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For 2,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 One Battle After Another
Lowest review score: 0 15 Minutes
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,157 out of 2130
  2. Mixed: 747 out of 2130
  3. Negative: 226 out of 2130
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  1. The Nightingale
    On American screens, at least, there is an almost shocking dearth of honest stories about European colonialism, one of the greatest forces to reshape the globe in the last half-millennium, and Kent’s humanist revisions of the rape-revenge and Western genres represents a visionary attempt to rectify this. It may not always be easy to sit through, but we’re nonetheless lucky to witness it.
  2. Grizzly Man
    Makes for quite an emotional roller-coaster ride. You don't know whether to celebrate or mock, to laugh or weep.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Idiocracy
    Idiocracy is easily the most potent political film of the year, and the most stirring defense of traditional values since Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.
  4. Space Cowboys
    It proves that male action stars can triumph not only over space but, more important, over time.
  5. Love Is Strange
    Lithgow and Molina play Ben and George with such depth, tenderness, and history that their affection for one another’s bodies (there’s no sex, but loads of snuggling) seems like a natural extension of their pleasure in being together.
  6. I, Tonya
    The tone is tongue-in-cheek, with teeth gritted so hard you can taste just a hint of blood.
  7. Theater Camp
    It’s all captured vérité-style by the filmmakers, who, like everyone else in this utterly sweet production, display great affection for the totally foolish theater kids (of all ages) who inhabit this world.
  8. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    The movie made me laugh a lot anyway. It has a big, inventive cast of loons and a great premise.
  9. The Matrix
    One of the more lyrical sci-fi action thrillers ever made, in which space and time become love slaves to the directors' witty visual fancies.
  10. Scream 4
    Craven guides us expertly down a series of blind, bloody alleys, a journey that's more pleasurable than frustrating. On account of his steady hand, the last act is as good as could be expected: skillfully conceived and entertaining in its preposterousness.
  11. Interstellar
    A movie I snickered at more than once but never stopped staring at in wonder. This isn’t Nolan’s best film by any stretch, but it abounds in the qualities that are among his strengths.
  12. Sunshine
    In moments--the early moments--Sunshine can feel like a new genre classic, albeit one heavily in debt to its predecessors.
  13. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    A nutty, zany, wacky, unruly, spastically hilarious hodgepodge that hits at least twice as often as it misses—which is a big deal, since there are more gags per square foot of celluloid than in any film since Joe Dante's "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" (1990).
  14. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
    Voices pile in asking for nothing more or less than to make themselves clear. When the Levees Broke is a monument of oral history. Without fanfare, Lee orchestrates a multivoiced blues for the common man.
  15. Turning Red
    That the studio gave a first-time director the freedom to explore these potentially sensitive themes, and to do so in a tone that is boisterous and playful rather than handwringing or self-serious, is a promising sign for Pixar’s future.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Inside Man
    The best Spike Lee movie to come along since 1992's "Malcolm X." It's also the first Spike Lee movie since "Malcolm X" to star Denzel Washington, and just as Jimmy Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock brought out the best in each other, Denzel and Spike need each other like vermouth and gin.
  17. Compliance
    Compliance examines, among other things, how misplaced faith in authority can lead to abuse on a systemic scale. It's a deeply moral movie about the failure of morality, as grueling to watch as it is necessary.
  18. The Ladykillers
    The mixture of cartoony stylization and regional realism is completely original--and a testament to the genius eye for color of the great cinematographer Roger Deakins and the designer Dennis Gassner.
  19. Hero
    If his (Zhang's) fight scenes don't fully intoxicate, though, his color and compositional rigor compensate for much. See Hero on the biggest screen you can find, and sit close enough for all that spiraling silk to tickle your nostril hairs.
  20. Hotel Rwanda
    Cheadle is extraordinary.
  21. BlacKkKlansman
    BlacKkKlansman may well be the first film to frame the Trump era as one of regression in response to the progress of the Obama years.
  22. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    For all its relative subtlety, Kill Bill, Vol. 2 remains a cartoon: Its wit is broadsword rather than rapier, and its motives are elemental. The banter is second-tier Tarantino: a cut above his imitators, but below the standard set by "Pulp Fiction" and "Jackie Brown."
  23. The Illusionist
    It's an exquisitely crafted period picture that keeps promising more and more as it goes along--smarter ideas, richer themes, spookier plot twists--and keeps delivering on every promise, right up until the rug-pulling and overly hasty final sequence.
  24. No Sudden Move
    The whole thing vanishes pretty quickly from memory once it’s over. But for that hour and a half of fluid, kinetic filmmaking, you are putty in the hands of Steven Soderbergh, a reliably pleasurable place to be.
  25. Sweet and Lowdown
    Unexpectedly delectable.
  26. Good Night, and Good Luck.
    A passionate and rousing piece of filmmaking--a civics lesson with the punch of a good melodrama.
  27. The Fabelmans
    Embedded in this seeming valentine to the movies is something pricklier, sadder, and smarter.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sneakers
    It’s action-packed without being too violent, and smart without taking itself too seriously.
  29. Iron Man
    When it's idling in neutral, and we're watching Stark putter in his workshop or seduce unsuspecting journalists, Iron Man abounds in that rarest of superpowers: charm.
  30. Marley
    The thoughtful and leisurely paced Marley is an exemplary music documentary in almost every way - but the area in which it falls short is an important one. Like a surprisingly large number of films about musicians (whether biopic or documentary), this one is curiously resistant to letting the audience hear its subject's songs in their entirety.
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