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For 7,950 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
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  1. Chicken with Plums
    Chicken With Plums has Iran in common with "Persepolis," but little else. Largely, though not entirely, live action, it's a fairly traditional story about thwarted love - a kind of fairy tale for grown-ups.
  2. Mr. Deeds
    Armed with a dinner theater accent and hair that looks like an LP melted on his head, Turturro pockets the picture. As a demonstration of his newly accessed maturity and benevolence, Sandler helps him do it.
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
    Crewdson's work is distinctive, and this film does a great job helping us understand the specific nature of his vision.
  4. Martin & Orloff
    The film is faithful to its absurdities, sometimes hilariously so.
  5. The Mustang
    These men tend to be laconic, tormented, tattooed, impenetrable, usually bearded, potentially or actively violent, with screwed-up families and traumatic pasts. Nothing that a good horse couldn’t cure, or a talented female director.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brother to Brother
    A very good drama about the difficulties of being young, black, and gay. With a bigger budget and a sharper focus, it might have been a great one.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chimpanzee
    In general, the more young people who see the film, the more who will be made aware of a fascinating, complicated near-relative whose numbers are dwindling rapidly.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Renoir
    Renoir may be too decorous, but it’s about decoration — the intense beauty of surfaces.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kung Fu Hustle
    Like a meal prepared by an extreme chef, ''Hustle" is more than a bit of a mess. It still tastes like nothing you've ever had before.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Stake Land
    This doomed world may feel familiar, but Stake Land remains one of the genre's smartest entries in years.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Computer Chess
    Computer Chess is deeply strange and occasionally impenetrable, yet it’s also surreally funny, with touches of science fiction that bedevil the proceedings with outré possibilities.
  12. Roger & Me
    In short, Roger & Me is a breath of new life blowing through the Rust Belt. So depressed has this country's underclass been that any sign of life from it makes you want to cheer, and the funny and furious Roger & Me makes you want to cheer a lot. [12 Jan 1990, p.38P]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dolls
    Dolls is an art film, and a languid, inexplicably haunting one at that.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
    As a coherent, well-judged alternative history, the movie's a mess. As a thought-provoking and frequently hilarious jeremiad, it scores again and again.
  15. Liberal Arts
    Radnor's script is more bittersweet than laugh-out-loud funny.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Freedom Writers
    The movie works.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    King of the Gypsies
    Eric Roberts, making his movie debut, shines as a Travolta-ish hero who wants to surmount his family origins. [19 July 2015, p.N]
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  18. Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
    Hits far more marks than it misses. And no work has brought viewers deeper inside the psychology of war. [06 Apr 2007, p.D10]
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  19. Where the Money Is
    The film never drags, but one of the enjoyable things about it is its way of taking its time letting us get to know and savor the characters.
  20. Love, Brooklyn
    The romantic love triangle dramedy “Love, Brooklyn” is more than just a visual showcase for the favorite borough of the average New York City hipster. It’s also an unabashed devotional to the interior design of the Brooklyn brownstone.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    !Women Art Revolution
    It's affecting, and the tone, which is polemical, is also rueful and realistic.
  22. Anna and the King
    A big, handsome throwback to star-powered historical costume movies.
  23. A Map of the World
    Gives three first-rate actors a chance to stretch, and they do.
  24. Brewster McCloud
    As Altman misfires go, Brewster McCloud is one of the better ones. [25 Jul 2010, p.12]
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  25. Linda Linda Linda
    As directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita , the sluggish haze between extracurricular activities is exquisitely captured and framed, then patiently edited. Every shot feels like a gift.
  26. A United Kingdom
    Unlike “Belle,” however, in this case Asante does not allow her story to be overwhelmed by period decor and costumes.
  27. A Home at the End of the World
    Bobby marks a turning point for Colin Farrell, whose vulgarities and inelegance tend to get the better of his range.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Santa vs. the Snowman
    Takes you inside a kingdom you've never seen the likes of before. Not only is it an IMAX film, with all the superlatives (six-story screen, 12,000 seat-rumbling watts of digital sound) this implies, but it's also computer-generated 3D animation.
  29. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    The violence in the final 45 minutes of Mr. Vengeance is tough to watch.
  30. Step Up To The Plate
    The movie's patient in the way of "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress" or "Jiro Dreams of Sushi." That's where culinary nonfiction is now - sleepy, observant. And, for the most part, that's OK.
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