The Hollywood Reporter's Scores

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For 4,291 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
4,291 movie reviews
  1. This is a gorgeously made character study leavened with surrealistic dimensions both comic and dark, an unsparing look at a young man who, unlike some of his contemporaries, can’t transcend his abundant character flaws and remake himself as someone else.
  2. Brad Bird and Pixar recapture the charm and winning imagination of classic Disney animation.
  3. The film comes down to a mesmerizing portrait of a man who in any other age would perhaps be deemed nuts or useless, but in the Internet age has this mental agility to transform an idea into an empire.
  4. The film's power steadily and relentlessly builds over its long course, to a point that is terrifically imposing and unshakable.
  5. A genuinely moving look at life in a group foster home that avoids most of the usual routes into viewers' hearts.
    • Metascore: 95
    • Critic Score 90
    As in all the director's work, the cast is given top consideration and their realistic acting results in unusual depth of characterization.
  6. The work Richard Linklater and company started in 1995's Before Sunrise retains a clarity of spirit undimmed by 18 years.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Critic Score 90
    Spirited dazzles and entertains like no other movie this year. It also comes to a satisfying conclusion and never once seems to take shortcuts. Miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Critic Score 90
    Tensely action-packed and muscularly directed by Kathryn Bigelow, this tale of an elite U.S. army bomb disposal unit in Baghdad is a familiar story in new clothes, targeted at the young male demographic.
  7. The visual design of Wall-E is arguably Pixar's best. Stanton, who wrote the script with Jim Reardon from a story he concocted with Peter Docter, creates two fantastically imaginative, breathtakingly lit worlds.
  8. Hysterically funny yet melancholy comedy.
  9. Director David Weissman brings a rewardingly fresh and personal perspective to the subject.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Critic Score 100
    An epic success and a history-making production that finishes with a masterfully entertaining final installment.
  10. It is a tremendous achievement that shines a light on the way many countries use criminals to further their domestic and international goals. Politically informative, it also offers great drama with excitement and suspense, and no little tragedy.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Critic Score 100
    Magnificent in its simplicity and its relentless honesty about old age, illness and dying, Michael Haneke's Amour is a deliberately torturous watch.
  11. Director Julian Schnabel and screenwriter Ronald Harwood have performed a small miracle in adapting for the screen Jean-Dominique Bauby's autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
    • Metascore: 92
    • Critic Score 100
    Claire Denis, not always an easy director, is in top form here directing an almost all-black cast with grace and delicacy. For the happy few, this is French art house cinema at its unpretentious best.
  12. Daniel Day-Lewis stuns in Paul Thomas Anderson's saga of a soul-dead oil man.
  13. Woody, Buzz and playmates make a thoroughly engaging, emotionally satisfying return.
  14. A fascinating mix of high-minded gossip and historical perspective, examines the clash of values -- of ritual and traditions versus media savvy and political ambition -- that leads to a crisis for the British monarchy.
  15. This is one hot, provocative, revelatory and astonishing documentary, one sure to provoke enthralled interest and controversy wherever it is shown worldwide.
  16. Because Cutie and Boxer resists easy sentimentality, its view of life and love is all the more powerful.
  17. There is no denying the passion or intelligence of this work, which is meant to be an encouragement to explore the films for ourselves rather than a dry history lesson. On that level, "Viaggio" fully succeeds.
  18. An exhilarating fish story in the perfectly cast comic adventure.
  19. A riveting first feature of startling maturity and intelligence.
  20. This is one of the most wildly romantic movies in ages.
  21. Pixar again hitches top-notch storytelling to the very best in CG animation.
  22. It's an extraordinary film.
  23. Greengrass has made not only a thoroughly fact-checked film but a film that uncontrovertibly comes from the heart.
  24. Utterly compelling account of a true-life criminal investigation where "truth" can never be pinned down.