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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. Ocean's Thirteen
    Brad Pitt doesn't really act in Ocean's Thirteen, he just glides through the third chapter in Steven Soderbergh's heist-flick annuity on the magic carpet of his own unimpeachable cool. Don't knock it. Genuine star power is rare. Pitt has it in spades -- all aces.
  2. Religulous
    Maher can be a smartass, but his attempts to apply reason to religion are more a challenge than a threat.
  3. The Deep Blue Sea
    The film is a striking cinematic tone poem.
  4. Greenberg
    See this darkly comic character study unburdened by preconceptions.
  5. Kung Fu Hustle
    Does the plot spin out of control? You bet. But dumb fun this smart is a gift.
  6. Palo Alto
    A hypnotic movie of harsh truth and healing compassion. It sticks with you.
  7. Submarine
    Ayoade, the British comic making a remarkable feature debut with his adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel, blends mirth and malice with deadpan brilliance.
  8. Thor: Ragnarok
    The whole movie is a grab-bag of insanity so off-the-chain hilarious that you stick with it even when the convoluted plot goes haywire.
  9. Fed Up
    Fed Up has a fire in its belly to change things. Naïve? Maybe. So what. I say, Godspeed. Here is something rare at the multiplex: a movie that matters.
  10. Beautiful Boy
    Blazing performance will burn in your memory. Same goes for the film.
  11. Jane Eyre
    Fukunaga, son of a Japanese father and a Swedish mother, is a filmmaker to watch. He has reanimated a classic for a new generation, letting Jane Eyre resonate with terror and tenderness.
  12. Memoirs of a Geisha
    Any doubts about three Chinese actresses speaking English with Japanese accents vanish in the face of their deeply felt performances and the world Marshall conjures with magical finesse.
  13. Strictly Ballroom
    Luhrmann is a director with the style and snap to have these tired routines on their feet and kicking like a line of Rockettes.
  14. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    The line between making guerrilla art and selling out has never blurred more provocatively.
  15. Pitch Perfect 2
    The sequel is more musically varied, though Kay Cannon's script amps the sass at the expense of structure. But the MVP here is Elizabeth Banks.
  16. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    Hanging with Quill and his mercenary space misfits is still everything you'd want in a wild summer ride.
  17. Kick-Ass
    The movie belongs to Moretz, whose sensational performance will be talked about for years. Her scenes with Cage, who wears a Batsuit and uses a voice borrowed from Adam West, are a hoot.
  18. Good Kill
    Writer-director Andrew Niccol, who worked impressively with Hawke on the topic of genetic modification in 1997's "Gattaca," puts a lot out there.
  19. Obvious Child
    Obvious Child is a romcom with a sting in its tail. And Slate is a dynamo, nailing every laugh while showing a true actor's gift for nuance.
  20. Neil Young Journeys
    Journeys, shot on the last two nights of Young's 2011 solo world tour, is essential Neil Young.
  21. Wakefield
    The role is a beast, and Cranston, in a tour de force of touching gravity and aching humanism, gives it everything he's got. It's astounding to watch, and an award-caliber performance from an actor who keeps springing surprises.
  22. Near Dark
    Bigelow's artful handling of the magic & menace of the night is hauntingly apparent.
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  23. Blackhat
    Best of all is the excitement of watching Mann use his kinetic powers as a filmmaker to tackle the new face of 21st-century warfare.
  24. High-Rise
    Wheatley and screenwriter Amy Jump (his wife) have energized Ballard's parable of class warfare in the technology age with a daring approach that will touch a nerve or have you bolting for the exits.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Suburbia
    The antithesis to the parent-friendly punks of Valley Girl, director Penelope Spheeris' stark, sobering look at the new generation gap pits aging California hippies against their disillusioned kids.
  26. Paddington
    It's funny. So is Nicole Kidman, very Cruella De Vil as Millicent Clyde, a taxidermist with an eye on adding Paddington to her stuffed collection. It's an excuse for some chase scenes and physical comedy (Paddington gets his head stuck in a toilet bowl) that manage to suggest both the Marx brothers and Wes Anderson. I mean that as a good thing.
  27. Shame
    Michael Fassbender delivers a bold and brilliantly immersive performance as a sex addict in Shame. He is so raw and riveting you won't be able to take your eyes off him.
  28. Still Alice
    Moore shows us acting at its best, alive with ferocity and feeling and committed to truth.
  29. Ready Player One
    Spielberg's visual inventiveness is unflagging.
  30. Outrage
    This film is a muckraking provocation whose time has come.
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