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For 1,404 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 32% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 10.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 51
Highest review score:
Almayer's Folly
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Silver Tongues
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 629 out of 1404
  2. Mixed: 284 out of 1404
  3. Negative: 491 out of 1404
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    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 100
    In the Family
    An acutely felt, altogether devastating family drama as intimate and affecting as it is sprawling and untamed.
  2. Burn
    The endless scenes of burning buildings and macho posturing merely provide an action-driven context for the filmmakers to deal with more personal topics like loneliness and resiliency.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 88
    Le Havre
    For Carl Dreyer, to film a miracle took a single shot; for Bruno Dumont, a whole film. In Le Havre, Aki Kaurismäki needs four shots to capture his - and what an ordinary event it is!
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 88
    Mysteries of Lisbon
    A marvelously elastic storyteller, a dry wit, and a Rivettean anti-determinist, the Chilean auteur Raúl Ruiz is fascinated by narratives that dilate from within, images seemingly full of secret passageways, and fabulists who collect tales like toys.
  5. Beginners
    One of the most distinct pleasures of Beginners is the way it puts together fragments of someone's life-presumably the filmmaker's, although little does it matter-with humility, and without vying for some complete whole.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 88
    Weekend
    A ticking stopwatch hangs over Weekend that amplifies the intensity of every conversation, every fight, every drink, every copulation. In other words, it's a device.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 88
    Skyfall
    Bond's latest is a remarkable high watermark for the series: at once solemn and deeply funny, sexy and sad, self-conscious without all the rib-bruising elbowing.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 100
    Consuming Spirits
    Not only a monstrous visual achievement, but one of the most uniquely humanistic animated features of all time.
  9. Tuesday, After Christmas
    At first glance, Tuesday, After Christmas seems, in both form and content, only a modestly ambitious endeavor. Yet the singular attention with which it carries out its aims-and the rigorous success it ultimately attains-is nonetheless unsparing, and bracing.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 88
    Upstream Color
    Upstream Color is lush, rhythmic, and deeply sensual, a film of exceptional beauty.
  11. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr is the cinema's greatest crafter of total environments and in The Turin Horse, working in his most restricted physical setting since 1984's Almanac of Fall, he (along with co-director Ágnes Hranitzky) dials up one of his most vividly immersive milieus.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 100
    Room 237
    The doc positions The Shining as a comparably coiled, thematically overflowing microcosm--standing in for cinema, for history, for obsession, for postmodern theory buckling under the film's heft.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 88
    Beyond the Hills
    It's Cristian Mungiu's staging and compositional skill that lends the material its true sense of dawning dread.
  14. Photographic Memory
    Ross McElwee is less anxious of death itself than of finally comprehending the vast faultiness of the life he's lived.
  15. The Law in These Parts
    A film for those who, whether here or in Israel, believe the law is the beginning, and not the end, of rights discourse.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 100
    Tabu
    The pangs of romance, eroticism, anguish, and longing (both for the stolen moments of private passion and for the sense-making schematics of Empire) transcend any period of cinema Tabu may evoke.
  17. Augustine
    Alice Winocour's take on this true story carries the superficial trappings of a period drama, but its perspective is entirely contemporary.
  18. Las Acacias
    This lovely film is ultimately an articulation of something at once simple and universal: the discontent of traveling through life with sad resignation.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 88
    An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
    A playfully self-reflective rumination on what writer-director Terence Nance has described as "self-awareness through experience with love."
  20. El Sicario: Room 164
    A lot of evil is laid on the table in El Sicario, and the film makes a big, if exquisitely subtle show, of theorizing that there's no way to explain how it got there.
  21. Rebirth
    If Rebirth's subjects are active guides documenting a fluid psychological landscape, Jim Whitaker constructs a specific cinematic geography around them with stunning time-lapse photography of Ground Zero.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 88
    Flight
    A unique, audacious studio movie, kicking off as a star-driven spectacle before whittling itself down to a raw and riveting character study.
  23. Love Exposure
    Japanese poet and cult filmmaker Shion Sono defines himself as an anti-establishment artist partly out of cynicism and partly thanks to his romantic concept of libertarianism.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 88
    Patience (After Sebald)
    A wide-ranging piece of literary criticism brought to vivid cinematic life, bursting with ideas and inspired visual translations of them.
  25. Sleepless Night
    After a few turns in the modest narrative, an unlikely sense of structural resilience begins to emerge.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 100
    House of Pleasures
    A brief history of time and space, according to Bertrand Bonello.
  27. Graceland
    The film's plot isn't unusual, but director Ron Morales strips it down to its primal essence.
  28. Tomboy
    Tomboy is one of those little big films whose simplicity and concision suggest the excess of meaning that language (cinematic or otherwise) could never account for.
  29. Into the Abyss
    Underlying the occasionally harrowing, consistently mournful tone is a philosophy that, more than being explicitly anti-capital punishment, puts both family ties and the social contract at the center of people's self-worth.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 88
    Dark Days
    The documentary enables its viewers to confront poverty on a human level by presenting its subjects, for the most part, like anyone else, living lives, despite their socioeconomic difference, relatable to our own.
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