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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. Chi-Raq
    Nick Cannon’s complicated and masterful performance as Chi-Raq, a young man who embodies the contradictions of his community, who is both a perpetrator and a victim of the heartless violence that has surrounded him all his life, accomplishes that.
  2. Duma
    Intelligent, visually rich filmmaking.
  3. Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
    Intimate, terrifying and positively riveting documentary.
  4. Minority Report
    It's a dark and dazzling spectacle.
  5. Battleship Potemkin
    Battleship Potemkin is first and foremost an action drama, a work of straightforward emotion and pulse-quickening tension.
  6. Kaboom
    It's by far the funniest and warmest movie Araki has ever made, with much less juvenile angst and much more command of his craft.
  7. No Country for Old Men
    It's the most ambitious and impressive Coen film in at least a decade, featuring the flat, sun-blasted landscapes of west Texas -- spectacularly shot by cinematographer Roger Deakins -- and an eerily memorable performance by Javier Bardem, in a Ringo Starr haircut.
  8. Tokyo Sonata
    A work of tremendous passion, daring and delicacy.
  9. The White Diamond
    An inexpressibly beautiful and moving film, even though (or because) it seems to be about someone unimportant doing something irrelevant, perhaps something silly, in the face of insurmountable odds and a world that doesn't care.
  10. The Fallen Idol (re-release)
    This is a fine example of British commercial filmmaking at its highest level of craftsmanship.
  11. Fearless
    There's something grand and enveloping about Fearless.
  12. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
    I can't imagine anyone not being both horrified and fascinated by Stanley Nelson's Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple.
  13. Gabrielle
    A haunting and riveting work, unlike anything else you can see at the movies and as such an explicit challenge to the unambitious, anesthetic character of most contemporary cinema. But is it easy, or delightful, or fun? It is not.
  14. She's Beautiful When She's Angry
    Dore does not gloss over the ideological excesses or internal quarrels of feminism, but more than anything else she captures the excitement of that era, the growing sense of solidarity as more and more women discovered that their dissatisfaction was not an individual matter.
  15. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    At a time when our country feels divided to the point of cracking, Dave Chappelle's Block Party feels like a salve. It's a defiant act of optimistic patriotism.
  16. Illuminata
    A masterful accomplishment...teems with its own sense of life, crackles with daring, walks the tightrope between satire and pathos with a rare assuredness.
  17. Nightcrawler
    Nightcrawler executes its ideas with tremendous craft and cool, and the courageous and counterintuitive pairing of its leads — Russo is 60, and Gyllenhaal 33 – produces two electrical, interlocking performances and undeniable erotic chemistry.
  18. Monster
    Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.
  19. Whores' Glory
    Both a wrenching journalistic exploration of real life and something close to great cinema.
  20. Bamboozled
    Spike Lee's explosive, near-masterpiece media satire balances between brilliance and incoherence.
  21. La faute à Fidel!
    A wrenching, funny and wise little picture, with a diva-like junior star at its center.
  22. Sing Your Song
    Most famously, Belafonte ignited immense controversy both within and without the black community by repeatedly suggesting that Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice were the "house slaves" of the George W. Bush administration.
  23. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    It's a funny, strange, sad and wonderful picture, packed with delightful performances by Hollywood stars and made by a director with a startling facility for the form and an expansive cinematic imagination.
  24. Punch-Drunk Love
    Something we haven't seen before: a manic-depressive romantic comedy that aspires to the soul of a musical. It's a new-fashioned love song.
  25. What We Do in the Shadows
    For a loose-limbed spoof with no real plot, “What We Do in the Shadows” is startlingly effective at creating characters we care about, which testifies to the fact that Clement and Waititi have created a world with clear governing laws (albeit ridiculous ones) and never violate those parameters.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Das Boot
    Absolutely devastating filmmaking that makes you simultaneously feel the glory and the absolute futility of war. [Director's Cut]
  27. Bright Star
    The film works on its own as an unfussy, passionate and gently erotic love story that never tips into sentimentality.
  28. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    So much modern animation is technically brilliant and yet comes off as cold and indifferent. But Wallace, Gromit, and the people and creatures in their world always look warm to the touch. Someone made, and moved, all those bunnies by hand. It's impossible NOT to believe in them.
  29. In the Mood for Love
    Smolders with more reserved passion than "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
  30. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    Almost as exhilarating as it is depressing. Puiu's filmmaking technique is remarkable, and all the more so because it's almost invisible.
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