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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. Tender Mercies
    Tender Mercies has a bleak handsomeness bordering on the arty, but it also has real delicacy and emotional power, both largely attributable to a fine performance by Robert Duvall.
  2. The Ghost of Peter Sellers
    Neither bitter nor maudlin, The Ghost of Peter Sellers is a movie about filmmaking and soul-searching, a tale of two Peters and maybe the worst of times for both.
  3. Atlantis
    Vasyanovych and his actors manage to make this parable both heartening and stupefying.
  4. Selah and The Spades
    Selah and the Spades shimmers with youthful promise, both in front of the camera and behind it.
  5. Big Trouble
    It possesses high points you simply don't find in lesser if more consistently funny movies.
  6. Love Affair
    Mr. McCarey has balanced his ingredients skillfully and has merged them, as is clear in retrospect, into a glowing and memorable picture.
  7. The Boy Who Could Fly
    A gentle and affecting film that ought to charm older children while also holding their parents' interest,
  8. The Shop Around the Corner
    A pretty kettle of bubbling brew it makes under Mr. Lubitsch's deft and tender management and with a genial company to play it gently, well this side of farce and well that side of utter seriousness.
  9. Silent Movie
    A virtually uninterrupted series of smiles.
  10. Butt Boy
    Maybe it’s the hell we’re all living through right now, but Tyler Cornack’s orificial fantasy struck me as a hilariously bawdy, intermittently inspired act of vivacious vulgarity.
  11. Villain
    The result is an exceedingly well-made first feature, a simple genre movie elevated by strong visuals, potent performances and a mood that falls somewhere between resignation and guttering hope.
  12. Mayor
    A disarming subject, Hadid comes across as a cleareyed, forthright leader. But Mayor also stands out because Osit has thought it through in cinematic terms: He knows when to dwell on a striking image (such as Hadid examining a painting of Jerusalem on his global travels) and when to let a counterintuitive soundtrack selection play through.
  13. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    Spider-Verse achieves the challenging task of building a sequel that not only replicates the charms of the first film but also expands the multiverse concept, the main characters and the stakes, without overinflating the premise or shamelessly capitalizing on fan service.
  14. We Are Little Zombies
    Smart, noisy and flashily assured, We Are Little Zombies is entirely, gleefully its own thing.
  15. The Fate of Lee Khan (1973)
    Once the players are established, the movie falls into a sweet lather, rinse, repeat mode of scenes, alternating character intrigue and fighting.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story
    This is a quiet, elegant memoir that humanizes a systemic American challenge — and offers a narrative catharsis only possible with real-life mercy.
  17. The Bride of Frankenstein
    Another astonishing chapter in the career of the Monster.
  18. Dreamland
    Strange, challenging and boundlessly confident, this tripped-out noir from the Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald (best known for his 2009 horror movie, “Pontypool”) is part lucid dream, part drugged-out nightmare.
  19. The Human Factor
    A fascinating, slightly chilly picture — as well as one of the best Preminger films in years.
  20. California Split
    A fascinating, vivid movie, not quite comparable to any other movie that I can immediately think of. Nor is it easily categorized.
  21. Athlete A
    Cohen and Shenk amplify the voices of the survivors while recognizing that Nassar’s arrest doesn’t dissipate the pain or deep-rooted exploitation.
  22. Dear Diary
    As both a skillful director and a lovable oddball, [Moretti] commands interest. It's easy to follow him anywhere.
  23. Shoot the Moon
    At its best, Shoot the Moon is as spare and as sharp in its detail as fine prose and as continuously surprising.
  24. Keeper of the Flame
    A courageous and timely drama which touches frankly upon a phase of American life that is most serious and pertinent today. And in it Mr. Tracy and Miss Hepburn perform with a taut solemnity that is in decided contrast to their previous collaborative roles.
  25. Brute Force
    Jules Dassin's steel-springed direction keeps the whole thing approriately taut.
  26. Sweetie
    Sweetie looks like a small movie, and in every measurable way it is, but it possesses remarkable strength and tenacity.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Front Page
    Front Page displays a giddy bitterness that is rare in any films except those of Mr. Wilder. It is also, much of the time, extremely funny.
  28. Searching Eva
    The film illustrates that being self-baring is different from being self-revealing. It inspires a vexing but welcome question: What did I just watch?
  29. Get on the Bus
    Some of the film's best and most comfortable moments find the bus passengers simply singing together in a show of warm, spontaneous unity.
  30. In My Blood It Runs
    The director Maya Newell gains access to both worlds that Dujuan traverses — home and school — and the trust that she seems to have built with all participants is vital to the success of this film.
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