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For 2,931 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Peter Pan
Lowest review score: 0 Mindhunters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,824 out of 2931
  2. Mixed: 872 out of 2931
  3. Negative: 235 out of 2931
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  1. Playtime
    The carefully conceived mayhem that ensues is understated and subtle, but always highly original and frequently quite brilliant. [04 Jun 2004]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  2. Army of Shadows
    The film is a hugely compelling tribute to the French Resistance movement in World War II, staged with a genuine epic flair but in the icy, downbeat, film-noir style of the director's celebrated policiers.
  3. The Rules of the Game
    An undisputed masterpiece and a one-of-a-kind experience: a wise, poignant, wryly funny, tenderly open-hearted comedy-drama that shrewdly portrays a microcosm of French society on the brink of WWII through an ensemble of love affairs taking place at a country estate over one hectic weekend. [09 Mar 2007, p.6]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  4. Au hasard Balthazar
    The final scene of Balthazar's demise is one of cinema's most moving and haunting moments.
  5. Pépé le Moko (re-release)
    Above all, the film is a classic of "poetic realism," that distinct brand of pessimistic '30s French urban drama that gave lyrical, sometimes even surrealistic, interpretations to working-class romances and underworld characters, settings and dramas.
  6. Pan's Labyrinth
    Like the folk tales from centuries past, Pan's Labyrinth is a dark odyssey with nightmarish visions and cruel threats, but coming through the sacrifice and suffering is the childlike belief in magic and imagination that for Del Toro represents the hope and optimism of a happily ever after in this cruel world.
  7. Rififi (re-release)
    The granddaddy of all caper/heist movies. The work that defined the genre for the subsequent four decades of filmmakers, none of whom was able to surpass it for style or suspense.
  8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    A grueling and deeply affecting human drama.
  9. Battleship Potemkin
    It's essentially a propaganda film, but Eisenstein's stirring (and, for the history of cinema, truly revolutionary) montages of men in action still are uniquely powerful. [04 Jun 1999]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  10. Spirited Away
    Has the power to transport us to a different place. The spark of special anime magic here is unmistakable and hard to resist.
  11. Killer of Sheep
    Free of the ghetto clichés that fill the movies made by people who have never lived in one, Killer of Sheep is a strongly individual portrait of black, working-class America.
  12. The Battle of Algiers
    The French are very much the villains of the saga and, naturally, have always hated the movie (it was banned in Paris until 1971); and it remains controversial in other quarters as well because it seems to embrace, even celebrate, terrorism as a political tool.
  13. Ratatouille
    Long for an animated feature and too demanding for very young children, but it's also filled with delights.
  14. WALL-E
    A charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling.
  15. Yi Yi
    It's a magical film -- an exquisitely made and exceedingly wise family drama that communicates a touching sense of the universality of the human condition, and leaves us with the rich emotional satisfaction we just don't seem to get often at the movies anymore.
  16. Sideways
    Wise, entertaining and often very funny.
  17. Apocalypse Now
    As powerful as the movie remains and as much as I enjoyed this new cut, I have to say that the additional footage -- material that Coppola felt he had to excise 20 years ago to reach a commercial length -- has turned out to be something of a mixed blessing.
  18. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    First and foremost, it soars because its grand design and numerous story problems were worked out half a century ago by a guy named Tolkien, and Jackson was smart enough to realize this.
  19. Elevator to the Gallows
    A suspenseful, elegant entertainment.
  20. Masculine Feminine
    It's cumulatively entertaining, and a fascinating and nostalgic time capsule of its era. Watch for the cameo by Brigitte Bardot.
  21. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
    A masterpiece.
  22. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    McCabe is simply one of the most poetic and beautiful films ever made. [18 Feb 1994]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  23. Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Doyle's handheld camerawork is intimate and curious and his hazy colors radiate off the screen.
  24. There Will Be Blood
    An unusual, visually hypnotic, American Gothic historical epic that traces the rise and tragic fall of a Western mining magnate of the Gilded Age.
  25. Crumb
    The film is an extraordinarily complex, well-rounded and multileveled portrait of how Crumb got to be the way he is, as well as a tribute to how he was miraculously able to rise above his dysfunctional roots by putting his demons into his art. [16 Jun 1995]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  26. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    The movie never falls into gushy moments of inspiration and Schnabel never tries to manipulate any particular response from the audience. We're left to make of it what we will.
  27. The Class
    The young cast, all nonactors who developed their characters with Cantet and Bégaudeau, brings the weight of full lives to each of the students.
  28. No Country for Old Men
    Strong, evocative storytelling pared to the bone and braced with a sensibility perfectly matched to the material.
  29. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    The film's single downside is a certain nagging sense of deja vu: the fact that so many of the elements of the story -- the dark force, the all-empowering object, etc. -- have been usurped over the years (by "Star Wars" and others) that you feel as if you've been down this road many, many times before.
  30. Quiz Show
    This is still a director's movie and the real success belongs to Redford, whose overall confidence and command as a director have never been this impressive. He gets a little extra out of every scene and every performance, and he brings the film's diverse themes and story strands together with the special touch of the master filmmaker he has clearly become. [16 Sept 1994]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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