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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. Long Shot
    She’s (Theron) a marvelous comic actor, as at home with bawdy humor as with the brainier kind, and her timing has its own rare and specific style: her lines tend to tilt sideways, with the quiet finesse of a balsa-wood glider, before coming in for a soft but neat landing. She’s an elegant goofball, funny in an over-the-shoulder way, not an in-your-face way, and every moment spent watching her is a pleasure. Hail to the chief.
  2. Perfect Days
    There’s something inexplicably Wenders-like about it; he’s a filmmaker who looks for joy in the corners, and finds it.
  3. Bad Education
    Bad Education is a story of small-town villains who just can’t help themselves, and it’s fun to see how their own carelessness trips them up. These are people we can’t trust, played by actors we trust implicitly. Why not be flimflammed by the best?
  4. First Position
    First-time director Kargman triumphs by picking characters who largely defy expectations.
  5. At Eternity's Gate
    Schnabel’s dream portrait of van Gogh is made whole by its star, Willem Dafoe, whose radiant intensity fills every corner of the film.
  6. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
    Though there are patches that are sad to watch, it is for the most part a delight, a biopic that brings its subject to life in a way that’s both respectful and open-hearted.
  7. Win Win
    The story wraps up with a tenderness that feels true but completely without mush. The irony of the title fades as Win Win wins you over.
  8. Bubble
    The film doesn't judge or prod its characters, just watches the long fuse of the plot dwindle, then explode.
  9. Caramel
    It may be a first film, but Labaki, employing a cast that is full of non-professional actresses, is a slick and knowing filmmaker. Her multiple plot lines are neatly braided and though her characters are conventionalized they are also charming and capable of surprising us.
  10. Blue Story
    Blue Story, at its essence, is a narrative you’ve seen before. But Onwubolu vests it with firecracker energy — the pace never drags, even when you think you know what’s going to happen next.
  11. The Woman King
    This is an action spectacle with a beating heart.
  12. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    The fascinating film equivalent of a humane execution.
  13. American Honey
    Over and over, American Honey calls attention to how observant it is, rather than just being observant.
  14. Watchmen
    Watchmen has moments of greatness. It proves again that the action movie is where the best young Hollywood brains have gone to bring flesh to their fantasies.
  15. Deepwater Horizon
    Malkovich sure isn’t subtle, either, but that’s the point: his job is to get your blood boiling, and boy, he’s good at it.
  16. All the Pretty Horses
    A perfectly coherent, handsomely rendered couple of hours, animated in particular by Damon's good performance -- shrewd, innocent, angry, wistful and, above all, likable.
  17. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
    Cruise, still in love with what big mainstream movies used to be, has become a chivalric dreamer, striving to ensure their survival by sheer will. Maybe he can pull it off and maybe he can’t. But at least there’s some pleasure to be had in watching him try.
  18. Jodorowsky's Dune
    The message to take from Jodorowsky’s Dune: movies once had brains and balls, and lost them.
  19. True History of the Kelly Gang
    What Kelly Gang lacks in historical accuracy it makes up for with brash punk energy.
  20. Val
    Val is a portrait of an actor who poured his all into his work. Only now can he see what it amounts to, and find some vindication in the truth that it was worth defending all along.
  21. The Fault in Our Stars
    Hazel and Augustus will live in film lore because of the young actors who play them.
  22. Les Misérables
    There’s nothing exactly like it: It has a bracing, melancholy energy all its own.
  23. Horton Hears a Who!
    You may leave the movie with Seussian anapests dancing in your happy head. Here's mine: A treat for the eye, an epic event/ This film is delightful, one hundred percent.
  24. The Big Sick
    The Big Sick succeeds in doing so many things that romantic comedies — to the extent that they’re even made anymore — have failed to do for years.
  25. Butterfly Tongues
    A savory cocktail with a bitter twist.
  26. Wordplay
    This film is as smart and funny as its topic and its stars.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Odd Couple
    Playwright Neil Simon occasionally takes off his clowns' masks to show the humans beneath. In doing so, he has made his Odd Couple real people, with enough substance to cast shadows alongside the jokes.
  28. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
    This memory piece, shy in manner but tough in spirit, has brought out the best in everyone connected with it.
  29. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Very moving film.
  30. Anna Karenina
    Knightley embodies Anna as a girlish woman who has never felt erotic love; once smitten, she is raised to heavenly ecstasy before tumbling into the abyss of shame. It's a nervy performance, acutely attuned to the volcanic changes a naive creature must enjoy and endure on her first leap into mad passion. She helps make Anna Karenina an operatic romance worth singing about.
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