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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. United 93
    Greengrass's reluctance to unduly demonize the villains or overly sentimentalize the victims is commendable on the surface, but it tends to blur the two sides and to mask the gulf that separates them.
  2. Capturing the Friedmans
    In the midst of this emotional train wreck in motion, with angry outbursts and accusations, there are moments of levity, jokes and even a song or two. Strangely, it does not seem irreverent or bizarre but, rather, an expression of affection, as if love is tearing them apart.
  3. American Hustle
    The character of Rosalyn – a mash-up of Carole Lombard, Lady Macbeth and maybe even Regan from The Exorcist – is by far the most hair-raising phenomenon in a movie bristling with high hair.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
    Star Wars is the most entertaining sci-fi movie of the decade.
  5. Persepolis
    Persepolis is as modern as tomorrow's headlines and as classic as an ancient myth.
  6. The Age of Innocence
    It comes eerily close to duplicating the experience of reading while, at the same time, remaining very much a motion picture. That's a rare, perhaps even unprecedented, achievement.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Deer Hunter
    Stark and haunting, and still unbearable to watch at times, The Deer Hunter remains a powerful movie experience. Unlike the broad strokes of Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, the 1979 best-picture Oscar-winner provides a more personal take on the human casualties of the Vietnam War.
  8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    You'll be rewarded with a terrific finale. The twists here are the rare sort that seem both narratively surprising and emotionally engaging.
  9. The Best of Youth
    If you've got six hours to invest watching superior television in a movie theatre, then spend the time wisely with The Best of Youth.
  10. Whiplash
    Whiplash is an intense, unmelodious, highly amped and probably unrealistic drama set in the fictionalized Schaefer Conservatory in New York.
  11. The Lives of Others
    A movie that combines the Cold War intrigue of John Le Carré with the wired buzz of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation" -- one of those rare two-hour-plus pictures that runs long but plays bracingly, excitingly short.
  12. House of Flying Daggers
    Actors Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro are the kind of startlingly good-looking, glamorous stars that evoke classic Hollywood adventure films.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    63 Up
    The best of art makes you think of life. On that front, Michael Apted has achieved more than all but a handful of filmmakers. Cherish 63 Up, like you cherish life.
  14. Searching for Bobby Fischer
    This is a movie about children that isn't just a children's movie - thoughtful adult accompaniment is strongly advised. [13 Aug 1993]
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  15. Killers of the Flower Moon
    This is a master artist putting a stamp on not only his own career, but also the entirety of American cinema and, why not, American history, too.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Man on Wire
    Marsh's most remarkable directorial achievement, however, is preserving the original sense of amazement and awe when watching historical footage and still photographs of Petit walking that tightrope up in the sky.
  17. Y Tu Mamá También
    "You're so lucky to live in Mexico," Luisa says. "Look at it -- it breathes with life." So does Y Tu Mama Tambien, both the pant of passion and shuddering sigh of regret.
  18. Elle
    For all its cleverness, Elle suffers, like many a thriller, from an unmasking that proves less intriguing than the original mystery and, in its misogyny and its misanthropy, the film ultimately proves less interesting than it believes itself to be. Mainly, it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth long after the credits roll. Like Michèle herself, Elle is a nasty piece of work.
  19. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
    The same didactic instincts that sometimes mar Lee's fictional filmmaking serve him well as a documentarian and eulogist, both with Four Little Girls and this film, a record of the worst natural disaster in American history.
  20. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    Borat at its best is pure satiric genius, the Swiftian kind that has you busting a gut with laughter even while checking your conscience for implicating flaws.
  21. Minari
    The film forms a kind of origin story, giving voice to the often silent experiences of a particular immigrant community in the 80s. Lachlan Milne’s cinematography veers from prosaic to evocative to breathtaking, depending on the scene.
  22. The Farewell
    Unlike "Crazy Rich Asians," which had eyes for narrative substance but shamelessly flirted with the superficial, The Farewell is a more substantive, engrossing and ultimately deeper work about the bonds that hold and strengthen us.
  23. Marty Supreme
    Safdie and Bronstein know they’re playing with fire in every frame, and it’s a miracle of Maccabean proportions they’re able to keep the entire thing from self-combusting.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Yearling
    A classic film that only low-down no-good viewers could fail to like. [18 Dec 2004, p.8]
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  25. Phoenix
    With a riveting performance-within-a-performance of subtle physicality by Nina Hoss, the charade in which a woman plays her own doppelganger certainly borrows tension, look and conventions from postwar film noir.
  26. Goodbye Solo
    At heart, though, every moviegoer can recognize a love story, no matter how unusual the context.
  27. The Power of the Dog
    There is exquisite dramatic tension here, built partly by Campion’s deft storytelling and partly by her powerful cast.
  28. Alien
    The best thriller of 2003 was made in 1979.
  29. The Artist
    With elements of "A Star Is Born" and "Singing in the Rain," The Artist is a rarity, an ingenious crowd-pleaser.
  30. Zama
    Zama is a disjointed watch that is both challenging and mesmerizing.
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