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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Room for One More
    A sweet if predictable tale about teaching and learning and parents and kids, it's all made easier on the eyes by Grant, whose trademark suaveness never allows him to quite slip into the role of bedraggled father of five. [19 Nov 2005, p.9]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  2. North of Normal
    The movie takes its time to get going, which can be frustrating given how thin the material feels along the way. But that patience also works in its favour during a lovely final act that doesn’t come off as maudlin and forced as this sort of melodrama usually tends to.
  3. The Inspection
    The labour the filmmaker undertakes here is similarly personal and intimate; it is clearly an act of healing as well as an offering for others who see their lives echoed.
  4. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    An amused and affectionate look at the writer who formed a crucial link between the New Journalism of the 1960s and today's blogosphere.
  5. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    The movie is pretty damned funny in its insubstantial, gratuitously violent, gratuitously everything way.
  6. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
    Cerebral without being dry, delicate without being dull, Mr. And Mrs. Bridge is a rarity: a drama of manners that breathes esthetic life into airless parlours, without either sentimentalizing the occupants or hyping the atmosphere. [21 Dec 1980]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  7. Three Monkeys
    Though Three Monkeys feels conventional compared with Ceylan's other work, it maintains its auteurist imprint, especially the rich colour palette and suggestive HD camerawork that helped Ceylan take the best-director honours at Cannes this year.
  8. The Long Walk Home
    Funny, heartbreaking and, yes, uplifting, The Long Walk Home takes the audience into a past that is always threatening to become the present; that it was made makes the future seem a little less threatening. [09 Feb 1991]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Zootopia 2
    It preserves the believe-in-yourself mythos of its predecessor, but smoothly addresses the problems baked into Zootopia’s overly sunny portrayal of local government. It doesn’t regurgitate old jokes, but builds on them, and even makes them funnier.
  10. The New World
    Yes, a Terence Malick film remains an event, but he appears awfully disoriented in The New World -- less a seasoned traveller than a perplexed tourist, content to mask his confusion by reaching for a camera and snapping relentless pretty pictures.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The 40 Year Old Virgin
    While "Wedding Crashers" ultimately succumbs to endorsing the mushy romantic clichés that it spends the rest of the time ridiculing, The 40-Year-Old Virgin offers a wiser take on the anxieties, negotiations and expectations that surround love and sex, particularly for people who've been burned before.
  12. In This Corner of the World
    The elegant, condensed saga covers a dozen years, starting in 1933. You don't need to be an Einstein to guess where the story is heading. An evocative, slow-blooming feature is a study on the flash horrors of war and the gradual death of dreams.
  13. A Royal Affair
    For all its incident, A Royal Affair is slow and picturesquely framed – more of a languorously animated coffee-table book than a gripping drama.
  14. The Mother and the Bear
    Ma’s film isn’t solely set on establishing The Peg’s winter bona fides, but rather exposing the city’s throbbing romantic heart, which might be able to melt the coldest of days.
  15. Bull Durham
    A loopy, loving nine innings full of comic curve balls, emotional home-runs and euphoric, summertime music.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Herman's House
    Herman's House is conventionally produced, but it does right by its two uncommon subjects.
  17. Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You
    With too much salutation and not enough action, this is a (fine) companion to the album but not a freestanding film.
  18. Dark Waters
    It will make you mad as hell. So angry, even, that you might wonder why no one has given this opportunity to Todd Haynes before.
  19. The Puffy Chair
    It's a slacker flick, it's a relationship pic, it's a road movie all under the same hood.
  20. Attenberg
    What a strange, moving, puzzling, funny, frustrating and ultimately absorbing film this is.
  21. The Original Kings of Comedy
    The laughter does build. But there's precious little risk in the comedy -- even the rough edges seem calculated. These guys are preaching to the converted, and their careful sermons keep the faith. Skilled they are, but original or kingly they definitely are not -- just solid knights working the round table.
  22. Shattered Glass
    The makers of Shattered Glass ignore this obvious give-and-take reality, and substitute the hoary myth that, save for the odd lying devil, the free press is a bastion of the gospel truth. Even here, then, the facts get shaped to fit the theme. Ironically, had they not, it would have made for a helluva better story.
  23. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
    My mood kept fluctuating, as did my reaction when the end credits rolled: This is seriously lovely; this is fluff; this is seriously lovely fluff.
  24. War of the Worlds
    This is B-movie material all the way, yet it's not only watchable, it's engrossing. That's because the material is in the hands of an A-talent director, who knows, as few of his contemporaries do, how to manipulate the plastic qualities of a film: the lighting, editing, composition, camera movement and production values.
  25. Thirst
    The summer's most lip-smacking movie treat.
  26. Notes on a Scandal
    We're left with the weakest part of the novel -- the lurching and often melodramatic plot -- plus the chance to see two splendid actors, Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, do the best they can with what they're given (sadly, in Blanchett's case, not much). Okay, no one would call that trade-off a scandal, but it sure ain't much of a bargain.
  27. The Dig
    I don’t know how many subscribers actually interested in its mature story and top-level craft will be able to unearth it from their Holidate-choked queues, but here’s hoping some are willing to embark on the excavation.
  28. Athena
    It is at times brash and thick-headed in its characters and politics, but it is engineered with such an electric ferocity – a beautiful marriage of high-performance technical expertise and gonzo aesthetic imagination – that it cannot help but knock you out.
  29. Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
    Carter himself ties a bow on the film, noting that music is a galvanizing force and that what will unite mankind is a shared respect for truth, God, freedom and democracy. That and a righteous Allman Brothers jam.
  30. The Shadow Strays
    As the two women clash in the film’s final moments, Tjahjanto executes a truly glorious extravaganza of choreographed carnage, as impressive as it is overwhelming.
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