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For 3,962 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,221 out of 3962
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3962
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3962
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  1. POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    It's surprising that The Greatest Movie Ever Sold plays so entertainingly, given that Spurlock's quest is essentially beside the point.
  2. Judy
    It’s hard not to gather up these move complicated moments and wish for more of them — to think about how much better it would have been if she had gotten to play Garland as a flesh-and-blood person and not as the saint of suffering for showbiz.
  3. Wonka
    The weirder its treatment of the treat becomes, the better the movie is, cutting through the script’s more potentially sentimental tendencies. It never reaches the singularly compelling strangeness of the source material, but it lands somewhere close enough to be mostly satisfying.
  4. Truth
    The most engrossing part of Truth is the gradual, grueling retreat from the story, first by its participants and then by the network that broadcast it.
  5. Elegy
    A spare, melancholy film that is so far in spirit from its source, Philip Roth's "The Dying Animal."
  6. Landline
    It’s a light musing on adulthood and monogamy and sisterhood, washed in Pavlovian period nostalgia. The revelations are gentle, but worthwhile.
  7. Stardust
    It’s puffed up in obvious ways but disarmingly puckish in others. As that capering pirate, De Niro is god-awful--yet his gung-ho spirit wins him Brownie points.
  8. The Gospel of Eureka
    The easygoing tone of The Gospel of Eureka — sometimes contemplative, sometimes cheerful — distinguishes it from many other documentaries about timely social issues.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It Happened on Fifth Avenue
    It Happened on Fifth Avenue earns its warmth honestly, tethering a tale of fresh starts and changed hearts to the real difficulties faced by those reaching for the American dream in a postwar era that was supposed to bring prosperity for all.
  10. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    A sense of unease, of incompleteness, is, I think, the appropriate response to this movie. Instead of trying to fill in the blanks, Curran and Gross leave things open and ambiguous. Just like life.
  11. American Teen
    The movie does get under your skin (the tremulous misfit girl, Hannah, might be a breakout role model), but the way it has been put together reminds me of those animal shows where the crew nudges the gazelles in the direction of the lions with multiple cameras standing by.
  12. Byzantium
    The movie is gorgeous, mesmerizing, poetic; the lyricism actually heightened by harsh jets of gore.
  13. Margot at the Wedding
    Margot at the Wedding doesn’t develop; it just skips from one squirmy scene to the next.
  14. White Noise
    White Noise is certainly uneven — wildly so, probably by design — but it’s also never boring, always eager to throw something new at the viewer, and it’s eager to entertain. I never imagined I’d laugh so hard while watching a movie adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise.
  15. Roofman
    The sympathy Roofman extends toward the break room of its big-box stores and the low-ceilinged place of worship where Leigh sings in the choir every Sunday is more moving than its treatment of its protagonist, offering an appreciation that these places could be anywhere and at the same time are highly specific.
  16. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
    What it is, really, is a showbiz satire about media ownership and our nostalgia fixation, though it muddles its message before the tone gets too scathing. It is, after all, still a Disney movie, even if it takes a perverse pleasure in playing around with Disney’s vast catalogue of characters.
  17. Kick-Ass
    Kick-Ass is a compendium of all sleazy things, and it sings like a siren to our inner Tarantinos.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
    This is a wan, shapeless, and amazingly conventional piece of work .
  19. Mean Girls
    A smart little teen picture that, for a change, actually features recognizable teens.
  20. Notorious C.H.O.
    She sometimes falls into the same trap that Lenny Bruce fell into, playing the taboo-breaking emancipator, but for the most part she's blessedly bawdy.
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  21. The Tailor of Panama
    The film starts out as a freewheeling farce and turns into a pitch-black burlesque with surprising depths of feeling.
  22. Moulin Rouge!
    It's like being trapped inside a fever dream of Oscar-night production numbers.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultraman: Rising
    Ultraman: Rising’s canniest trick is the way it sustains narrative momentum while staying true to the realities of new parenthood.
  24. Dumb Money
    The pleasant surprise of Dumb Money is that it’s such an effective entertainment, even if it oversells the revolutionary impact of what it’s depicting.
  25. The Good Dinosaur
    The resulting film is amiable, pretty, and charming in all the right ways — even if it ultimately settles for a fairly typical tale of a late bloomer finding his way.
  26. Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
    As in his pithy, tuneful songs-many written from different perspectives, in different styles-Merritt is committed to stylizing his misery instead of boring you with it.
  27. Miami Vice
    It's a sensational trip -- gorgeous, gaga.
  28. Skinamarink
    When Skinamarink sets out to actively scare . . . it’s very good at it. But the idea of the movie is more beguiling than the overall experience of watching it.
  29. La Vie en Rose
    She lip-syncs convincingly to Piaf's songs. Even when she overacts like mad, she makes you think she’s Piaf overacting like mad--the little sparrow with the foghorn pipes.
  30. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    Much of the bloat is still there, but The Desolation of Smaug, the second film in the Hobbit trilogy, is a real improvement – filled with inventive action set pieces and dramatic face-offs that we (finally, at long last, hallelujah!) care about.
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