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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 Exorcist
    11 minutes longer than the original, and 11 minutes worse. [2000 re-release]
  2. A Little Princess
    Cuaron approaches the film not as a fairy tale for children, but a work of magic realism. And perhaps best of all, he doesn't talk down to young folks, in the audience or in the cast. The performances are as natural as skinned knees and missing teeth.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    His Three Daughters
    The movie’s also a salve to anyone who has watched a parent die and felt panic about everything left unasked and unsaid. It’s a love letter to the siblings who know us too well and not at all. And finally, it’s a profound act of letting go — of resentments and of fear and of the people who stand us on our feet before sending us out into the world.
  4. Adaptation.
    May not be the first movie to examine the creative process. But it's the most playfully brilliant.
  5. The Snapper
    The Snapper is a small movie, but its spirit is gigantic. [17 Dec 1993, p.C1]
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  6. My Dinner with Andre
    An intimate theater piece conceived for the movies, My Dinner With Andre illustrates how much human interest, entertainment value and even philosophical inquiry can be derived from a situation as static as a dinner conversation. It should also prove a great incentive for dining out and shooting the bull in general. [19 Jan 1982, p.D3]
    • Washington Post
  7. Trainspotting
    The story, such as it is, follows Renton's inconsistent attempts to kick his habit.
  8. Welcome to the Dollhouse
    Writer-director Todd Solondz is far from clueless when it comes to the agonies of early adolescence, which he mercilessly re-creates in his caustic suburban comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Between the Temples
    It’s a tricky balancing act to find humor in stereotypes while seeing the human beings behind them — affection and a few years of distance can help — but “Between the Temples” walks the tightrope with wobbly yet confident grace.
  10. The Wind Rises
    Of Miyazaki’s many gifts as a filmmaker, perhaps the most subtle is the way he honors time and silence and stillness, values that are in lamentably short supply in most modern-day productions.
  11. Fantastic Mr. Fox
    Fantastic Mr. Fox imparts lessons as profound as "The Road's" about love and gratitude and awareness of others. It just has more fun doing it.
  12. Limbo
    It’s tempting — and not entirely inaccurate — to call this oddly moving little film a comedy-drama, but if so, it’s a dark one at that.
  13. In the Loop
    Tremendous fun at times, especially in its vicious power plays and betrayals. But it has no redeeming value beyond entertainment.
  14. Bus 174
    The results are as riveting as any action movie ever made.
  15. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Still, there’s no denying that the wise, funny, loving protagonists of Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets make for unforgettable company, even after the hangover has worn off.
  16. Soul
    This dazzling, if ultimately frustrating, movie seems to pick up where the far superior “Inside Out” ended, leaving behind the inner workings of young people’s emotional lives for an exploration of metaphysical realms that are fuzzier, more speculative and, to put it bluntly, not nearly as involving.
  17. Amores Perros
    Anguish ranges from gritty and realistic to the tragicomic soap opera found in Pedro Almodovar's films.
  18. Osama
    In its small, achingly beautiful way, this is the lesson that Osama teaches us: When one human being suffers, it is all of us who share her pain.
  19. The Salt of the Earth
    The Salt of the Earth remains worshipful when it should be more probing, especially around questions of ethics, privacy and consent.
  20. Sing Sing
    As much as the script quotes Shakespeare, it’s a lot closer to “The Shawshank Redemption,” a well-meaning reminder that the incarcerated are human beings, too.
  21. Turning Red
    To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a red panda is just a red panda. And sometimes it’s a metaphor for that inner spark of creativity, the flame of originality that is to be cherished, not extinguished. With “Turning Red,” Shi demonstrates that she’s got it, in spades.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Hau Chu
    Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
    Writer-director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun paints a world that can feel as vast as it is isolating, while Amina, along with most of the other characters, speaks in a direct, almost transactional manner that befits her steely demeanor.
  23. Hesburgh
    This moving, illuminating slice of American life and social history serves as a stirring example that we should all do much better. And we can start right now.
  24. Being There
    The fragile satric fable seemed to defy adaptation. But despite its shortcomings, director Hal Ashby managed to transplant the undernourished narrative with remarkable success. [08 Feb 1980, p.D1]
    • Washington Post
  25. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    An instant slapstick classic from Disney and Steven Spielberg. Already, it's a hare's breadth away from legend. [22 June 1988]
  26. Chop Shop
    The director has created a not-to-miss gem for the discriminating viewer.
  27. Moonstruck
    A great big beautiful valentine of a movie, an intoxicating romantic comedy set beneath the biggest, brightest Christmas moon you ever saw. It's a monster moon, a Moby Dick of a moon, whose radiance fills the winter sky and every cranny of this joyous love story.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Raising Victor Vargas
    As fresh -- and as restorative -- as a lemon ice on a hot day.
  29. The Cave
    Fayyad — who directed a team of cinematographers remotely when he was prevented from entering Ghouta himself — films The Cave with a grace and compositional sensitivity all the more impressive for being achieved under the most difficult circumstances.
  30. Blackfish
    It’s upsetting and scary to watch the footage of orca attacks collected in Blackfish, a damning documentary about the treatment of the animals by marine parks.
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