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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. This Is Spinal Tap
    This fictional "rockumentary" about a mediocre, aging heavy-metal band's last tour of America is surprisingly modest, subtle and funny. Not only is this the kind of satiric treatment rock music has been crying out for, it may be one of the most original film comedies in years. [20 Apr 1984]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  2. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    It’s not about the world catching up to understand poor, lonesome Hiccup. It’s about Hiccup catching up to the expectations of the world on his own.
  3. Pulp Fiction
    Pulp Fiction is at least three movies rolled into one, and they're all scintillating.
  4. Submarine
    One of the most irresistible films of the year so far.
  5. California Typewriter
    There's a certain nostalgia at work here, but where the film really clicks is on the subject of the creative process and as a meditation on the human-machine dynamic.
  6. Listen to Me Marlon
    Listen to Me Marlon is an offer so intimate that no film fan should refuse.
  7. A Private War
    Based on a Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner, the film doesn’t flinch from Colvin’s driven, destructive side. But it’s best when she’s on the ground in a war zone, bearing witness.
  8. Tokyo Sonata
    Turns out to be one of the most compelling, finely orchestrated and oddly enchanting films of the year so far.
  9. Citizenfour
    The documentary of the year may also be its most hair-raising thriller.
  10. Whether the Weather Is Fine
    With great humour and heartbreak, Whether the Weather is Fine is the kind of film intrepid cinephiles long to discover at TIFF.
  11. The Lost Daughter
    In The Lost Daughter, Gyllenhaal isn’t interested in judgment, only truth. Every decision she makes is exactly the right one. Her three lead actresses have never been better, and casting Buckley as the young Colman is particularly inspired. It doesn’t matter that they don’t look alike – they share a crucial essence.
  12. The Handmaiden
    Park’s Handmaiden is a great big chocolate box of a movie in which a rich and satisfying narrative is enlivened by some piquant erotica and the sharp tang of politics.
  13. The Father
    Yes, The Father is a familiar story and a universal one. Yet Zeller has been uniquely inventive in the way he evokes the unreliability of memory and the subjectivity of experience in the senile – and the healthy.
  14. Moonlight
    Happily, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has in Moonlight exactly the kind of small, smart film that the Awards should be recognizing more often. Whether it will actually win is another matter: Jenkins’s script and his direction are bracingly free of the sentimentality Oscar so loves.
  15. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Shot in Louisiana, with non-professional actors and apparently set-designed from a junkyard, Beasts of the Southern Wild marks one of the most auspicious American directorial debuts in years.
  16. Children of Men
    Children of Men is a nativity story for the ages, this or any other.
  17. Certain Women
    Stewart does an intriguing job creating a paradoxical character who explains herself without giving of herself, her very persona exposing the false promise of personal exposition.
  18. No Country for Old Men
    The Coen brothers adaptation is impeccable, a perfect mirror of McCarthy's prose – sparse, suspenseful, probing and profoundly disturbing.
  19. Silent Land
    The director’s larger point is deployed with such subtlety that it creeps up on the viewer with devastating force.
  20. A Star Is Born
    It rejoices in a classic structure in which one upward trajectory and one downward meet for a shining moment in the middle. Under Cooper’s direction – and thanks to his chemistry with his co-star – the movie throbs with the excitement of that meeting, while the downfall of his alcoholic rocker achieves an almost tragic catharsis.
  21. First Man
    It is immersive, engaging and dizzying filmmaking.
  22. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
    What has been crafted with The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open is the multitudinous reality of past and present, absent and material; a world-affirming space of narrative realization that speaks to those who exist within the efforts and “now” of survival.
  23. After Dark, My Sweet
    This is a miniature classic, a pulp tragedy. [29 Sep 1990]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  24. Monsieur Lazhar
    It's an exquisite, humanistic and subtly topical work of cinema art that manages to keep the intimate, revelatory sensibility of a one-man play intact while fleshing out the characters and creating a very realistic and richly detailed school community.
  25. Breaking Away
    One of the best, funniest, most surprising and likeable American films of the year. [27 Aug 1979]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Shoplifters
    The director, though, reaches in and steals your heart right in front of your eyes, like a magic trick, and you have to admit you didn’t even see it coming.
  27. 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Killer Joe
    Credit goes to the actors (especially Gershon) for giving almost as good as they get in seriously demanding roles, and to Friedkin for having what it takes – guts, chops and a refreshing lack of artistic caution – to bring things thundering home.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Your Friends & Neighbors
    It is superbly executed and, for all its pitilessness, it's an intelligent dramatization of the impact that consumerist values have had on the psyche of the North American middle class at the end of the 20th century.
  30. Widows
    Led by a magnificent Viola Davis, the cast is ridiculously stacked. The action is tremendous. And the ultimate message – that nothing comes for free in America – is devastating in its swift brutality.
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