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For 2,974 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: 1,807 out of 2974
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2974
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2974
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  1. Blockers
    Blockers has a loopy sweetness, but it’s smart, too.
  2. Last Letter from Your Lover
    Even when the story falters, or becomes astonishingly silly, there’s still plenty to keep you gazing at the surface.
  3. The Master
    While the movie is glorious to watch, it brings no coherence or insight to its two main characters.
  4. Foxcatcher
    Tatum’s is the central performance: most daring because it’s least giving. He has often played young men of thick athleticism and slow wit. It’s proof of Tatum’s intelligence that he can make the audience feel smarter than the characters he plays – until they reveal a sly brilliance halfway through the movie.
  5. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    At its metallic heart, T3 is another chase movie -- one figure relentlessly tracking three others, mostly in cars, at high speed through implausibly underpopulated Los Angeles streets.
  6. Very Bad Things
    Cameron Diaz is sublimely screwy as the single-minded bride determined not to let anything--including the deadly mishaps that keep shrinking the wedding party--spoil her nuptials. [30 November 1998, p. 111]
    • Time
  7. Save Yourselves!
    Save Yourselves! was completed well before the pandemic hit—it played at Sundance in January — but it’s one of those works that has magically landed at the right time. It takes itself just seriously enough, but not too seriously.
  8. Silver Linings Playbook
    The performances of these actors are reason enough to go. The reason to stay is Lawrence.
  9. Lucky You
    Not in any sense a great movie, a masterpiece that future generations will want to rediscover. But it is a solid, well-made, generally gripping and intelligent movie -- and how many of those have lately been made in America?
  10. Big Time Adolescence
    Davidson’s Zeke is one of those inexplicably winning losers with coolness in his bones. He just doesn’t know how to make it work in the real world.
  11. Alexander
    Makes for a long, lumpy trip with a charismatic guide and some brilliant detours.
  12. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    Together, the three wheel through absurd gags that shouldn’t work and somehow make them sing, giving the movie a loose, joyous energy.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
    Anthology inspired by Dr. David Reuben’s book of the same title. Allen’s version is far less educational than Reuben’s; it takes the form of several unrelated sketches, each of which purports to answer a question posed in Reuben’s book. The funniest bits are the first and last.
  14. The Polar Express
    Tom Hanks doesn't turn Polar Express into much of a thrill ride. For that you need 3-D goggles.
  15. The Pale Blue Eye
    Like a fire made with mildly damp kindling, The Pale Blue Eye—adapted from Louis Bayard’s 2003 novel of the same name—takes a while to get going. Maybe, in truth, it never really does get going. But the story’s stately pace is part of the attraction, and perhaps key to its pleasurably somber tone.
  16. Moonlight Mile
    The film is full of sharp acting and home truths, but its ambition to be different finally surrenders to its need to be loved.
  17. Be Kind Rewind
    in a larger sense Be Kind Rewind declares that the riches of cinema history touch each of us personally. Films become so deep a part of us that we own them that our memories of them, whether faithful or fanciful, become their meanings. As a movie critic and, even before and above that, a movie lover, how can I disagree with that?
  18. Where Do We Go Now?
    Could women stop war through the sedation of sex and drugs and a plot to bury every weapon in their community? Labaki has said she knows Where Do We Go Now? is a fantasy. But it's a good one, and this lovely film seems pertinent far beyond the landscape of the Middle East.
  19. Mickey Blue Eyes
    Director Kelly Makin has a gift for casually tossed-off farce.
  20. Redacted
    Redacted pretty successfully sustains a dual level of hysteria (in its content) and disinterest (in its film-long framing devices). It's an amazingly vigorous work for a filmmaker who turns 67 on Sept. 11... The movie is a cry of national shame; for De Palma, it's a new badge of honor for a wily old vet.
  21. Snow Angels
    The film's success is due in large part to actors who are both faithful to all the social minutiae and seductive enough to keep you watching.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jurassic World
    The action sequences succeed in transporting one out of the theater and into a landscape of savagery and survival.
  23. Get Bruce
    Fond, zippy new documentary about the Bruce who, on the Hollywood circuit, is the real Boss.
    • Time
  24. Inside
    Inside is essentially a one-man extravaganza for Dafoe, and he shoulders its complexities ably, with zero vanity.
  25. Contagion
    For a good hour, a very good first hour, the film efficiently accumulates small, terrifying incidents and images.
  26. Labyrinth
    With their technical astonishments, Director Henson and Executive Producer Lucas have been faithful to the pioneering Disney spirit. In suggesting the thrilling dilemmas that await a wise child, they have flown worlds beyond Walt. [7 July 1986, p.65]
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  27. Shine
    Ceases to be a cogent study of the disease of genius and devolves into two lesser creatures: an ordinary weepie and an Oscar contender.
  28. Baby Mama
    This is a comedy with the old-time blend of wit and sentiment. Years from now, when you stumble across it on TV, you could persuade yourself that, back in the two-thousand-oughts, they made pretty good movies.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Green Hornet
    The mix is not nearly classic but is congenial enough to warm up a January weekend and perhaps to stoke a sequel. Call it "The Green Hornet Strikes Again?" No: "Kato II!"
  30. Almost Christmas
    You’ve seen most of this before, but that’s pretty much the point: The familiarity of the setup means the actors can just knuckle down and do their thing, and their energy keeps the movie rolling at a clip.
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