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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. Last Orders
    Wry humor and even a certain sexiness break through the reserve of a rueful, realistic, but finally emotionally rewarding film.
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  2. Logan Lucky
    Independently financed and distributed by Soderbergh, Logan Lucky is a magnificent movie that comes disguised as a modest one. Or, as I like to call it, a Joe Bang.
  3. James and the Giant Peach
    Apt to leave a haunting impression on the children who see it.
  4. High Life
    Denis’s movies can be imaginative and poetic; sometimes they’re unflinchingly brutal. High Life, her first English-language picture, is all of those things, a work of great beauty that’s also at times difficult to watch.
  5. 2046
    Even if a Chinese movie doesn't sound like your idea of summer fun, give 2046 a chance. Its pearly artistry and gorgeous faces should put you quickly, deeply, in the mood for love.
  6. Kung Fu Hustle
    Moviemaking doesn't get much smarter, funnier, handsomer, better than this.
  7. Apollo 13
    The result is that rare Hollywood achievement, an adventure of the intelligent spirit. From lift-off to splashdown, Apollo 13 gives one hell of a ride. [3 July 1995]
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  8. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield may not be perfect, but it is alive, at least partly because of its perceptive, jaunty casting and fine performances.
  9. My Own Private Idaho
    What plot it has is borrowed, improbably, from Henry IV, and whenever anyone manages to speak an entire paragraph, it is usually a Shakespearean paraphrase. But this is a desperate imposition on an essentially inert film. [28 Oct 1991]
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  10. The Aviator
    Despite its star's heroic efforts, The Aviator is a gorgeous jet, flying on automatic pilot.
  11. A Secret Love
    When you look at the faces of the elderly Donahue and Henschel, even at their most frail, the young women within shine through. It’s enraging that society made them feel they had to hide. But their happiness is the ultimate triumph.
  12. Till
    Till is an affirmation of just how much Emmett Till’s life mattered, and continues to matter long beyond his last breath.
  13. Ratcatcher
    Writer-director Ramsay neither sentimentalizes nor garishes up the lost children in this observant and poetic drama.
  14. Nope
    Because Nope, enjoyable as a spectacle but conceptually barely thought through, is all over the place. Peele can’t take just one or two interesting ideas and follow their trail of complexity. He likes to layer ideas into lofty multitextured quilts—the problem is that his most compelling perceptions are often dropped only to be obscured by murkier ones.
  15. Rescue Dawn
    Rescue Dawn is a tale of heroism untainted by political skepticism. In an age when U.S. soldiers are seen as villains or victims, the movie offers a GI who bravely, or madly, simply refuses to die.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Clockwork Orange
    The confounding thing, and perhaps the ultimate irony of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, is that Alex is surprisingly but undeniably engaging.
  17. No Way Out
    Indeed, viewers who arrive at the movie five minutes late and leave five minutes early will avoid the setup and payoff for the preposterous twist that spoils this lively, intelligent remake of 1948's The Big Clock.
  18. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
    It's beautifully photographed and explained at every stage from market to table, a foodie's dream night at the movies. The gentle shaping of the fish and sushi could lull you into a trance. A hungry trance.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Paper Moon
    It is very fussy about period detail, and goes to some length to evoke the dim days of Depression America, while just about everything else is left to slide.
  20. Pollock
    The result is a harrowing film, impossible to "like" in any conventional way, hypnotically impossible to turn away from.
  21. Crimes and Misdemeanors
    At times the joints in the movie's carpentry are strained, at times the mood swings jarring. [16 Oct 1989, p. 82]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mrs. Miniver
    Mrs. Miniver is that almost impossible feat, a great war picture that photographs the inner meaning, instead of the outward realism of World War II.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Kramer vs. Kramer
    Kramer vs. Kramer is a rare movie that finds its tone, its focus and its poetry in its very first image.
  24. Hairspray
    See Hairspray. It's light and airy, but it will stick around: the first aerosol movie. [29 Feb 1988, p.101]
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  25. Personal Shopper
    Personal Shopper is a strange and beautifully made film, and both star and director are clearly energized by their dual mission.
  26. 8 Mile
    There's something old-fashioned and dauntless about the way the film pushes past our initial resistance to its setting and subject matter, past pain, past defeat, to make this point. Because it rejects easy victories, this may be one of the few inspirational movies that could actually inspire someone, somewhere, sometime.
  27. The Ghost Writer
    We should hail a movie that recalls creepy political thrillers of the mid-'70s, back when some films were made for grownups and the comfortable catharsis of a happy ending was not required -- think of the panoramically cryptic worldview of "The Parallax View" and "Three Days of the Condor," and of course, "Chinatown."
  28. The Jungle Book
    Somehow this Jungle Book works, because Favreau has both a sense of humor and a sense of spectacle.
  29. Urchin
    A seemingly straightforward story about an addict barely holding his life together on the streets of London, Urchin is effective because of all the things it doesn’t do: there are no grand revelations, no horrific bottoming-out or OD moments. We’re simply left alone with an addict and his feelings—or, occasionally, his seeming lack of them.
  30. Dallas Buyers Club
    This is a bold, drastic and utterly persuasive inhabiting of a doomed fighter by a performer who has graduated from the shirtless rom-com Romeo of the last decade to indie-film actor du jour.
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