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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 1.3 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. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
    A loving tribute to one of the strangest and most enjoyable figures to emerge from American pop culture in its entire history.
  2. Appropriate Behavior
    Akhavan turns out to be a distinctive and oddly charismatic performer with exquisite comic timing.
  3. Slums of Beverly Hills
    They've created far and away the most complex, appealing female character in a summer of soldiers, sword fighters and asteroid blasters.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Kid with a Bike
    An edge-of-your-seat emotional roller-coaster ride about ordinary people in a nondescript neighborhood, it's sometimes terrifying, often heart-rending and completely worth it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Max Cea
    Beatriz at Dinner
    The discomfort that Arteta elicits serves a purpose and is buoyed by a few very funny moments.
  6. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    El Crimen Perfecto is a joyride that leaves you feeling drunk and dizzy and swearing that you haven't touched a drop.
  7. The Skin I Live In
    It's as stylish and kinky as you could want, but compared to his recent female-centric melodramas ("Broken Embraces," "Volver," "All About My Mother"), this is a chilly genre exercise that casts his obsession with gender and sexuality in a harsh new light.
  8. Love Songs
    You could describe Love Songs, as a blend of François Truffaut's wistful Parisian sentimentalism and Pedro Almodóvar's acrid polysexual comedy, which were never far apart to begin with (given the difference in climate and native temperament between France and Spain).
  9. Killer Joe
    Friedkin's still got it - the "it" being his ability to infuse every frame of the film with powerful ambiguity and doubt, and also his ability to attract terrific actors and propel them in unexpected directions.
  10. Moneyball
    A richly detailed and enjoyable American yarn.
  11. Protagonist
    A highly original and at times thrilling use of the documentary medium, and one of the most revealing films about the troubled nature of contemporary manhood I've ever seen.
  12. Great Expectations
    Great Expectations is a triumph because Cuarón's vision prevailed. He seems to be one of those artists capable of reminding us how we first experienced movies, as an overpowering enchantment.
  13. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    It’s a middle chapter, for sure, but a vigorous and fast-paced one that leaves you hungry for more.
  14. Horton Hears a Who!
    It's a feature-length reparation for the appalling live-action versions of Seuss' books we've endured over the last few years.
  15. Roman de gare
    A glossy, enjoyable thriller that isn't quite as tricky or Hitchcockian as it wants to be, Roman de Gare gets by on high style and nice central performances by rubber-faced Dominique Pinon.
  16. The ABCs of Death
    The ABCs of Death is one-stop shopping for deviant cinema, a Pu Pu platter of perversity. It made me laugh hysterically, shout with outrage, wince with discomfort and yearn to hide under the sofa, all by the halfway mark.
  17. The Lincoln Lawyer
    It's rare enough to see a Hollywood movie made with this much attention and personality, let alone one that balances comedy and darkness as well as this one does.
  18. The Aura
    This is a tremendously atmospheric movie full of moody mystery, and it'll keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end.
  19. No End in Sight
    From the first frames of Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight, replaying some of the oddest and twitchiest podium performances of Donald Rumsfeld during those heady days of spring 2003, you may feel the crushing weight of an almost Sophoclean impending doom.
  20. Nowhere Boy
    Scott Thomas' delicate, ferocious performance captures a woman quietly at war with herself, who begins to realize that her vision of respectability may not fit the remarkable young man in her care.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    The soul of the film, in some ways, is singer Vuyisile Mini, a songwriter and anti-apartheid leader who was hanged in 1964. Amandla! (it's the Xhosa word for "power").
  22. Drawing Restraint 9
    Conveys an intense sculptural loveliness with something moving beneath it, maybe a sense of menace. And it's leavened, like once per hour, with a teeny dash of humor. This isn't nearly as immediately likable or showy as "Cremaster 3," but in a quiet way just as spectacular.
  23. Le petit lieutenant
    A flinty, almost hardhearted work about characters who have lost almost everything in pursuit of some undefinable abstraction, like honor or their country or doing the right thing. It's an impressive film, but don't expect any warm fuzzies.
  24. The Banger Sisters
    A highly entertaining and refreshingly nonjudgmental movie
  25. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    Maybe if Wes Anderson and Lars von Trier tried to write a sitcom together, the result would be something like A Pigeon Sat on a Branch, which essentially consists of a series of comic sketches whose gags are often revealed in their final seconds.
  26. Shanghai Knights
    What Chan represents -- the humor and charm and the sheer physical beauty of seeing him in action -- as well as the lazy, ping-pong repartee he achieves with Wilson, is the essence of the casual, deceptively artless art of movies.
  27. Let the Right One In
    An ingenious mixture of satire, dead-end suburban realism and gory vampire fantasy.
  28. Nathalie...
    Nathalie becomes a complicated three-handed game, far more concerned with the narcissistic, pornographic and mutually manipulative relationship between Catherine and Nathalie than with the latter's purported affair with Bernard. If you live in New York, run, don't walk to see this on the big screen, because it won't be there long.
  29. A Touch of Sin
    Anyone interested in the current state of China should see it, and it may open up this remarkable filmmaker to a larger audience.
  30. The Way, Way Back
    Beautifully executed, loaded with sharp observational moments, and never cheats either its characters or its audience by descending into raunchy teen-movie cliché. This is a delicately balanced and often very funny holiday alternative suitable for pretty much the entire family.
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