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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. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
    It’s an affectionate finale for the character, crafted with such care — from Molly Emma Rowe’s costumes to Kave Quinn’s thoughtful production design to those signature needle drops, monologues and Bridget-isms — it’s a shame “Mad About the Boy” isn’t opening in U.S. theaters.
  2. Priceless
    Tautou is a delight, as always, using her bubbly personality to comic advantage. And Elmaleh makes for a sort of poor man's Buster Keaton, perpetually stressed but refusing to surrender, no matter how much damage he sustains to himself or his wallet.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Transsiberian
    All in all, the film is an excellent, if modest, alternative for moviegoers who have been blockbustered into submission this summer.
  4. Charlotte Sometimes
    Wonderful images, hues, sensations and faces.
  5. Down and Out in Beverly Hills
    Down and Out suggests the kind of conflict of values that the fish-out-of-water story depends on: wealthy Dave is a workaholic, but Jerry doesn't want to work; Dave is a striver, but Jerry's given up. But the idea is never really pursued.
  6. Heathers
    More than just one of the best movies so far this year, it is a revolution in young-adult entertainment.
  7. Beauty Is Embarrassing
    Beauty Is Embarrassing stays true to White's own exacting standards: It's thoughtful, skillfully executed and pure pop pleasure, from start to finish.
  8. Candyman
    Candyman can’t seem to decide whether it wants to scare you or make you think.
  9. The Encampments
    Too often, in a film about an ostensibly peaceful form of dissent, it feels like adversaries are being targeted, albeit subtly, when the real enemy is war itself.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    First Position
    Forget that "reality" show about young dancers on the Lifetime channel. First Position, a debut documentary from Bess Kargman, is the real thing.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves bottles the spirit of the game in the flask of a fantasy adventure even if it fails to reinvent the wheel.
  12. The Final Master
    In the Chinese martial-arts film The Final Master, the fighting is more lucid than the plot. That may be characteristic of the genre, yet this smart, stylish movie diverges from the expected in many ways, most of them enjoyable.
  13. Gimme Danger
    A bittersweet, elegiac tone can’t help but suffuse a film animated by so many anarchic spirits who have since left the planet, but it leaves viewers with the exhilarating, inspiring reassurance that we still have Iggy. To adopt his own highest praise: That’s cool.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Arco
    The sheer earnestness of director Ugo Bienvenu’s elegiac, even mournful tale feels as appealingly anachronistic as its lush 2D animation.
  15. The Life of Reilly
    The Life of Reilly pays fitting homage to a man who deserves to be remembered for much more than just trading double-entendres with Brett Somers on "The Match Game."
  16. I Served the King of England
    Pirouettes along a beguiling but treacherous line between horror and whimsy.
  17. Gangs of New York
    Under its scope and reach and passion, Gangs of New York is pretty ordinary stuff.
  18. The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
    The film-which at 112 minutes, ends up ramblin' like its subject-does provide compelling rehab for an underrated artist.
  19. Felicia's Journey
    So elegantly layered and emotionally restrained, it makes the horror at its center all the more disturbing.
  20. The Rookie
    So unassuming and pure of heart, you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell "Safe!"
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nowhere in Africa
    What rescues the film is Gernot Roll's spare, almost aesthetic cinematography, and the quality of the acting.
  22. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
    There are scenes that simply ask the audience to drink in the details, to enjoy the repast, just as much as follow the plot.
  23. A Beautiful Mind
    Instead of an originally conceived movie that reflects Nash's troubled but brilliant mind, we have one of those formulaically rendered Important Subject movies -- the kind that seem exclusively designed for Best Picture nominations.
  24. Slow West
    [A] meandering, deliberate and tearless — yet oddly moving — western vehicle.
  25. A Compassionate Spy
    A Compassionate Spy is less a full companion piece to “Oppenheimer” than an intriguing sidebar.
  26. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
    There are no huge revelations here — certainly nothing that would shock superfans. The movie offers a taste of the go-go-go pace of touring the world, which led to exhaustion and frustration, but mostly focuses on the happier times.
  27. Your Sister's Sister
    Very little is simple in Your Sister's Sister -- not the emotions, the naturalistic tone or the unstudied, easygoing performances. But the film's pleasures are.
  28. Midsommar
    Only the most committed Aster-pologists are likely to enjoy Midsommar at its fullest; others, meanwhile, may admire its handsome visual design and bravura performances without completely buying in to the alternately diseased and fuzzy fable at its core.
  29. The Crow
    If he had to die so soon, this movie is the best and most appropriate sendoff Lee could have hoped for.
  30. The Stepfather
    It's a terrific, disquietingly entertaining little film -- a piece of genuine Gothic Americana.
  31. Groundhog Day
    With its zany daily episodes, "Groundhog" gets stuck in a non-progressive repetition.
  32. Koyaanisqatsi
    An agoraphobic's nightmare, it's a condescending view, and maybe one that's totally off base. [23 Sep 1983, p.21]
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  33. The Woodsman
    Not to be missed, if only for an unforgettable leading performance by Kevin Bacon.
  34. Die My Love
    An astonishing lead performance by Jennifer Lawrence keeps Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” from falling apart — which is ironic, given that the new film depicts her ripping at the seams.
  35. Is This Thing On?
    In some ways, this dramedy, directed by Bradley Cooper, is a familiar story about midlife crises and marital dissatisfaction, but it quickly swerves in a fresh direction, resulting in a movie that’s both resonant and hilarious.
  36. Shame
    Fans of Fassbender's yummy performances in this year's "Jane Eyre" and "X-Men: First Class" should be forewarned that, although we see the handsome Irish actor in the altogether, Shame is strangely un-sexy.
  37. Akeelah and the Bee
    By turns funny, affecting tale.
  38. Brick
    Like a good campfire storyteller, writer-director Rian Johnson knows how to fuse the amusing and the edgy. And, in Brendan, he has created an endearing character.
  39. Doctor Strange
    All in all, Doctor Strange is a fun and trippy excursion to a place where Marvel rarely seems to go: that is, to the retinal roots of the comics.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Death and the Maiden
    Polanski touch -- apart from a little suspense here and there -- is limited. And the story, which Ariel Dorfman adapted from his radical-chic play, is too contrived and smug to really hold.
  41. The Suicide Squad
    What drags this “Squad” down to the dreary level of Ayer’s vision is the tone of Gunn’s film, which is more violent and less lighthearted than his “Guardians” movies.
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