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  • 2% same as the average critic
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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. Luce
    No one gets off easy here, and no one quite gets answers, either; maybe that’s the point.
  2. Sign 'o' the Times
    The cutting and camera work in Sign ‘O’ the Times are too intrusive, and the somewhat discordant songs worked better as a magnificent hodgepodge on the album. Still, this concert movie (which barely made it to theaters) is a feisty, engaging show.
  3. Welcome to Sarajevo
    The power comes from Winterbottom's rigorous sense of storytelling, which manages to show and tell terrible tales without telegraphing emotionalism
  4. Paul Williams Still Alive
    The movie is fascinating, though it smacks its own lips a bit too much at the tackiness of freak '70s stardom.
  5. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    Swartz’s ex-girlfriend adds heart when she tearfully recalls first seeing the ”end date” on his Wikipedia page.
  6. Dark Money
    Kimberly Reed’s taut documentary is also damning, clear-eyed, and as gripping as any John Grisham thriller.
  7. Tell Them Who You Are
    Beneath its exploration of fatherly distance, this is really a portrait of why cranks make better artists than earnest nice guys.
  8. Hellboy
    Directed by Guillermo del Toro with a colorfully kinetic visual imagination that seldom lets up.
  9. Sleepless in Seattle
    The movie is so prefab, so plastically aware of being ''corny,'' ''romantic,'' and ''old-fashioned,'' that it feels programmed to make you fall in love with it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Violette
    In Martin Provost’s graceful biopic, Emmanuelle Devos plays Leduc as a powder keg of a woman who used her loneliness and insecurity as the explosive fuel for her work.
  11. Hail, Caesar!
    It's Coen lite, basically, but still filled with their best signatures: cracked humor, indelible characters, and cinematography so rich and saturated you want to dunk a cookie in it.
  12. The Mad Women's Ball
    Laurent, an actress known Stateside for movies like Inglorious Basterds and Beginners, has adapted Ball from the bestselling novel by Victoria Mas, whose facts are rooted in actual history. She shares Mas' justifiable outrage at the casual inhumanity of it all — the brutal experiments and biased theories, the rampant physical and emotional abuse — and also her sense for melodrama.
  13. The Color Purple
    With stellar performances and the foundation of a beloved novel, The Color Purple should be as lush and beautiful as its titular hue. Instead, it’s just… here.
  14. Mistaken for Strangers
    The finest rock doc since "Anvil: The Story of Anvil." Matt Berninger, lead singer of the National, is a 40ish indie-rock star who carries himself like a hip lawyer.
  15. Igby Goes Down
    Gets weirder and meaner and darker and sadder as it progresses, which is amazing since it simultaneously remains funny and horrifying right up to the end.
  16. Safety Not Guaranteed
    Safety Not Guaranteed is a fable of ''redemption,'' and it's too tidy by half, but it is also very sweetly told.
  17. Christine
    Shot in the goldenrod-and-avocado palette of the ’70s and dabbed with incongruous soft-rock lullabies, the movie itself is both painfully intimate and strangely opaque on the subject of mental illness, taking us deep inside Christine’s disintegration even as it never quite figures out what it wants to say about it.
  18. Clear and Present Danger
    As a thriller, this 21 2-hour production takes a slow route between short bursts of excitement.
  19. Star Trek Into Darkness
    Into Darkness is a sleek, thrilling epic that's also a triumphantly witty popcorn morality play. It's everything you could want in a Star Trek movie.
  20. Queer
    Queer is an exercise in cinematic smugness. It’s a shame because it does contain some truly fine performances and compelling imagery. But much like its central character, it can’t get over itself.
  21. The Great Invisible
    Most of all, it's a sobering look at a part of coastal America that will never be the same again.
  22. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
    Even when the film fails to ask so many of the questions its narrative begs, Author is still a tricky, fascinating look at the strange nexus of art, artifice, and the intoxicating cult of celebrity.
  23. Bellflower
    Bellflower is stylishly watchable - even when it's preposterous.
  24. 50/50
    The result is a duet of outstanding loveliness between Kendrick and Gordon-Levitt, also an actor of nuanced control.
  25. Waiting for Guffman
    A madcap gem.
  26. Super 8
    Loving, Playful, and spectacularly well made, Super 8 is easily the best summer movie of the year - of many years.
  27. War Horse
    This is a beautifully built, classically framed movie, shot with the unshowy natural expressiveness of a John Ford Western by Spielberg's great cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski.
  28. The Aristocrats
    The Aristocrats has a lot of laughs, but as it giggles and blasphemes its way into areas not so far removed from the scandalous landscape of the Marquis de Sade, the movie, funny as it is, becomes exhausting and a bit depressing.
  29. Easy A
    Easy A has some agreeable fast banter, but it's so self-consciously stylized that it wears you out.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Eagle Huntress
    The movie’s restrained second half stuns, ranking as one of the most magical stretches of nonfiction filmmaking in recent years.
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