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On average, this publication grades 8.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Patriots Day
Lowest review score: 0 Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras
Score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 1,701 out of 8343
  3. Negative: 2,308 out of 8343
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  1. Spider-Man: Far from Home
    You can see director Jon Watts and the filmmakers struggling to replicate the magic of their first film. But its charm came not from an overabundance of jokes, but from turning Spidey into a school hallway hero whose biggest challenge was girls. Jetting off to Venice, Prague and London and busting up landmarks brings it more in line with the rest of the overly dense Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  2. Friday Night
    If you give yourself over to it, this romantic tale of a liberating one-night stand proves oddly seductive and generates a warm afterglow.
  3. Zero Day
    Cocchio's film isn't as poetic as Gus Van Sant's hauntingly beautiful (far more expensive) "Elephant," but it has a power and immediacy that makes it much more worthwhile than "Home Room."
  4. Collateral Damages
    These candidly shaken macho guys recall scenes still haunting their nightmares two years after 9/11.
  5. Space Station 3D
    This is what IMAX was made for: Strap on a pair of 3-D goggles, shut out the real world, and take a vicarious voyage to the last frontier -- space.
  6. The Elephant in the Living Room
    As my cat, Audrey, will confirm, I love animals. But I draw the line at having lions, tigers, gigantic snakes, bears and other predators as pets. Other people have different opinions.
  7. Sparrows Dance
    Given that the opening shot shows the heroine on the toilet, what a nice surprise to find that this is a pure love story, told with elegance and simplicity on a low budget.
  8. The Seven Five
    It’s that priceless dialogue, the bitter ironies, the magnificently skeevy cast of characters and even the overall structure that make The Seven Five “Goodfellas” in blue.
  9. Ginger & Rosa
    There’s not a bad performance in the bunch. Hendricks’ and Fanning’s Brit accents are nicely un-showy.
  10. Patriots Day
    A great American movie about the greatness of ordinary Americans, Patriots Day combines an electrifying manhunt with the intimacy and feel for character writer-director Peter Berg showed in his brilliant TV series “Friday Night Lights.”
  11. The Armor of Light
    Watching Schenck and McBath campaign to fellow Christians for a dissociation between God and guns, you suspect their words are falling on deaf ears.
  12. 25th Hour
    Norton, returning to cracking form, doesn't try to make the selfish and smug Monty sympathetic -- but he lights up the screen, especially in two fantasy sequences.
  13. The Fault in Our Stars
    Shailene Woodley, already a subtle and rangy actress, easily carries the film as Hazel.
  14. 21 Jump Street
    The funniest movie I've seen in more than a year.
  15. Vodka Lemon
    Iraqi-Kurdish director-writer Hiner Saleem is in no hurry to tell the story, and viewers drawn in by the warm-hearted tale and charmingly eccentric characters will be in no hurry for the closing credits.
  16. Redbelt
    This isn't Mamet at his finest, though, which leaves us with a script that is merely three times as smart as the average feature.
  17. Fair Game
    Fair Game stars three imposing performers -- Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Sean Penn's lavish and intemperate hair, a fuming gusher of crazy-ass Sweeney Todd locks that dominates every scene. I couldn't tear my eyes from it, maybe because I couldn't maintain focus on anything else in this histrionic and shamelessly misleading wonk-work.
  18. Good Morning, Night
    Combining a thoughtful script with splendid acting -- especially by Sansa -- Bellocchio has fashioned a tense thriller that is both understated and powerful.
  19. World's Greatest Dad
    A tad too long, and takes its sweet time to get to the point. But its twisted heart is in the right place.
  20. Romantics Anonymous
    At its best, Romantics Anonymous is a love letter to everyone who's ever felt hopelessly awkward about being in a relationship, which is just about all of us.
  21. The Company Men
    The extremely well-acted The Company Men ends on a hopeful note, but Wells examines the repercussions of a layoff-based economy with devastating precision.
