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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. Beastie Boys Story
    Adam Yauch, known as MCA, was both the founder of the group and guy whose vision helped hold it together for more than 20 years; he died in 2012, from parotid cancer, and though he’s present in spirit in Beastie Boys Story, you can’t help feeling that the whole thing would be a lot more fun, and smarter, if he were around.
  2. The Ground Truth
    Both horrifying and hopeful.
  3. Awakenings
    For its first hour or so, this upscale heart tugger motors along familiar trails. So ennobling -- and predictable -- in director Penny Marshall's fidgety rendering of a case study by Oliver Sacks. [24 Dec 1990, p.77]
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  4. My Old Ass
    My Old Ass is a bit crazy. It’s also winning, in the gentlest, sweetest way.
  5. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    The movie may not soar like Aladdin or roar like The Lion King, and it demands plenty of parental guidance; but it fulfills the Disney animators' dream.
  6. Jackass Forever
    I’d argue that the Jackass movies, including this one, are mostly filled with joy.
  7. Inception
    Inception is precisely the kind of brainy, ambitious, grand-scale adventure Hollywood should be making more of.
  8. Cast Away
    The 80 minutes it spends on the atoll alone with Hanks make for engrossing storytelling. The film is less sure-footed back in civilization.
  9. Bones and All
    Bones and All is fastidiously romantic. It’s so carefully made, and so lovely to look at, even at its grisliest, that it ends up seeming a little remote, rather than a movie that draws you close.
  10. Dune: Part One
    Villeneuve lays it out before us without smirking or winking; his go-for-broke earnestness feels honest and clean. And the effects, while lavish, also have a tasteful, polished quality.
  11. Joe Gould's Secret
    There's a great story here, but Tucci's literate, civilized, wistful movie lacks savage impulse and refuses to show how mutual exploitation led to minor tragedy.
  12. Ocean's Eleven
    Doesn't offer much.
  13. Wonder Boys
    The pulse of Curtis Hanson's direction is lethargic; the comic bits are so slack and deadpan you could mistake the film for an earnest drama--an Afterschool Special for troubled kids and their pooped parents.
  14. Bully
    A documentary as vivid as any horror film, as heartbreaking as any Oscar-worthy drama.
  15. The Half of It
    It’s sweet and funny, but also, in places, as raw as a scraped knee.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Magnificent Seven
    An expert, sensitive study of the fateful tie that inevitably binds the strong to the weak, this film may well be the best western of 1960.
  17. Kundun
    This is rapture in pictures. [22 December 1997, p. 81]
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  18. Winnie the Pooh
    This Pooh, which takes its gossamer plotlines directly from A.A. Milne, will be a boon to parents of very small children everywhere.
  19. Armageddon Time
    You could compare Armageddon Time to autobiographical reflections like Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma or, to a lesser extent, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, both stories in which kids’ eyes are suddenly opened to the unfairness of the world. But for all its tenderness, this isn’t a movie that allows you to make peace with yourself, or with our highly imperfect world.
  20. Plan B
    For all the ways in which Plan B is sometimes thunderously obvious, there’s still a lot going on beneath the surface.
  21. Disobedience
    Disobedience, based on a novel by Naomi Alderman, cuts deeper than your standard forbidden-love story, largely because the actors are so attuned to their characters’ anguish.
  22. Dangerous Liaisons
    An excellent film. [16 Jan 1989, p.64]
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  23. Judy Berlin
    The film is one-note; misery is the only game in town.
  24. East Is East
    The actor (Puri) and the film make something fine, winning and memorable.
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  25. In the Line of Fire
    The real battle here is between two generations of acting styles: meticulous method vs. star quality.
  26. Hidden Figures
    Hidden Figures, both a dazzling piece of entertainment and a window into history, bucks the trend of the boring-math-guy movie.
  27. Higher Ground
    As director, Farmiga is a strong believer in cinematic democracy, allowing the other actors to seize the center of the action and the frame.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Suspicion
    Suspicion (RKO Radio) is good Alfred Hitchcock—up to the last few minutes. In those final minutes the picture falls apart at the seams.
  29. The Town
    It's rare to see an ensemble movie like this, so loaded with talented actors, in which virtually all of them get an opportunity to make an impression. Affleck is the boss and the star, but he knows how to share.
  30. In Darkness
    Transcending Holo-kitsch, In Darkness is often a thrilling adventure picture - as if Anne Frank had found an "Inglourious Basterd" to help her make "The Great Escape."
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