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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. Into the Woods
    What is celebrated is the art of storytelling and the bedazzling attraction of a killer cast, uninhibited acting, giddy escapism, attractive visuals and an extroverted score.
  2. American Sniper
    While the movie is narrow, it has a deep, melancholic resonance.
  3. The Women's Balcony
    Well conceived, deftly comic and finely acted (particularly Evelin Hagoel as the gutsy wives’ ringleader), The Women’s Balcony overlooks nothing when it comes to addressing faith, segregation and sexism in a peppery, entertaining way.
  4. Steamboy
    The narrative here may be strictly nuts and bolts, but as an achievement in graphic design, Steamboy is first class.
  5. Wild Grass
    With its comic-book hues, crime-caper score, overly serious narrator, interior monologues and surreal touches, Wild Grass proves Resnais is still having fun with cinematic language.
  6. Poetry
    Yun, a veteran Korean actress, gives a splendidly layered performance.
  7. Cinderella
    The movie is basically a sumptuous almost two-hour long music video/musical. And as we wind down the summer – looking ahead to yet more uncertainty in the fall (Variants! Elections! Just Life In General!) – it’s delightful to indulge in a flight of fantasy.
  8. Shut Up & Sing
    Both the Chicks and this doc are left to deal with the aftermath as best they can. The film chooses to pad with an occasional over-reliance on cutesy filler -- a pregnant Emily having an ultra-sound, giving birth, recuperating at her beloved ranch away from it all.
  9. Bellflower
    Glodell never lets his creation spin out of control. Bellflower revs the engine of an exciting new maverick.
  10. 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.
  11. October Sky
    Now if that isn't an inspirational story, it's hard to know what is.
  12. September 11
    The results are not monumental, but they are a variety of sober responses to the tragedy that help place the event in a global context. Some of the films may be, as has been suggested, anti-American in tone, but none come anywhere near defending the attacks.
  13. The Boss Baby
    That the plot is totally stupid is Boss Baby’s saving grace. It’s the rare cartoon that actually feels like a cartoon, propelled by its goofiness and sheer energy and rarely bogged down by boring, polemical lesson-learning.
  14. A Field in England
    Over all, A Field in England aims to confound. The filth-encrusted characters aren’t easy to keep apart, and the narrative is too fragmentary and freakish to grasp (the sun turns black, a character vomits rune stones).
  15. The Prince of Tides
    Director Barbra Streisand does justice to the popular book until the two-thirds mark of the film, whereupon the script abruptly changes from a psychic history to a gauzy romance. A Prince of a movie, until the end. [27 Dec 1991]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  16. Yesterday
    So, is Yesterday a one-trick Dig a Pony or did renowned British screenwriter Richard Curtis and the great British filmmaker Danny Boyle turn a cute hook into something meaningful? The answer is that the duo tries for the latter, but doesn’t quite nail it.
  17. 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.
  18. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    Will make you glad to be living on the same planet as Miranda July.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    La Vie en Rose
    Surprisingly but fittingly, for a film about the life of a singer, the use of songs is generally elliptical.
  20. My Kid Could Paint That
    The winner of this year's audience award for best documentary at Sundance has it all: heartless media, art fraud and a four-year-old painting prodigy.
  21. Land of Mine
    Writer-director Zandvliet has crafted a handsome, affecting and questioning film about post-war revenge and forgiveness. On a tough field to navigate, he makes it to the other side, commendably.
  22. The Fourth Kind
    In truth, what follows is less disturbing than intriguing – to audiences hip to the mechanics of horror flicks, it's rare fun to be fooled, and this one is pretty damned clever.
  23. Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil
    Unfortunately, the actual confrontations this project must have caused happen off camera, but the story of a determined quest is always enlivened by insights into the clawing animals, bizarre monsters and sinful humans that populate Bosch’s fantastical visions.
  24. Sometimes Always Never
    The film is also peppered with animation, mid-century kitsch and a touch of whimsy, making Sometimes Always Never seem more like an intimate stage production than an exercise in cinematic self-seriousness.
  25. Monster Hunter
    Monster Hunter is all sorts of super-dumb fun. And though its middle section lags – there are only so many training montages audiences can handle – Anderson and his wife Jovovich prove that their long-running Resident Evil franchise was no fluke: this is a couple who know how to take the flimsiest of video games and turn them into self-knowing slices of cinematic ridiculousness.
  26. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Dull moments, so much the rule in most genre comedies, are the exception in Forgetting Sarah Marshall -- it does run long, but it mainly rollicks.
  27. The Fugitive
    Though not as memorable as the series on which it is based, it does the job as big-screen entertainment.
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Yet the most startling scene in the film is when he returns home after confinement. He politely tells the journalists waiting outside his home studio that he is on bail and can not talk. He smiles and repeatedly declines to comment. It is utterly contrary to his true character.
  29. Paprika
    Paprika is a creatively dizzying and visually dazzling allegory about alternative realities.
  30. A Man Called Ove
    A Man Called Ove hits all of the genre’s sweet spots, without ever tipping into the saccharine. Most of the credit can be thrown Rolf Lassgard’s way, as the actor gives Ove a humanity, and humility, that is expertly crafted and genuine.
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