For 6,906 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 7.8 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 54
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,530 out of 6906
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Negative: 1,316 out of 6906
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movie reviews
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Dennis Lim 100
Primer unites physics and metaphysics in an ingenious guerrilla reinvention of cinematic science fiction. -
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J. Hoberman 100
Vera Drake puts the passion in compassion. Building up to a shattering conclusion, Leigh's movie is both outrageously schematic and powerfully humanist. -
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J. Hoberman 100
The Canadian painter-photographer-filmmaker-musician gives full vent to his genius in this exhilarating perceptual vaudeville, titled for the "central region" of tissue that acts as a conduit between the brain's two hemispheres. -
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Michael Atkinson 100
You either love it or you love it; in any case, Martin Scorsese's history-making scald is truly a phenomenon from another day and age. -
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J. Hoberman 100
Directed by anyone else, Masculine Feminine--one of three movies that Godard made in his peak year, 1966--would be a masterpiece. For the young JLG it's business as usual. -
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Michael Atkinson 100
An organic, childlike wonder, fabulously unpredictable and seethingly inventive. -
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Dennis Lim 100
The brilliant concluding chapter in the death trilogy that inspired Gus Van Sant's artistic rebirth. -
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Michael Atkinson 100
Bertolucci's masterpiece--made when he was all of 29--will be the most revelatory experience a fortunate pilgrim will have in a theater this year is a foregone conclusion. -
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Dennis Lim 100
The Intruder, is a decisive breakthrough--her (Claire Denis) most poetic and primal film to date, as thrilling as it is initially baffling. -
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Critic Score 100
This work of gorgeous fury, about the virtual imprisonment of millions of Hindu widows in the years before independence, transforms Mehta's feminist rage into an eloquent testament to the hunger for freedom. -
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To an extent, Flags of Our Fathers is to the WWII movie what Eastwood's Unforgiven was to the western -- a stripping-away of mythology until only a harsher, uncomfortable reality remains. -
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J. Hoberman 100
Literally and figuratively marvelous, a rich, daring mix of fantasy and politics. -
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Critic Score 100
Zodiac exhausts more than one genre. Termite art par excellence, it burrows for the sake of burrowing, as fascinated by its own nooks and crannies as "Inland Empire." -
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J. Hoberman 100
Killer of Sheep is an urban pastoral--an episodic series of scenes that are sweet, sardonic, deeply sad, and very funny. -
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Critic Score 100
This monumentally pointless movie is best summarized by a line from Planet Terror: "At some point in your life, you find a use for every useless talent you have." Rodriguez, Tarantino, and Co. aim for nothing more noble than to freak the funk, and it's about godd--- time. Go wasted, go stoned, go without your parents' permission. In paying homage to an obsolete form of movie culture, Grindhouse delivers a dropkick to ours. -
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Robert Wilonsky 100
Ultimately, what makes Knocked Up a terrific film--one of the year's best, easily--is its relaxed, shaggy vibe; if it feels improvised in places, that's because Apatow trusts his actors enough to let them make it up as they go, like the people they're playing. -
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Critic Score 100
To watch this movie (shot in breathtaking widescreen by cinematographer Ian Jones) is to enter into a whole new language of symbols and meaning, the likes of which I have rarely encountered in cinema outside of the African tribal films of Ousmane Sembene. -
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Critic Score 100
In narrative terms, not that much happens, but as for Harry's emotional journey--well, that's nearly epic. -
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Bravura doesn't begin to describe Greengrass's skill in mounting these complex sequences...This is, simply put, some of the most accomplished filmmaking being done anywhere for any purpose. -
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Robert Wilonsky 100
It's all true--every magical, exhilarating, infuriating, dumbfounding, jaw-dropping second of Gordon's miniature masterpiece. -
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J. Hoberman 100
The movie grabs hold and runs you through the wringer. -
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Critic Score 100
The most measured, classical film of their (Coen Brothers) 23-year career, and maybe the best. -
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J. Hoberman 100
This is truly a work of symphonic aspirations and masterful execution. -
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J. Hoberman 100
Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu's brilliantly discomfiting second feature is one long premonition of disaster. -
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Critic Score 100
The performances, culled from seven shows on the “Vertigo” tour from Mexico City to Buenos Aires, burn with the old unforgettable fire. -
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J. Hoberman 100
The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few directors have revisited their earliest concerns with such vigor. -
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J. Hoberman 100
Flight of the Red Balloon is in a class by itself. In its unexpected rhythms and visual surprises, its structural innovations and experimental perfs, its creative misunderstandings and its outré syntheses, this is a movie of genius. -
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Robert Wilonsky 100
A film that's both breathtakingly majestic and heartbreakingly intimate. -
