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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. Finding Fela!
    [A] captivating and meticulous new film by Alex Gibney.
  2. The Horse Boy
    A lovely, amazing, wonderfully provocative film.
  3. Greenland
    Much of Greenland features chaotic crowd scenes. The real disaster is how quickly mankind descends into dismaying depravity.
  4. The Mountain
    The Mountain is what it is, and any attempt to recapitulate its meaning in some other form (like — ahem — a movie review) is a fool’s errand. With that in mind, it is probably best to set this thought down, and leave it with you: The Mountain is not for everyone, but it is, most emphatically, something else.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kinds of Kindness
    Lanthimos and his company still dare to find a bracing, disconsolate farce in our brief and helpless thrashing through life. For that, most people will never forgive them.
  6. The Great Santini
    For all its awkwardness and mawkishness, Santini deserves the shot. It has an authentic core of family drama and humor that could stir a large public. [03 Oct 1980, p.C1]
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  7. Ready Player One
    If Ready Player One is tedious at times, it’s also oodles of fun at others.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It Could Happen to You
    In the end, It Could Happen to You is a lot like the cop and the waitress: sweet, naive, not too smart, but likable. In this pyrotechnic summer of "Speed," "Blown Away" and "True Lies," that's got to count for something.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Proof
    Paltrow is pretty commanding, even if Madden pushes things toward airlessness by keeping the camera so tight.
  10. Amistad
    Although the movie is moving and even funny in many places, it's also overextended. And composer John Williams's syrupy score practically oozes from your ears on the drive home.
  11. Jack Goes Boating
    All in all, Jack Goes Boating is an auspicious -- if slightly ostentatious -- debut by Hoffman, one of today's greatest actors. Maybe next time his performance in front of his camera will be as subtle as his performance behind it.
  12. The Muppet Christmas Carol
    A sadly dull and unimaginative outing.
  13. We Are X
    You don’t have to understand the lyrics — or even like the music — to find We Are X entertaining, even, at times, moving.
  14. The Lodge
    The Lodge isn’t a perfect treat. But for those who like their movies dark and disturbing, it does the trick.
  15. Watership Down
    Barely adequate as a pictorial rendering of the book, the movie still thrives on the rousing nature of this unlikely but enthralling epic. [08 Nov 1978, p.C1]
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  16. Café Society
    Its arresting visual design aside, Cafe Society is upper-middle-late-period Allen, a modestly diverting ditty that will never go down as one of his greats. (But, as most can agree, Allen at his most middling is still better than many hacks at their best.)
  17. Peter Pan
    Needs more than happy thoughts to get off the ground.
  18. Nymphomaniac: Volume I
    It’s impossible to dismiss von Trier as merely a hype-monger. He’s too damnably good a filmmaker for that. Watching Nymphomaniac is to be reminded of his superb skills in creating vivid worlds and characters on screen.
  19. Gattaca
    Gattaca may be all done up in new-fangled notions, but underneath all the guff about designer babies, it rests on a notion that was a staple of the original "Star Trek" series.
  20. Robots
    The story fails to really engage on any level save the kinetic.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fire
    In filmmaker Mehta's deft hands, the outcome is handled with power and sensitivity. [22 Aug1 997, pg.N40]
    • Washington Post
  22. Last Call at the Oasis
    As a lucid, emotionally involving portrait of the looming crisis surrounding water - supplies of which are dwindling as contamination rises - Jessica Yu's smartly constructed argument works less as a tutorial than as an infectiously impassioned call to arms.
  23. Starting Over
    There's no doubt about Burt Reynolds' skill. Starting Over finds Reynolds at a level of proficiency that approaches the awesome. [05 Oct 1979, p.B1]
    • Washington Post
  24. Ladyhawke
    Donner never quite gets the tone right, and the pace is positively stuporous. The horses gallop, but the film barely canters. [15 Apr 1985, p.B2]
    • Washington Post
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Apprentice
    It has the era’s soundtrack down, from Studio 54 disco to Suicide’s “Ghost Rider.” But it doesn’t have much of a point.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Mystic Masseur
    A soft-focused, wistful big-screen art film.
  27. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    Has its funny moments, but all too often it's a corny, lackluster film in which humans pretend (not always convincingly) to interact with cartoons.
  28. Vengo
    Feels like a song you may have heard before, but one whose aching beauty makes it endlessly listenable.
  29. Blood Work
    It's always nice to see Clint, and especially nice to see him play someone whose humanity -- no, whose mortality -- is all too apparent.
  30. The Fourth Protocol
    An absorbing, intelligent and suspense-filled film... It's streamlined and rich at the same time -- like the best of the James Bond films, but serious.
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