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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. Introduction
    Introduction’s economy is deceptive, its staying power surprising.
  2. The Messenger
    The film belongs to Foster. The actor always makes the most of what is handed him, though he's usually required to find his footings around the margins, as he did as the crazed cowboy in "3:10 to Yuma" or the crazed druggie in "Alpha Dog."
  3. Under the Sea 3D
    Practice has delivered something close to perfection as this new film offers a startling experience that takes you down into the Great Barrier Reef without the expense, hypothermia or oxygen tanks.
  4. Private Fears in Public Places
    A masterpiece by any measure, is fresh, immediate and contemporary, but its wintry yet warm perspective is suffused with the wisdom and experience of a great filmmaker who turns 85 on June 2.
  5. Play It Again, Sam
    It's a satisfying comedy in which the humor actually develops from character rather than plot. [15 Mar 1987, p.5]
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  6. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    A performer of formidable self-absorption, Johnston has inspired a film with the same trait, and the results are about what you might expect.
  7. Sin Nombre
    There is bitter and breathtaking truth in the story and in the story- telling, which won Fukunaga the directing and cinematography award in the dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
  8. Revenge of the Mekons
    Like many music documentaries, this film suffers from the tendency to reiterate its point too often.
  9. Marona's Fantastic Tale
    While it’s sometimes dizzying in its visuals or its joy, it’s often not cute. It can be fun, even exhilarating. It can also carry the emotional impact of loss.
  10. Incitement
    A chilling portrait of how fanaticism can grow and be enabled, this is a matter-of-fact film that moves with an awful inexorability toward its foregone conclusion.
  11. The Nightingale
    This is a profound and difficult film, an attempt to grapple with the existence and mindless perpetuation of evil, and to suggest both the fleeting satisfaction and the eternal futility of vengeance. Nothing about it is easy, and everything it shows us matters.
  12. Mountain Patrol
    These kinds of merciless conditions lead to a culture that is stoic about life and death and a story that will surprise you by its willingness to embrace that unsentimental natural world.
  13. Child's Pose
    A ferocious psychological drama with the pace of a thriller, Child's Pose combines, as have the best of the Romanian new-wave films, a compelling personal story about mothers and sons with an examination of socio-political dynamics in a way that is both intense and piercingly real.
  14. Grandma
    Weitz's film moves from clunky domestic dramedy to genuine feminist odyssey.
  15. Presence
    Presence is being sold as a ghost story, but it’s more like a family drama disguised under a sheet. The eye holes are the only thing separating it from a thousand other ordinary little films about the injuries people do to those they love. Otherwise, the story doesn’t have enough flesh on its bones to hold our interest.
  16. I, Tonya
    Harding’s story, in this overly broad retelling, is not especially strong on narrative density — or, for that matter, ambiguity.
  17. God Loves Uganda
    [An] incisive and absorbing documentary.
  18. Evolution
    A striking and maddening delivery system for art house creepinesss.
  19. Fat Girl
    The film's concluding sequence is bound to polarize audiences.
  20. Ulee's Gold
    Ulee's Gold stands out for its sureness, its quiet emotional force and writer-director Victor Nunez's ability to find and nurture the mystery and power in the events of an ordinary life.
  21. Humanité
    A film of stunning impact.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Grindhouse
    A fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage.
  23. How to Change the World
    A fascinating, skillfully assembled chronicle of the rise and inevitable fallout surrounding the granddaddy of the environmental activism movement.
  24. The Price of Freedom
    Clear-eyed, compassionate and compelling, the documentary “The Price of Freedom” efficiently unpacks and debunks the myths it posits the National Rifle Assn. of America has deployed to further its all-guns-all-the-time agenda and foster a culture war.
  25. Caesar Must Die
    Caesar Must Die shows us in the starkest possible terms the electric power of drama to move and touch not only audiences but the actors who bring so much of themselves to their performances.
  26. The Pool
    In its leisurely, exceedingly subtle way, The Pool charts Venkatesh's gradual awakening to the larger world.
  27. Benda Bilili!
    Benda Bilili! earns its exclamation point. It's a feel-good movie that actually makes you feel good, a story that will have you shaking your head in astonishment and moving your feet to some unstoppable rhythms.
  28. Gerhard Richter - Painting
    It is the achievement of Gerhard Richter Painting to shine a light on that hidden, private act as few other films have done.
  29. The Twentieth Century
    Think Guy Maddin as the long-lost seventh Python. But it’s also one of the more vivid and amusing excursions in a year marked by unclassifiable realities and the need for diverting art.
  30. The War Tapes
    The film acutely captures the topsy-turvy uncertainty of life during wartime, where there's Burger King and land mines and Pizza Hut and snipers.
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