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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. Pleasure
    As a conversation-starter, though, Pleasure hits all the spots – and sometimes soars far beyond thanks to the work of Kappel, whose performance is absolutely committed, fearless and entrancing.
  2. The Muppets
    The Muppet charm, always more at home within the intimate frame of a TV set, is gone here.
  3. Darkest Hour
    Wright's Darkest Hour is filled with many lush examples of the pathetic fallacy, which doesn't totally disguise the awkward truth that this is a film mainly about meetings.
  4. An Inconvenient Truth
    Even a politically naive film critic can see that An Inconvenient Truth isn't only about science or economics; it's also about ideology.
  5. Twelve Monkeys
    For all his daring, the brazen creator maintains control - there's aesthetic order in the disorder, and calculated reason in the madness. Seldom has it felt so good to seem so lost.
  6. Lawless Heart
    Gimmickry is death to this sort of artsy endeavour -- it turns a movie with a small budget into a small movie.
  7. Shrek 2
    The Shrek franchise is alive and well -- Model 2 is zippier, sleeker, with ever-improving graphics, vast commercial potential and the same sly ability to reach out and hook the whole family.
  8. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    It feels like one long non-sequitur -- like closing a Charles Bronson film with a disco medley -- but there's an emotional consistency to Kitano's boisterous celebration of movement.
  9. Lady Vengeance
    Lady Vengeance is more than half over before we discover the object of Geum-Ja's hatred: a kindergarten teacher named Mr. Baek. He's played by Choi Min-sik, the prisoner in "Old Boy," and here he's as tepid as he was heated in that film.
  10. Enchanted
    The movie's big kick – what makes Enchanted live up to its title – is that the further Giselle progresses in New York, the more we feel like we've tumbled into a timeless Disney Neverland.
  11. The Strange Case of Angelica
    An uneven but intriguing piece of whimsy that veers from powerfully symbolic cinematography into self parody.
  12. Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
    Detective Dee is the action flick of the year, a two-hour epic that blows the "Pirates of the Caribbean" to the Bermuda Triangle.
  13. Our Little Sister
    It’s subdued, at times even too leisurely, but the film and its characters are luminous, especially lead Ayase Haruka.
  14. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
    What we learn from the enjoyable punditry of siblings, art-world associates and former lovers is that the gorgeous provocateur was consumed with fame, and that everything and everybody was a means to that end.
  15. Nico, 1988
    “I’m selective about my audience,” says the singer. “I don’t need everybody to like me.” With a dour, sophisticated film that won’t be to everyone’s taste, writer-director Nicchiarelli seems to have taken those words to heart.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Absent Minded Professor
    The Absent-Minded Professor, from 1961, starred the late Fred MacMurray in one of his best-remembered comic roles, as a scientist named Brainerd who discovers a substance he dubs "flubber" (for "flying rubber," since it enables people and objects to fly). [08 Jan 1993]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  17. Lilo & Stitch
    Tuned in to the anarchic wisecracks and slapstick humour of traditional Warner Bros. cartoons. In contrast to the computer-generated characters and slick script of a movie like "Shrek," Lilo and Stitch still feels like a cartoon aimed at kids, not their parents.
  18. Casualties of War
    A searing tale effectively told. And superbly acted. [18 Aug 1989]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  19. Crude
    What makes Crude worthy of the overused term “epic” is the way the case symbolizes a host of contemporary issues: the iron-fistedness of multinational corporations; environmental despoliation; the disappearance of indigenous cultures; and the power of celebrity and the media to influence justice.
  20. John Wick: Chapter 2
    The film’s delightful collision of the poetic and the profane is illustrated perfectly about midway through Chapter 2.
  21. Belfast
    The film is not a masterpiece, but a memory box. Comforting, inviting, and one you won’t mind keeping close.
  22. How to Train Your Dragon
    It’s a corny, old fashioned boy-dog love story, as adorable as anything Walt Disney ever signed off on.
  23. Bulworth
    To his credit, Beatty has designed Bulworth along the classic lines of Shakespeare's Fool -- the antic truth-speaker who has the ear of the court.
  24. Civil War
    Raw and electrically presented, Civil War is an ugly odyssey and an audacious premonition.
  25. Side Effects
    But it’s Rooney who commands the most attention. As she already proved in David Fincher’s "The Social Network" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," she has an oddly fascinating screen presence, suggesting both vulnerability and inscrutable levels of calculation. Few actors or actresses can make inexpressiveness look so smart.
  26. The Stunt Man
    The Stunt Man, which is scary and sorrowful and stirring and sexy - in other words, everything a big Hollywood popcorn-cruncher of a movie should be - is the best movie about making a movie ever made. [11 Oct 1980]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  27. Titanic
    Titanic is awesome even when it's awful -- you can't take your eyes off the extraordinary thing.
  28. Oceans
    Dive into a masterpiece.
  29. Blindspotting
    It is only when Diggs and Casal near the end of the film − including a too-convenient-by-half encounter with a cop − that the effort’s ambition in creating a treatise on all of Western society’s ills begins to crack. But until then, Blindspotting possesses enough flair, passion and sweat to put up one hell of a fight.
  30. Metropolis
    May not have the most sophisticated narrative, but it is one of the most spectacular and masterly demonstrations of animation in screen history.
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