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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. Merry Christmas
    For a few fleeting hours, they unlearned those lessons of childhood, laying down their arms to pick up their common humanity.
  2. Buffalo Soldiers
    Imperfect, but certainly provocative.
  3. A Late Quartet
    The screenplay by Seth Grossman and Israeli-American director Yaron Zilberman is old-fashioned and melodramatic but stirring in its portrait of people struggling with individual egos to produce something nobler than themselves.
  4. Ghosts of the Abyss
    Not just a 3-D novelty to amuse school groups, but also a memorial.
  5. Afterimage
    For a filmmaker who was frequently drawn back to the subject of suffering, and especially the anguish of the individual cast against the collective will of cruel, foolish authority, it’s a perfectly fitting farewell.
  6. Sausage Party
    If Mel Brooks went insane, he would make Sausage Party.
  7. A Perfect Getaway
    Benefits from one standout performance: Timothy Olyphant ( Deadwood ) plays the part of Nick with ingratiating comic relish.
  8. Wonder Woman
    Wonder Woman may not qualify as a particularly suspenseful First World War movie and it may not feature enough globe-spinning special effects to satisfy hard-core superhero fans, but it certainly is an intriguing combination of the two genres.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Finding Vivian Maier
    Some may find Finding Vivian Maier invasive, since Maloof and co-director Charlie Siskel delved into its namesake’s past after her death, but their curiosity is genuine rather than prurient; this is the rare example of a documentary about an enigmatic subject that doesn’t pretend to know all the answers.
  10. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    You’re unlikely to any time soon encounter a more thorough and energetic dive into the art of letting go. I look forward to Johnson’s next act, whilst I look over my shoulder.
  11. The Last Mountain
    For the most part he (Haney) lets the people and images of Coal River Valley speak for themselves – and that's what gives The Last Mountain its eloquent power.
  12. The Impossible
    The Impossible looks back at a natural calamity with unflinching honesty. It sees fear and pain, it sees fortitude and bravery, but mainly it sees this: In that raging instant when the sea becomes its own monster, there's precious little to separate the devoured from the spared – nothing but the thin wedge of luck.
  13. Dark River
    The rugged emotional territory (and the Yorkshire accents) prove heavy-going in an uncompromising film that elicits a lot more admiration than enjoyment.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mouthpiece
    In revealing Cassandra’s interior life, Rozema lays bare the modern female condition in an epic battle that is by turns lacerating, soothing and heartbreaking.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cloak & Dagger
    The film Cloak and Dagger is like a visit to the midway; fast and noisy and a lot of unsophisticated fun. [10 Aug 1984]
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  16. Going in Style
    The plot gives Brest a structure on which to build a minor, gentle, subtle miracle; he uses the hackneyed plot as the foundation for a restrained monument to the dreams of the elderly. Going in Style has many of the simple but considerable virtues of Best Boy - the epiphanies may be diminutive, but they linger. [27 Dec 1979]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  17. The Muppet Christmas Carol
    YOU'VE gotta love the casting. Defying the skeptics, The Great Gonzo keeps his furious urges in check and transforms himself into none other than the prolific Charles Dickens, popping up on camera to act as our narrative guide through his Christmas Carol classic. For the feisty one, it's a remarkable stretch. [15 Dec 1992]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  18. The First Grader
    This is potentially compelling, but truncated flashbacks are far too crude a mechanism for exploring not only the intricacies of that tumultuous period in Kenyan history but also its ongoing legacy.
  19. Circo
    Ever so subtly, Schock gradually transports us beyond the exotic and into gripping universal storytelling, aided all the way by the evocative music of Tucson songsmiths Calexico.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Expedition to the End of the World
    The interactions between these adventurers, with their varied imperatives and world-views, are compelling and funny – all the more so for being set against such a dramatically blanked-out backdrop.
  21. An Eye for an Eye
    A well-layered film makes a fascinating case for forgiveness and a sharp rebuke of Bible-taught eye-for-an-eye revenge.
  22. National Security
    Entertaining and well done. Without losing its comic rhythm for a moment, it is also a withering spoof of black victimism and the corrupting effect of racial solidarity on the American legal system.
  23. 25th Hour
    Too bad there's also a final 15 minutes that surely ranks among the worst endings an otherwise good movie has ever received.
  24. Forks Over Knives
    A middling documentary but a magnificent indictment.
  25. Little Fish
    Little Fish is a small film about one family and drugs, but it succeeds in standing for a larger social catastrophe.
  26. Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
    A high-school talent show, no doubt, but, at its best, well worth glorifying.
  27. Monster Trucks
    It may not have the easy, feel-good family flick sheen to win over the box office, but it’s clever and compassionate enough to pay down a few big-ticket karmic debts.
  28. Blue in the Face
    The lows never last too long - something invariably jumps out to recapture our interest or prompt a chuckle.
  29. Letters from Iwo Jima
    For all its emphasis on doomed honour and grim death, Letters from Iwo Jima is also sentimental.
  30. The Darjeeling Limited
    As always with Anderson, the comedy is neatly embedded in the jaded banter, where the insecurities and rivalries bubble up -- here, all within the bell jar of that shared sleeping compartment.
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