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For 6,978 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 63% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 54
Highest review score:
WALL-E
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Dirty Love
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,563 out of 6978
  2. Mixed: 3,087 out of 6978
  3. Negative: 1,328 out of 6978
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    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 100
    West of Memphis
    That makes this the most rare of films: one that indisputably matters. And one that stuns.
  2. Little Fugitive (re-release)
    The film's genius is how completely it tunes in to his 
experience, delicately outlining Joey's private moments of shame, elation, despondency, and pride.
  3. Porfirio
    Landes's tone is never salacious or exploitative, nor for that matter pandering or sentimental. This is a sui generis work—warm, sporadically funny, deeply human, and altogether beguiling.
  4. Like Someone in Love
    The movie's sense of immutable desire resonates well after the lights have come up.
  5. Leviathan
    Plunging viewers into the thick of chaos, Leviathan explodes the antiquated paradigm of the documentary or ethnographic film, whose mission has traditionally been to educate or elucidate, to create something that seizes us, never letting us forget just how disordered the world is. This may be the greatest lesson any nonfiction film can teach us.
  6. Spring Breakers
    Spring Breakers seems to be holding a funhouse mirror up to the face of youth-driven pop culture, leaving us uncertain whether to laugh, recoil in horror, or marvel at its strange beauty. All I knew is I couldn't wait to see it a second time.
  7. Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
    Thanks to Lynch's expert pacing and modulation of narrative tension, even viewers who already know the outcome of the film's central incident will likely be pulled to the edges of their seats.
  8. This Ain't California
    This Ain't California is a masterful lie that illuminates a little-known reality.
  9. It's a Disaster
    The story's outline may be familiar, but its emphasis and quality are not.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 100
    Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
    This is one of the most fully rounded, unsentimental portraits of an artist you'll ever see on film.
  11. Paradise: Love
    It might be the most lonesome film about a tropical vacation we've seen, and the greatest film ever made about the weird socioeconomics of tourism.
  12. Voyage to Italy (re-release)
    Voyage to Italy is close to watching actual strangers suffer loneliness despite being together. It can leave an aching bruise, but only if you're paying attention.
  13. Something in the Air
    In Something in the Air, that past—a version of Assayas's own—is rendered in visuals so specific and evocative, it's perpetually alive.
  14. Stories We Tell
    This wondrous, absorbing little picture covers a great deal of winding meta-territory, reflecting on the ways in which a single family's story can be told—or maybe, more accurately, examining the idea that there's no such thing as a "single story."
  15. Valentino's Ghost
    A crash course in history, politics, and social science, Valentino's Ghost is both sobering and illuminating, and its execution is thrilling.
  16. Before Midnight
    Before Midnight—visually stunning, in a late-summer way—is more vital and cutting than another recent marriage picture, Michael Haneke's old-folks-together death march Amour; it has none of Amour's tasteful restraint, and in the end, it says more about the nature of long-term love.
  17. Fill the Void
    Burshtein's lush visual sensibility, and the subtle performances of the excellent cast, create an aching portrayal of longing and interdependence that transcends the boundaries of the family's small world.
  18. Fighter
    Probably more terse than it needs to be, but the dramatic line has an elegance and drive that reinforces the unexpected turns of the story.
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  19. Erin Brockovich
    This is the Julia Roberts performance her fans have been waiting for.
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  20. Beautiful People
    It seems like a more witty, wise, and succinct "Magnolia."
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  21. Topsy-Turvy
    Not only Mike Leigh's strongest film since "Naked" but a true show-making epic.
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  22. Shanghai Noon
    Unstintingly funny -- far more so than the wince-worthy trailer -- owing to Chan's pairing with droll indie eccentric Owen Wilson, as his would-be gunslinger sidekick.
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  23. Seven Samurai (re-release)
    Rich in detail, vivid in characterization, leisurely in exposition, this 207-minute epic is bravura filmmaking -- a brilliant yet facile synthesis of Hollywood pictorialism, Soviet montage, and Japanese theatricality that could be a B western transposed to Mars.
  24. Les destinées
    An impressively coordinated enterprise that lasts three hours, manages a large cast, and covers a period of 30-odd years while successfully unfolding as a series of scenes from the life of a single character.
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  25. In the Mood for Love
    A wondrously perverse movie that not only evokes a lost moment in time but circles around an unrepresentable subject. Mood is the operative word. A love story far more cerebral than it is emotional.
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  26. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
    One of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match.
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  27. Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch
    A brilliant appreciation of the last great Soviet director, Andrei Tarkovsky.
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  28. Two Family House
    A fairy tale that presents love as a case of mutual enchantment, Two Family House is not only uniformly well acted, superbly designed, lovingly lit, and sensitively scored, it's as romantic as it is funny.
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  29. The Turandot Project
    A must-see for opera lovers and a snappy diversion for cinephiles.
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  30. The Cup
    The lovability quotient is as high as the altitude.
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