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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. Housekeeping for Beginners
    In lesser hands, this chaos might tumble into melodrama or farce. But Stolevski’s actors deliver such naturalistic performances, and he writes such specific dialogue . . . that you care deeply about what happens to these people.
  2. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    It tells a well-crafted story; the new characters are invigorating; the old characters are reintroduced tidily. But it is also far too enamoured with the power of its own history.
  3. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
    McNaughton's film, which has been described as "too arty for the blood crowd and too bloody for the art crowd," is an exercise in revulsion by an often skilled filmmaker. [8 Oct 1990]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  4. Spellbound
    Loses its momentum just when you'd expect the suspense to mount -- at the competition itself.
  5. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Not until the final shot does Noyce rise up to the potential of the history: There's a sudden shiver of recognition, that, my God, these people really lived this.
  6. White God
    Hackle-raising in its intensity.
  7. Whale Rider
    The Canadian film "Atanarjuat" travelled back to the past to meet an ancient legend on its own ground and treated the tale realistically. Whale Rider whisks its legend up into the present, and then adds a touch of lyricism.
  8. The Mill and the Cross
    The Mill and the Cross may thrill you. But be prepared for a fight. Twenty minutes in, your companion may throw up his or her arms and complain, "This is like watching a painting dry." They wouldn't be wrong.
  9. Lean on Pete
    The effortless richness of character that so thoroughly grounded Haigh’s Oscar-nominated "45 Years" and his critical darling "Weekend" is half-heartedly formed in Pete. There is a disquieting sense that the director has fallen prey to the poetics of space at the expense of the lives within it.
  10. Bergman Island
    While the film first regales us in sightseeing tours of the scenic Faro Island, the film ends in an unexpected wallop of heartbreak as Chris begins to describe the film-within-a-film she’s writing in her notebook to her unattentive partner.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Aida's Secrets
    The debut doc is an ambitious attempt to get to the root of a tangled family tree, but the directors' close relationship to Izak (he's their uncle) means they sometimes pay so much attention to the genealogical minutiae that a viewer checks in and out to clear her head.
  12. Barbie
    This Barbie is a modern movie masterpiece that must be seen to be believed.
  13. Minority Report
    More humdrum than horrible. It isn't futuristic film noir; it's just everyday film beige.
  14. We the Animals
    Working mostly with non-professional actors, Zagar also wrings some heartbreaking performances out of his young cast, especially Rosado, whose Jonah seems teetering at the edge of something he may never understand.
  15. Wild Rose
    We’re watching Buckley electrify the screen today. May her voice rattle in your head for the rest of the year.
  16. The Simpsons Movie
    On the positive side, it's still four back-to-back Simpsons episodes, which is still better than most of what either television or the movies have to offer.
  17. Off the Rails
    His story here is well-woven, with the kind-hearted voices of psychiatrists, playwrights, family members, lawyers and the gregarious McCollum himself failing to come up with a solution on how to handle an autistic, obsessive and irresponsible rail rider.
  18. Strange Darling
    Fitzgerald gives a strong performance, especially considering the lack of depth her character is afforded, but her impact is drowned out by the film’s truly rancid attempt at upending the gendered inferences that Mollner has staged her character within.
  19. Riding Giants
    Too long by about 20 minutes, and arguably too obsessed with the lineage of names only of interest to other surfers, this is a vicarious kick.
  20. Boy and the World
    A magical and often bleak parable about societal clashes.
  21. Room 237
    Are these enlightened critics or dark nutcases themselves?
  22. The Beast
    Classical and ultramodern – Bonello closes things off with a QR code, of all things – The Beast is an experience both bold and rich.
  23. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
    Hanks is, not surprisingly, excellently cast, but it’s Heller’s direction and inventive aesthetic instinct – everything is washed out browns, with the exception of a moving blue-lit finale – that sell the work so well.
  24. The Forty-Year-Old Version
    Blank is hilarious and candid in this must-watch film. Every moment she breaks the fourth wall with an eye roll is worthy of a freeze frame.
  25. Compartment No. 6
    Russia’s stark landscape makes for breathtaking and sometimes comical scenes. This is a trip well worth taking.
  26. Lucky
    Making his directorial debut is actor John Carroll Lynch (no relation to David Lynch). This first-timer quirks things up occasionally with surreal scenes of a nightmare and an on-the-nose allegory (Lucky walking toward an exit sign and standing at an abyss).
  27. 7 Prisoners
    This could have been a thriller, but thrills are cheap and Moratto aims for something more documentative, sombre and meditative. It’s about paying debts and the illusionary concept of freedom.
  28. Anne at 13,000 ft
    Anne is such a startling and overwhelming work that the act of discussing it can feel unapproachable and crippling.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Call Me Kuchu
    Even in death, Kato has been harassed. In one of this movie’s many unsettling scenes, a pastor interrupts his funeral to condemn the dead man to eternal damnation.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Berberian Sound Studio
    Director Peter Strickland brilliantly ratchets up the tension without showing a single frame of the grisly film.
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