  22. Chicago 10
    Chicago 10 has interesting moments, but basically it's a teaser for Steven Spielberg's upcoming feature on the trial.
  23. Goyangileul butaghae
    The episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life. But the characters tend to be clichés whose lives are never fully explored.
  24. Divided We Fall
    Hrebejik directs with a sure hand, deftly balancing comedy and drama in a most involving and satisfying manner.
    • New York Post
  25. The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    Smart, funny and good-looking animation.
  26. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    An overstuffed menu from a master chef who's trying way too hard to please himself.
  27. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    In the end, "Wilbur"' manages to look death square in the face and walk away laughing.
  28. One Life
    When a movie wades into the vast pool of World War II and Holocaust titles, the viewer expects a splash. One Life is, at best, a spritz. It delivers a lot of what we’ve already seen before, but on a less-than-cinematic scale. Yet spending some time with Hopkins and exploring a speck of light in one of the world’s darkest chapters is just satisfying enough.
  29. 3 Backyards
    Well-acted and acutely observed.
  30. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    A big warm cinematic jelly doughnut stuffed with youth, vitality, style, whimsy and other equally alarming properties. I tried to love it. But after 20 minutes, I sensed I was intruding on the movie's love affair with itself.
  31. Operation Filmmaker
    Operation Filmmaker is eventually about Muthana blackmailing Davenport by withholding access to him as she fruitlessly seeks a happy ending for her film. "Now, I'm just looking for an exit strategy," she finally concludes.
  32. The Go-Getter
    The enchanting voice on the phone, who delightfully shows up in person halfway through, belongs to Zooey Deschanel. In real life, she hooked up with the composer of the lively score, M. Ward, to create the pop duo She & Him.
  33. Fear(s) of the Dark
    There isn't a dud in the 10 shorts, although some are more dud-ish than others.
  34. Happiest Season
    Tonally, Happiest Season is a bit uneven; it can move from broad hijinks to high emotion a little too quickly. But it also delivers wonderfully heartfelt moments.
  35. Above and Beyond
    Though somewhat marred by cheesy docudrama re-enactments, the film (produced by Steven Spielberg’s sister Nancy) is nutty, dramatic, surprising and above all inspiring.
  36. The Outfit
    Leonard takes advantage of one of Rylance’s greatest strengths — the ability to instantly switch from weak to strong. Behind every tiny smile is ferocity.
  37. Cha Cha Real Smooth
    Dismiss “Cha Cha” as yet another heartwarming comedy at your peril because every single person in it has layers upon layers of complexity.
  38. Crazy Love
    The story is still so compelling - and the principals still so eager for attention - that the filmmaker's pedestrian treatment can't take away from the impact.
  39. Eva Hesse
    Blair has a colorless, weirdly teenage delivery that doesn’t convey Hesse’s vivid, brilliant personality. It is odd to watch a documentary where the subject becomes more interesting when she is discussed by other people.
  40. Man Up
    This featherweight comedy from director Ben Palmer (“The Inbetweeners Movie”) is a lot more fun than many heftier, supposed rom-coms, thanks to the timing and chemistry of its leads.
  41. The Exploding Girl
    Those who can hang on through the mumblecore-ish narrative languor of the nicely photographed The Exploding Girl will savor a very talented actress' sensitive portrait of youthful awkwardness.
  42. Starter for 10
    Shifting the self-deprecating japery of "High Fidelity" from a record store to a quiz show makes Starter for 10 a sweetly endearing date movie.
  43. The Good, the Bad, the Weird
    The Good, the Bad, the Weird may owe a lot to other films, but it is always fresh and never boring.
  44. Kurt Cobain About a Son
    Be advised that this is no ordinary music doc. There are no talking heads and no performance footage of Nirvana. In fact, there's no Nirvana music at all. Instead, Schnack gives us other artists' music that had an effect on the troubled rocker.
