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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. Revanche
    A little bit of "Crime and Punishment" and a whole lot of "The Postman Always Rings Twice," Revanche, the Austrian candidate for last year's Best Foreign Language Film, is a surprisingly unruffled tale of love, thievery, murder and revenge.
  2. Marriage Story
    This is hilarious, heartbreaking cinema – a work that will make you burst out laughing one moment, and leave you tearing your hair out the next.
  3. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    The picture goes exactly where the prose does, enticing all of us, kids and adults and atheists and believers alike, down below the brittle surface of our cold logic and into a richer world of imaginative wonder.
  4. Tangled
    They really pulled out all the stops on this one.
  5. Anne at 13,000 ft
    Anne is such a startling and overwhelming work that the act of discussing it can feel unapproachable and crippling.
  6. Clemency
    This is a film with an unforgettable story and performances that will edge into your DNA.
  7. They Shall Not Grow Old
    Using nothing but the voices and the images from the past, They Shall Not Grow Old is a powerful tribute to every veteran and one of the most empathetic portraits of war ever created. His grandfather would be proud.
  8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Sharply subverting the male gaze at every turn, Sciamma has created an unforgettable treatise on thwarted desire. It is so very easy to label a film incendiary, but Portrait of a Lady on Fire deserves the scalding honour. It will ignite every flame you might have.
  9. Summer Hours
    It is filmmaker Assayas who is the star here. France's most important contemporary director has created a work of almost magisterial calm.
  10. War for the Planet of the Apes
    Reeves keeps the action moving steadily, never letting the film’s 140 minutes feel even slightly bloated, and surrounds Caesar with a visually stunning, compassionately conceived group of side characters.
  11. Parasite
    An exhilarating and furious indictment of class struggle, Parasite might be the masterpiece South Korea's Bong Joon-ho has been working toward his entire career.
  12. Ordinary Love
    Here’s the thing: Joan and Tom do come back from it. The couples who stay together figure out how to do that. Ordinary Love is an argument that, as hard as that is, it’s worth it.
  13. Cinema Paradiso
    Cinema Paradiso converts you to the credo that art can indeed be holy.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ida
    Favouring long takes over didactic scripting, Pawlikowski lets his powerful imagery carry the film.
  15. mother!
    Mother! is an unparalleled achievement, entirely unprecedented and unexpected in this era of studio filmmaking.
  16. The Irishman
    It is glorious.
  17. China Heavyweight
    As with his previous film, director Chang nurses a compelling drama from a multilayered cultural reality, at once intimate and unfathomably large in implications.
  18. Like Water for Chocolate
    Overtly passionate, ebulliently funny and ideologically subtle, Like Water for Chocolate is strong drink - hot and sweet. It toasts life not as it is but as it should be. [09 Apr 1993]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  19. Tulpan
    Funny, fascinating, utterly unclassifiable film.
  20. Room
    Room is a film of tiny little miracles.
  21. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
    The same didactic instincts that sometimes mar Lee's fictional filmmaking serve him well as a documentarian and eulogist, both with Four Little Girls and this film, a record of the worst natural disaster in American history.
  22. Gravity
    Gravity, a weightless ballet and a cold-sweat nightmare, intimates mystery and profundity, with that mixture of beauty and terror that the Romantics called the sublime.
  23. The Age of Innocence
    It comes eerily close to duplicating the experience of reading while, at the same time, remaining very much a motion picture. That's a rare, perhaps even unprecedented, achievement.
  24. An Education
    Hornby is a fine craftsman and his dialogue sparkles, though occasionally the scenes are too calculated.
  25. Collapse
    Even in a season of apocalyptic films, these facts are really, really scary.
  26. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
    Douglas Tirola’s doc does the era and National Lampoon justice. The tone is sharp and freewheeling, the craziness is infectious and the pace is cocaine-quick.
  27. Foxcatcher
    The triumph of Foxcatcher is not in the subject but in its art. The clear-eyed compassion and moral intelligence of Miller’s film brings sense to the senseless, and finds the human pulse behind the tabloid shock. It’s not a movie to make you feel good, but, at moments, it reminds you what goodness is.
  28. Cop Car
    Director Jon Watts is smart enough never to deviate from a narrow vision that he executes superbly.
  29. Pump Up the Volume
    This is an exhilarating picture, the kind that strips away smug complacencies and exposes raw nerves to a bright light. [14 Sep 1990, p.C4]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  30. Dogville
    If nothing else can be said of Dogville, it's a film that is like nothing else.
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