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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. Drag Me to Hell
    Brilliantly nasty little horror film.
  2. Carol
    The director Todd Haynes and the novelist Patricia Highsmith fit together like a hand and glove - a beautifully manicured hand and a sleek gray-green leather glove, two images that figure prominently in Carol.
  3. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Master and Commander hooks you from its nifty opening salvo to its nifty closing punch line.
  4. Humpday
    May not be the single best movie I've seen so far this year--though it's certainly a contender for the title--but it's without doubt the most surprising.
  5. In the Loop
    Britain's diplomatic corps may be as clueless and impotent as In the Loop suggests, but British comedians are fully capable of taking over the world.
  6. There's Something About Mary
    Even when you're able to guess the next calamity, it's still a shock in its ejaculatory intensity. The Farrellys never throw in the towel. Pretentious Sundance independents could learn a lot from such pistols.
  7. War of the Worlds
    It's the human struggle that makes this a sci-fi masterpiece.
  8. Praise
    Not enough happens in it. And yet everything happens in it.
  9. 28 Days Later...
    This is finally the zombie flick as cautionary political tale, and as humanist parable. It's not the flesh-gouging zombie we have to worry about, the filmmakers suggest, but the soul-gouging zombie within.
  10. Capturing the Friedmans
    Riveting and so suggestive that you can't consume it passively: You have to brood on it.
  11. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    It strides above its crudeness like a colossus. It's smart people telling dumb jokes with a brilliant sense of irony. Anchorman gives you permission to laugh like an idiot.
  12. SubUrbia
    The talk sounds a little canned – an adult's foggy reconstruction of what it was like to hang out – but, for a while, Linklater is able to extract odd momentary glances and giggles from the actors to freshen it up.
  13. Men in Black
    The smartest, funniest, and best-looking sci-fi comedy since the movies learned to morph.
  14. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    My first viewing left me dazzled but slightly confused; a second deeply impressed; a third rhapsodic. I wish I hadn't needed to rediagram it in my head to turn it into the masterpiece it so obviously wants to be.
  15. Toy Story 3
    A near-perfect piece of popular entertainment, a children's classic.
  16. Corpse Bride
    The movie is so Burtonesque that it verges on self-parody--but it's fun and stunningly beautiful anyway.
  17. Godzilla Minus One
    Come for the skyline-destroying radioactive dino, stay for the delicately etched portrait of recovery and self-forgiveness. Or vice versa. Just don’t miss the chance to remind yourself why the world fell for Godzilla in the first place.
  18. No
    It’s the rare political satire that can sound the depths of irony as No does and still end on a note of ambivalent hope.
  19. Sweetgrass
    Though Sweetgrass has moments of great beauty, the film is never nostalgic or idealizing about its human or ovine subjects. It shows the relationship of human and domesticated animal—and the relationship of both to nature—as a productive and symbiotic yet often brutal struggle.
  20. The Wrestler
    The Ram is sometimes--often, even--a manipulative, self-pitying man, but Rourke and Aronofsky paint his portrait with a rigorous dignity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cars
    Who's this movie for, again? No matter: It's impossible to find more joy in the dark at the moment.
  22. Jafar Panahi's Taxi
    Taxi is a subversive piece of underground filmmaking; for all its lighthearted banter and formal playfulness, the film maintains an undercurrent of anxiety and danger.
  23. A Mighty Wind
    Almost to a one, the people Guest casts are virtuosos, and he lets them hit notes they can't hit anywhere else.
  24. The Agronomist
    Demme's movie exuberantly crosses the border from documentary into hagiography and from hagiography into celebration.
  25. Magnolia
    Anderson must have needed that bonkers third-hour climax because there was nowhere to go short of spontaneous combustion.
  26. Crawl
    Crawl’s virtues, however, remain formidable: It’s fast, efficient, crisply directed, and delivers on the promised alligator thrills. In another year, that might be worth a polite nod. This year, however, those B-movie values feel especially refreshing, and illuminating too.
  27. Audition
    During the ghastly, surreal climax, I had fun closing one eye and with the other watching various ashen older men stumble toward the exit.
  28. Shrek 2
    I wasn't prepared for the slap-happy brilliance of Shrek 2, which should ideally be seen twice--once with kids, once savored at something like a midnight show.
  29. Sideways
    A warm, ingratiating, and fitfully hilarious epicurean road movie with a steady ache-an ache like a red-wine hangover.
  30. The Brutalist
    The magisterial (yet also often funny) performances from virtually every member of the cast, the rigor which with it explores complex characters and ideas, and the sheer painterly beauty of its compositions make this one of the few movies this year I almost immediately went back to see for a second time.
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