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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. An Unfinished Film
    Life gets in the way of art all the time, and art can be made out of life. What matters, the movie suggests, is hanging onto one another for dear life.
  2. The Age of Shadows
    The Age of Shadows might tempt another filmmaker to dwell on issues or delve deeper into its characters’ hearts. Yet, for this director, exposition can’t hold a candle to elegantly staged shootouts. And who can blame him. He knows his strengths.
  3. Chile '76
    Chile ’76 is a sly genre exercise, an example of how political repression can squeeze a domestic melodrama until it takes the shape of a spy thriller.
  4. Les Misérables
    Ly shows command of staging and shooting throughout, simulating documentary form while maintaining a tight grip on narrative coherence.
  5. Insomnia
    The anomalous proliferation of scenic beauty gives Mr. Nolan irony to play with, and he uses it spectacularly. The director and his gifted cinematographer, Wally Pfister, are clearly turned on by all this wasted beauty.
  6. Kajillionaire
    Wrapping damage and poverty in bubbles and sunshine, Kajillionaire is about intimacy and neglect, brainwashing and independence.
  7. Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque
    Mr. Richard's film makes a persuasive case for Langlois as one of the most important figures in the history of film and therefore in the history of 20th-century art.
  8. Control
    You don’t have to know anything about Joy Division to grasp the mysterious sorrow at its heart.
  9. The House of Mirth
    Almost in spite of itself, The House of Mirth is powerful, at times even moving.
  10. My Flesh and Blood
    In what has been called the Year of the Documentary, "My Flesh and Blood" stands beside "Capturing the Friedmans" and "The Fog of War" as an unforgettable experience.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Roman Holiday
    It is a contrived fable but a bittersweet legend with laughs that leaves the spirits soaring.
  12. Private Property
    Private Property embraces the banal and the monstrous, and affords Ms. Huppert opportunity to astonish rather than overwhelm.
  13. The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
    Comprehensive, fulfilling film.
  14. The Supreme Price
    Joanna Lipper’s documentary shapes one country’s recent history into an accessible and tragic family drama.
  15. Long Strange Trip
    It’s surprising there has never really been an extended cinematic exploration of the band. Long Strange Trip, ambitiously assembled and elegantly directed by Amir Bar-Lev, fills that void.
  16. Crane World
    Powerfully gritty.
  17. Maison du Bonheur
    Ms. Bohdanowicz’s self-interrogation is clearly important to her art, but I think she worries too much, at least where this subject is concerned. Her hostess, a model of charm, good humor and senior wisdom, is a movie unto herself.
  18. The Westerner
    If some one could just have decided who should carry the ball, instead of letting it pass from one to the other, The Westerner might have been a bang-up, dandy film. And that, we are sorry to say, it isn't. The trouble, as indicated, is that the picture has no core.
  19. Styx
    A taut moral thriller, Styx is a story of what happens when self-reliance runs into other people’s desperation.
  20. Another Day of Life
    It uses animation to depict a conflict in fresh dimensions.
  21. The Nun's Story
    From Kathryn Hulme's novel The Nun's Story, which gives an amazing account of a young Belgian woman's experiences in becoming and being a nursing nun, screen writer Robert Anderson and director Fred Zinnemann have derived an equally amazing motion picture of an extraordinary dedicated life.
  22. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
    It’s a film of sensations and mystery that feels like it’s wafting toward us from another century, like much of the Quays’ work, channeling uncanny realms of Central European puppetry.
  23. Top Gun: Maverick
    Though you may hear otherwise, Top Gun: Maverick is not a great movie. It is a thin, over-strenuous and sometimes very enjoyable movie. But it is also, and perhaps more significantly, an earnest statement of the thesis that movies can and should be great.
  24. BlackBerry
    A wonky workplace comedy that slowly shades into tragedy.
  25. Gas Food Lodging
    There are subtly etched characters, effortlessly fine performances, and a moving story that is not easily forgotten.
  26. Starting Out in the Evening
    What is so remarkable about Mr. Langella is that he seems to hold Leonard’s intellectual cosmos inside him, to make it implicit in the man’s every gesture and pause.
  27. Tori and Lokita
    The precarity of the lives that the Dardennes explore give the stories feeling and tension while their directorial choices — including where they put the camera and how they situate characters in the world — give their work its characteristic ethical politics.
  28. 3 Faces
    An immersive, pleasurably intelligent movie, one that weds documentary naturalism and melodramatic excess with formalist rigor.
  29. Oddity
    Coolly executed and seductively simple, Oddity, the second feature from Damian McCarthy (after the unsettling, underseen “Caveat” in 2021), is a fun, back-to-basics supernatural thriller that cares more about making us jump than making us cringe.
  30. Princess Mononoke
    A landmark feat of Japanese animation from the acknowledged master of the genre.
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