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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. Disturbia
    Morse, with his hulking frame, baby face and soft voice, has probably done too many of these villain roles for his own good. But how could you avoid casting him when he manages to present someone who's screamingly insane in the mildest, most pleasant way?
  2. Starting Out in the Evening
    This is a human-sized drama about people with contradictory motives, trying to help or use each other.
  3. Angels Wear White
    Qu’s symbolism, including a giant statue of Marilyn Monroe in her provocative Seven-Year-Itch pose presiding over an empty beachfront playground, is big, bold and impressively cinematic, thanks also to cinematographer Benoît Dervaux.
  4. Us
    Us is the work of a gifted director who seems to be compensating for having less to say by overstating how he says it.
  5. Mine 9
    Eddie Mensore has not made a masterpiece of the genre, but there’s a poignancy to his gritty calamity tale that makes Mine 9 worth watching.
  6. Alpha
    There’s something delightfully clever in a narrative that is easily transferable to modern times. Speaking of which, seeing Alpha on as big and splashy a screen as possible is advisable, preferably with children who can handle occasional scenes of intense peril.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Red Dawn
    It's pure American corn but expertly and entertainingly harvested. The casting is excellent, the performances are so good and the emotional thrust of the film so strong that it is impossible not to enjoy. [10 Aug 1984]
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  8. Ajami
    The stylings of Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino come to the Mideast, but more credibly grounded in a complex setting fraught with raw contemporary politics and ancient class tensions. It makes for a compelling movie but hardly a pretty picture.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Disorder
    Beautifully shot, the film is at its best when it’s unclear whether Vincent is intensely paranoid or highly perceptive.
  10. The Wheel
    With compelling performances from leads Amber Midthunder and Taylor Gray, it’s impossible not to be invested in where they end up.
  11. Angel Heart
    There's a Faustian bargain in Angel Heart, and not only on the screen. Undeniably, Parker is hobnobbing with the false gods of Style. But isn't it just the damnest thing: he's having (and giving) a hell of a good time. [07 Mar 1987]
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  12. The Wild Pear Tree
    Sinan’s not a particularly fascinating character (Demirkol’s deliberately low-energy performance is a bit too unvaried for me). But the film comes alive in its attention to detail.
  13. Lion
    First-time Australian director Garth Davis offers sweeping cinematic shots, with a soundtrack that is pleasingly epic, but the second act is a bit skimpy, script-wise.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Red Rock West
    Given the stereotypical elements that director John Dahl and his co-writing brother Rick have used to construct Red Rock West, it's surprising that the result is a neat and prickly little thriller, dressed up in cowboy noir clothing. [07 Jan 1994]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ponyo
    In short, it's very much a charming kids' film, created by a master of animation.
  16. The Fighter
    The picture makes too many concessions to the Hollywood judges, pulls too many punches. But at least it has real punches to pull, because there's honest sweat here too, and a full complement of those archetypes that lie at the popular heart of the genre.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mountain
    The doc drags a bit by the end, but the film's message is sent: "Man's wish to be first induces forms of insanity."
  18. The Meddler
    It’s a sitcom-y, Sarandon-wrapped Mother’s Day valentine.
  19. A Tale of Two Sisters
    It may not be a pretty picture, but A Tale of Two Sisters is definitely a satisfying piece of less-is-more cinematic horror.
  20. Head-On
    Violent and sexy and funny and sad, Head-On is a big collision that doubles as a bizarre love story.
  21. Men in Black III
    Delight, a modest yet palpable measure of the stuff, is restored.
  22. 5 Broken Cameras
    Both a moving first-person essay and an artful exercise in political advocacy, 5 Broken Cameras is about the experience of West Bank protests from the inside.
  23. The Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret
    So how does this documentary play now, a year into the scandal, when the urgency has cooled, at least in Hollywood, and the information feels familiar rather than shocking? Well, guess what, it’s still shocking, in its sheer volume and detail.
  24. The Last Stand
    Dig just a shade beneath the surface, trade in the text for the subtext, and a more interesting picture emerges – a little richer, sadder, almost poignant. Arnie is back again, yet now, as a storied immigrant nearing the end of his tale, he's become an odd sight to behold.
  25. Unmistaken Child
    This documentary is only partly a story of the chosen one; mainly, and more intriguingly, it's a chronicle of the choosing one, of the nervous young monk charged with the job of leading the search party.
  26. African Cats
    No doubt, life is tough in the wild but, this being a Disney flick, it's loving too and even comes with a kiddie-friendly narrative that's easy to summarize and hard to dispute.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    Delivers a touching, morally outraged portrait that, in memory of Swartz, may inspire people to ask hard questions about how the new world is being shaped away from view, behind closed doors.
  28. Too Late to Die Young
    The director simply trusts that his performers and sun-dappled visuals will carry the film forward. And he’s right – there’s little narrative propulsion to Too Late to Die Young, yet it hums along with a vibrant humanity all the same.
  29. Married to the Mob
    Missing from Married to the Mob, written by Barry Strugatz and Mark R. Burns, is the freewheeling structure, but everything else that makes Demme one of the friendliest of major U.S. directors is in glorious evidence. [19 Aug 1988]
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  30. The Price of Everything
    For all its successful debunking of the market, there isn’t enough of this prickly love in The Price of Everything.
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