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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Natural Born Killers
    Our culture may be drifting toward the sort of calamity that Stone describes in Natural Born Killers, but the hysteria he depicts seems to come from within him. His soul is in turmoil and so he keeps trying to convince us that we're sick.
  2. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
    Me and Earl and the Dying Girl succumbs to the same cloying too-cuteness and solipsism that often plague its glib and sentimental genre. But those limitations are leavened by the film’s lively, ultimately affecting flourishes and sprightly voice.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Porcelain War
    Porcelain War is a testament to how life’s beauty — all the world’s fertility an artist is trained to see — endures among privation and death.
  4. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
    Douglas Tirola’s documentary is brisk and entertaining, if not especially thoughtful.
  5. Dancing in Jaffa
    While the movie can feel disjointed at times, bouncing around to cover so much territory, the climax of the kids’s ballroom competition makes up for any quibbles. If nothing else, it’s heartening to see the kids so transformed.
  6. Sicko
    Ladies and gentlemen, I think we can agree on two things: The American health-care system is busted and Michael Moore is not the guy to fix it. His Sicko, an investigation and indictment of a system choking on paperwork, greed, bad policy and countervailing goals, turns out to be a fuzzy, toothless collection of anecdotes, a few stunts and a bromide-rich conclusion.
  7. Monster
    An okay movie made nearly great by one great thing: the bravura, mercilessly watchable performance of Charlize Theron.
  8. The Lady and the Duke
    The effect, in this French period drama, is something like a moving pop-up book, in which characters seem to be two-dimensional cardboard cutouts come to life.
  9. A Bigger Splash
    A Bigger Splash manages to infuse even the most straightforward questions with vicariously alluring ambiguity.
  10. Tabloid
    McKinney, a woman whose spellbinding and baffling presence - nay, performance - in Tabloid more than lives up to her recent off-screen antics.
  11. The Mission
    Although the focus eventually returns to Chau’s disastrous undertaking, the asides gradually take over. The film expands into a debate on the ethics of missionary Christianity.
  12. What Maisie Knew
    Primarily, What Maisie Knew is a showcase for consistently superb performances that, while utterly grounded in their characters, succeed in keeping viewers off-balance as to who will do what, and when.
  13. The Women's Balcony
    Although the film ultimately strikes a celebratory tone, the stark divisions it reveals offer an unsettling look at the state of public discourse.
  14. Janis: Little Girl Blue
    Although Joplin’s brief life was eventful, its contradictions would stymie a tidy biopic.
  15. Frankenweenie
    It's great fun.
  16. Divine Intervention
    Antic, puzzling and disturbing film.
  17. Black Hawk Down
    You're drawn in, like it or not. You can't get away from the immediacy. Or the feeling that you're getting sucked in, too.
  18. Radio Days
    Without a story or, for that matter, any theme but a kind of aimless nostalgia, you peel and peel away at it only to find, in the end, nothing.
  19. Strawberry Mansion
    The movie sounds — and looks — tasty enough, but this “Strawberry Mansion” just doesn’t bear much fruit.
  20. Southside with You
    Like the warm summer day it chronicles, Southside With You possesses a mellow, languorous vibe, an infectious easygoing charm that insinuates itself gently, then seductively, as the couple at its center experiences the stirrings of what might be true love.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rize
    Worth seeing both for its visual beauty and its insight into a little-known form
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Bottoms
    Writer-director Emma Seligman’s sophomore feature, Bottoms, is a raunchy exploration of queer expression and online culture, bursting with humor.
  23. Wild
    Wild is an accomplished movie, and often a beautiful and moving one, but the woman at its center remains warily at arm’s length.
  24. The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile
    Mostly The Return is about listening to great music getting made by two women representing two generations of country music — Carlile is 41 — who genuinely seem to respect each other, and who have obvious talent.
  25. Beastie Boys Story
    Equal parts celebration and self-congratulation.
  26. On the Count of Three
    There’s plenty of food for thought here too, and Carmichael clearly hasn’t set out to trivialize a serious subject. But the film may inadvertently end up doing that, by delivering a message that can be boiled down to a platitude: Live every day as if it is your last.
  27. The Ground Truth
    Mostly a string of talking-head interviews, but those talking heads -- more than 16 men and women -- are compelling.
  28. Gagarine
    The filmmakers make just as much magic on the ground as some do in space.
  29. Raya and the Last Dragon
    Disney’s gorgeously animated, entertainingly told fantasia Raya and the Last Dragon is a visual feast.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Humpday
    Delmore, Duplass and Leonard work up a loose-limbed, improvisatory energy, but Humpday radiates with the sheen of a film that has been thought out within an inch of its witty and insightful life.
  31. Backspot
    The film is heavy on the dread, light on the narrative. It’s all about the tension in the gym where the adults are just as melodramatic as the girls.
  32. Polisse
    Polisse is hard to watch at times, but it's also hard not to.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
    The bones of this memory play are familiar, but Davidtz is a natural filmmaker, and the sense of a tattered but privileged world teetering on extinction is visualized with fresh and evocative details.
  34. Miracle Mile
    Of course, this is the stuff of suspense thrillers, but writer-director Steve DeJarnatt sets an unsure pace that tries our patience. It seems he's not committed to his story or his characters, but to the idea that he is saying something profound -- which he isn't.
  35. The Sea Inside
    I remained strangely dry-eyed up to the final shot.
  36. The Others
    A tantalizing spine-tingler.
  37. Flushed Away
    Shot through with cheeky wit and hilarious musical numbers by the aforementioned slugs, Flushed Away features an eye-popping boat chase through London's watery nether regions, as well as the winning vocal talent of Kate Winslet, Bill Nighy and Ian McKellen, doing his best Sydney Greenstreet. Well done!
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Awakenings
    Knee-jerk tears aside, there's nothing tremendously special. It's very watchable, but it doesn't stand out. Which is not to say the film is badly done; it's just decently done.
  39. Catherine Called Birdy
    Following Cushman’s epistolary structure, Catherine Called Birdy unfolds as a series of diary entries, narrated in a self-satisfied tone that grates over time. Still, Dunham keeps the action brisk and the humor quotient high, as Birdy foils a succession of suitors, often by way of slapstick high jinks and general over-the-top japery.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Old Ass
    As written by Park and performed by Stella and Plaza — both players with crack comic timing — the interplay between the two Elliotts is the best part of “My Old Ass.”
  41. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    In this movie, only one thing is certain: No one remains the same.
  42. Barcelona
    Unlike “Metropolitan,” which for all its brittle wit seemed clunky and stagebound, Barcelona is sharply paced and alive on the screen.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Disney has created a movie that, like Quasimodo himself, is half formed.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Hau Chu
    Jackass Forever
    Not since “Magic Mike XXL” has there been a greater testament to the cathartic, even rapturous power of men baring their bodies in performance.
  45. Duck Season
    Director Fernando Eimbcke, in an extraordinary debut, never expresses contempt for his characters. By examining their inner lives with compassion and respect, he inspires us to do the same.
  46. Inception
    Inception is that rare film that can be enjoyed on superficial and progressively deeper levels, a feat that uncannily mimics the mind-bending journey its protagonist takes.
  47. Serenity
    No matter what's coming their way, post-apocalyptic doom or gloom, this James Gang of the galaxy is just plain fun to watch.
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