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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. This Is Not a Film
    Deft and ironic, mixing banal reality with poignant metaphor in a typically Iranian style.
  2. To Life
    À la vie is a gentle toast – the film sticks to its subtle tone, which is both its strength and its weakness.
  3. Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
    A combination of timing, access, a visual aesthetic that reflects ATCQ's Afrocentric "surface philosophy" (as the crew's look is described) and, most importantly, story-conscious editing elevates the doc above the norm.
  4. The Lovers and the Despot
    It’s a fantastically bonkers story told excitedly in The Lovers and the Despot, a stranger-than-fiction yarn that would make a hell of an opera.
  5. Good Will Hunting
    Both smart and shrewd -- it wraps that same comforting message in a thoroughly entertaining package.
  6. Crazy Heart
    Bridges's big performance takes place in the context of a relatively minor movie.
  7. The Comfort of Strangers
    This picture will linger, stuck in those corners of the mind you may not care to visit, where the stranger you meet lies in the bed beside you, or stares back from the mirror before you, and where the comfort offered is nothing but cold. [14 June 1991]
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  8. An American Pickle
    While Rich’s script misses a few trickier opportunities to further dig into questions of religion and history – Herschel sleeps his way through the entirety of the Second World War, yet there’s never any discussion of how the Holocaust has irrevocably changed the world he wakes up in – An American Pickle is a movie that your bubbe will love.
  9. Free State of Jones
    Instead of captivating us with swagger, McConaughey chooses to go grim and dogged. Director Ross does the same.
  10. A Tale of Love and Darkness
    The Israeli author’s melancholy work might on the surface be an odd choice for Portman, but as writer, director and star, she takes to it with a fierce sense of devotion and even protection, creating a Hebrew-language drama about the tight, complex bond between a mother (Portman) and her son (Amir Tessler).
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Friends with Benefits
    It's a tired formula moviegoers know well, but in the case of Friends With Benefits, it works.
  12. The Bubble
    There is semi-purpose and not insignificant pleasure to be had in Apatow’s experiment. The Netflix production isn’t the comedy kingmaker’s best film by a wide margin (though it is his shortest, which still isn’t saying much), but it works in spite of itself.
  13. Pariah
    Occasionally, Rees's script seems to mimic Alike's poetry, and fall into its own slough of earnestness, as the stages of the girl's dawning enlightenment get dutifully ticked off like stations of the cross.
  14. RBG
    In RBG, a lionizing biography of the U.S. Supreme Court judge, Ginsburg emerges as a woman of remarkable intelligence and fortitude – who can get by on very little sleep.
  15. Serenity
    After witnessing the wearying parliamentary debates among good and bad senators in recent Star Wars episodes, it's a pleasure to watch a sci-fi movie where more than just the spaceships move quickly.
  16. The NeverEnding Story
    Petersen seems to be holding back, telling us about the liberating power of the imagination but never really showing us. Of course, to show us would be to spoon feed the audience, thereby blunting the message and defeating the point. [20 Jul 1984, p.E9]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  17. Elegy
    The result, Elegy, isn't a great film but it is a good one, and better for Coixet's perspective, her ability to interpret Roth's world from the other side of the gender fence.
  18. Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
    Mrs. Brown will not overturn Queen Victoria's prim reputation, but it reminds us that there was more to the woman than that famous plump cameo that has become the symbol of a more modest era.
  19. Oldboy
    This is a movie about draining, tenderizing and chopping up the audience emotionally.
  20. Slam Dance
    Stylistically, the sleek Slamdance, a beautiful yet ominous black lacquer box of a movie, is a U.S. approximation of Diva - every chic frame is aggressive and eye-catching. But it is also what Less Than Zero wanted to be, an expose of the emotional desert at the west end of the U.S. nation. [28 Dec 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Morgan
    This isn’t to say Scott doesn’t occassionally rely on classic scary-movie thrills – but, mostly, it concentrates on developing its intriguing narrative and believable characters.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sunflower
    Sunflower succeeds as both a moving family drama and a microcosm of China's social history since the 1970s.
  23. Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
    Adoring, appropriately offbeat documentary.
  24. When a Stranger Calls
    When a Stranger Calls manages to scare the stuffing out of the audience - the film is authentically terrifying - without pouring more than a demi-carafe of gore. [22 Oct 1979]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    War Witch
    So is this a Western take on Africa? Yes, but Rebelle is full of such careful detail, and is carried so beautifully by Mwanza’s performance, that questions of authenticity slide away.
  26. Moon
    Watching Moon is kind of like seeing a booster rocket thrust seventies' sci-fi films deeper into orbit.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Enemy
    Shot before the Canadian director made the major-studio, suburban-vigilante drama "Prisoners," Enemy operates on a level of carefully calibrated unease, where the very elusiveness of motivation and logic is exploited for purposes of sustained cinematic disorientation.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fletch Lives
    Fletch Lives exists only to provide a vehicle from which Chase can crack wise, get into ridiculous situations and put on disguises. A lot of this silliness is amusing (some of it very) and not a little of it borderline tasteless.
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  29. Amadeus
    Amadeus needs an additional 20 minutes running time like "The Magic Flute" needs a drum solo. Though the production is gussied up with more frills and decoration than a Viennese dessert trolley, Forman is generally workmanlike in his visual style and very uneven with his handling of actors.
  30. Rendition
    A rarity – a political film that delivers its timely message with a cinematic punch and no undue speechifying.
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