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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. First Reformed
    At once ruminative and shocking, godwardly inclined and repellently graphic, First Reformed is indisputably the finest film Schrader has directed since his sensitive adaptation of Russell Banks’s novel “Affliction.”
  2. Baby Driver
    As charming as Baby Driver strives to be, the appeal starts to curdle once Wright makes his fetishistic aims clear.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Little Prayer
    All of “A Little Prayer” is alive in its modest way to the beauty and the disappointment of human existence. MacLachlan has given us Ozu in the heartland, and I can think of no greater praise than that.
  4. The Silence of the Lambs
    A smart, restrained entertainment, it doesn't splash around in blood and hysteria. It doesn't have to.
  5. Sabaya
    As absorbing and illuminating as Sabaya is — and as courageous as it is as an act of filmmaking — the viewer can’t escape the fact that it’s men who have taken these women hostage, men who are rescuing them and men to whom they are returning, as long as they obey their conditions and patriarchal codes.
  6. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Maybe the best way to describe Beasts of the Southern Wild is faux-k art. Even Hushpuppy's name suggests an author more interested in the folk- and foodways of a culture-with-a-capital-C than the people who comprise it. Too often, she and her peers are presented as curios to be exhibited rather than as fully realized -- if resolutely un-mythic -- human beings.
  7. Let the Fire Burn
    Directed with rigor and sensitivity by Jason Osder, this is the kind of nonfiction film that proves how powerful simple storytelling and a compelling through line can be.
  8. Last Train Home
    It's depressing enough to watch this family's struggles with life. But their pain really hits home when you think that the pants you might be wearing could have contributed to it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    One Fine Morning
    Hansen-Love’s semi-autobiographical script provides heart-wrenching glimpses of the empathetic academic within.
  10. The Double Life of Veronique
    The Double Life of Veronique is a mesmerizing poetic work composed in an eerie minor key. Its effect on the viewer is subtle but very real. The film takes us completely into its world, and in doing so, it leaves us with the impression that our own world, once we return to it, is far richer and portentous than we had imagined.
  11. Flight of the Red Balloon
    Because it's one of the most beautiful films ever. Because it's a work of art on the order of a poem by Yeats or a painting by Rothko.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    No Other Choice
    Here, [Park] takes a 1997 Donald E. Westlake novel, “The Ax,” and applies it to his home country with malice aforethought. The result is an entertainment that draws blood.
  13. The Last Seduction
    A spirited attempt at modern film noir, and huge parts of it are enjoyable.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Real Pain
    Culkin walks a line between obnoxiousness and delight; it’s a performance both liberating and touched by a deeper, more inarticulate sadness.
  15. Waking Life
    It's a cult movie in search of a cult. It'll probably find one. It certainly looks and feels like no other movie ever made.
  16. The Green Knight
    The yarn that Lowery spins is rich with incident, but ultimately simple. Its enjoyment lies less in the story, but in the marvelous mystification of its telling.
  17. The First Wave
    The First Wave feels simultaneously hard to watch and vital, tragic and uplifting, like a backward glimpse over our shoulder at a period of conflict and struggle — in more ways than one — that we’re not quite done living through yet.
  18. The Bourne Ultimatum
    It's frenetic to the point of crazy while achieving a mark that barely exceeds mediocre.
  19. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    With its heartening final note of hope and renewal, Deathly Hallows -- Part 2 provides an altogether fitting finale to a series that has prized the fans above all.
  20. Take Shelter
    Taut, unsettling, haunting and powerful.
  21. The Salesman
    If the conceit feels obvious and strained, it still gives Farhadi and his actors ample room to explore the ambiguities of commitment, ethics and revenge in a society where mistrust in public servants runs deep.
  22. You Can Count on Me
    A humanistic gem of a movie, with unforgettable performances from Linney and Ruffalo.
  23. The Pianist
    A beautiful story, told in measured cadences by a master of old-timey narrative compression and expression.
  24. Get Out
    Like all great movies, Get Out faithfully obeys the conventions of its genre — in this case horror films shot through with brutal wit and sharp-eyed allegory — while getting at profound psychic and political realities. The shocks and the laughs are thoroughly entertaining, but it’s the truth of Get Out that’s so real.
  25. City of Life and Death
    It's a muscular, physical movie, pieced together from arresting imagery and revelatory gestures, large and small.
  26. West Side Story
    Spielberg and Kaminski have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration for decades, but their work on West Side Story brings the partnership to breathtakingly poetic expressive heights.
  27. Song of the Sea
    Enchants on every level: story, voice work, drawing and music.
  28. Amy
    [A] sensitive, superbly constructed, ultimately shattering documentary.
  29. The Edge of Heaven
    Oropelled by memorable performances by mostly unknown actors. The most famous of the ensemble, Hanna Schygulla, delivers a by turns serene and shattering performance as a mother struggling with loss, conscience and the first glimmers of unexpected connection. She's only one essential and unforgettable part of a flawless whole.
  30. The Savages
    Bringing a tough, astringent wit to a subject too often wrapped in the cozy blanket of sentimentality or cute humor, Tamara Jenkins takes a frank look at the indignities of aging in The Savages, a black comedy that invites viewers to laugh or at least smile ruefully at the dying of the light.
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