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On average, this publication grades 2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Stephanie Daley
    The scary culminating flashback, in which Stephanie gives birth -- in a public restroom, on a high school ski trip -- is a marvel of authentic disturbance.
  2. Water
    The movie takes the form of a lackluster women's-prison picture.
  3. The Rape of Europa
    Unfortunately, most of the two-hour documentary is devoted to annotating what the Nazis stole for both their state and personal collections. The movie doesn't dramatize this crime -- it catalogs it. With deadening monotony.
  4. Italian for Beginners
    To see this much austere vérité atmosphere propping up this much schlock romanticism is like biting into a blue-cheese canapé that turns out to be a fluffernutter.
  5. Bukowski: Born into This
    It reveals Bukowski to be a far grander artist than his bum's armor would suggest.
  6. Monsoon Wedding
    The old-world-meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack, a joyful effusion of disco Bollywood that, by the end of Monsoon Wedding, sent my spirit soaring out of the theater.
  7. The Wife
    Welsh actor Pryce (Game of Thrones) is fantastic — a fussy, adulterous egoist in the Great Man mold of Norman Mailer or Philip Roth, with his own touchingly real frailties. But the movie belongs to Close, whose face, as she is courted and patronized, sexually betrayed and damned with faint praise, is a marvel of emotional intelligence and control.
  8. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    While the original movie benefited from narrative simplicity and an admirable lack of villains, this one paints the screen with too many characters and frequent diversions from the main story, but nevertheless serves up a bountiful and sugary feast for the 3-D-bespectacled eyes.
  9. Career Girls
    It isn't easy to get close to these two women. But the effort yields a rewarding take on the resiliency and therapeutic importance of friendship.
  10. The Disaster Artist
    It feels only appropriate that James Franco, an actor and director for whom weirdness is next to godliness, would be the one to tell his story.
  11. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    Some of the effects remain nicely repulsive; Freddy himself comes across as a genuinely nasty piece of work, far removed from his later incarnation.
  12. Dig!
    The fascination of Dig! is that it invites those of us who aren't alt-rock obsessives into the hive, yet it never feels like a dilettante's tour.
  13. Broken Embraces
    Many of the characters go by two different names. So best advice for optimum viewing is, see Broken Embraces...twice.
  14. Rosetta
    Rosetta is a character of raw pride in a film of lingering power.
  15. Kandahar
    With its lyrical vision of oppression, looks, if anything, milder now than it might have before the war.
  16. Maggie's Plan
    Sometimes that tips too far into silliness (the final scene, especially, works strenuously towards an end-cute); still, its mildly subversive rom-com sensibilities are just sour-sweet enough to pull it off.
  17. Heavy
    Mangold, who also wrote the script, has made a modern-day "Marty", a kitchen-sink drama that doesn't condescend to its characters.
  18. The Sure Thing
    Rob Reiner’s Spinal Tap follow-up is surprisingly deep for a flick that rests on the same shelf as Hardbodies and My Tutor. But as Gib would say, ”What the hell’s wrong with being stupid once in a while?
  19. Adventureland
    For nostalgia junkies, it's one from the heart.
  20. Every Little Step
    A movie as layered and enthralling as its subject.
  21. Like Someone in Love
    The movie is playful and makes no easy moral judgments.
  22. Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
    Beats is a welcome blast of '90s nostalgia, taking us back to a time - and a sound - that pulsates with optimism.
  23. Lady Macbeth
    There’s a provocative idea at the center of Oldroyd’s beautifully photographed film — repression exploding into madness and violence. But as the body count rises, Lady Macbeth loses its secret weapon: sympathy.
  24. Inside Man
    The jazzish score, by Lee's music man, Terence Blanchard, is typically intrusive. But the mood is right, the twists are new. And with one casting inspiration, Inside Man furthers the rising stardom of Chiwetel Ejiofor (Serenity).
  25. Dolemite Is My Name
    Murphy...brings so much hope and hunger and pure life force to the role that he makes you believe in every punchline, pelvic thrust, and egregiously misplaced karate kick.
  26. Guardians of the Galaxy
    The film's a giddily subversive space opera that runs on self-aware smart-assery.
  27. Lore
    This striking, slow-building drama from Cate Shortland uses fractured, impressionistic imagery as a mirror of moral dislocation as the children make their way through an unfamiliar landscape.
  28. I Carry You with Me
    In Ewing’s hands and as anchored by two superb performances, Iván and Gerardo’s romance gets scaled up to an epic, a searing saga of the undocumented experience in which love is the binding force.
  29. Jesus' Son
    Another grotty drama about junkie love? Well, yes...I make an exception for Jesus' Son.
  30. In America
    Has moments of biting tenderness, yet the movie made me wish that Sheridan had let in more of America.
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