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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. Mid-August Lunch
    Everything about Mid-August Lunch is simple and unpretentious, from the black-out scene transitions to the folk-dance score, as the four isolated, elderly women, over a couple of days and meals, become a circle of companions.
  2. Afterimage
    For a filmmaker who was frequently drawn back to the subject of suffering, and especially the anguish of the individual cast against the collective will of cruel, foolish authority, it’s a perfectly fitting farewell.
  3. Baadasssss!
    Both an homage to his dad and a backstage story rich in Hollywood lore.
  4. Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
    The couple are the movie’s saving grace – especially Lillian, now 87, who regales in every story.
  5. About a Boy
    The love that blooms is essentially between the boys. They both have some considerable growing up to do, but theirs is a true romance and it's awfully sweet. Funny, too.
  6. The Believer
    The artistry of the storytelling, the visual approach and Gosling's performance in The Believer make us believe that Danny's path was the only choice for him, a truly disturbing and fascinating revelation.
  7. In This World
    Always well-meaning, not always well-executed, In This World ends by suffocating us in its good intentions.
  8. Secret Ballot
    A beguiling, slow-moving parable.
  9. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Gets under your skin as another thought-provoking wake-up call about the power of studios and the corporations that back them.
  10. Origin
    While Ellis-Taylor is, as always, magnetic onscreen, Origin fails her talents, as well as both its characters and story, by reproducing the flaws of Wilkerson’s book with a stoic conviction.
  11. Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
    The screen, always Bergman’s supreme medium, is proof of the power of her magnetic and energetic presence. It shines through in even the grainiest, jumpy, out-of-focus home-movie footage.
  12. A House of Dynamite
    A House of Dynamite doesn’t so much self-destruct as fail to even ignite a spark.
  13. Okja
    If this is the film that is destined to divide the movie business, it’s as weird and imperfect a choice as could possibly be.
  14. Omar
    Whether Omar will ultimately serve to change or harden hearts remains ambiguous, though it’s a movie that’s entertaining enough to appeal to the kinds of ordinary kids we see in the movie.
  15. Manhunter
    Thanks largely to Petersen, Manhunter does occasionally evoke the peculiar pleasures of Harris's novel, and it does get under the skin, but only because the picture amounts to an aural mugging: the soundtrack, credited to The Reds & Michael Rubini, is Tangerine-Dream-styled electronic offal cranked up to rock concert decibels. [15 Aug 1986, p.D11]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  16. Titane
    Like her first film, 2016′s fine-young cannibals tale Raw, Ducournau is tracing taboos to sketch a messy but compelling treatise on life’s endless growing pains. Ride or die.
  17. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    Physically ripped, constantly engaged and possessing a quite possibly insane desire to do each and every one of his own stunts, Cruise is the platonic ideal of an action star. And thank god for that.
  18. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
    A testament to the insidiousness of systemic abuse, Kidnapped illuminates the tragedy of unchecked power exploited by men. It upholds the importance of separating church and state, serving as a painful reminder that authoritarianism is a dangerous road soaked with the tears of its countless victims.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Frozen
    It's hard to generate a sense of warmth when the plot points all feel so coldly calculated, and it doesn't help that the musical numbers are so pedestrian.
  20. Diamantino
    Part political satire, part fantasy, part I-don’t-even-know-what, Diamantino is exactly the type of surreal concoction that begs to be discovered by unsuspecting audiences.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Life, Animated
    It manages to be heartwarming and heartbreaking all at once.
  22. Waitress
    Waitress is sweet, uneven and, ultimately, a heartbreaker.
  23. Prodigal Sons
    Kimberly Reed’s debut documentary, Prodigal Sons, would make a terribly contrived novel, but is a compelling and sensational real-life story.
  24. Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
    Abramovic is a sensationally attractive narcissist and the filmmakers are clearly smitten with her, but the film goes a long way to establish the intellectual seriousness and dedication involved in her ambitious series of art stunts.
  25. Natural Born Killers
    A maniacal, hallucinogenic dip into the bloodbath drawn by a pair of mass murderers, it's the quintessential Stone opus - topical, testy, and wildly controversial, as brilliant or egregious as you wish it to be. [26 Aug 1994, p.C1]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  26. Porcelain War
    This film doesn’t flinch from violence, but it finds hope in a people’s patient refusal to surrender who they are.
  27. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
    Douglas Tirola’s doc does the era and National Lampoon justice. The tone is sharp and freewheeling, the craziness is infectious and the pace is cocaine-quick.
  28. 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
    Films about single film scenes, however, represent unexplored territory. Which is why 78/52 is such an enticing prospect – a deep dive into one of the most influential moments in cinema history: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
  29. Sicko
    The only country in the Western world without a universal system – is indeed Sicko. But if that social wound is gapingly obvious, so is this documentary.
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