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For 5,428 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Xanadu
Lowest review score: 0 The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,509 out of 5428
  2. Mixed: 1,487 out of 5428
  3. Negative: 432 out of 5428
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  1. Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops
    To be perfectly honest, as a movie Ernie And Joe is a somewhat routine affair. Follow subjects, interview subjects, point, shoot, move on. And most of the time that would be a problem, creating a lack of engagement or energy. However, McShane is intelligent enough to realize that trying to add pizazz to what is being portrayed here, especially in this particular climate of police relations with citizens, would ring hollow. ... Ernie And Joe struck a deeply personal core with me, as I am sure it will with most audience members.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Obsession
    The film has a disarmingly analog tone, from the almost 4:3 aspect ratio and deeply textured visual style, to the often dizzying retro-inspired synthy score. Obsession feels handmade in the best sense.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rescue Dawn
    In Bale, Herzog has found a talent who transcends the challenges of a brutal shoot. "Rescue" reveals new capabilities for an actor who's already proven himself in other intense and ever-focused performances.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Happy Feet
    Overall, however, for a children's film, it hits all the major notes. Keep it musical, keep it lively, keep it cute and, you know, if you can, slip in a moral.
  5. Longlegs
    This one takes you on a fulfilling and haunting ride that will last long after in your nightmares.
  6. Islands
    Islands is as effective, familiar, and quiet as a microwave.
  7. Bye Bye Tiberias
    Bye Bye Tiberias is a powerful portrait of how broken things come back together over and over.
  8. The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs
    The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs contains many such moments of scintillating, mysterious splendor yet doesn’t entirely fulfill its lofty ambitions.
  9. Mile End Kicks
    Levack’s screenplay is sharp, deeply human, painful, but genuinely hilarious. You’ll laugh, you’ll swoon, you may even shed a tear. And while it’s formulaic at times, it resists the grand, third-act romantic gesture for a quieter, more resonant finale.
  10. You Will Die At Twenty
    While it could have easily been a dark comedy, and almost is, instead, it’s perfectly sincere.
  11. Courage Under Fire
    Patrick Sheane Duncan's script deftly weaves together the stories of Serling and Walden, and Zwick remarkably sidesteps the trap of sticky sentiment--an idea further carried forth by Ryan's admirably against-type (and shamefully unsung) performance.
  12. Broker
    If there’s an overriding idea that Broker leaves you with after the tears roll down your cheeks, it is the sense that family transcends familial bloodlines. Family does not have to be something you are born into. Family can be something you can patch together and create.
  13. Women Talking
    Polley attempts to tackle the issue from multiple angles – how male toxicity is passed down to helpless youth by their elders, for example – but ends up running in circles.
  14. Corpus Christi
    The film is an important one, but above all, it is an exceptionally pleasing and easy one to watch despite its density. This is partly due to Bartosz’s fantastic performance showing great acting range by going through a whole spectrum of emotions very convincingly and subtly.
  15. Buoyancy
    A grueling affair, purposefully so, bringing to mind Steve McQueen’s similarly relentless 12 Years a Slave. There’s not much respite to be found in those bloodied waters, nary a buoy to grasp.
  16. The Story of Film: A New Generation
    A lack of flash or energy does nothing to detract from the sheer depth of film exploration present in The Story of Film: A New Generation.
  17. Blanquita
    Guzzoni, at times, drowns the film in its messaging by not mixing it up, but we’re never bored. We can thank López’ performance for that and our creeping sense of alarm at the abuses that the less fortunate are forced to suffer through.
  18. 8 Mile
    The film has brief flashes of believability and humor. By and large, though, the script is uninspired, the picture's characters are stick figures, its dialogue is lackluster and the star's performance seldom rises above the adequate.
  19. Ailey
    For me, the relevance outweighs my enjoyment of Ailey, but this relevance bears a massive weight. Alvin Ailey has a fantastic story, but this might be a narrative that lends itself more to a bio-pic than a detail-oriented documentary.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Ronnie's
    Ronnie’s is bursting with vivacity and energy, and to weigh it down with staid interview footage would have been a fatal error stylistically.
  21. Tatami
    An indictment of a regime but also a look at the strength that perseveres despite the most dire circumstances, this film, and its lead star, deserve all the upcoming love at the award circuit… if there’s any justice left in Hollywood, that is.
  22. Human Nature
    Wherever you may land on the ethical issues of gene manipulation, Human Nature, is a fascinating watch.
  23. Jockey
    Jockey is a solid piece of work that reflects on who we are and what we leave behind, as well as the prices we pay to get there.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Reviewed by
      Alan Ng
    Better Man
    In the end, if you’re going to tell a story we’ve all heard before, do something unique. Better Man is unique, indeed. The chimp gimmick never gets tiresome; in the end, it plays out beautifully.
  25. The Cockettes
    This is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Unlovable
    Films like this are few and far between, but the sooner we realize it’s okay not to be okay, the better.
  27. Porgy and Bess
    Rarely has a film been cast with so many gifted performers who are either wrong for their roles or are given nothing to do.
  28. The Promised Land
    Arcel and Mikkelsen have struck a deeply human chord with The Promised Land. It is a tale of undoubted savagery but also one of hope in all its divine illumination.
  29. Zero F*cks Given
    The drama is a powerful examination of the many forms of grief. Without Exarchopoulos, though, this would have been a banal flight in coach, but thanks to her work, it is akin to a Business Class upgrade.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    With this film, I believe that the strange and wonderful legend of Daniel Johnston will only continue to grow.
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