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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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  1. All Quiet on the Western Front
    History nerds will note the strenuous efforts to capture the realities of the conflict, but the film’s use of smart Spielbergian grace notes to share its emotional truths is a real strength, too.
  2. Jackass Forever
    It’s comforting to know that when Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and pals put themselves through the most dangerous, juvenile stunts they could imagine, a hilarious time will be had.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Candyman
    Following up on Paperhouse, Rose stages the suspense and horror with skill and panache, making this one of the best sustained horror movies for some years.
  4. Martha Marcy May Marlene
    A lesser movie might hammer home the idea that the cult squashes Martha's sense of self. This distinctive and haunting effort implies something much scarier: that there is no self to start with.
  5. Barbara
    Despite being the subject of nearly every shot in the film, Hoss maintains an air of mystery, simultaneously projecting severity, sensitivity and sensuousness throughout.
  6. Ghostbusters
    It turns out it’s okay to cross streams: Here’s a summer movie starring a girl squad proud of its big brains and tacky jumpsuits. You could call that a supernatural event in itself.
  7. Paul Williams Still Alive
    The oft-hilarious push-and-pull between director and subject - Williams wryly notes that the film is turning into "the Steve and Paulie Show" - effectively hacks away at the celebrity-enthusiast divide. By the end of this perceptive dual portrait, both men are content to merely be human.
  8. The Painter Sam Francis
    Perkins asks us to bask silently in the majesty of an artist in his element; in one unforgettable shot, Francis stands atop a newly finished canvas, utterly transfixed. It’s a stirring snapshot of that strange space where the act of creating can be a religious experience.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mid-August Lunch
    Thankfully, the actor-director prepares this potential recipe for hokeyness with all-natural ingredients, casting four of the feistiest biddies he could find, who are all the more endearing for being unadorned.
  10. Life During Wartime
    Life During Wartime slices deeply into its characters' weaknesses.
  11. Mystify: Michael Hutchence
    As the tragedy unfolds, there’s a strange solace in seeing this captivating enigma somehow emerging intact.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    Less Hitchcock, however, than writer Norman Krasna, who at his best could twist conventional characters and plot patterns in such beguiling ways that you'd almost forget their antiquity. This comes near his best.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nell
    This metaphor-movie is both touching and tasteful. It allows Foster to play scared and alone, traumatised and neurotic, and, most importantly, free and inspirational.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ikiru
    Kurosawa’s eclectic style is a delight: his striking, varied compositions reflecting the old man’s journey from darkness to some kind of light right until the moving finale.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    While the cinematography has dated rather badly, the story and the performances of both Tyson and her supporting cast are more than powerful enough to make it worthwhile viewing. [04 Sep 2008, p.72]
    • Time Out
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Resurrection
    Cinema isn't just a medium here, it's a healing balm, able to save the Deliriant’s tormented soul by exorcising his darkest impulses and replacing them with moments of sheer filmic wonder.
  17. Nothing But a Man (1964)
    Its historical import as a peripheral civil-rights document can't be understated.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Doom Generation
    Firing on all cylinders for the first time, Araki throws in decapitation, spunk munching, outrageous visual and structural puns, Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, and a running 666 gag, all in the service of American sexual liberation. Imagine Natural Born Killers with a sense of humour.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    High Life
    Sparse in dialogue, High Life demands unrelenting restraint from Pattinson, whose Monte, an off-kilter ascetic, is fascinating.
  20. Val
    Many actors hold their secrets and their craft close; Kilmer throws his out to the universe.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tano da morire
    Roberta Torre’s debut takes true incidents from the Mafia wars that plagued Palermo in the late ’80s and kicks them into a deliriously gaudy farce.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Theater of Blood
    Comedy horror that really does give Vincent Price a chance to do his stuff, with deliciously absurd results.
  23. You Resemble Me
    It has a scrappy, throat-grabbing energy and a sincerity that never feels hectoring.
  24. Incredibles 2
    At a time when movie screens are clogged with indistinguishable superheroes in obnoxious crossover events, Incredibles 2 kicks it old school and rises above the noise with its defiantly humane soul.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Queendom
    It’s hard to understand the emotions coursing through Marvin’s body, as it’s wrapped in gaffer tape or barbed wire in a series of improvised exercises in fashion-as-armour. She admits to fear, but never to doubt as she embarks on her single-minded mission to subvert Russia's remorselessly anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.
  26. Memory: The Origins of Alien
    Philippe earns his keep, not only by mounting a crisp, elegant production well above the standard of your typical video-lensed making-of, but by skewing toward anecdotes that most corporate clients would frown upon.
  27. Blade Runner 2049
    Arrival director Denis Villeneuve pulls off the dare of the decade, hatching a thoughtful, expansive sequel to a sci-fi classic.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oranges and Sunshine
    The movie belongs to Hugo Weaving and David Wenham, both playing what one newspaper dubs "the lost children of the Empire," men broken by the appalling conditions that met them in their new homeland.
  29. The Theory of Everything
    At its best (which is often), director James Marsh’s affecting biopic of the cosmos-rattling astrophysicist Stephen Hawking plays deftly against schmaltz.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Dirty Dozen
    Aldrich appears to be against everything: anti-military, anti-Establishment, anti-women, anti-religion, anti-culture, anti-life. Overriding such nihilism is the super-crudity of Aldrich's energy and his humour, sufficiently cynical to suggest that the whole thing is a game anyway, a spectacle that demands an audience.
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