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For 20,280 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. The Traitor
    Bellocchio’s approach to the story is at once coolly objective — the movie is part biopic, part courtroom procedural — and almost feverishly intense. He has a historian’s analytical detachment, a novelist’s compassion for his characters and a citizen’s outrage at the cruelty and corruption that have festered in his country for so long.
  2. The Wild Goose Lake
    The movie exhilarates.
  3. Invisible Life
    There’s such a disconcerting rush of lush imagery and action in the first 40 minutes or so of “Invisible Life” that one is apt to wonder whether there’s any kind of focused narrative. But the casual misdirection is setting the viewer up for an emotional kill.
  4. Nina Wu
    This startlingly evocative, complex and confrontational new film is not interested in justice or didacticism.
  5. Papicha
    Marked by a fierce vitality and vivid emotional authenticity, Papicha thrives on the heat of Nedjma’s anger and the glorious bond among the mostly young female performers.
  6. Zombi Child
    The movie’s inconclusiveness is the source of its appeal; Zombi Child is fueled by insinuation and fascination.
  7. First Love
    Miike’s seemingly offhand inventiveness is evident in almost every shot and cut.
  8. The Cordillera of Dreams
    The Cordillera of Dreams is a beautiful film about nightmares that have yet to end.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Samurai Rebellion
    Amazing: stirring, subversive and, beneath their dauntingly severe surfaces, sneakily lyrical.
  10. The Longest Day
    It is hard to think of a picture, aimed and constructed as this one was, doing any more or any better or leaving one feeling any more exposed to the horror of war than this one does.
  11. Giant
    Thanks to Mr. Stevens' brilliant structure and handling of images, every scene and every moment is a pleasure. He makes "picture" the essence of his film.
  12. Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
    While Broomfield’s films often take a sardonic, close-to-cynical tone, “Marianne & Leonard” is admiring, affectionate and a little awe-struck.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Place in the Sun
    Despite the fact that this version of Dreiser's tragedy may be criticized—academically, we think—for its length or deviations from the author's pattern, A Place in the Sun is a distinguished work, a tribute, above all, to its producer-director and an effort now placed among the ranks of the finest films to have come from Hollywood in several years.
  14. An Easy Girl
    Sultry, but never sleazy, observant yet nonjudgmental, An Easy Girl is more than just a tale of innocence and experience. Taking a nuanced look at sexual awakening and, to a lesser extent, class distinction, the movie has a charming flightiness that builds to an unexpectedly touching climax.
  15. The Edge of Democracy
    Though she is a scrupulous and dogged digger-up of hidden facts and a thoughtful interpreter of public events, Costa hasn’t produced a work of objective journalism or detached historical scholarship so much as a personal reckoning with her nation’s past and present.
  16. The Raft
    By setting Genovés’s words in counterpoint with the recollections of seven of the participants who are still alive, [Lindeen] reinterprets the experiment, finding meanings that the scientist missed.
  17. The Man Who Would Be King
    The movie, which was shot in Morocco, looks lovely and remote (how did we ever once settle for those black-and-white Hollywood hills?) and has just enough romantic nonsense in it to enchant the child in each of us.
  18. Jawline
    A “Grey Gardens” for Generation Z, Jawline underscores the contrast between Austyn’s optimism and his drab surroundings.
  19. The Yearling
    A cheerful and inspiring film about the coming to manhood of a youngster.
  20. El Cid
    It is hard to remember a picture in which the sheer pictorial punch was greater than it is in this three-hour exhibition of kings and warriors in medieval Spain.
  21. Soul
    It’s a small, delicate movie that doesn’t hit every note perfectly, but its combination of skill, feeling and inspiration is summed up in the title.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    Often the scenes are of such excellence that if they were not audible one might believe that they were actual motion pictures of activities behind the lines, in the trenches and in No Man's Land.
  23. The Ground Beneath My Feet
    This is crafty, first-rank filmmaking.
  24. Aquarela
    The movie, like the elemental forces we continue to exacerbate, never explains itself. Surrender to it, though, and a narrative - of spectacle, conflict and retaliation - will eventually become clear.
  25. The Killer
    The scenes of gore and destruction are even more spectacular than Hong Kong's fog-shrouded skyline. The director repeatedly places the viewer at the center of the crossfire and turns the gyrating camera into the next best thing to a lethal weapon.
  26. Wasp Network
    There are times in which Wasp Network feels like a John le Carré tale drenched in Miami sun, or even a serious-minded “Top Gun” variant. But it’s also a provocative demonstration of how strange life can get when the political and the personal intertwine like roots of a mammoth tree.
  27. Face to Face
    Bergman creates a stunning picture not only of personal anxiety but also of the fury that may exist just below the surface of any perfect state.
  28. A Man for All Seasons
    A Man for All Seasons is a picture that inspires admiration, courage and thought.
  29. The Freshman
    The visual style of The Freshman isn't always up to its verbal wit, but then the writing sets an exceptional standard.
  30. Inherit the Wind
    One of the most intelligent, respectable and entertaining motion pictures of this year.
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