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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. The Last Lions
    The result is a movie that may be geared to a nature film fan base but will also appeal to admirers of good storytelling.
  2. I Went Down
    The Irish independent feature I Went Down is an elusive leprechaun of a film that doggedly resists being pigeonholed. Once caught, however, it yields a small pot of gold in its droll performances and deadpan wit. [3 July 1998, p.N46]
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  3. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
    The film is at its best when evoking the painful labor of adolescent self-discovery, a process — as rendered here — that is not unlike a butterfly struggling to emerge from a chrysalis.
  4. The Cooler
    Had The Cooler stuck to its dark guns and not turned into a treacly, love-conquers-all fairy tale, this movie might have gone somewhere. In the end, you're only watching this with a sort of mercenary interest in the actors.
  5. Buffalo '66
    Personal and private almost to the point of self-absorption, the film is ultimately saved from neurotic narcissism by the director's self-deprecating humor and unapologetic honesty about his own dysfunction.
  6. Eating Raoul
    The movie proves a curiously harmless pet of a black comedy: It barks and snaps at you in fitfully funny ways, but it's essentially tame, pipsqueaky and more than a trifle antiquated. [05 Nov 1982, p.D1]
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  7. Giorni e nuvole
    Sometimes art imitates life; sometimes it is life. If the market gets any worse, Days and Clouds could kill realism outright.
  8. The Little Hours
    The Little Hours seldom rises above a clever but lightweight one-liner.
  9. Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
    In Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, documentarian John Scheinfeld shows that the music of one of jazz’s most experimental saxophone players still speaks to audiences today.
  10. Duplicity
    It's smart, it's for grown-ups and it lets Julia Roberts laugh, if just once.
  11. The Painted Veil
    The result is a movie that feels weirdly disconnected from reality.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Evil Dead Rise
    In short, it’s a well-done studio horror movie stepping into the oversize shoes of its indie predecessors. It’s not a perfect fit, but by following in the footsteps of the earlier films, it gets the job done.
  13. It
    If it doesn’t rewrite the rules of horror, it calls attention to them, in a manner that is not just flamboyant, but also baroque.
  14. Digging for Fire
    Digging for Fire is a pleasant escape — an attractively shot, gracefully edited and, finally, emotionally satisfying mystery about the nature of marriage itself.
  15. Black Gold
    Beautifully shot and edited with swift efficiency, Black Gold joins a cadre of recent films that shine a welcome light on how the stuff we buy gets to us and, more to the point, how the price of that stuff often has little to do with its real cost.
  16. Cold Souls
    If not always coherent, at least compelling.
  17. How to Build a Girl
    The comedy that Feldstein and the filmmakers find in Johanna’s often disastrous attempts to become herself keeps the movie afloat; what keeps it tethered to reality is the universal drama of a young woman finding her voice without losing her soul.
  18. A Shock to the System
    An amusing debut for both the writer and director, who benefit from Caine's tongue and cheeky turn as the unbuttoned-down Graham.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tuesday
    At its intermittent best, “Tuesday” pulls a rough and breathtaking beauty from the cataclysm. At its worst, it’s for the birds.
  20. Butterfly Tongues
    The film's climax was only one of several moments that left me utterly verklempt, without ever knowing that my buttons were being pushed.
  21. I Am Jane Doe
    The documentary I Am Jane Doe is the kind of film that lifts up a rock that’s been sitting in plain sight year after year, with only a heroic few bothering to see the slithering reality underneath.
  22. My Psychedelic Love Story
    Luckily, Morris caught up with Harcourt-Smith before she left for the next stop: She’s the best thing about My Psychedelic Love Story, and a far more sympathetic and compelling character than the man she almost risked her life for.
  23. The Unknown Known
    Seemingly unable to engage in self-reflection, let alone self-criticism, Rumsfeld is given virtually full rein to control the narrative by Morris, who is far more interested in letting the audience dwell inside his subject’s strangely attenuated moral imagination, rather than challenge it.
  24. The Ignorant Fairies
    A movie that grows better by the minute.
  25. Small Time Crooks
    Diverting and provides a satisfying alternative to teen-oriented summer comedy.
  26. Ride with the Devil
    In its quiet way, Ride With the Devil is terrific.
  27. Monster's Ball
    The movie's stroke of sheer genius is its wondrous ending.
  28. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
    The documentary mostly steers clear of Vreeland's home life. Little attention is paid to her husband or her children, and that may be partly because Vreeland didn't seem to have much time for them, according to interviews with her two sons.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Julia
    It’s great fun to watch people who knew and loved her reminisce, but mostly it’s a pleasure to spend a little time in the company of the woman who saved America from Jell-O salad.
  30. What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
    The film is not just about a very specific and difficult conversation. Ultimately, it is also about the failure of conversation itself.
  31. Blockers
    Blockers suffers from ungainly, choppy pacing. It feels like a slapdash collection of scenes rather than a balloon sent smoothly aloft, with jokes often falling as flat as Cena’s buzz cut (a running gag centers on his tough-guy character’s propensity for crying, a go-to bit that ages fast).
  32. Green Book
    Most winningly, Green Book puts two of the finest screen actors working today in a sexy turquoise Cadillac, letting them loose on a funny, swiftly-moving chamber piece bursting with heart, art and soul.
  33. Of an Age
    Anton conveys a deep well of unrequited longing that is so powerful, it doesn’t really need storytelling gimmicks.
  34. Out of Africa
    Africa might have been another Gone With the Wind, blown by passion and buffeted by social upheaval. But in the end it's like a trip to a game park called Extinction. [20 Dec 1985, p.C1]
    • Washington Post
  35. Boy Erased
    Boy Erased is a showcase for Hedges, who played a closeted boy in “Lady Bird” and who plays a teen with a different sort of burden in the upcoming drama “Ben Is Back.” In each of those roles, the boy-next-door actor finds just the right combination of ordinary and anomalous.
  36. Stakeout
    A mature human farce that values characters' foibles over their firearms.
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