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For 1,491 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% 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 Tootsie
Lowest review score: 0 The King's Daughter
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,074 out of 1491
  2. Mixed: 240 out of 1491
  3. Negative: 177 out of 1491
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  1. Little Women
    There is a wild urgency to Greta Gerwig’s Little Women that hardly seems possible for a film based on a 150-year-old book. But such is the magic of combining Louisa May Alcott’s enduring story of those four sisters with Gerwig’s deliciously feisty, evocative and clear-eyed storytelling that makes this Little Women a new classic.
  2. Flee
    Amin’s attempts to get to the West with his mother and brother are harrowing enough to give you an ulcer.
  3. Tótem
    For a film about death, Lila Avilés’ “Tótem” is extraordinarily lived in.
  4. Nickel Boys
    The threads do come together, but it requires a bit of patience and giving yourself over to the film, which is both formally and emotionally eye-opening. Adapting great literature can sometimes send filmmakers running towards the conventional; Thank goodness Ross charted his own path instead.
  5. The Boy and the Heron
    It’s a grand culmination of both Miyazaki’s extraordinary body of work and of a film that gathers, like a flock, or a symphony, so many of his trademark obsessions.
  6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Goldin might not have known it when she started photographing her LGBTQ friends, but her work has always been about looking at the so-called fringe cultures in society, about showing the problems that the masses would rather just ignore and making them so urgent that you can’t look away anymore.
  7. They Shall Not Grow Old
    While it might not be a conventional history lesson, it is a necessary and utterly urgent one.
  8. Anora
    It’s not trying to pretend that it’s not exploitative on some level; that might even be the point. And anyway, you might be surprised just how quickly you commit to this once-in-a-lifetime ride.
  9. The Favourite
    Much of The Favourite is caustically clever but it’s Colman who elevates it to something magnificent.
  10. The Brutalist
    Though not for everyone, it’s a film that can justifiably be described as “epic” in ambition and design. And, wouldn’t you know, ambition and design are precisely what the movie’s about.
  11. La Chimera
    When we talk about “movie magic,” the first thing that comes to mind is often something like the bikes achieving liftoff in “E.T.” But it applies no less to Alice Rohrwacher’s wondrous “La Chimera,” a grubbily transcendent folk tale of a film that finds its enchantment buried in the ground.
  12. The Worst Person in the World
    There is a refreshing honesty in this script, penned by Trier and his longtime collaborator Eskil Vogt, that engages with nuance and the impossible complexities of life in a way that most “rom-coms” avoid like the plague.
  13. Licorice Pizza
    It’s the performances of Haim and Hoffman that most lend “Licorice Pizza” its authenticity. Neither has acted in a film before and their fresh-faced presences electrify the film.
  14. Great Expectations
    A stunning blend of characters, story, place and time, rich in detail and haunting images. [11 Apr 1999]
    • The Associated Press
  15. First Cow
    The joys of First Cow are many. The thoughtful, unshowy textures of its clothes and surroundings. The fabulous chemistry of its two leads. The softly stirring guitar of William Tyler’s score. All of these details add up to a wholly original western, one with its own rhythms, ideas and iconography.
  16. All of Us Strangers
    Haigh dares audiences to meet “All of Us Strangers” on its own astral plane as we whiplash between past and present in a dreamy 35mm haze of nightclubs and ‘80s sweaters.
  17. Oppenheimer
    Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a kinetic thing of dark, imposing beauty that quakes with the disquieting tremors of a forever rupture in the course of human history.
  18. Cold War
    It’s Pawlikowski second-straight masterwork, only one with a critical if seldom-seen error. His movie is too short.
  19. Sorry, Baby
    In this remarkably fully formed debut, the moments that matter are the funny and tender ones that persist amid crueler experiences.
  20. Killers of the Flower Moon
    [Scorsese] has called his work an offering to the Osage, and to other Native peoples. It also feels like an offering to those who love cinema, allowing us to watch a master of the craft continue to force himself, unlikely as it seems, to stretch and learn. May he keep stretching — himself, and us.
  21. Minari
    Minari could not be more personal. Filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung based the film on his own childhood in the 1980s, when his Korean American parents moved to Arkansas to start a farm. And it’s the specificity of this delicate tale that makes it so universal and so great.
  22. The Farewell
    The film is a heady, gentle and emotional journey, but Wang also packs the frame with layered conversation and funny background action. She makes the family dynamics feel universally familiar while also presenting an authentic portrait of China and Chinese families.
  23. Marty Supreme
    [A] nerve-busting adrenaline jolt of a movie starring a never-better Timothée Chalamet.
  24. Gunda
    Gunda ultimately falls somewhere between banal and profound. Maybe it’s both.
  25. The Power of the Dog
    The Power of the Dog may in the end be more a twisty psychological thriller than a transcendent frontier epic. But the film’s shape-shifting transformation is also part of its ruthless finesse.
  26. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    I’m sure for Johnson, Dick Johnson Is Dead will one day be a heaven-sent reservoir for remembering her father. But its larger gift is in spurring us all to meet mortality with humor and honesty, and appreciate loved ones while they’re here.
  27. The Quiet Girl
    Bairead’s sensitive and heartfelt film, which is debuting in many theaters Friday, is a stirring testament to what’s possible on a modest scale with a few well-chosen words.
  28. Three Minutes: A Lengthening
    At the end, one feels gratitude not only for Stigter’s painstaking work, but to author Kurtz and of course his grandfather, just a man with a camera whose fleeting footage is a powerful response to those who intended to eradicate the existence of these people and millions like them.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Lion King
    A mystical, thrilling and breathtaking coming-of-age movie. [14 June 1994]
    • The Associated Press
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Little Mermaid
    The Little Mermaid is magic and joy for everyone, and teaches us all to never lose sight of dreams and hope. [06 Nov 1989]
    • The Associated Press
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