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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. The Final Year
    What chills most about The Final Year is how unprepared Team Obama was for the victory of Trump and the ease with which many of its hard-won policies could be unraveled. Was it blindness, hubris or a combination of both?
  2. Sunshine Cleaning
    This funny and touching movie depends on two can-do actresses to scrub past the biohazard of noxious clichés that threaten to intrude. Adams and Blunt get the job done.
  3. TRON: Legacy
    Bridges has a fine time playing with himself, so to speak. Add Garrett Hedlund as Flynn's son Sam, the rebel who zaps himself into the server to find his lost dad, and director Joseph Kosinski has a recipe for adventure that should delight gamers. Non-techies are on their own.
  4. Breakfast on Pluto
    In substance and style, the movie is more than a few tears short of Jordan's "The Crying Game." But Murphy is an actor to watch. Even in heels.
  5. The Myth of Fingerprints
    This engrossing blend of humor and heartbreak only hints at the causes, from betrayal to child abuse, of this family's dysfunction. Hang on. Attention is richly rewarded.
  6. Romper Stomper
    Ron Hagen’s camera work captures the delirium of carnage that drives out rational thought. Ignore the prudes who think you shouldn’t make films about things that scare you. It’s a first line of defense. This Aussie Reservoir Dogs opens up a brutal world that needs to be understood.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Soylent Green
    The overall tone is one of melancholy rather than sci-fi wonder, and the film's cynicism is hard to shake.
  8. Pulse
    Just know that Pulse possesses the dark art to make your pulse pound and your hair stand on end -- with no cheating.
  9. Thirteen
    Brace yourself for Thirteen -- it'll cause a commotion.
  10. Metallica: Through the Never
    If you’re looking for an orgasmic trip to heavy-metal heaven, this is it.
  11. The Imposter
    A movie that offers hard speculation and harder truths. You won't be able to get it out of your head.
  12. The Conjuring
    It scared the living crap out of me. Only at the movies is that a compliment.
  13. In Bruges
    A haunting and hypnotic movie, just the thing to get lost in.
  14. Frantz
    The filmmaker is walking a creative tightrope. How do you resist that? My advice is: don't. There are a few fits and starts, and a palette switch from black-and-white to color. But Ozon is onto something about nationalism, borders and a hatred of the other that's as timely as Trump.
  15. Ocean's 8
    Ocean's 8 is a heist caper that looks gorgeous, keeps the twists coming and bounces along on a comic rhythm that's impossible to resist. What more do you want in summer escapism?
  16. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    Clooney fashions a style all his own: visceral, vital and churning with off-the-wall ideas. That's what makes you want to see Clooney direct again. You can feel his joy in it.
  17. Let Me In
    Reeves plugs in a live wire to play Abby, the girl vampire who's been 12 for, well, a very long time. That would be Chloë Grace Moretz, an acting dynamo (see Kick-Ass) whose mesmerizing performance goes deep.
  18. The Comfort of Strangers
    Director Paul Schrader has fashioned a film of surpassing creepiness. It's pretentious, too, and sometimes maddeningly dull. But the erotically unsettling atmosphere – exquisitely rendered by cinematographer Dante Spinotti – soon seeps in.
  19. Blackfish
    Forget "The Conjuring," Blackfish may be the scariest movie around.
  20. Miami Blues
    This thriller is so gritty it could chafe your eyeballs...Miami Blues is high on its own malevolence.
  21. Bright Star
    Bright Star is the New Zealand writer-director's raw, sensual attempt to render Keats as experienced by a young girl who couldn't understand the genius of his verse.
  22. Albert Nobbs
    As directed with grit and grace by Rodrigo García, this quietly devastating film goes bone-deep.
  23. Rock School
    You cheered Jack Black in "School of Rock," now give it up for Paul Green in the real thing.
  24. Paper Towns
    There may be nothing fresh left to find in teens coming of age, but director Jake Schreier (Robot and Frank) fakes it with genuine sincerity.
  25. Shortbus
    If there is such a thing as hard-core with a soft heart, this is it.
  26. Beauty and the Beast
    It looks the same, moves the same and sounds the same (those Alan Menken songs!) as the original. But some of the magic has gone M.I.A.
  27. Hellboy
    Hellboy is on fire with scares and laughs and del Toro’s visionary dazzle. It’s the tenderness that comes as an unexpected bonus.
  28. Paper Heart
    Enjoying this wondrous wisp of a something is easy, describing it is hard. Luckily, Charlyne Yi is an enchantress.
  29. Batman Begins
    The buildup is steadily engrossing. That's because Nolan keeps the emphasis on character, not gadgets. Gotham looks lived in, not art-directed.
  30. The Family Stone
    Keaton, a sorceress at blending humor and heartbreak, honors the film with a grace that makes it stick in the memory.
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