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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 0.4 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 Kingdom
    Matthew Michael Carnahan's caffeinated script isn't much concerned with balance, but it gets some anyway, from the resonant images of culture clash that Berg catches on the fly and a remarkable performance from Ashraf Barhom.
  2. Prometheus
    The ending isn't squishy scary or deeply satisfying. Bummer. Otherwise, Prometheus – especially in its spellbinding first hour – kicks ass so hard and often that it's impossible not to be thrilled by it.
  3. Safety Not Guaranteed
    Director Colin Trevorrow and writer Derek Connolly keep the film humming with funny and touching surprises. And Plaza is a flat-out enchantress.
  4. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Washington digs so deep under the skin of this complex character that we almost breath with him. It's a great, award-caliber performance in a movie that can barely contain it.
  5. The Eyes of My Mother
    If The Eyes of My Mother is occasionally stylistic to a fault and ends way too abruptly, it's also the mark of someone who isn't afraid to make something that leaves scars.
  6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    The film's relentless pummeling grows wearying at 135 minutes. The first Terminator, a half-hour shorter, was leaner and meaner.
  7. Lean on Pete
    Sobs are earned the hard way in this moving drama, which grips you with such scrappy humor and no-bull grit and grace that you'll be hooked.
  8. Damsel
    Damsel won't work for everyone. It's too quirky for that. But it goes its merrily deranged way with prankish enthusiasm and a genuine sense of the absurd.
  9. Beginners
    McGregor goes bone-deep in a performance of shining subtlety. And a never-better Plummer is simply stupendous, refusing any call to sentiment as he shows us Hal's resonant lunge at life. Mills works the same way. Beginners is one from the bruised heart.
  10. The Fault in Our Stars
    Green made the wise choice to be funny in telling his sad story.
  11. Bitter Moon
    Polanski has great wicked fun with sex, love, cruelty, books, movies and, of course, himself. If you don’t go along with the joke, you’re in for rough sailing.
  12. Miss Bala
    Naranjo, a graduate of the American Film Institute, has a gift for staging action that defines character. The film is a harrowing experience. It cuts deep.
  13. How to Train Your Dragon
    Works enough miracles of 3-D animation to charm your socks off.
  14. American Animals
    American Animals is a high-style caper that touches a deeper chord of youthful indiscretion and moral imbalance. You won't be able to stop talking about it.
  15. Bridesmaids
    Kristen Wiig is an indisputable goddess of comedy. And this rowdy fem-friendship movie she stars in and wrote with Annie Mumolo is infused with the Wiig brand of wicked mischief.
  16. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Depp and Burton fly too high on the vapors of pure imagination. But it's hard to not get hooked on something this tasty.
  17. The Heart of the Game
    There's no denying the exuberant energy and emotional force of this movie. It gets to you.
  18. Higher Learning
    Higher Learning is seriously intended and seriously flawed. Singleton tends to shout his objectives. But in an era of cop-out escapism, it is gratifying to find a filmmaker who is spoiling to be heard.
  19. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
    The film is dawdling, sometimes maddeningly so, but Newman and Woodward deliver lovingly detailed and bruisingly true performances that not only command attention but richly reward it.
  20. The Kite Runner
    Both boys give such heart-rending performances that fear of reprisals for participating in the scene persuaded the studio to postpone the film's release to give them time to leave Kabul.
  21. The Humbling
    The Humbling is a dark dazzler shot through with mirth and delicious malice. But be warned. It is not Roth's novel.
  22. Chappaquiddick
    The film is corrosive in its take on the injustice that allowed Ted to live and prosper in a protective bubble of privilege. Clarke makes it clear that the man himself most likely felt the same way.
  23. Alien: Covenant
    It's true that the film is covering old ground – the shocking originality of the first Alien is a one-time thing. No worries. I'd rank Alien: Covenant with the best of the series, right after the first two chapters. Fans are going to freak out. Join in.
  24. The Hero
    It's not perfect, but it is a gift to Sam Elliott – and to us.
  25. Everything Must Go
    Ferrell delivers a performance of implosive intensity that rings true in every detail.
  26. Splice
    Played as a child by Abigail Chu and as an adult by Delphine Chanéac, Dren morphs into a special-effects miracle, sexy and scary in equal doses.
  27. Money Monster
    Foster's film doesn't doubt that money rules our lives. But it does wonder, provocatively, why we're dumb enough to let it.
  28. Hesher
    As played by the spectacular Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hesher is the id run rampant.
  29. Neighbors
    You expect hardcore hilarity from Neighbors, and you get it. It's the nuance that sneaks up on you.
  30. Cookie's Fortune
    Altman clarifies a convoluted plot with a magician's ease, creates an atmosphere that brims with the pleasures of the unexpected and explores character nuances.
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