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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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    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    What lifts this film into orbit—and what saves it from being a shaggy flying-saucer story—is the breathless wonder that the director brings to every frame. Whether he is showing us a pristine, starry Midwestern sky or displaying Special Effects Wizard Douglas Trumbull's formidable arsenal of spaceships and celestial storms, Spielberg seems to be looking at everything onscreen as if for the first time. The freshness of his vision is contagious—and exhilarating.
  2. Seberg
    The picture is potent and engaging; even its fictionalized elements ring with the spirit of truth. And Stewart is off the charts, though that’s hardly a surprise.
  3. Oscar and Lucinda
    Its business is to turn sure-thing expectations into a game of chance, and provide us with that rarity--a genuinely eccentric yet deeply insinuating film.
  4. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Mangrove, too, tells a sometimes harrowing real-life story. Yet it has a lightness of touch that McQueen hasn’t shown before. Mangrove, as is all of Small Axe, is personal for McQueen — he is of West Indian descent himself — and his affection for these characters, as well as his passion for their cause, ignites his telling of their story.
  5. Moneyball
    His performance is a canny portrait of leadership - part genius, part crazy guts, part dumb luck - and worthy of moving Pitt up to the playoff round of Oscar finalists for Best Actor. We'd put money on it.
  6. Secrets & Lies
    Rich in humor, pained or frolicking.
  7. Happy, Texas
    An easy charm, a cleverly unforced sense of humor and a benignity toward all its genially oddball characters. If moviegoers skip this one, they'll be missing a real treat.
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  8. JFK
    Through his art and passion, Stone makes JFK plausible, and turns his thesis of a coup d'etat into fodder for renewed debate.
  9. Kicking and Screaming
    But the writer-director is canny enough to salt the stew with poignance, so that by the end these attitude machines have become human beings -- more than the sum of their chiseled jokes.
  10. C'mon C'mon
    Going into C’mon C’mon, you may think you know exactly what it’s going to be. Coming out, you’ll probably see that you were mostly right, but that you also got a million little firefly flashes of feeling you weren’t expecting. And that right there is the Mike Mills touch.
  11. The Worst Person in the World
    The Worst Person in the World is a comedy, not a drama. But it’s ruthless in the way the best comedies can be.
  12. Disclosure
    Director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Paul Attanasio are great guys to waste time with. The latter has a real flair for writing strong, confrontational scenes -- brisk, needling, well shaped -- and the former stages them with coolly concentrated intensity. And the cast is terrific. [19 Dec 1994, p.75]
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  13. Collective
    One problem with social-issues documentaries is that you almost always know where they stand, and where they’re headed, from the start. But Collective is as tense and as taut as a great fictional drama.
  14. Fletch
    Even the car chase in Fletch is witty and believable and something an adult can attend without flinching. As the adolescent revels of summer wear on, that alone could make it a movie to cherish.
  15. I'm Your Man
    I’m Your Man is funny in such a gentle way that you may not realize how piercing it is until after the credits have rolled.
  16. Amadeus
    A grand, sprawling entertainment that incites enthrallment for much of its 2 hr. 38 min.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    To Be or Not to Be
    To Be is a very funny comedy, salted to taste with melodrama and satire.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Heaven Can Wait
    From beginning to end, for kids and adults, Heaven Can Wait is nonstop —and blissfully uncomplicated—pleasure.
  19. Miss Bala
    Miss Bala is a tragedy rendered with the savviest, moviewise virtuosity. A young woman's despair, and a nation's, was never so damned entertaining.
  20. Back to the Future
    The picture packs a wonderful wallop.
  21. Stop Making Sense
    It could as well be called Best Thing of Undetermined Species.
  22. Incredibles 2
    If Incredibles 2 harbors a current of seriousness, what really makes it work is that it is so purely delightful.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Easy Rider
    The film has refurbished the classic romantic gospel of the outcast wanderer.
  24. Being John Malkovich
    Weird, beguiling premise.
  25. The Dancer Upstairs
    Patient and plodding -- but as realized by John Malkovich, in his directorial debut, utterly absorbing.
  26. Nicholas Nickleby
    Now and then McGrath's film feels a bit rushed and breathless, but mostly you sink gratefully into its handsomely staged plenitude.
  27. My Golden Days
    Roy-Lecollinet’s face, both haughty and welcoming, both anchors the movie and sets it free in the wind. No wonder Paul can’t shake the memory of it. It’s the thing that will age him before his time—and also keep him young forever.
  28. Trance
    A devious mind game, Trance is also the most entertaining smart movie so far this year.
  29. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
    No matter how much money has been poured into a movie, it’s emotional generosity that matters, and Johnson gives without squandering. His great gift is that he knows when to stop.
  30. Bully
    A documentary as vivid as any horror film, as heartbreaking as any Oscar-worthy drama.
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