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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. Drive My Car
    Take three hours out of your life, and enjoy one of the most fulfilling cinematic rides of the year.
  2. Moolaadé
    Once in a rare while a film comes along that is boldly original, communicates an important idea in an elegantly simple fashion and happens to be highly entertaining. Such is the case with Moolaadé.
  3. It Was Just an Accident
    A miracle of a movie that could only exist due to everything going so very wrong.
  4. Saint Omer
    Whether, in making Saint Omer, Diop has found the answers that she’s been searching for since 2016 remains an open question. But the truth of the film is that she has certainly compelled her audience to take a complicated, fraught, and harrowing journey of their own.
  5. Time
    It’s a document of mutual care; a self-authored family archive magnified by the scope of its editor and platform; and a compassionately rendered adaptation of the ways in which we feel the tempo, intervals, duration and memory of time.
  6. Lost in Translation
    Arguably, Lost in Translation is the American answer to Wong Kar-wai's masterpiece, "In the Mood for Love," though less about history, more about infatuation.
  7. Breaking Away
    One of the best, funniest, most surprising and likeable American films of the year. [27 Aug 1979]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  8. Son of Saul
    Unusual for a Holocaust drama, the film offers no false hope of rescue or resurrection, but does insist that our bearing witness matters.
  9. Her
    Phoenix, for long scenes, is onscreen by himself, lost in his thoughts and those of the operating system moulded to fit his psyche. With his wounded awkwardness and boyish giggles, he seems authentically vulnerable, but the character’s emotionally arrested development also begins to weigh the film down.
  10. Little Women
    It is sublime. Better than "Lady Bird" even, and I would not, could not, say that lightly. Because it hits harder. Like someone ripping your heart out, while gently rubbing your back and telling you that it’s all going to be okay. I laughed obnoxiously loud, and I cried so hard my face formed a frozen death mask that just went, “Owww, myyyyy hearrrrttttt.”
  11. The Triplets of Belleville
    Bizarre, indeed.
  12. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    Working "lobbed" and "scimitar" into that same sentence hovers near the empyrean of genius.
  13. Flee
    Amin’s story is given life and depth, charted here with a care for his wholeness rather than too simply his refugee status.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    EX LIBRIS: The New York Public Library
    It pains that this documentary was so tedious, since the New York Public Library is the crown jewel of public institutions, deserving of every accolade. If you want to spend three hours finding out what the library has to offer, save yourself the price of a movie ticket and head down to your local branch.
  15. Nickel Boys
    It’s hard to describe Nickel Boys. It seems like an injustice to call it, simply, a film. It’s a remarkable piece of art, even more impressive when you consider that it’s photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross’s debut feature film – in fiction.
  16. The Boy and the Heron
    It is tender, true and – depending on your interpretation, or understanding, of the finale – intensely heartbreaking.
  17. Jafar Panahi's Taxi
    That the director is able to continue producing such creative and daring work while ostensibly under the thumb of the state is a true feat.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ida
    Favouring long takes over didactic scripting, Pawlikowski lets his powerful imagery carry the film.
  19. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    The director wisely dives with her whole heart and soul into Goldin’s life, which makes seeing her almost destroyed by an addiction to painkillers so painful. And then, when Goldin resurrects her energies into waging a David versus Goliath war, there is a distinct sense of against-all-odds triumph that hits hard, and lingers long.
  20. Waltz with Bashir
    Profound, and profoundly affecting.
  21. 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.
  22. Anora
    Madison never loses grip on the character for a second. Together with Baker, the pair craft a whirlwind of a character, provocative and powerful and so very easy to imagine as the object of anyone’s obsession.
  23. The Favourite
    Yet for a number of reasons, The Favourite is the first Yorgos Lanthimos film that puts the director’s bitter instincts to good use. It’s not only his most tolerable film, it’s his most insightful, too. It even approaches, well, fun.
  24. Halloween
    This low-budget horror film, sophisticated far beyond its budget, is the work of John Carpenter, an authentic prodigy whose style recalls both Martin Scorsese and the Brian De Palma of "Carrie," but who has a metaphysical, sophomoric sense of humor both of those directors lack.
  25. The Right Stuff
    THE THREE hours and 10 minutes of The Right Stuff fly by faster than a plane snapping the sound barrier - there's never a moment that's not entertaining, and there are very few that are not wonderfully photographed and choreographed - but for the non-American, the excitement is confined to the filmmaking. [22 Oct 1983]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  26. Nostalgia for the Light
    Patricio Guzmán's documentary, Nostalgia for the Light, pays equal attention to the astronomers and searchers, regarding their quest as the same – a search for life.
  27. The Gatekeepers
    As a political testament, the result is revealing and important. Yet as a documentary, it wanders here, there and everywhere – long on intensity but short on focus.
  28. The Brutalist
    The Brutalist is a movie of big ideas constructed inside the transformative majesty of epic-scaled cinema. You can try to describe it, but nothing can match the power of simply opening your eyes.
  29. Before Sunset
    This is a sequel just as intriguing as the original.
  30. The Worst Person in the World
    Trier has an incredible ear for dialogue and can observe the pitiful drama of a millennial breakup like no other.
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