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For 1,847 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Asteroid City
Lowest review score: 0 The Divergent Series: Insurgent
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,361 out of 1847
  2. Mixed: 317 out of 1847
  3. Negative: 169 out of 1847
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  1. Seymour: An Introduction
    The movie is more of a character study than a biography, as Bernstein dispenses his gentle wit and wisdom for the camera and for an elite class of student.
  2. Up in the Air
    Up in the Air may not end up as the best picture -- that will be decided by the Academy -- but it has landed in the middle of the discussion because it's laser-focused and right on time.
  3. The Post
    A timely docudrama about the role of the press in holding politicians accountable. But in the hands of director Steven Spielberg, the film plays more like a thriller than a history lesson.
  4. The Flat
    The Holocaust must never be forgotten, but like many well-intentioned documentaries, The Flat derives more power from the implicit strength of the subject than from the explicit choices of the director.
  5. Footnote
    Footnote is faintly comic, and director Joseph Cedar mines dark humor from the humiliations of identity checks and pecking orders.
  6. Creed
    Often, extending a film franchise signifies a lack of imagination. But Creed is a knockout.
  7. Monsieur Lazhar
    Until a devastatingly effective finale, Monsieur Lazhar is an exercise in delicacy, carried by Fallag's gentle performance and a fine cast of kid actors.
  8. Ajami
    Ajami is neither a puzzle nor a polemic. It's an admirably even-handed portrait of life in an occupied ghetto that is bounded by checkpoints. Everyone we meet is a more or less honorably motivated victim of circumstance. That the circumstances were inscribed centuries ago makes Ajami a tragedy of biblical proportions.
  9. The Illusionist
    The Illusionist has surprises up its sleeve that are unusually nuanced for an animated movie.
  10. The End of the Tour
    An offbeat and fascinating film.
  11. Short Term 12
    Because Short Term 12 is a small movie about a challenging subject, you may have to accept my word that actress Brie Larson and director Destin Cretton are bright discoveries, but it shouldn’t be long before the wider world can see these talents with the naked eye.
  12. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    Despite a couple of drawbacks, The Empire Strikes Back is an immense amount of fun — big and splashy and breathtaking in its display of cinematic genius by a huge group of marvelously talented people.
  13. Marwencol
    Hogancamp's alliance with director Jeff Malmberg in this artful and poignant film marks a victory in the war against the self.
  14. The Lobster
    If you’re open to embracing a film that declines to pander to expectations, you should definitely make a date with The Lobster.
  15. The Nightmare Before Christmas
    In the hands of some Eastern European masters, stop-motion animation has created some fine adult animated films, like Jan Svankmajer's spooky version of "Alice in Wonderland." But The Nightmare Before Christmas is basically a charmless and muddled tale that aims at a target somewhere in the vast gulf between Franz Kafka and Walt Disney and hits nothing. [22 Oct 1993, p.3E]
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  16. A Quiet Place
    If you’re looking for a film that will keep you thrillingly off-balance, this is the place.
  17. Frances Ha
    Gerwig makes us want to believe that in a city where anything is possible, Francis Ha has the last laugh.
  18. A Hijacking
    Director Lindholm is a graduate of the Dogma school, and he is able to maintain tension with a documentary camera technique, virtually no music and minimal on-screen theatrics.
  19. The Trip
    When the two men compare impersonations of Michael Caine or Sean Connery, Brydon's version is always slightly better - and Coogan knows it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Marty
    This slice of life is heartening because of its humanity; utter honesty doesn't have to be depressing. [12 Aug 1955, p.3D]
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  21. The Spectacular Now
    There’s much to appreciate here. Like “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” which had a stronger sense of its place in the world, this coming-of-age movie should appeal to smart, sensitive young people who haven’t been exposed to the better examples of the genre.
  22. Certified Copy
    Although the film has elements of a puzzler by Michelangelo Antonioni and a psychodrama by Ingmar Bergman, it never becomes compellingly intellectual or unnervingly emotional.
  23. Steve Jobs
    As original and risk-taking as its subject, Steve Jobs will make you think differently about an American icon.
  24. Marley
    Marley is thus a valuable history project but not a definitive or analytical one. For that, we await a film that's less "One Love" and more "Stir It Up."
  25. Embrace of the Serpent
    If the film is a bit too slow-paced, it’s also uniquely mesmerizing, with performances that perfectly complement the episodic narrative.
  26. Isle of Dogs
    The film is not only hilariously entertaining, but also firmly in the tradition of such political parables as George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
  27. Certain Women
    Certain Women requires patience from the viewer and isn’t for anyone, but it’s a film of quiet and lingering beauty.
  28. Love Is Strange
    What makes Love Is Strange so special is that the challenges the couple face are more mundane than menacing.
  29. Captain Phillips
    Despite the obvious mismatches involved, this isn’t a simplistic smackdown. Freighted with weighty issues, Captain Phillips is a film worth debating.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Killer
    Ordinarily, one decries the violence in the streets, in life or art - or rationalizes that violence on the screen is a healthy outlet for man's inhumanity to man. But there's no such highfalutin psychology in The Killer. The film is just plain outlandish - and anyone who doesn't get the hyberbole should have a 99-year lease on The Farm for the Bewildered. [16 Aug 1991, p.3F]
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