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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pi
    It's precisely when Pi is the most arty and least "commercial," when it's serving up head scratchers instead of intrigue, that it's most entertaining.
  2. Czech Dream
    On one level, this is an altogether obvious lesson about market capitalism.
  3. Good Hair
    One of those rare documentaries that works on two seemingly incongruous levels at once: It's both social commentary and pure delight.
  4. Welcome to Sarajevo
    Winterbottom's film is openly a polemic. Messy and visceral, with an articulate, pointed anger that's recognizably British, Welcome to Sarajevo hits with an impact that's not diminished by the fact that Sarajevo's uneasy peace has held.
  5. Tell Them Who You Are
    A strange, strident and finally fulfilling father-son saga.
  6. Hellboy
    One of the most poetic comic-book adaptations to come along in years, yet it never loses its sense of lightness and fun -- del Toro gives it just enough screwball nuttiness to keep it from bogging down.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    America America
    A hundred years after the Armenian Genocide, Kazan’s favorite film takes us into the complexities of history as few films have. His aesthetically inventive depiction of the struggle of the Greeks and Armenians of Turkey at a crucial point in the history of the Middle East did something new in the history of cinema.
  8. Hail, Caesar!
    Underneath the laff-riot and the Hollywood satire, Hail, Caesar! is a curiously delicate film built on profound affection for American movies and the illusions they build, and loaded with in-jokes the mainstream audience will grasp incompletely or not at all.
  9. 4
    It's another blast of vibrant, vicious, gloomy electricity from the always-surprising Russian film scene, and the beginning of an important career.
  10. Igby Goes Down
    Witty and intelligently made. It's also utterly baffling.
  11. Bubot Niyar
    Sad, sweet and oddly inspirational.
  12. Star Trek Into Darkness
    There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Star Trek Into Darkness – once you understand it as a generic comic-book-style summer flick faintly inspired by some half-forgotten boomer culture thing. (Here’s something to appreciate about Abrams: This is a classic PG-13 picture, with little or no sex or swearing, but one that never condescends.)
  13. The Great Invisible
    As Margaret Brown’s quietly devastating documentary The Great Invisible makes clear, the oil companies and the resource-guzzling, planet-poisoning economy they drive are too big to fail, and our entire consumerist culture of ever-cheaper goods and 24/7 convenience is bigger still.
  14. Bellflower
    Bellflower is a genuine breakthrough, and after its own profoundly flawed fashion, a work of genius.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Road to Utopia
    Hope and Crosby accomplished a rare thing, an ad-libbed, brilliantly performed surrealistic romp through the fourth wall of studio convention. Their comic timing has to be seen to be believed, and Road to Utopia is the place to go to be converted.
  16. 50/50
    What ensues is "Beaches" meets "Pineapple Express." Which, I've got to tell you, is pretty much what living with cancer is like.
  17. Full Battle Rattle
    If Full Battle Rattle begins as surreal, almost goofball farce, with a bunch of beefy guys playing a fancy-dress version of laser tag in the desert -- aided by a bunch of rented Iraqis who'd rather be watching TV in suburbia -- it ends on an ambiguous and haunting note, much closer to tragedy.
  18. Super 8
    It's an expertly constructed thrill ride with wonderful atmosphere and tremendous good humor; if its heart of gold is artificial, that won't stop you from enjoying the heck out of it.
  19. War Horse
    It's almost a great war movie in one direction, and almost a piece of irredeemable cheese in the other, and there you have it.
  20. The Aristocrats
    The picture itself is so ebullient and celebratory that it practically beams with perverted innocence.
  21. Lake Tahoe
    A surprisingly refreshing experience, especially in a season of infernal cinematic busyness.
  22. Easy A
    A thoroughly delightful surprise, after a summer full of dim and dreary comedies.
  23. The Mother
    Reid is stunning here.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Guns of Navarone
    When director J. Lee Thompson detonates the action set pieces, they're not just thrilling -- they're cathartic. [27 Sep 2000]
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  25. Armadillo
    It's a brilliant work of cinema, a nonfiction film as intense and visceral as any drama, and an emotional and moral experience that feels horrifying and exhilarating at almost the same moment.
  26. Pusher
    Pusher begins as a fairly standard ’90s crime saga, almost an open imitation of Quentin Tarantino... But something happens on the way to the film’s haunting and ambiguous conclusion.
  27. The Life of Reilly
    Charles Nelson Reilly is still alive, dammit, and boy does he have a story to tell.
  28. I Served the King of England
    If this actually were 1968, the pipe-smoking sophisticates of "Esquire" and "Playboy" would be proclaiming I Served the King of England a nettlesome masterpiece. For whatever good it does this film today, I'll stick my pipe in my mug and agree.
  29. Gangs of New York
    "Gunsmoke" meets "Planet of the Apes" in Martin Scorsese's overlarge, overcooked epic of 19th century Manhattan. You should see it anyway.
  30. The Rookie
    Quaid doesn't make the best of the movie's baloney; he presents it to us as a believable truth.
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