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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. Suspiria
    Mr. Argento's methods make potentially stomach-turning material more interesting than it ought to be. Shooting on bold, very fake-looking sets, he uses bright primary colors and stark lines to create a campy, surreal atmosphere, and his distorted camera angles and crazy lighting turn out to be much more memorable than the carnage.
  2. Rogers Park
    The screenwriter, Carlos Treviño, crafts frank dialogue and the director, Kyle Henry, films the scenes with an eye for the intimate, dividend-paying gesture. The superb actors, given opportunities to go for broke, make each one count, and make the movie worth watching.
  3. Another Round
    It’s a sweet, strangely modest tragicomedy about the pleasures of (mostly banal) excess.
  4. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
    The film is much more than a biography of the Clash’s guitarist and lead singer: It’s history, criticism, philosophy and politics, played fast and loud.
  5. Bitterbrush
    In following two young women employed as range riders in Idaho, the film presents its own modern-day picture of hard work and camaraderie.
  6. Shiva Baby
    It’s rare for a film to simultaneously balance such wildly divergent tones, to interweave big laughs with gut-wrenching discomfort, but Seligman pulls it off.
  7. Searching for Sugar Man
    A hugely appealing documentary about fans, faith and an enigmatic Age of Aquarius musician who burned bright and hopeful before disappearing.
  8. Sing Street
    The charms of Sing Street should not be underestimated. Partly because its manner is unassuming and its story none too original...it’s easy to overlook Mr. Carney’s ingenuity and sensitivity.
  9. Keane
    Mr. Kerrigan isn't just playing with our sympathies; he's also playing with our assumptions. That keeps the tension going.
  10. Brawl in Cell Block 99
    For one thing, the buildup is so grippingly patient that we’re more than halfway through before the titular battleground is reached. And for another, this painstakingly paced thriller displays an intensity of purpose that makes it impossible to dismiss as well-executed trash.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Yellow Submarine
    Yellow Submarine is a family movie in the truest sense.
  12. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    It's undeniably a trifle, but rarely is something like this done with such skill and, well, savoir-faire.
  13. The Law in These Parts
    By keeping its focus admirably tight, the sober and sobering Israeli documentary The Law in These Parts presents a devastating case against the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
  14. Official Competition
    In the end, this is a one-joke movie — a shaggy-dog meta-narrative — but it’s not a bad joke.
  15. Manufactured Landscapes
    Absorbing if unsettling documentary.
  16. Li'l Quinquin
    The physical beauty of Li’l Quinquin tells me that beneath what could be interpreted as contemptuous misanthropy is a bedrock of stern compassion.
  17. Zodiac
    Rarely has a film with so much blood on its hands seemed so insistently alive.
  18. The Thin Blue Line
    Morris has fashioned a brilliant work of pulp fiction around this crime. [26 Aug 1988, p.C6]
  19. Love
    Love is a mournful thriller about the myth of assimilation and the way nurture - or, more precisely, the lack of it - fashions identity and character. Elegantly directed by Vladan Nikolic using multiple viewpoints and an elliptical, nonlinear narrative, the movie presents a New World disrupted by old grievances and a neglected community living by its own rules.
  20. Brand Upon the Brain!
    Delirious, ingenious, often very funny and strangely touching film.
  21. Sand Dollars
    Ms. Chaplin, in one of her most touching screen performances, imbues Anne with a world-weary melancholy that makes your heart sink.
  22. Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
    The movie is a worthy time capsule and a must for Cohen devotees. Its occasional meanderings into artiness, which take the form of interpolation of outside footage (war atrocities and home movies, mainly) are emblematic of the time it was made and mercifully brief.
  23. Bread & Roses
    While the immediacy of the storytelling may blur out precise details, it excels at building stakes.
  24. Priscilla
    Die-hard Elvis fans will no doubt call some of the characterization in Priscilla slander, but part of the achievement here is that Elvis is not simply a monster. Fame has merely given him the superpower of not having to pay attention to anyone else.
  25. The Innocents
    Skillfully merging menace and sweetness (when Anna begins to speak, her parents’ delight is incredibly touching), The Innocents constructs a superbly eerie moral landscape, one that the children (all of whom are fantastic) must learn to navigate.
  26. Run Lola Run
    Tykwer deliberately blows away all traces of the mundane and the familiar, so that not even the closing credit crawl moves in the expected way.
  27. Contemporary Color
    Over all, this movie is less “you are there” than “you had to be there.”
  28. 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.
  29. All In: The Fight for Democracy
    In a sense, it’s less a documentary for posterity than an urgent broadcast. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth hearing.
  30. The One and Only Dick Gregory
    By covering so much ground, it doesn’t have room to dig too deep. But along with some very funny footage of a master of his craft, it offers a convincing argument that while Gregory became famous for his comedy, what made him such a riveting cultural figure is what he did after he left it behind.
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