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For 7,291 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Iraq in Fragments
    Iraq in Fragments already stands up as a classic war documentary, in its unusual poetic form and by its extraordinary access to the lives of ordinary Iraqis.
  2. Mystic River
    The acting throughout is exceptional, rooted in observed realism, but suggestive of more mythical agents at work through the lives of human beings.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Glengarry Glen Ross
    It's blackly comic - though the humour creeps up on you slowly, and you're seldom sure if you should really be laughing.
  4. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
    Ridley, full of charming spunk playing a skeptical rebel recruit in The Force Awakens, is the biggest disappointment here. She is less engaging now that she is committed to the fight and plays most of the later action on a single note of earnest desperation; Johnson's script leaves her little else.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Cove
    Hopefully, after seeing this film, interest in places like Sea World will begin to decline.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mutual Appreciation
    What's so fresh about Mutual Appreciation is how acutely it represents the social rituals of today's post-collegiate types.
  7. The Rescue
    Whereas the directors’ last project, the Oscar-winning free-climbing doc Free Solo, chronicled an open-air kind of anxiety, The Rescue is a claustrophobic exercise in tension, expertly assembled for maximum emotional impact.
  8. Universal Language
    Universal Language is a film flooded with sorrow and spirit, discombobulating surrealism and comforting sentimentality.
  9. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
    A 75-minute tour de force that's often fascinating, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately rewarding. So be patient -- the payoff will come.
  10. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
    Guy and Madeline is a decidedly modern film, whose frightened, impulsive, charming characters could walk into our lives tomorrow.
  11. Crazy Heart
    Bridges's big performance takes place in the context of a relatively minor movie.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Stray
    By handing the spotlight, and even the camera, over to the bold and beautiful Zeytin without guiding the viewer too aggressively, Lo has created something worth seeking out for anyone who wants to expand their world view – and perhaps also lower it a few feet.
  13. De Palma
    De Palma is a true visionary, even if you might not quite agree with what that vision is. Either way, a trip through his wild and hugely influential filmography is mandatory for any film fan, and that’s just what directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow offer in their new documentary.
  14. Local Hero
    Forsyth's trademark surprises are a little less fresh and a little more predictable than in Gregory's Girl: the entire enterprise, while not stale, is labored. [04 Mar 1983]
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  15. A Little Princess
    Polished, intelligent, impeccably well-bred, it's an upscale kids' flick designed to appease the fears of discriminating parents: If those stubborn tykes refuse to crack a book, then this is the next best thing - Young People's Masterpiece Theatre. [11 Aug 1995, p.C2]
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  16. Adaptation.
    Duelling roles are an actor's dream, and Cage takes full advantage. He and that face of his -- hang-dog homely one minute, vibrantly macho the next -- are perfectly cast. So is Streep as the sophisticated Manhattanite drawn into a steamy realm of Southern discomfort.
  17. Baby Doll
    It still stands up as astonishingly sleazy entertainment. [15 Jun 2002, p.R1]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    My Dinner with Andre
    The synthesis is a revealing and extremely funny portrait of urban schizophrenia in the waning years of the twentieth century. [21 May 1982]
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  19. Trainspotting
    A little like speeding through the digestive tract of some voracious beast. There's bite, acid, digestive churning and an expulsive conclusion. If the metaphor seems unsavoury, well, wait until you see the film.
  20. Between the Temples
    Although sometimes dizzying and disorienting, the visual language of Between the Temples is relentlessly alive, with the camera never considering-slash-allowing for the possibility that its audiences’ eyes might wander.
  21. The Wind Rises
    The work is more muted than Miyazaki’s more fantastical films, but visually complex and gorgeous, from the rustic mountain scenes to the urban scenes and soaring aerial views.
  22. Fantastic Mr. Fox
    The tale may be Dahl's, but there's a whole new wag to it – this is decidedly, weirdly and, at best, wonderfully a Wes Anderson movie.
  23. Bus 174
    Riveting and courageous documentary.
  24. In the Loop
    The best satire implicates the audience; this stuff keeps our sense of superiority smugly intact.
  25. Soul
    There is a mesmerizing quality to the movie.
  26. Osama
    Obviously, this is no easy sell, but give writer-director Siddiq Barmak full credit for portraying his country's social catastrophe with restraint, concision and some real beauty.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Salt of the Earth
    This much we know: The photographer takes the picture. Less clear is the reverse process – what the picture takes back. And this, to a large and illuminating extent, is the subject of Wim Wenders’s The Salt of the Earth.
  28. Rat Film
    Rat Film is most compelling when it moves out of the history of Baltimore's civic-planning and pest-control schemes and settles on its denizens, both human and rodent.
  29. Turning Red
    This is an energetic, heartfelt, poignant and often delightfully subversive story of one young girl’s path into adulthood, and embrace of her cultural heritage.
  30. Being There
    Jerzy Kosinski's witty but slim novel was based on a witty but thin conceit, and Hal Ashby's film of that novel is equally witty, equally thin. [09 Feb 1980]
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