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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. Indignation
    And therein lies the difficulty of adapting Indignation for the screen; remove Roth’s prose from the equation and you don’t have much left. Writer and director James Schamus turns Indignation into a minor period piece, a precise but seemingly pointless evocation of the stultifying conventionalism of an American university campus in the 1950s.
  2. Bird
    At two hours and 43 minutes, Eastwood's Bird is a hypnotic, darkly photographed, loosely constructed marvel that avoids every cliche of the self-destructive-celebrity biography, a particularly remarkable achievement in that Parker played out every cliche of the self- destructive-celebrity life. [14 Oct 1988, p. C1]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  3. A Brief History of Time
    Hawking is as much a phenomenon as the phenomena he explores. Knowing that, A Brief History Of Time has the deceptive simplicity of an elegant equation - it merely sets up the parallels and permits us to wonder, gazing upon the heavens above and the mysteries within. [28 Aug 1992]
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  4. Enough Said
    Enough Said confirms filmmaker Nicole Holofcener’s status as one of America’s best stealth satirists.
  5. 28 Weeks Later
    Only occasionally does Fresnadillo rise above the mundane, but, to his credit, the exceptions are worth savouring.
  6. Les Misérables
    In the final act, cops and street children fight a desperate battle in an abandoned apartment block. It’s a metaphor, but it’s earned.
  7. Insomnia
    In the ongoing case of the fan versus the movies, the evidence suggests that a good policier is damn hard to find. So when you come across one that can boast a decent script, taut direction and a single superb performance, there's no need for prolonged deliberation.
  8. Kajillionaire
    Kajillionaire is certainly not operating on a familiar wavelength, but it is also more than, say, Wes Anderson cosplay. In its quizzical, candy-coloured, sideways view of the world – one that normalizes apartments that regularly flood with pink sludge – the film is offering a challenge to its audience. Accept it, or move along.
  9. Control
    The result is a good movie that falls short of greatness by aping too well the behaviour of its subject – occasionally brilliant, sometimes mundane.
  10. Long Strange Trip
    Amir Bar-Lev’s excellent, definitive film on the Haight-Ashbury acid-testers is long – four fly-by hours – but there are very few wasted moments.
  11. Maison du Bonheur
    Maison du bonheur is a thoughtful, affecting study of the space we choose to take up in this world, and what happens when we grow old enough to realize the truth and consequences of those decisions.
  12. Top Gun: Maverick
    Maverick works its wonders thanks to the perfect match of star power, source material ripe for retrofitting, and a director who knows how to wring the best out of his leading man and, more importantly, when to get the heck out of his way.
  13. BlackBerry
    BlackBerry is funny, fast and nerve-rattling. And it is always – always – intensely entertaining.
  14. Gas Food Lodging
    Rife with baroque silliness, Gas Food Lodging is highly entertaining in its oddness and unintentional surrealism, whatever its director says Twin Peaks with heart. [27 Nov 1992]
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  15. Starting Out in the Evening
    This is a human-sized drama about people with contradictory motives, trying to help or use each other.
  16. 3 Faces
    It’s a film full of delicate metaphors and gentle humour – the locals have elaborate rules for giving a warning honk of the horn on their one-track road but refuse a simple suggestion to widen it – and meanders, sometimes a bit elliptically, to its conclusion.
  17. Full Metal Jacket
    May be the best war movie ever made...Different is Kubrick's artistry and control, and his almost perverse, but philosophically progressive, refusal to impart to chaos a coherent narrative contour.
  18. Head-On
    Violent and sexy and funny and sad, Head-On is a big collision that doubles as a bizarre love story.
  19. The Witches
    No, this isn't the Care Bears. But it is a compelling yarn, in a Grimm sort of way, a throwback to a time when storytellers felt freer to tap the emotional currents that run deep and often dark in all children, and when the stories themselves formed a moral maze that trusted the kids to find their own way home.
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  20. Lightning in a Bottle
    Comes alive with the more relaxed performances from its senior set.
  21. Warfare
    Alternately tedious, cacophonous and stultifying, the latest show of force from writer-director Alex Garland following last year’s equally frustrating Civil War just might be the most unnecessarily unpleasant cinematic experience you will endure this year.
  22. A Bug's Life
    In a movie about an ant colony, perhaps it's futile to complain about a superfluity of characters. Yet this need to cover every permutation of cuteness is one major drawback to the cast of A Bug's Life.
  23. Daratt
    Though the progress of Atim's increasing empathy is predictable, the film understates its points effectively, without simplification.
  24. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
    Precious is a bit like having a piano dropped on your head: messy but memorable.
  25. Dìdi
    A wonderfully uncomfortable, deeply hilarious coming-of-age movie, the new film Didi plays like an extended and surprisingly welcome visit to the filmmaker’s childhood bedroom.
  26. After Yang
    After Yang is a tightly controlled yet tremendously alive film, powered by the beating heart that is Farrell’s performance.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Gloria Bell
    Moore leads this fresh and loving English-language take by Chilean director Sebastian Lelio of his own 2013 film "Gloria," but is well supported by other loves in her life, present and past: Brad Garrett, Holland Taylor, Rita Wilson and others.
  28. Monos
    Monos sinks you into its mud until the dirt stuffs your mouth. You won’t be able to breathe – but you’ll be thanking Landes for the cinematic suffocation all the same.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blue Jasmine
    Woody Allen’s first Stateside production in nearly a decade is a sharply observed, post-economic crash comedy-drama that boasts a formidable performance by Cate Blanchett and addresses such pertinent real-world concerns as class, gender and corporate criminality in urban America.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Innocents
    The Innocents is a powerful, brave film that will stay with you for days.
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