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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. Margin Call
    Chandor's film goes a long way toward making understandable - in vivid, cinematic terms - what exactly happened to make that first big domino fall over.
  2. The Hand of God
    For all its beauty and poignancy, The Hand of God suffers from a strange paradox: It goes on too long but somehow doesn’t go far enough.
  3. Listen Up Philip
    Listen Up Philip makes literary talent seem less like a blessing than a curse.
  4. The Wonders
    Structurally, The Wonders suffers from awkward bulges and sags, especially toward the end. Still, it’s a beautiful, richly imagined ride that doesn’t end as much as evaporate into a dreamlike puff of smoke.
  5. World on a Wire (1973)
    Seen now, the movie seems as timely as it is outdated, its themes contemporary even if its clothing and hairdos are anything but.
  6. Wonder Woman
    Wonder Woman may not cure all the ills of pop culture’s superhero-saturation syndrome; in fact, in many ways it succumbs to some of its worst excesses. But at least it brings an exhilarating, vicarious kick to the sagging, bagging table.
  7. My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
    Amalric is low-key and immensely likable, but what makes his Paul a worthwhile companion on a three-hour voyage is his utter sincerity, coupled with self-aware irony. He's not a phony, a user, a Romeo or a slut. His earnestness is his best quality; he tries so hard to do the right thing, sometimes only failing by a little. [10 Oct 1997, p.N48]
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  8. Tito and the Birds
    If the metaphor of xenophobia and nationalism is obvious — and it is, to the point of eye-rolling — the telling of the tale has a certain poetry.
  9. (500) Days of Summer
    And what makes this autopsy of a love affair funny is Tom's ironic, morose commentary as he revisits what happened.
  10. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    A wise, funny film about the little leaps of faith it takes to just get through the day.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Hau Chu
    Spencer
    For better and for worse, Spencer conveys one thing quite powerfully: the feeling of living in a rarefied, indifferent world that doesn’t seem to value independent women, much less people.
  12. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    Roundly entertaining.
  13. The Revenant
    Despite the literal and figurative pains it takes to persuade viewers of its own importance, The Revenant can’t escape the clutches of crippling self-regard.
  14. La grande strada azzurra
    The film is nowhere near the level of Pontecorvo's masterpiece, or even his subsequent flawed allegory on Vietnam, "Burn!," but is clearly the work of a natural coming into the full range of his powers.
  15. The Kingmaker
    The Kingmaker chills the soul by presenting shantytown residents and school kids who extol the Marcos regime and even endorse its eight-year period of martial law.
  16. Cassandro
    All this sporting entertainment turns out to be an unexpectedly mellow affair of the heart, with Bernal completely winning you over.
  17. House Party
    House Party isn't a great movie, but it's heartfelt and enormously winning. In its own modest, ramshackle way, it manages to seem innocent even when it's profane. And maybe a party that demonstrates that those two qualities aren't necessarily opposed is exactly the kind we need.
  18. No Sudden Move
    No Sudden Move could also refer to the snail’s pace of social change. But race is just a subtext — albeit an enriching one — in a piece of entertainment that feels like watching, say, Ocean’s 11, but with a social conscience.
  19. Safe
    This spooky film's ostensible subject—an environmental illness known as multiple chemical sensitivity—is merely a starting place for this mesmerizing horror movie, feminist tract and medical mystery.
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  20. Stronger
    Stronger isn’t always easy to watch; Jeff makes bad decisions and life gets messy. But it does feel like a realistic depiction of one man’s life.
  21. Smoke Signals
    A well-crafted story with a unique voice. But its literary gifts are outweighed by its pictorial prosaicness. Dimming the screen in every shot is the unmistakable shadow of the page.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    September 5
    September 5 is an exciting, well-made, thought-provoking movie. Sadly, it couldn’t matter less to where we are now.
  23. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
    You have the right to remain silent. But if you do, call 911 -- your funny bone is busted. [2 Dec 1988]
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  24. Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
    What’s most fascinating about Afternoon of a Faun — and what the movie could spend more time delving into — is ballet’s grueling and fleeting nature.
  25. At Eternity's Gate
    Much like the painter, who died without the recognition he deserved, the movie approaches greatness without quite achieving it.
  26. The Dance of Reality
    For all the spectacular weirdness, Jodorowsky manages to generate real emotion.
  27. Pavements
    Once Perry brings his magnum opus to its many climactic conclusions, the bait-and-switchy gamesmanship and sheer swing of his conceit have become irresistibly contagious, and viewers can’t help but be moved.
  28. Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
    All in all, this is a celebration of Australian exuberance, a national ethic of adventurousness and enormous charisma.
  29. Obvious Child
    There are as many awkward, discomfiting sequences in Obvious Child as there are interludes of genuine fun and romance. The result is a movie that feels risky and forgiving and, despite its traditional rom-com contours, refreshingly new.
  30. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    The film is a testament to art, life and survival like the similar but superior "Buena Vista Social Club."
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