  45. Intimacy
    Wants to be a "Last Tango in Paris" for the new millennium, but its flaccid dramatization and hollow moralizing doesn't rise even to the level of last year's "An Affair of Love," let alone Bertolucci's masterpiece.
  46. The Cuckoo
    The two male actors are very good, but Juuso is particularly amusing and touching as the earthy heroine.
  47. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    Paints a picture of a young man enamored of his own image. His enormous success turned the ever-cocky Gator egomaniacal -- and abusive.
  48. Changing Lanes
    Glossy, big-budget thriller that qualifies as the season's biggest and most rewarding surprise.
  49. Monsieur Ibrahim
    The script falters at the end, as the two reach the Turkish village where Ibrahim was raised. But the winning performances -- and killer '60s soundtrack -- save the day.
  50. Adorenarin doraibu
    A witty and quietly charming road comedy.
    • New York Post
  51. Ong Bak
    Having root-canal surgery would be less painful than sitting through the martial-arts disaster Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior.
  52. Sightseers
    What begins as an alert and witty barbed satire degenerates into a senseless bloodbath in the black comedy Sightseers.
  53. The Milk of Sorrow
    Magaly Solier is compelling as the teen. She has little to say, as the camera remains fixated on her expressionless face.
  54. Compliance
    The actors in Compliance perform with thorough and chilling sincerity.
  55. Infamous
    Dizzy with celebrity, New York society and gay life (if all that isn't the same thing), Infamous is more fun. But "Capote" is a better movie.
  56. Star Trek Beyond
    They should have called it “Star Trek Into Drowsiness.”
  57. North Country
    A classic social drama in the proud tradition of "Norma Rae," "Silkwood" and "Erin Brockovich."
  58. Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
    The film is conventional in style and is likely to mean more to the sadly forgotten musician's fans than to others.
  59. Like Crazy
    It's sort of like last year's "Blue Valentine" on Prozac -- the giddy highs and the despairing lows are muted, and a well-known side effect of that antidepressant pops up, too: Palpable lust is all but nonexistent.
  60. Equity
    Ultimately, I found the story surrounding Equity — that it is a movie about women on Wall Street, financed largely by actual women on Wall Street — more interesting than the movie itself, but it does contain its share of memorable moments.
  61. The Hunger Games
    The Hunger Games may be derivative, but it is engrossing and at times exciting. Implicitly, it argues that "The Truman Show" might have been improved by Ed Harris lobbing fireballs at Jim Carrey, and it's now clear what "American Idol" was missing all those years: a crossbow for Simon Cowell.
  62. The War Zone
    A relentlessly grim, rather heavy-handed drama of family dysfunction.
  63. Così ridevano
    Longwinded, slow-starting but moving film.
  64. Chain Camera
    A fascinating snapshot of contemporary teenagers.
  65. Jump Tomorrow
    Quirky and good-natured, it makes the most of an unknown but able and refreshingly international cast. And for a low-budget indie, it looks remarkably good and moves along with real snap.
  66. A Housekeeper
    The film is extremely well-acted, and Berri is very good at demonstrating why the relationship is doomed.
  67. In My Skin
    Needless to say, In My Skin isn't for everybody. It's recommended to viewers who, like Esther, want to feel something, no matter how distasteful.
  68. The Yes Men
    An amusing side dish to the sober political documentaries flooding the art houses, The Yes Men effectively uses high farce to mock the status quo as a way of questioning it.
  69. Step Up To The Plate
    The film's true fascination is in the kitchen, as it is for the chefs themselves.
  70. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    Filled with affecting moments.
  71. A Somewhat Gentle Man
    A slim story that becomes schmaltzy at the end.
  72. Moscow, Belgium
    A pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies.
  73. Casino Jack and the United States of Money
    As one interviewee opines: "It's all about the money."
  74. Applause
    Director and co-writer Martin Pieter Zandvliet draws inspired work from Steen.
  75. August Evening
    Pedro Castaneda, a nonprofessional appearing in his first film, and Veronica Loren tug at your heartstrings with their portrayals of the lead characters.
