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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. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
    In an increasingly mean-spirited world, the spirit of fun and kindness in Captain Underpants is simply a tonic.
  2. Predestination
    The movie may not have quite the mind-bending wallop of “Inception,” but Predestination is about something deeper than fantasy.
  3. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
    Nothing in the first Gremlins came close to being as bad as these early segments in the second one, and because the concept is no longer fresh, and the suspense over what's going to happen is lost, we're ready for the filmmakers to get on with it long before they've finished setting the table.
  4. Fan-Fan the Tulip
    That the actor performs so effortlessly, so casually, is the real magic here. You forget about technique, and, best of all, you forget you're watching a black-and-white subtitled French movie from the dusty past.
  5. Eyes Wide Shut
    It's empty of ideas, which is fine, but it's also empty of heat.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Underneath
    Soderbergh soaks the screen in moody, swimming pool hues to suggest the characters' murky motivations, and uses different textures of film stock to distinguish between the multiple layers of flashback. [28 April 1995, p.N44]
    • Washington Post
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Absolute Wilson
    Although the film shows many photographs and videos of his performances, it never allows a particularly coherent assessment of any of them.
  8. Chicken with Plums
    A whimsical, sad, diverting and altogether delightful exploration of how cinema can benefit, not only from glancing back at its own past, but by staying open to parallel forms of presentation and play.
  9. You Resemble Me
    You Resemble Me would be a vivid, beautifully acted reflection of dispossession and cultural dislocation if it stayed one thing. But, like its mercurial protagonist, it changes shape to become a deeply meaningful meditation on narrative itself, blending fact and fiction into a seamlessly poetic whole.
  10. Le bossu
    Great sword fights, great acting, fabulous sword fights and, of course, really cool sword fights.
  11. Sunshine State
    Part of the joy of watching a John Sayles film is to see how he knits together so many people and stories into a densely layered, always absorbing whole.
  12. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    As a Coen brothers fan I hate to say this, but the movie's a collection of great bits and pieces rather than a complete work.
  13. Opening Night
    There is no attempt to explain why an actress would go to pieces when she discovers a point of identity with her role; nor why an actress who is constantly loony, drunk, abusive or all three would not be understudied, let alone replaced. It should be noted that the play-within-the-movie is even worse than the movie-about-the-play. [14 Apr 1978, p.18]
    • Washington Post
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Hau Chu
    Climax
    Noé has made what might be his most accessible and, yes, tender film to date, teasing the idea of heavenly bliss — before heading straight to hell.
  15. Shallow Grave
    This is exactly the kind of weird, sardonic texture the movie is aiming for - and unfortunately, most of it occurs in the first half of the story.
  16. The Bank Job
    What makes director Roger Donaldson's movie greater than zany heist fare is that this particular robbery really happened and that this episode illuminated an almost moral clash between the haves and the have-nots of Great Britain.
  17. Little Voice
    Little Voice may be more of a confection than a square meal, but it's proof of how good a dish can be when the ingredients are of the highest order.
  18. Talk to Me
    Talk to Me, with two great actors, tells that story, and it makes you feel not only the joy people experienced in the wash of Greene's raucous, truth-saying humor, but also his wisdom and calm. And many mourned his death at 55 in 1984.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
    At its heart, though, this is a film about human nature: about desire, recklessness and emotions. The fraught relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is this tale’s powerful overlay. But it’s the questions it raises about personal accountability that speak to wider truths.
  20. The Birth of a Nation
    The Birth of a Nation is a flawed but fairly compelling chapter of the American story that powerfully resonates with how that story is playing out today.
  21. Arthur
    Arthur is one of those rare contemporary entertainments that can be used to contradict people who habitually complain, "They don't make 'em like they used to!" This time they have. [17 July 1981, p.B1]
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  22. Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia)
    Telling an old story in a new way and infusing what might have been a dry political polemic with poetry, passion and unlikely warmth.
  23. The Death of Dick Long
    Newcomb is especially good and poignant, but Abbott also brings a pitiful emotional honesty to a repugnant character.
  24. Spider-Man: Far from Home
    Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon (as Peter’s best friend, Ned) convincingly convey adolescent awkwardness, despite the fact that they’re all in their 20s.
  25. Zero Day
    The movie can't help but resonate with a ripped-from-the-headlines topicality.
  26. Ginger & Rosa
    Suffused with enormous compassion for the young woman at its center, this parable of awakenings shares some DNA with the art house hit “An Education” but has little of that movie’s nods to cozy humor and happy endings.
  27. Raising Arizona
    Raising Arizona is a prize package and a bundle of joy, one that puts a fresh, funny face on the American comedy movie. It's as encouraging as it is entertaining. [20 March 1987, p.C1]
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  28. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
    The Galapagos Affair spins a strange and compelling tale, with perfectly sinister music by Laura Karpman setting the mood. But the movie is better at building suspense than following through.
  29. Patriots Day
    After dispensing with the sluggish setup of the film’s first act, Berg shifts into high gear, powerfully evoking the feelings of dread and white-knuckle excitement that much of America no doubt felt as the manhunt progressed.
  30. Slacker
    Linklater's control seems all but invisible here. But this kind of stylistic lucidity can only be the result of determined calculation and planning. The kind of happy accidents he captures don't come about by accident.
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