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For 7,293 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: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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  1. Call Jane
    Call Jane delivers a striking and affecting message that self-autonomy is crucial to survival, and that the fight for reproductive health is one that we can under no circumstances back down from.
  2. In the Realms of the Unreal
    The film, like its subject, is more adroit with pictures than with words.
  3. Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia)
    It's all a bit too schematic, yet the ambition is admirable and the message powerful: Today, no less than yesterday, the weak must be strong to survive, and their strength is endlessly tested.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Edge of Tomorrow
    All in all, a perfectly superior example of industrially fortified Hollywood fun, and as good a guarantee as Doug Liman can offer that we haven’t seen the last of him yet.
  5. The Tree of Life
    The result actually plays like a divine pronouncement, cosmic in scope and oracular in tone, a cinematic sermon on the mount that shows its creator in exquisite form.
  6. Marion Bridge
    Always engaging and often compelling.
  7. The People vs. Larry Flynt
    The result is good dirty fun, flecked with enough wit to help you overlook the relatively barren characterization.
  8. The Way Home
    If you ever doubted the power and scope of silent film, watch The Way Home. The narrative arc is as broad as any chattering feature, the emotional depth is greater than most, and it's all achieved with virtually no dialogue.
  9. Sundowners
    It is at times extremely uncomfortable, but captivating and engaging all the same.
  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 LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
    The filmmakers even manage to introduce a tune as devastatingly ear-wormy as the original’s Everything Is Awesome, even though its title (Catchy Song) betrays the fact that everyone here is working both a little too hard, and not quite hard enough.
  12. Wilde
    The best thing about the movie is the performance of Stephen Fry, who makes you hope that the real Wilde was like him. [05 Jun 1998, p.C5]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  13. Blood Quantum
    It is as much a gusty dissection of colonialism as it is a gut-spilling splatter-thon.
  14. Albert Nobbs
    The film surrounding the performance is not always as strong, but the centre holds, and magnificently so.
  15. Il Divo
    Fortunately, there's always the fascination of watching actor Toni Servillo, who does a brilliant job of playing Andreotti (known as Beelzebub) as a kind of devil with a clown's exterior.
  16. Mary Poppins Returns
    With strong performances in a scheme of both sensible updates and clever revivals, Mary Poppins Returns is as impressive as the 1964 version it joyfully recalls – except in one key area.
  17. Made in Dagenham
    This time out, with a few exceptions, the inspiration feels solid and earned, not saccharine and contrived.
  18. Tim's Vermeer
    Johannes Vermeer is still a genius at documentary’s end but a fathomable genius, as much scientist as artist, a driven, resourceful creator whose conceptual and compositional brilliance remains undiminished by whatever techniques Jenison, Hockney and crew ascribe to him.
  19. The We and the I
    Still, credit Gondry, like Tocqueville before him, with at least re-examining tired clichés and scraping the rust off stereotypes.
  20. Tales from the Golden Age
    Though the threat of exposure and incarceration lurk behind every story, the characters' ingenuity and humour serve as impudent alternatives to authoritarian stupidity and brutality.
  21. Science Fair
    The film is rich in such positive messaging, and its subjects quickly endear themselves to the camera.
  22. Big Miracle
    It's a screwball comedy, with a possible debt to Preston Sturges's 1942 film, "The Miracle of Morgan Creek," a movie inspired by the Dionne quintuplets, and similarly set in a small town turned upside down by media and political showboating.
  23. Hidalgo
    The beautifully photographed film is quite stylized at times...But it manages to steer clear of the stereotypes one might expect of a movie set in this time and place, thanks in part to the underlying and, mostly, underplayed themes of spirituality and the search for identity.
  24. Cool It
    Jam-packed but never disorienting, Cool It will definitely get your head spinning.
  25. Maria Chapdelaine
    Today’s YA generation is unlikely to appreciate the monosyllabic performances and stately pace, but Pilote delivers a beautiful film in the tradition of the Quebec canon.
  26. My Best Friend's Wedding
    Although there are definite lags here, those "glittering" set-pieces are funny enough (at least one is hilarious) to stave off any prolonged yawns.
  27. The Wanderers
    You may find yourself having more kinky fun in The Wanderers than you have had in any American movie for a long time, but when you try to grasp the meaning of what you've seen, you find yourself clutching at moonbeams. [31 Aug 1979]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  28. Saving Private Ryan
    A horror movie based on history, offering some of the most spectacularly brutal, viscerally intense battle scenes ever brought to a Hollywood movie.
  29. Food, Inc.
    In many areas, Food Inc. could be accused of being a fast-food version of a documentary – it's everywhere at once, skipping across the surface of a vast subject, and adding nuggets of sweetness to the scary filler.
  30. The Magdalene Sisters
    The film is an attack on religious hypocrisy, mixing melodrama and black humour in a volatile blend.
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