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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Stir of Echoes
    Little internal logic and too many signposts. It's easy to see who in the neighborhood knows more than they're letting on, even without X-ray vision or ESP.
  2. Fahrenheit 9/11
    The information here isn't necessarily new, but it is packaged in an acid-tongued way along with powerhouse visuals that drive home the filmmaker's nakedly political views.
  3. Mondovino
    If you have a serious interest in wine and the ­patience for this kind of rangy, undisciplined filmmaking, you'll learn something. But you'll have more fun at a winetasting.
  4. Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
    Most tales come from the inimitable mouth of the man himself, who could make ordering dinner sound like Shakespeare. He had a life to match. Workman covers all of his subject’s years, even if very few of them truly belonged to Welles.
  5. Synecdoche, New York
    Hoffman, Morton and Jon Brion's aching score somehow capture the all-too-human need to get things right. If you're in a certain frame of mind, those moments make up for all the stagecraft.
  6. Charlie Wilson's War
    Of all the Middle East-theme movies this season, Mike Nichols' Charlie Wilson's War is the least political and most entertaining. That doesn't mean it's great, just that it's unimportant.
  7. Canvas
    Though Harden has the showier role, a subdued Pantoliano is the movie's real star. Sometimes, the quietest performances are the most powerful.
  8. The Take
    The story does feel a little threadbare, and much of the pacing is far too slow for a suspense thriller. But Perez and Leguizamo make an entirely believable couple.
  9. Garbage Dreams
    The film isn't easy to watch, but its portrait of perseverance and ecological commitment is enlightening.
  10. Ip Man 2
    With action this strong, the script just needs to be serviceable - and that's exactly what it is.
  11. The Stanford Prison Experiment
    Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s film underserves its cast of up-and-comers (Thomas Mann, Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan), allows the usually solid actor Michael Angarano to go astray with a scenery-chewing role and buries Crudup in fretting and sanctity. Worse, the experiment’s inherent drama is exacted with a tin ear and a cheesy style.
  12. Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
    This impassioned documentary is well-intentioned and admirable in its aims, but overreaching and therefore lacking impact.
  13. The Armstrong Lie
    There’s so much more to this story — as any number of articles about the people he wronged attest — but this time, Gibney never really gets in gear.
  14. The Ambassador
    His outlandish story feels only half-told - though still twice as fascinating as most.
  15. Melancholian 3 huonetta
    Consistently moving but never quite coalesces into a strongly coherent whole.
  16. The Family Fang
    The Family Fang has a nasty little bite to it — and thank heavens for that.
  17. 2 Days in Paris
    Delpy wrote the dialogue that gives the film its forward thrust, and "2 Days" is a wonderful first feature.
  18. Last Days
    It's like a walking tour inside the head of a deeply troubled, deeply talented young man, where most of the systems have already shut down.
  19. Life and Debt
    This is a sophisticated and unsettling documentary marred only by a voice-over taken from the writings of Jamaica Kincaid.
  20. Cremaster 3
    Barney's cinematic art inspires both awe and revulsion, often simultaneously.
  21. Better Luck Tomorrow
    The crime isn't that the movie's message is amoral, but that it goes totally unexamined, as if the recess bell rang too early.
  22. A Decade Under the Influence
    Whether you lived through the period and will have fond memories jostled, or are scouting for future DVD pleasures, the surest way to see a good movie in a theater this week is to see one about them.
  23. Young Adam
    There are movies that are important, and then there are movies that simply look and act as if they're important. With its arthouse cast, hipster credentials and ominous atmosphere, Young Adam never bothers to reach for real significance.
  24. Finding Neverland
    Delightful and moving - although fanciful.
  25. The Business of Strangers
    A claustrophobic psychodrama.
  26. 16 Acres
    It's been a long, not always linear path to the opening of the new tower, planned for 2014. Yet, as one observer says here, the project has helped heal New York in a very New York way - acrimonious, messy and loud.
  27. Haywire
    Haywire, clean and no-fuss as it is, needs more action scenes to match Carano's game.
  28. Kink
    There’s a surprising lack of provocation to this determinedly positive portrait. As a result, the movie often feels like a full-length ad for a great workplace, which just happens to stash whips and chains in the stationery closet.
  29. Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
    The movie pulls off the trick of blurring the distinctions between romantic and platonic attractions across the generations.
  30. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    It won't cure the ills of the world, but it doesn't need to. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is adorable in its own spongy way.
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