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For 4,670 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,963 out of 4670
  2. Mixed: 1,021 out of 4670
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4670
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  1. Being John Malkovich
    The story keeps reinventing itself (some of the later plot twists are among the funniest), but a little goes a long way at 112 minutes - maybe 25 minutes more than this sporadically pointed conceit really needs.
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  2. The Incredibles
    One of the year's most clever and visually arresting computer-animated films, enlivened by a well-developed and credible cast of characters who just happen to be superheroes.
  3. A Prophet
    A compelling piece of naturalistic filmmaking, claustrophobic and thought-provoking.
  4. Almost Famous
    A movie that is easily likable.
  5. Oppenheimer
    Murphy wonderfully inhabits the nervy intensity of a gaunt and troubled figure, who's deemed unstable and egoistical by his peers during the war and at wit’s end later, as he contends with politicos with a score to settle.
  6. The Truman Show
    Funny... and the payoff is the most provocative Hollywood concoction in a while.
  7. Once
    Once is a film for anyone who has ever been transported by the power and passion of music.
  8. United 93
    An unflinching, powerfully visceral and haunting portrait of the tragic events aboard one of the terrorist-commandeered flights on the fateful morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
  9. Capturing the Friedmans
    Not since "Memento" has a movie served up such a provocative mind-bender, and the Sundance winner by first-time filmmaker Andrew Jarecki has the advantage of being true.
  10. American Hustle
    With one of the best ensemble casts of any film this year, it's audacious, enthralling and uproarious.
  11. Persepolis
    Cinematic poetry in black and white. It also is a deeply affecting tale of the power of resilience and an unflagging sense of humor through the worst of situations
  12. The Age of Innocence
    After watching Pfeiffer and Day-Lewis submerge molten 19th-century sparks here, it is now conceivable that Scorsese could make compelling cinema out of “Three Blind Mice.” [17 Sept 1993, Life, p.1D]
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  13. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    It is by turns comic, dark and surprisingly tender. If one must reduce it to simple description, call it a love story with a twist. Or a twisted love story.
  14. Whiplash
    The exhilarating, inventive and suspenseful story hinges on a pair of commanding performances.
  15. The Lives of Others
    A thoroughly compelling political thriller, at once intellectually challenging and profoundly emotional.
  16. Searching for Bobby Fischer
    Despite the unsexy title, it's one unusually well told. [11 Aug 1993, p.1D]
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  17. Killers of the Flower Moon
    The villains are fairly obvious in “Flower Moon,” but Scorsese asks audiences to take a wider look at systemic racism, historical injustice and the corruptive influence of power and money, intriguingly tying together our past and present.
  18. Y Tu Mamá También
    Can be taken on many levels, and that's why it works so completely.
  19. Force of Evil
    Pearson's scenes with Garfield are among the most supercharged ever. [28 May 2004, p.6E]
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  20. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    Borat is most gloriously funny moving picture for to make people see their stupidness.
  21. Minari
    In creating the film, Chung pulled from his own childhood growing up in Arkansas, and Minari works because it feels so personal as you root for a fragmented family weathering resentment and heartbreak in an uplifting and very universal tale.
  22. Marty Supreme
    Director Josh Safdie’s globetrotting, genre-busting comedy thriller is a proudly oddball period movie that boasts throwback elements but leans timeless in its unlikely hero’s journey.
  23. Captain Blood
    Rafael Sabatini's 17th-century surgeon goes from slave to swashbuckler, Michael Curtiz directs to Erich Wolfgang Korngold music, and a major studio takes an unprecedented gamble on two unknowns to star: Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. [15 Apr 2005]
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  24. The Madness of King George
    Though no film for the ages, it's two grown-up hours to tickle clear, sharp, minds. [27 Jan 1995, p.4D]
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  25. The Power of the Dog
    The period drama The Power of the Dog is a picturesque, enthralling exploration of male ego and toxic masculinity, crafted by an extremely talented woman and offering enough nuanced bite to keep it interesting till the very end.
  26. Downhill Racer
    The best fictional movie about skiing. [27 Nov 2009, p.13D]
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  27. The Artist
    Drama, comedy, action and romance are intertwined in this gorgeously photographed and brilliantly directed film. Lead performances are thoroughly engaging despite - or perhaps because of - being wordless.
  28. The Piano
    Campion's script is very well received, but the film finally makes it on cinematics: bleakly beautiful photography, haunting score, and good acting. [12 Nov 1993]
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  29. Letters from Iwo Jima
    It takes a filmmaker possessed of a rare, almost alchemic, blend of maturity, wisdom and artistic finesse to create such an intimate, moving and spare war film as Clint Eastwood has done in Letters From Iwo Jima.
  30. A Woman Under the Influence
    Cassavetes wrote and directed on his standard improvisational shoestring. The oft-shattering result, which runs 2 1/2 hours, is so uneasily lifelike that the academy temporarily ignored its prejudice against independent productions by rewarding Rowlands and Cassavetes with Oscar nominations. [18 Sep 1992, p.3D]
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