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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. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    The drama is an endlessly inventive and devastating work, a lyrical ode to a city that has turned its back on its most devoted citizens.
  2. Days of Glory
    In recounting this conflicted tale, director Rachid Bouchareb displays some valour of his own, resisting what must have been a strong temptation to deal in aggrieved agitprop, and instead, quietly but powerfully, confining his attentions to a small group of indigenous soldiers.
  3. My Summer of Love
    My Summer of Love may sound like the title of a hot teen flick, but it is a truly refreshing grown-up big-screen film, a rare gem in this summer of duds.
  4. Isle of Dogs
    Anderson once again creates a uniquely whimsical visual environment; this time, it’s inspired by the classic Samurai movies of Akira Kurosawa and the stop-motion Christmas specials of Anderson’s childhood.
  5. Read My Lips
    Offers you the ostensible bargain of two movies in one -- a character study at the outset and the crime caper that follows. The first picture is intriguing, the second stinks.
  6. The Return
    Oh, it's The Return, all right. To any masochist who's been pining for all those clichéd tropes associated with Russian cinema -- ponderous pacing and arcane symbolism shot through a lens darkly -- this will seem a welcome blast from the past.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
    It's a very sad film to watch.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Flamenco, Flamenco
    These are simply incredible performances, captured stunningly on film.
  9. Certain Women
    Stewart does an intriguing job creating a paradoxical character who explains herself without giving of herself, her very persona exposing the false promise of personal exposition.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Blissfully Yours
    A rare example of a truly independent film, Thai or otherwise, the fascinatingly aesthetic Blissfully Yours.... has a simple narrative and an adoration of nature that lists the film toward the experimental. [10 Sept 2002, p.R4]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mountain
    The doc drags a bit by the end, but the film's message is sent: "Man's wish to be first induces forms of insanity."
  12. Concrete Valley
    Sensitive and intimate might be the obvious adjectives for such a film, but Bourges is also intent on making Concrete Valley quite funny in parts, the humane humour balancing the ever-present anxiety that exists in many of Thorncliffe Park’s hallways and crowded elevators.
  13. Frozen River
    The film's greatest achievement is that it allows us to know Ray.
  14. Superman
    Estimates of the movie's costs range between $35-and $70-million; whatever the price, it was not too much to pay. As gods go, Superman is one of the godliest; his movie is one of the best.
  15. Love Is Strange
    Throughout, Sachs is quietly observational – the film’s emotional power coming from its rich but unshowy performances.
  16. Tess
    The detached tone of Tess - contemplative and fatalistic, resigned and melancholy - may be non-romantic and in the end not entirely true to Hardy, but it is full of love and compassion for those who seek both in a world where there is so little of either. [14 Feb 1981]
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  17. The Assassin
    Every scene is perfectly framed, every symbol lovingly shot, but the story and the characters remain opaque.
  18. Late Marriage
    Up and down, Late Marriage is definitely rocky, but there's never a point where we lose interest and want out -- as relationships go, that's not bad.
  19. Dazed and Confused
    The surprise lies in Linklater's ability to breathe so much fresh life into a tired formula...This is a picture that recollects not merely a period in time but a state of mind.
  20. Madeline's Madeline
    Decker evolved her project with her actors over five months, and it’s both pro and con that, boy howdy, it sure feels improvised.
  21. Captain Phillips
    Captain Phillips manages to expose us to a few things that are unusual in a thriller, including sympathy for the enemy and, in Hanks’s performance, the frailty that is the other side of heroism.
  22. The Climb
    Cleverly structured and popping with realistic dialogue, The Climb is a bromance comedy of uncommonly high aspirations.
  23. A Hero
    Farhadi wrings two magnificently raw performances from both actors, providing A Hero with its one and only honest truth.
  24. The Northman
    The brutal, bloody and bare-chested revenge thriller is essentially one big, long war cry – a guttural, primal grunt of a movie that is all raging testosterone and incendiary machismo. And I loved nearly every minute of it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Killer
    The Killer goes on too long and never properly stitches together into the plot its strands of suspense and romance, but it never lacks for ballistic racket. A few scenes in recent movies have seen the firepower under which that whitewashed church disintegrates at movie's end; a few, but not many. [12 July 1991]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Neruda
    Is Neruda a cinematic play, a poem, a biopic? In this near-perfect homage to a literary giant, it’s all open to interpretation.
  27. Blancanieves
    While the story, shorn of its supernatural elements, is mired in abuse and tragedy, its effect is sensual and superficial.
  28. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    If the word masterpiece has any use these days, it must apply to the film Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, a mature, philosophically resonant work from Turkey's leading director, 53-year-old Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Climates, Distance, Three Monkeys).
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Stranger by the Lake
    Spare, steely, sexually explicit in a way that transcends mere provocation, Stranger by the Lake is vital cinema.
  30. Ten Canoes
    A rollicking good story set a millennium ago among Australian aborigines, Ten Canoes is one of those cultural-building exercises that genuinely entertains.
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