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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. Corpse Bride
    For all its charm, we can't quite figure out for whom the film is intended: Talking maggots and decaying bodies do not a kiddie movie make.
  2. Project Nim
    An absorbing, agonizing documentary about ambition, lust and anthropomorphism at their most heedless, records suffering and manipulation so extreme that description can barely do them justice.
  3. Neil Young Trunk Show
    May not achieve the transcendent heights of "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," but it has its own pleasures.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Lighthouse
    What unfolds is a perverse odd-couple tale, flooded with ornate dialogue, surreal storytelling and nightmarish imagery.
  5. Spider-Man 2
    This movie, directed with precision and an appreciation for (relatively) rich character texture by Sam Raimi, remembers all the fine elements of the original film (and the comic book story). It reprises them perfectly, including wonderfully choreographed, skyscraper-hanging fights.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Hau Chu
    Saint Frances
    A charming, nuanced story with plenty to say about making just that sort of superficial judgment and about what people are actually going through beneath their carefully crafted appearances.
  7. When We Were Kings
    Though the Oscar-nominated documentary captures the fight and the fighters, it also explores Ali's role in reintroducing black Americans to their African culture.
  8. 20 Feet from Stardom
    It’s a story of standing out and blending in, sometimes at the same time.
  9. Avatar
    By presenting Avatar in 3-D, Cameron is staking his claim and building a fence around his own precious resource, making it unobtainable on any but his own terms to increasingly emboldened and technologically savvy natives.
  10. 20th Century Women
    As a celebration of personal and social history, 20th Century Women takes the audience back. But it also lifts us up on a wave of openhearted emotion and keen intelligence. It bursts with the sad, messy, ungovernable beauty of life.
  11. Pina
    The result is a panorama of emotion, in which one dancer exhibits pure joy and another severe aching. As Bausch notes early in the film, words alone cannot describe something, nor can dance. One medium has to pick up where the last has left off. The disembodied words seem to get to the heart of that idea.
  12. Animal Kingdom
    The most troubling aspect of the story -- and its most compelling -- is the emphasis on banal, everyday life.
  13. A Room with a View
    If amusing, A Room With a View is little more than a lark, a series of skits, a two-hour tribute to the rich British eccentric.
  14. Hugo
    Strangely, Scorsese's very passion for the subject matter turns out to be both a blessing and a curse for Hugo.
  15. The LEGO Movie
    There are so many things to like about The Lego Movie: a great voice cast, clever dialogue and a handsome blend of stop-motion and CGI animation that feels lovingly retro, while still looking sharp in 21st-century 3-D. But the best thing about this movie... is its subversive nature.
  16. Gloria
    For the most part, Gloria is a day brightener of a character study about finding someone new and making the same old mistakes.
  17. Drag Me to Hell
    As in the best horror movies, Drag Me to Hell keeps the audience on the edge of hysteria throughout, so that every thump sets the heart racing and every joke earns a slightly out-of-control laugh.
  18. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    It's a depressing little kingdom, even when Gordon tries desperately to goose the drama with the requisite "Eye of the Tiger" riffs and some junior high-level palace intrigue.
  19. Spider
    An eensy-weensy movie sustained by two utterly gigantic performances.
  20. Ixcanul
    Ixcanul is, among other things, a movie about the resilience and savvy of women who are continually disparaged by their cultures.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Evil Does Not Exist
    Visually, sonically and thematically, “Evil Does Not Exist” is a rich and subtle experience.
  22. Seymour: An Introduction
    Seymour: An Introduction gives viewers a soaring, sublime and enduringly meaningful glimpse of a man who is undoubtedly the real thing.
  23. Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    Every moment of the way, there is a delectable sense of subtle menace and, at the center of it all, Huppert's haunting expression, part sphinx, part grace and maybe part scary.
  24. Up in the Air
    A smart, alert, supremely entertaining movie.
  25. Milk
    What makes Milk extraordinary isn't just that it's a nuanced, stirring portrait of one of the 20th century's most pivotal figures, but that it's also a nuanced, stirring portrait of the thousands of people he energized.
  26. Lilya 4-Ever
    Lilya's struggle to make a life for herself is both heartbreaking and heart-stirring.
  27. Cutie and the Boxer
    It’s a wonder how Cutie and the Boxer, in less than an hour and a half, manages to say so much about love, life and art. Movies twice as long are often half as eloquent.
  28. U2 3D
    In many ways, watching the movie is BETTER than concertgoing. We can enjoy that buzzy feeling of community without the fist-pumping biker obscuring our view.
  29. One Night in Miami
    As a filmed version of a play, One Night in Miami has the same talky, slightly claustrophobic contours one might expect. But that pent-up quality is an advantage for a movie in which the room where it might have happened is a character in itself.
  30. Babe
    A captivating comic allegory about daring to be different in the face of conformity.
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