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For 2,973 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,806 out of 2973
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2973
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2973
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  1. Marriage Story
    Driver ferries Baumbauch’s super-cerebral script — Baumbach could never not be cerebral — to a place beyond thinking, where raw emotion becomes an entropic, hurricane swirl.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Major Barbara
    Although this thesis produces a lot of talk in Major Barbara, it is the kind of talk that cinemaddicts seldom hear—brilliant, provocative, richly comic. It is solidly backed up by a baker’s dozen of superb acting performances.
  3. The Host
    If this madly entertaining movie has a fault, it's that it's too ingenious for the genre it ostensibly inhabits.
  4. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    Smaug is different: a really good movie, superior to the first in that it brings its characters to rambunctious life.
  5. Airplane!
    Airplane! is a splendidly tacky, totally tasteless, completely insignificant flight, a gooney bird of a movie that looks as if it could never get off the ground and then surprises and delights with its free-spirited aerobatics.
  6. The Squid and the Whale
    The Squid and the Whale is domestic tragedy recollected as comedy: a film whose catalog of deceits and embarrassments, and of love pratfalling over itself, makes it as (excruciatingly) painful as it is (exhilaratingly) funny.
  7. Beauty and the Beast
    There’s no need to worry that this version might crush the gentle charms of the 1991 picture: Even though Condon more or less faithfully follows that movie’s plot, this Beauty is its own resplendent creature.
  8. The Thin Red Line
    The film is a gorgeous garland on an unknown soldier's grave.
  9. Dead Man Walking
    It is a measure of its complexity--and of the forces Penn and Sarandon have held in reserve during their hypnotic struggle for his soul--that its final moments leave us awash in emotion.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Spotlight
    For all the dogged journalism and righteous indignation in the film, it’s this sense of intimacy, of community, of betrayal and misdirected allegiances — it was the Church, after all — that keeps the film from reveling too much in victory or triumph. That, in turn, makes it an emotional tour de force.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Real Pain
    Somehow, it just sprang from Eisenberg’s heart and quietly formidable brain, and the effect is close to miraculous.
  12. Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
    Jenkins has made a movie that captures both the joy of Armstrong’s music and the distinctive nature of his personal charisma, though he doesn’t shy away from some of the more controversial elements of Armstrong’s legacy.
  13. The Truman Show
    Hollywood's smartest media satire in years--and a breakthrough for Jim Carrey.
  14. Charlie Wilson's War
    A picture about war and politics that has manages to be both rational and inspirational. It is also the year's funniest smart movie.
  15. Trainspotting
    The film is about joy--in conniving and surviving, in connecting with audiences, in its own fizzy, jizzy style.
  16. Death at a Funeral
    Insanely funny, if occasionally out-of-control, black farce.
  17. Catch Me If You Can
    Results in about the nicest movie you could ask for at the holidays: a gently funny, sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good, that is to say, entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp, overmanipulative Hollywood practices.
  18. Clockers
    The film is more than a murder mystery and more than a study in character conflict. At its best, it is an intense and complex portrait of an urban landscape on which the movies' gaze has not often fallen.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Wolfpack
    Everything about The Wolfpack is extraordinary.
  20. V for Vendetta
    It's a terrific movie. I love the look and the verve of the thing, the confidence of its epic design, its smart use of half a dozen noted British thesps, lending weight and wit to the supporting roles.
  21. Finding Nemo
    Nemo, with its ravishing underwater fantasia, manages to trump the design glamour of earlier Pixar films.
  22. The Shawshank Redemption
    [Darabont] makes you feel the maddening pace of prison time without letting his picture succumb to it.
  23. One Night at McCool's
    The smartest, funniest, most cleverly structured comedy of the year.
    • Time
  24. Chasing Amy
    A true movie rarity: a brutally honest romance. If you loved "Sleepless in Seattle," you'll just hate it.
  25. Nanking
    I have rarely, if ever, seen a documentary reconstruction of a historical event that is so rich in firsthand (and well-preserved) photographic material.
  26. The Card Counter
    The Card Counter, with Isaac’s superb performance at its heart, might be the movie you didn’t know you were wishing for, coming at a time when wishing for life to restart has become a consuming preoccupation.
  27. The Age of Innocence
    A gravely beautiful fairy tale of longing and loss. [20 Sept 1993, p.82]
    • Time
  28. The Impossible
    The Impossible is technologically a marvel - the tsunami experience is harrowingly believable - but also emotionally rich. I hesitate to use this term, since it is so often equated with hokey, but The Impossible is life-affirming.
  29. Zootopia
    There are enough under-the-radar subtleties, rendered with a refreshing lack of smart-aleckiness, to make Zootopia feel current and fresh. It’s a modest, unassuming entertainment that’s motored by a sly sensibility.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Deliverance
    Each of the four lead performances is exceptional, none more so than Burt Reynolds' beefy, supercilious Lewis.
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