  76. Addiction Incorporated
    Addiction Incorporated delivers a hard kick in the butts to the tobacco industry.
  77. Pierrepoint
    You have to wonder just how true to life the melodramatic depiction of these events is, especially since the film was made in partnership with TV's "Masterpiece Theater."
  78. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    Pity the crowds expecting another cute comedy like "Date Night" who wind up at Crazy, Stupid, Love. It'll be like asking for a burger and getting served escargot.
  79. Deepwater Horizon
    What we’ve got is a highly entertaining nautical version of “The Towering Inferno’’ (still my favorite guilty pleasure of all time).
  80. Fighting with My Family
    Although the film is about Paige’s unlikely rise to TV stardom, what grabs us most is the eclectic Knight family running a scrappy professional wrestling gym on a shoestring. It might be the biggest missed reality-TV show opportunity ever.
  81. End of Watch
    America Ferrara ("Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'') turns in an image-changing role as a tough lesbian officer who develops a grudging admiration for our heroes.
  82. Three Months
    Some heightened plot lines in writer-director Jared Frieder’s film don’t land as well as the tender moments do. The romance is admirably never overplayed for sentiment.
  83. Apocalypto
    Gibson sure knows how to shoot a sequence, but he also doesn't know when to stop with the blood, gore and maiming.
  84. Sputnik Mania
    Sputnik Mania has a happy ending, thanks to German scientist Werner von Braun, who had been recruited for America after designing Nazi rockets that rained terror on England during World War II.
  85. Potiche
    It's just that the script, which Ozon adapted from a play, is lightweight and better-suited to stage than screen.
  86. Girls Can't Swim
    It includes abundant sex and full-frontal nudity, not to titillate but because it's needed to convey the inner sexual turmoil the girls are going through.
  87. Burnt Money
    A stylish look and a fair amount of hot and heavy sex (mostly hetero), and the final shootout is pretty nifty.
  88. Alice et Martin
    Best watched while doing a crossword or reading the paper.
    • New York Post
  89. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    Decent movie, same old Borat.
  90. Chopper
    Pulls no punches - blood flows very freely (including the ear-cutting scene) and black humor abounds.
    • New York Post
  91. The Adventures of Tintin
    Thankfully, Tintin is Spielberg at his most playful and unpretentious.
  92. The Conjuring
    Classy old-school horror, James Wan’s The Conjuring depends more on its excellent cast and atmospheric direction than cheap gimmicks to raise hairs on the back of your neck. Which it does, quite frequently.
  93. The Meddler
    Sarandon gets great support from a cast that includes J.K. Simmons as a laid-back retired cop who pursues Minnie, and Jason Ritter as the ex-boyfriend whom Minnie desperately plots to reunite with her daughter.
  94. The World's Fastest Indian
    Hopkins' larger-than-life performance as the crusty and crafty Burt rivets your attention for two solid hours in this most entertaining labor of love.
  95. The Kindergarten Teacher
    Israeli director Nadav Lapid uses a well-worn concept — a lonely little boy is taken under a teacher’s wing — to create a slow, creepy movie.
  96. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Some advice: Don't even bother trying to figure out what's going on in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence -- just sit back and enjoy the lush, trippy visuals.
  97. $9.99
    Fans of deadpan comic fantasy writers like Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut are likely to be intrigued by this lively little packet of weird -- then dive like a dolphin into Keret's loopy story volumes.
  98. Here
    The slow, methodical pace of Here will undoubtedly drive a few viewers crazy. But for those in tune with its quiet rhythms, it's worth the journey.
  99. The Homesman
    Very much a feminist Western — one painting a vivid picture of how difficult it was for even a strong and determined woman to survive in frontier days.
  100. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    In this pretentious art-house downer version of "The Bad Seed," the only surprise is that the folks didn't ship the little monster off to the looney bin before he reached puberty.
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