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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. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    Highly entertaining.
  2. All Quiet on the Western Front
    This new version of an old tale has the capacity to horrify you into shell-shocked pacifism, while delivering a few minor-key surprises along the way.
  3. Flight
    This movie is captivating until it gets uplifting – Flight soars when it crashes and crashes when it soars.
  4. Tucker: The Man and His Dream
    This happy daydream contains Coppola's most assured work since "Apocalypse Now;" save for its modesty, it is in no way inferior to his masterpiece, "The Godfather" Saga. [12 Aug 1988]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  5. The Trial of the Chicago 7
    His characters are the brightest, slickest people you will ever meet, and whether you’re meant to love or loathe them, Sorkin has a genuine talent for ensuring his heroes and villains will forever stick in your head, wandering the recesses of your mind in an eternal walk-and-talk formation.
  6. Cloud
    By the film’s haunting finale – a gut-punch moment of reckoning that follows nearly half an hour of entertainingly amateurish gunplay – Kurosawa’s sentiments on the current state of e-commerce are clear. Whether emptor or venditor, capitalism is full of caveats.
  7. Flora and Son
    If you can walk away from a movie with a tune in your heart and a bounce in your step, then it’s safe to say that the film clicked in just the ways that were intended.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Lunchbox
    If co-writer and director Ritesh Batra occasionally takes his sweet time getting from point A to point B, it’s equally true that he gives the audience a nice, comfortable ride.
  9. Menace II Society
    Because the society in Menace II Society is boxed in sociologically, the picture (for all its strengths) is boxed in esthetically. Already, this genre is beginning to seem as much a victim as the victims it portrays.
  10. Blue Car
    Feels like a bit of an emotional mugging.
  11. A Very Long Engagement
    Certainly long and not always engaging and comes with a predictably basic ending, yet there are unexpected pleasures, moments of beauty and tiny pockets of joy to sustain you through the journey.
  12. Shine a Light
    Ultimately, Shine a Light is illuminating indeed, even fascinating, but not in the way Scorsese intended. What he has created, inadvertently, is an invaluable documentation of semi-fossilized Stones – musicologists may like it, sociologists should love it and, some distant day, anthropologists will treasure it.
  13. The Death of Louis XIV
    A masterpiece. Admittedly, callow viewers may have difficulty getting past the cumulously bewigged Jean-Pierre Léaud’s uncanny resemblance to Phil Spector, circa 2008.
  14. Rebel Ridge
    Saulnier has returned with a tremendous, high-impact blast of a movie, making any delayed gratification all the more satisfying.
  15. Heat
    No, the film may not be quite as luminous as the cast, but it's good - very good, in fact.
  16. Soul Power
    Pretty much a non-stop head-bobbing knee-bouncer.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    An Honest Liar
    The ultimate question in An Honest Liar is whether it’s possible to know so much about the method behind the magic without being fooled into believing your own act.
  18. 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.
  19. What's Love Got to Do with It
    With a lot more insight and a lot less hagiography, it could have been a real movie. [18 Jun 1993]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  20. Hail Satan?
    If there’s a glaring oversight in Hail Satan?, it’s in the film’s singular devotion to the Temple of Satan. There’s little-to-no mention of other Satanic cults.
  21. The Whistlers
    The whistling was originally developed to more conveniently communicate across great distances and that gives Porumboiu the perfect excuse to repeatedly frame the assorted players dwarfed by vast cityscapes and spectacular nature vistas.
  22. The Dog
    While Wojtowicz’s shape-shifting character is the major source of fascination here, the archival footage, including with is terrifically effective in evoking the tumultuous era and occasionally providing a reality check to the Dog’s boastful version of his life.
  23. Zola
    Bravo’s style echoes King’s own: It is fun and whimsical, formally playful, sometimes bordering on the fantastic but always grounded in the real and the intimate.
  24. Talk to Me
    Although the movie’s energies dip slightly toward its end, when Mia’s plan to rid the world of the cursed hand requires superhuman acts of strength and derring-do, Talk to Me delivers a series of slash-and-burn shocks that last far longer than 90 seconds.
  25. Midnight Special
    As other worlds reveal themselves, what started with a gripping premise slackens and goes limp.
  26. Occupied City
    As much as Occupied City’s observational eye is rooted in a humanistic and cumulative approach to history, it will, no doubt, leave those in search of a less austere approach wanting.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Inni
    This is the perfect film for a band that was never trying to be something other than inventive.
  28. Tickled
    If you have ever heard of the term “catfishing” – and if you haven’t, I’m impressed and envious – then you’re already one step ahead.
  29. Rojo
    The detective plot is shaggy and never fully resolves itself, but the implications of the story resonate like a distant drum.
  30. Brothers
    A powerful, brutal, funny, tragic, vibrant, very human movie.
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