accomplished.
  9. Brave
    A rousing, gorgeously animated good time.
  10. God's Creatures
    God’s Creatures is a quiet movie, but its emotional drift is violent; Watson and Franciosi are particularly effective at giving us women being swept up into the currents.
  11. Revolutionary Road
    DiCaprio is in peak form, bringing layers of buried emotion to a defeated man. And the glorious Winslet defines what makes an actress great, blazing commitment to a character and the range to make every nuance felt.
  12. Live Free or Die Hard
    Gets the action job done and you better believe that Bruce is still the man.
  13. Censor
    The whole thing takes on a level of fractured fairy-tale storytelling that nods to both the Brothers Grimm and the father-figure Cronenberg.
  14. Palo Alto
    A hypnotic movie of harsh truth and healing compassion. It sticks with you.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Time After Time
    Nicholas Meyer deftly mingles fish-out-of-water comedy and touching romance with discreetly gory danger.
  16. Lion
    The young star, maturing nicely past the boyish enthusiasm he showed in "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Marigold Hotel" films, enters a new phase of his career with fierce commitment. Lion is one from the heart.
  17. The September Issue
    A subversively entertaining documentary.
  18. Cinderella Man
    It's the classic American tale of the family man triumphant, and Howard makes sure that it hits you right in the heart.
  19. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
    What a shame that this well-meaning look at the absurdity of gay conversion camps — it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year — lacks the teeth to make its points stick.
  20. Rocketman
    The film owes its success less to shock value than to sheer cinematic inventiveness and Egerton’s total immersion in the role.
  21. The Cooler
    Wayne Kramer, who co-wrote the scrappy script with Frank Hannah, makes a potent directing debut and strikes gold with the cast.
  22. Duplicity
    Given the assault of devilishly clever plot twists that buzz-bomb your brain like a two-hour binge of quad-shot lattes, Duplicity goes down as too smart for its own good.
  23. The Painted Veil
    The Painted Veil has the power and intimacy of a timeless love story. By all means, let it sweep you away.
  24. It
    It works enough of the time to deliver on the promise of bad dreams.
  25. Digging for Fire
    The movie steps lively with buoyant humor and palpable sexual tension, but keep an eye out for the dark places.
  26. Cold Souls
    You'll laugh till it hurts at Cold Souls.
  27. How to Build a Girl
    It’s funny — as is a lot of this eager-to-please, all-over-the-place movie — thanks to the dry snap of Moran’s dialogue and Feldstein’s exhilarating performance.
  28. Tuesday
    Tuesday makes a strong case for death as a natural, if not the most natural part of life. It makes an even stronger case, however, for Julia Louis-Dreyfus being one of the greatest actors working today.
  29. The Vigil
    An intriguing stab at modern Hasidic horror — we smell a burgeoning subgenre — The Vigil will feel like well-trod ground to anyone who’s seen a few supernatural thrillers; only the neighborhood has changed.
  30. Small Time Crooks
    The Woodman has recovered his common touch. On him, it looks good.
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