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For 6,371 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 3.4 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: 2,474 out of 6371
  2. Mixed: 3,422 out of 6371
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6371
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Wizard of Oz
    Like Chaplin’s The Kid or ET The Extra-Terrestrial, The Wizard of Oz simply lays bare primal emotions, exposes our childhood anxieties about abandonment and powerlessness and brings to light the tension between the repressive comforts of home and the liberating terrors of the unknown marking all our adult lives.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ride the High Country
    Peckinpah's superb second film, a nostalgic lament for the West in its declining years, with a couple of great set pieces (the bizarre wedding in the mining camp, the final shootout among the chickens).
  3. Memoria
    It’s an exercise in mindfulness that asks you to give yourself over to it lock, stock and barrel. If you’re willing to do that, you can cancel that meditation course.
  4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    A film steeped in psychological realism, its rigorously compact plotting and stark, noir-influenced photography perfectly complementing the mounting sense of clammy, metaphysical dread.
  5. Close-Up
    It's enormously intelligent stuff, witty, poignant and thoroughly engrossing, and ends with one of the sharpest, funniest deconstructions of film form ever shot. Absolutely wonderful.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chinatown
    In 1974 a director (Polanski), a screenwriter (Towne) and a producer (Evans) could decide to beat a genre senseless and dump it in the wilds of Greek tragedy.
  7. 35 Shots of Rum
    To fall in love with it, viewers only have to be receptive to a movie that examines the ties that bind with grace, wit and depth.
  8. Remake
    Remake is emotionally shattering.
  9. Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
    The idea that we would want even a few of these draggy, didactic scenes (the poorly paced French plantation sequence plays better with self-satisfied critics than with audiences) may remind you of one of Marlon Brando’s immortal lines, the one about an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    King Kong
    If this glorious pile of horror-fantasy hokum has lost none of its power to move, excite and sadden, it is in no small measure due to the remarkable technical achievements of Willis O'Brien's animation work, and the superbly matched score of Max Steiner.
  11. The Florida Project
    Indie wunderkind Sean Baker continues his celebration of communities on the margins, in a movie that vibrates with compassion and energy.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Frenzy
    A series of variations on themes of excess, surplus and waste from the most fastidious of directors.
  13. Brief Encounter
    David Lean's wondrous romance, adapted from Noel Coward's story, is one of the most emotionally devastating movies of all time.
  14. Almayer's Folly
    It is the richly evocative performances of Marion (aggressive yet enticing) and Merhar (wearing world-weariness like an aged suit) that cut deepest.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Little Women
    Surely the definitive version of Louisa May Alcott's novel, sweet, funny, perfectly cast, and exquisitely evocative in its New England period reconstruction.
  16. The Act of Killing
    Fortunately, Oppenheimer keeps the film focused on the highly complicated Anwar — a charismatic devil if ever there was one — observing as this strange reckoning with the past slowly breaks down his defenses.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    The metaphor for the extra baggage these cousins carry should not be lost, but it’s also a constant reminder of their unsettled nature. Never Rarely Sometimes Always creates a deeply empathetic look at their shared suffering.
  18. Annie Hall
    Woody Allen's sublime comic drama.
  19. The Zone of Interest
    It’s a stunning film – thoughtful, challenging and disturbing.
  20. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
    As much as any surrealist arthouse flick, Texas Chain Saw feels like a nightmare made real, an inescapable but entirely authentic vision of pure hell.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Quiz Show
    Redford has fashioned (from Paul Attanasio's brilliant screenplay) an impeccably nuanced Faustian drama which aspires to capture America's fall from grace: that point at the end of the '50s when the country first lost faith in itself.
  22. Toy Story 3
    Clearly, Pixar’s genius for adventurous storytelling continues unabated.
  23. The Souvenir
    While it’s unspooling, The Souvenir feels like the only film in the world—the only one that matters.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This Is Spinal Tap
    Reiner's brilliantly inventive script and smart visuals avoid all the obvious pitfalls, making this one of the funniest ever films about the music business.
  25. A Man Vanishes (1967)
    Remains a primo example that cinema actually traffics in truthiness 24 frames per second.
  26. The Look of Silence
    A superior work of confrontational boldness, it might be the movie Oppenheimer wanted to make in the first place.
  27. The Secret Agent
    The Secret Agent is vicious and vivid in its sense of place and danger. But it also has a streak of weirdness and offers a very human take on the political-crime thriller genre.
  28. Burning
    Both a slow-burn suspense drama and an intriguing enigma, his film is beautifully executed throughout: the three lead performances are all spot on, while Mowg’s jazzy score and Hong Kyung-pyo’s immaculate camerawork fit the shifting moods to perfection.
  29. Drive My Car
    What a clever, haunting way to show art’s power to articulate the hurt we find hard to express.
  30. It Was Just an Accident
    The director is clearly having a whale of a time taking the piss out of the corruption, cruelty and bribery rife in his country.
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