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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 5.3 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. Aferim!
    Much of the humor derives from how despicable these characters can be, and Jude doesn’t so much push the envelope as turn it into a paper airplane and let it fly.
  2. Victoria
    The acting, especially by Costa, is first rate. Exuding both a childlike openness and a tendency toward the recklessness of young adulthood, the actress backs up even her character’s most questionable choices with conviction.
  3. Snowden
    Regardless of how they feel about the main character, most viewers are likely to leave the theater reminded of Stone’s instinctive brilliance as a filmmaker — his grasp of visual language not just to tell a story but to expose its essential emotional core.
  4. Sicario
    Every scene of calm, potentially, is trip-wired for an explosion. But for all its chilling tension and horrific imagery, Sicario is also a beautiful movie.
  5. An Honest Liar
    In the end, An Honest Liar becomes a far more layered tale than it starts out to be.
  6. The Lady in the Van
    There’s no denying the humor and pathos of The Lady in the Van, just as there’s no use fending off the force of nature that is Smith.
  7. The Connection
    Director Cédric Jimenez, who wrote the movie with Audrey Diwan, has created a slow burn of a movie. The action is intermittent, but a steady tension keeps things interesting.
  8. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
    Star Wars: The Last Jedi unspools like a one-movie binge watch, a lively if overlong and busily plotted second chapter to the latest Star Wars trilogy that advances the story and deepens its characters with a combination of irreverent humor and worshipful love for the original text.
  9. Beauty and the Beast
    This Beauty and the Beast isn’t predicated on starry-eyed romance or animal attraction, but the solace of mutual loss and understanding, which makes it all the sweeter.
  10. Sunshine Superman
    Sunshine Superman might seem like a niche story, with its focus on stunts that most people wouldn’t dream of actually doing, but the documentary feels universal. It’s simply an examination of how one man fully embraced life while charting his own path.
  11. Suffragette
    Suffragette is an absorbing, ultimately moving portrait of thwarted ideals that rings all too true today.
  12. Eddie the Eagle
    Eddie the Eagle leaves viewers buoyed by satisfactions unique to classic come-from-behind stories. Even when it’s as ungainly and cravenly audience-pleasing as its protagonist, it soars.
  13. Lambert & Stamp
    Through some astonishing archival footage and perceptive commentary from Who guitarist Pete ­Townshend, the filmmaker puts the band in its complicated context as both reflector and creator of the postwar British teenage gestalt.
  14. Félix And Meira
    That we almost don’t question the plausibility of this oddest of odd couples is a tribute to the sensitive direction of French Canadian filmmaker Maxime Giroux, who wrote the relatable yet keenly observant script with Alexandre Laferrière.
  15. The Gift
    A surprisingly intelligent and effective (if slightly pulpy) psychological thriller.
  16. Live From New York!
    Live From New York! is a fun, not academic walk down memory lane.
  17. Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine
    The picture that emerges is fractured, making for a portrait that’s as fascinating as it is baffling.
  18. Salad Days
    While the movie is best viewed as an examination of a specific place and time, it also can be seen as a celebration of a larger, more generic cultural phenomenon that one might call creative foment.
  19. Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
    What happened to almost an entire generation of musicians in Cambodia isn’t a scandal. As “Forgotten” makes powerfully, passionately clear, it’s a tragedy.
  20. Barbershop: The Next Cut
    If “Chi-Raq” aimed to shock us out of complacency, “The Next Cut” creates a more welcoming groove, encouraging greater openness to outside perspectives.
  21. Hitchcock/Truffaut
    Hitchcock/Truffaut would be a stronger film had it spent more time with its title figures and less with the contemporary directors.
  22. Tale of Tales
    Garrone has created a world of both rich and ugly textures — visual, narrative and imaginative — that transports, delights and imparts disturbing lessons.
  23. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    Clever, amiable and eager to please, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is the comedy equivalent of the pop-rap star it satirizes, a bit of stupid-smart silliness that offers plenty of pleasure in the moment, even if its amusements last about as long as a snow cone in the sun.
  24. Every Last Child
    What’s true in Pakistan turns out to be universal: Misconceptions can prove as dangerous as any disease and are even harder to eradicate.
  25. Cartel Land
    Cartel Land reveals a culture that spans the border, full of death and dismaying behavior on both sides, but thriving all the same.
  26. Listen to Me Marlon
    Riley doesn’t merely make a fine nonfiction film about the life and legacy of the late conflicted artist. He virtually resurrects him.
  27. 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
    A deep core of emotion gives 3  1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets its ballast, but Silver, who also serves as cinematographer, infuses the production with simple, elegant sophistication.
  28. A Borrowed Identity
    Under Riklis’s direction, the film’s first act lulls the audience into a sense of familiarity, before plunging into a darker reality. The effect is shattering.
  29. The New Girlfriend
    In Ozon’s confident hands, The New Girlfriend has moments that juxtapose gentle humor and surprising depth of feeling.
  30. A Hard Day
    You’ll be glad that A Hard Day isn’t happening to you, but you won’t regret observing it all from a safe distance.
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