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For 20,312 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. Clemency
    Woodard’s performance gathers its astonishing force incrementally, in subtle choices and inflections that you might not even register as actorly decisions.
  2. Hala
    If Baig’s writing is at times thin and excessively pointed — like a classroom discussion about what it means to live an authentic life — her grasp of mood is spot on.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cactus Flower
    The picture moves around comfortably in nice color, against some authentic Manhattan exteriors. But it is primarily the verve and skill of the performances, the pungent air of sexual chemistry and the peppery good humor that make the movie so diverting.
  4. Eye of the Needle
    An ambitious, energetic thriller that stops short of real excitement for reasons that are hard to pinpoint. It's an entertaining movie, and an extremely well-acted one.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dear Ex
    It is a remarkably affecting and cogent picture.
  6. Two-Lane Blacktop
    Two-Lane Blacktop is a far from perfect film (those metaphors keep blocking the road), but it has been directed, acted, photographed and scored (underscored, happily) with the restraint and control of an aware, mature filmmaker.
  7. Prince of the City
    Prince of the City begins with the strength and confidence of a great film, and ends merely as a good one. The achievement isn't what it first promises to be, but it's exciting and impressive all the same.
  8. Fort Apache the Bronx
    A tough-talking street melodrama, both shocking and sorrowful, acted by Paul Newman and a huge cast with the kind of conviction that can't be ignored.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Juanita
    Although Juanita teeters off track a bit with the chef’s half-baked back story, it soars when it allows its lead to explore the complexities of love and unbridled joy. And Woodard completely owns it.
  10. The Competition
    The movie’s most provocative aspect is its near-methodical portrayal of hive-mind thinking pursued as a kind of norm — not just by the examiners, but the hopeful applicants.
  11. The Unicorn
    Isabelle Dupuis and Tim Geraghty have made a grim and haunting documentary about what it means to burn bright, then die alone.
  12. A Tuba to Cuba
    High on music and hot with the thrill of discovery, A Tuba to Cuba swarms with shiny happy people.
  13. Driveways
    Slow and sweet and unassuming, Driveways, the second feature from the Korean-American director Andrew Ahn, tackles major themes in a minor key.
  14. Mr. Jones
    More than anything, Mr. Jones is an argument for witnessing and remembrance.
  15. Dune: Part One
    The designs and textures of the movie’s various worlds and their inhabitants are arresting, filigreed and meaningful, with characters and their environments in sync.
  16. Queen & Slim
    The film fumbles some of its big gestures and over-italicizes a few statements. What lingers, though, are strains of anger, ardor, sorrow and sweetness, and the quiet astonishment of witnessing the birth of a legend. This movie feels like something new, and also as if it’s been around forever, waiting for its moment.
  17. S.O.B.
    It's a nasty, biased, self-serving movie that also happens to be hilarious most of the time.
  18. South Mountain
    Balsam is marvelous throughout, precisely measured in portraying a state often teetering on abjection. Balsam’s Lila can turn from luminescent to hangdog in a flash. The character’s inner worlds register with exceptional vividness.
  19. Sword of Trust
    The humor has a persistent goofy streak, but what sticks to the ribs is the poignant stuff.
  20. Room at the Top
    Room at the Top is quite conservative in its morality — although its sledgehammer ending still packs an emotional wallop.
  21. Maze
    Yet underneath the plotting and internecine tussles of the would-be escapees lurks something much more interesting: the story of a seduction.
  22. Breakthrough
    You don’t have to believe in divine intervention to be moved by this story.
  23. Working Woman
    Despite its surface-level placidity, the Israeli feature Working Woman unfolds like a psychological thriller — a procedural that, as it tightens its grip, captures how workplace sexual harassment slowly takes over one woman’s life.
  24. Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
    This tidy, thoughtful film gets at jazz’s joy and pain.
  25. The Last
    As the impossible Claire, the longtime character actor Rebecca Schull (a 90-year-old playing 92) is spectacular. Her character is lucid in her awfulness, and she almost never shuts up, relating endless anecdotes that don’t just force her family to face awful truths, but rub their noses in them.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    El Dorado
    The taut guidance of Mr. Hawks, an old frontier hand, the barbed, pungent and frequently funny dialogue, plus some murderous gun forays, add up to crisp entertainment
  27. Carmine Street Guitars
    In a film full of pleasant harmonies, a note of dread comes in.
  28. Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
    A lively, fun one.
  29. Nashville
    A couple of sequences in the middle of the movie just mark time, but usually everything works, to make Nashville the most original, provocative high‐spirited film Mr. Altman has yet given.
  30. The Searchers
    A rip-snorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come.
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