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For 16,524 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Il Futuro
    The atmospheric heft of Il Futuro is invariably more bracing than oppressive, and in the complexly stoic Martelli and masterfully craggy, haunted Hauer, an alluringly opaque pas de deux of loss and uncertainty is wonderfully realized.
  2. Generation Iron
    [A] compelling and energetic documentary.
  3. Concussion
    It is Weigert's performance that gives the film its mystery and charge. Playing seriously with identity, she draws the viewer ever closer. The way she never reveals everything is electrifying.
  4. The Summit
    The Summit tells a multifaceted story that deals with more than the expected peril and exhilaration of adventure tales. Here you'll find love, fear and forgiveness, personality conflicts and cultural differences, even mysteries that have stubbornly resisted solving.
  5. Bad Words
    Sarcastic, sanctimonious, salacious, sly, slight and surprisingly sweet, the black comedy of Bad Words, starring and directed by Jason Bateman, is high-minded, foul-mouthed good nonsense.
  6. American Promise
    Because the stories are so specific, and because they play out over such a long period of time, it is hard not to be fascinated by this intimate look at how particular families deal with the great parental challenge of shepherding their children through the all-important educational experience.
  7. Palo Alto
    With Palo Alto Coppola transforms weakness into strength, vulnerability into armor.
  8. The Armstrong Lie
    The whole truth about the complicated, charismatic man may never come out, but The Armstrong Lie is closer than we ever thought we'd get.
  9. The Unknown Known
    It's hard to believe a story this serious can be told in such an involving way, but that is one of this expert documentarian's greatest gifts.
  10. The Last Days on Mars
    Lean, muscular and on the money, The Last Days on Mars takes a familiar story and tells it so tautly that we are pleased to be on board.
  11. On the Job
    The film is as heartbreaking as it is heart-stopping.
  12. The Paw Project
    The Paw Project is robustly persuasive, with Conrad compellingly framing her crusade as a battle between a right-thinking vet and a deep-pocketed industry group that purportedly represents her.
  13. I Used to Be Darker
    It's a story of contained chaos, quietly observed — one that catches fire more in retrospect than in the viewing.
  14. A River Changes Course
    Mam's camera work is exquisite in its immediacy and agility. One of the most striking aspects of her film is the intimacy it achieves without feeling intrusive or turning her subjects into fodder for a message.
  15. God Loves Uganda
    [An] incisive and absorbing documentary.
  16. Camille Claudel 1915
    In Binoche's masterfully contained performance, Camille's clouded eyes sometimes brighten. If we didn't know how her story will unfold, that spark might have been comforting.
  17. Forgetting the Girl
    Written with a poet's ear and directed with an artist's eye, Forgetting the Girl plumbs the psyche of an unassuming studio photographer.
  18. Narco Cultura
    What this film does is reveal two very different societies — both exhibiting, each in its own way, unmistakable signs of collapse.
  19. The Last Sentence
    Measured and beautifully modulated, the 82-year-old director has the kind of sureness and fluidity that is easy to underestimate. But it's difficult not to be impressed by the results.
  20. Bettie Page Reveals All
    [A] highly watchable portrait.
  21. Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird
    Jaffe deftly captures his subject's creative process, helpfully illuminating the method to Wilson's comic madness.
  22. Life According to Sam
    This is the straightforward story of a family facing adversity head-on and making inroads against a rare disease.
  23. Chinese Puzzle
    The ground-level view of New York — high-energy, semi-farcical — avoids clichés while finding its own romantic pulse with Duris' charmer the compelling center of the buoyant and bittersweet storm.
  24. The Ghosts in Our Machine
    The Ghosts in Our Machine, a heartfelt meditation on animal rights, comes at you as a whisper. It depends on the persuasive powers of creatures great and small — in their natural habitat or in cages — to argue that we stop using them for food, clothing, research and entertainment.
  25. Approved for Adoption
    A vibrant example of hybrid nonfiction filmmaking, using hand-drawn animation, live action, home movies and newsreels in a rich synthesis of personal and historical memory.
  26. Paradise: Hope
    The most hopeful — and the best — of this solid and unsettling series.
  27. Spy
    Spy may not be a great movie, but it is great fun. And at times it will have you wondering if there's that much of a difference.
  28. Brave Miss World
    Peck celebrates Abargil as an impassioned and inspiring advocate while making clear the emotional complexities of her single-mindedness.
  29. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    McQuarrie is adept at keeping things moving and has overseen two areas where "Rogue Nation" stands out from the crowd.
  30. Cuban Fury
    Don't let the cheesy title deter you. Cuban Fury is a thoroughly engaging crowd-pleaser — sweet, quite amusing and even a tad inspiring.
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