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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 Secret of NIMH
    A bouncy, witty, pleasurably scary children's movie that adults will enjoy more than they may care to confess. [02 July 1982]
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  2. Days of Heaven
    Days of Heaven is so unapologetically beautiful, so calculatingly gorgeous, it is certain to arouse resentment in the minds of those who find visual hedonism a sin in movies, and to arouse suspicion, if not outrage, in those who require that movies have heart. [22 Sept. 1978]
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  3. To Live and Die in L.A.
    To Live and Die in L.A., for all its amorality and downright immorality, is a cracker-jack thriller, tense and exciting and unpredictable, and more grimy fun than any moralist will want it to be. It has big hit written all over it: the premise, Miami Vice Meets The French Connection, may be perverse, but it's also inspired. [1 Nov 1985]
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  4. The Color of Money
    It may be true that in gambling money won is twice as sweet as money earned, but inart, only the earned has savor; The Color of Money earns enough of it to turn most other movies persimmon with esthetic envy. [17 Oct 1986, p. D1]
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  5. Rushmore
    One of the most original, good-hearted comedies in a long time, Rushmore is the sort of movie where the strangest sequences of discords somehow keep managing to reach giddily improbable resolutions.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Kedi
    The reason for the city’s proliferation of cats comes late in the film, and it’s delivered as quickly as the rest of the doc’s information: long story short, the cats arrived on ships, figured their journey was over and never returned to port.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    I Am Not Your Negro
    It’s an astonishing, often challenging and sharp examination of race in the United States.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Thieves Like Us
    One of Robert Altman's lesser known gems, Thieves Like Us, brings Depression-era rural Mississippi to life with the story of three convicted killers on the lam from prison.
  9. Star 80
    Fosse carries the movie to its conclusion steadily and superlatively, with a directness that is devastating and with a depth of insight that ameliorates, if only slightly, the ghastliness of the carefully choreographed images. [10 Nov 1983]
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  10. Don't Breathe
    A home invasion story that is as artfully terrifying as "Home Alone" was entertainingly hilarious.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Whitewash
    Whitewash is a small but sparkling gem on ice.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    In Order of Disappearance
    A cheeky black comedy and worthy Norwegian successor to "Kill Bill."
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Italian for Beginners
    Unlike Hollywood's starting point of hopelessly beautiful and yet inexplicably unentangled principal characters, Italian For Beginners'raw material is something of a more dirty-fingernail variety.
  14. 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.
  15. Ragtime
    Ragtime itself twinkles with delight - perhaps only an immigrant, and a recent one, could have made this film, which looks squarely at the social problems gnawing at North America but which finds, within them and without them, cause for hope. [20 Nov 1981]
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  16. Primary Colors
    Sophisticated and unsentimental political film.
  17. Manhattan
    Never before has Allen been able to integrate comedy and pathos as deftly as he does in Manhattan. [28 Apr 1979, p. 17]
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  18. Titane
    French director Julia Ducournau, however, delivers a mindblower that keeps you guessing for all of the film’s excellent 108 minutes. She shocks; she entertains; she wickedly defies expectations.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Flamenco, Flamenco
    These are simply incredible performances, captured stunningly on film.
  20. Spencer
    Spencer works best when Princess Diana gets to be wickedly alive – playing a game with her sons, joking with Hawkins on the beach. When Stewart is given permission to play a person, not a dynasty, she offers up some of her best work yet.
  21. Reversal of Fortune
    Mesmerizing.
  22. Casa de los babys
    John Sayles's heartrending new film is a many-splendoured thing.
  23. Limitless
    Add it all up, including the nifty twist at the end, and what we have here is a fun Hollywood flick with a good head on its shoulders.
  24. Sound of Metal
    A movie perfectly engineered for home viewing. Particularly with the best set of headphones that you own.
  25. The Creator
    The homages that Edwards and his co-writer Chris Weitz make are honest, and instead of stealing the best ideas of other films, The Creator uses them as the source code to create a next-generation story that is pure, foot-on-the-gas entertainment.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Spirited Away
    The most successful film ever released in Japan, and co-winner of the top prize at this year's Berlin film festival, Spirited Away is a complete reversal of the Hollywood way with animation.
  27. The Postman Always Rings Twice
    More frightening than most horror movies, more erotic than most pornography, The Postman Always Rings Twice (at the Imperial) is a sour slice of bona fide Americana, a relentlessly pessimistic melodrama that conjures memories of They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather and Chinatown. [21 March 1981]
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  28. The Humans
    The writer’s adage that the specific is universal comes fully alive in this family drama, written and directed by Stephen Karam, based on his Tony-winning play.
  29. Bull Durham
    A loopy, loving nine innings full of comic curve balls, emotional home-runs and euphoric, summertime music.
  30. 6 Underground
    A riotous and gleefully delirious assault on the senses. It is vulgar. It is absurd. And it is completely enthralling.
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