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For 6,375 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,477 out of 6375
  2. Mixed: 3,423 out of 6375
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6375
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Key Largo
    Although the characters are basically stereotypes, they are lent the gift of life by a superlative cast: Robinson as the truculent Little Caesar, Bogart as an embittered ex-Army officer, Bacall as the innocent who loves him, and above all Trevor as the gangster's disillusioned, drink-sodden moll.
  2. The Music Man
    Zestily performed and choreographed, beautifully shot by Robert Burks, full of standards like '76 Trombones' and 'Till There Was You', and endowed with a warming nostalgia for old-fashioned ways.
  3. The Trip to Italy
    The real richness of the movie, though, comes well in, as the improvised script gets around to deeper anxieties of aging and avoidance.
  4. Undefeated
    Moments like these turn the documentary Undefeated into a far greater thing than a real-life "The Blind Side" - it's diving deeply into knotty matters of patience and parenting, along with plenty of unfixables as well.
  5. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
    For a group with property assets in the billions, it’s a major piece of the puzzle, revealing a critical failing: For a religion with so much to give, why do they do so little for so few?
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Family Romance, LLC
    Is Family Romance, LLC a docudrama? A meta-doc? Staged reality? However you define it, it’s enthralling, unsettling and typically Herzogian.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
    Great verbal gags and non-sequiturs, fast-paced action, and a thorough irreverence for all things deemed respectable - politicians, policemen and magistrates included - make it a lasting delight, not least when the lady finally gives birth...to sextuplets.
  8. Crossing
    Crossing takes all of us down paths that even the shrewdly observant Lia would be unable to predict, but that she’d be the first to appreciate. ​It's a heartbreaker in all the best ways.
  9. Return to Seoul
    This captivating story of diaspora is a quiet gem.
  10. El Sicario: Room 164
    Despite his repentance, you sense that this lost soul will be confessing his sins for all eternity.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Taste of Cherry
    Characteristically, Kiarostami's Palme d'Or winner is low on narrative drive, slowly but steadily revealing more and more information, visual and verbal, until we are totally caught up in his protagonist's psychological and ethical dilemma.
  12. The Wound
    It’s a strange mix: the posturing of the younger boys is funny, but behind their literal dick measuring is the threat of violence.
  13. The Great Beauty
    If Marcello Mastroianni’s character from "La Dolce Vita" hadn’t stepped off the sweet-life treadmill, this is exactly who he would have become.
  14. Le Pont du Nord
    There are few artists better than Rivette at uncovering the magical (even at its most menacing) in the everyday.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Frankenstein
    A stark, solid, impressively stylish film.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Point Blank
    At times, it feels a touch self-conscious – a box of directorial tricks employed to compensate for an occasional lack of real substance elsewhere.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Saw the TV Glow
    It’s a vividly personal work, full of tough memories translated into neon nightmares, with an arresting visual palette and occasionally abrasive sound design that may put off the less adventurous.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Into the Night
    The plot is minimal, but the film scores partly because of a high sense of fun, and partly because of the way Landis uses his LA locations.
  19. 12-12-12
    Even if the music leaves you cold, there’s plenty of captivating awkwardness here, like Paul McCartney listlessly watching the monitors in his dressing room, or producer Harvey Weinstein solving a tech issue by calling Google exec Eric Schmidt in the audience.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lady Snowblood
    The story is simple but the imagery more than compensates: from the tragic-beautiful opening – Yuki’s mother dies in childbirth (and in prison) as white flakes drift peacefully by the barred windows – through a series of shocking, angry flashbacks, to the striking, unexpectedly emotive final shot, this is beautifully controlled, almost sedate action cinema.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bhutto
    Rather than treat its subject as the sort of martyr to democracy that makes good copy in the West, Bhutto digs deeper.
  22. Black Widow
    A few flaws keep Black Widow a rung or two below top-tier Marvel, including a sluggish final act, some generic villainy and yet another overlong runtime – seriously people, two hours is fine – but if you’re after a big, expertly-crafted, self-aware chunk of blockbuster entertainment to watch on the big screen, Marvel, as usual, has your back.
  23. The Maid
    Saavedra, in an incredibly vanity-free performance, never shies away from Raquel’s darkest edges and still forces us to empathize with the frustrations and stunted loneliness of a life lived in servants’ quarters.
  24. War for the Planet of the Apes
    The monkey business is somber, brutal and utterly persuasive in this dazzling third entry of a sci-fi series that's only getting better.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Freshman
    The casting, needless to say, is perfect, and Bergman keeps the various escalating intrigues clipping along at a brisk pace.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Akira
    It’s a towering achievement of imagination and the detail of each frame is a miracle of film artistry.
  27. Other People's Children
    Zlotowski smartly articulates the complex choices modern women are faced when it comes to motherhood, step-parenting and relationships.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Robin and Marian
    It's one of those rare movies, like King Hu's Touch of Zen, that handles its historical imagery so cleanly, and contains its pretensions so solidly within sure characterisation and plotting, that it is often sublimely expressive.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Great Mouse Detective
    As usual with film noir, however, it is the villain who steals the heart and one is rooting for in the breathtaking showdown high up in the cogs and ratchets of Big Ben.
  30. Hive
    Hive is never quite a feelgood film – the deep trauma that underpins it militates against any jaunty Calendar Girls vibes – but there is a tangible sense of joy as Fahrije begins to lead her fellow, long-suffering widows to a place of healing and the promise of better times ahead. And the comeuppance one or two of the menfolk get is definitely mood-enhancing.
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