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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 Machinist
    Director Brad Anderson tightens the screws of suspense, but it's Bale's gripping, beyond-the-call-of-duty performance that holds you in thrall.
  2. 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.
  3. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
    Your reaction to Author will come down the question that haunts the film, and assuredly Albert herself: Do the widely-praised writings of LeRoy become less praiseworthy when you know they were crafted under false pretenses? It's a question worth chewing on even if the film asking it stacks the deck.
  4. The Book Thief
    The simplicity of Michael Petroni’s script seems a drawback at first. But skilled director Brian Percival (Downton Abbey) slowly, effectively tightens the vise as evil intrudes into the life of this child.
  5. Redbelt
    Mamet is on his game, and that is a sight to see. No con.
  6. The Spectacular Now
    James Ponsoldt's funny and touching coming-of-age tale covers old ground with disarming freshness.
  7. Roger Dodger
    Campbell Scott swings at one of the year's juiciest roles and knocks it out of the park.
  8. The Armstrong Lie
    An idol had fallen, and Gibney and the superb director of photography Maryse Alberti were there to capture the descent, including a confessional interview in which Armstrong blames the corruption of the game far more than himself. The movie rambles at two-plus hours, but the provocation never stops.
  9. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    A surprise package of fun, fright and untamed imagination.
  10. Shattered Glass
    The film never digs deep enough into the pressures on Glass from his family, his peers and himself to achieve psychological depth. But as an inside look into the hothouse of journalism, it's dynamite.
  11. Night Catches Us
    Hamilton manifests her vision of what politics can do to individual thinking with subtlety and sophistication. Remember her name. She's a genuine find.
  12. The Motel Life
    Hirsch opens his heart to the role. And Dorff, matching the depth of feeling he showed in Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere," excels at digging deep into Jerry Lee's pain.
  13. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    Captain America: The Winter Soldier is every rousing, whup-ass thing you want in an escapist adventure.
  14. An Inconvenient Truth
    Gore keeps us riveted by being charming, literate and profoundly persuasive on a topic that's scarier than anything in a dozen Japanese horror flicks. Vote Gore on this one.
  15. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
    In this roaringly comic and powerfully affecting road movie, Terence Stamp gives one of the year's best performances.
  16. Go for Sisters
    With the help of Hamilton, Ross and Olmos, sublime actors who radiate grit and grace, Sayles has made Go for Sisters a movie that stays inside your head long after you see it. It's a keeper.
  17. Restrepo
    The filmmakers offer no commentary. We watch. And what we see is explosive, deeply moving and impossible to shake.
  18. 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.
  19. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    There's a lot going on here. Maybe too much. The filmmakers can't draw coherence out of chaos. But Fey does.
  20. Unsane
    Foy's performance is something you don't want to miss. Whether spewing f-bombs, kneeing a suspected assailant in the balls, or promising a blowjob to Nate for a few minutes on his secret cell phone, Foy comes on like gangbusters. Fans of her prim, proper regent on "The Crown" are in for a shock.
  21. While We're Young
    Comedy really is hard. So it's a kick when a filmmaker gets it right, as Noah Baumbach does in this stingingly funny take on aging.
  22. Kill Your Darlings
    Sex, lies, betrayal and murder set among the gods of the Beat Generation. That's Kill Your Darlings, a dark beauty of a film that gets inside your head and stays there.
  23. Monster
    There's Theron, like a force of nature, compelling us to go beyond TV-movie supposition and look Wuornos straight in the eye. Her raw and riveting performance makes Monster an experience you won't forget.
  24. Anger Management
    It's good fun for a while, especially the therapy sessions that feature Luis Guzman as a gay hood with a paunch he covers in Day-Glo spandex and John Turturro as Dave's "anger buddy." John C. Reilly also scores as a bully turned Buddhist monk.
  25. School of Rock
    Even education can't kill the demon of fun in Black. Enroll in his class and you won't stop laughing.
  26. A Life Less Ordinary
    The movie damn near lives up to that promise. Picture the Marx brothers and the Coen boys collaborating on a valentine spiked with mirth and malice.
  27. Magic in the Moonlight
    Melancholy and doubt may seem like gloomy qualities to blend into an amorous romp. But that shot of gravity is what makes Magic in the Moonlight memorable and distinctively Woody Allen.
  28. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    The power of this Holocaust tale sneaks up and floors you.
  29. Dirty Pretty Things
    Fueled by gripping suspense, dark humor and outraged humanity, the film is a modern horror story that means to shake you, and does.
  30. The Drop
    Though The Drop covers familiar ground, it simmers with charged emotion. The image that lingers belongs to Gandolfini.
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