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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ballet 422
    Ballet 422, a documentary verité, is not for everyone. The expected conventions of plot, dialogue, and action are all but missing, and some viewers may find it slow. But for dance lovers, it is a rare visit to the workings of one of the finest ballet companies in the world.
  2. Monsieur N.
    Has a certain captivating quality about it.
  3. The Legend of Drunken Master
    He (Lee) combines the daredeviltry of Buster Keaton with the devil-may-care of Errol Flynn.
  4. Pink Ribbons, Inc.
    While most of the talking heads, including the funny and articulate Barbara Ehrenreich (herself a breast cancer survivor), are not likely to join runs and walks for the cure, Pool shows how such events create community and sisterhood.
  5. The Good Thief
    Cinema as jazz. More precisely, jazz traded by the likes of Charlie Parker, Billie Holliday, Chet Baker -- blurry, opiated, jagged with melancholy and stone cold beautiful.
  6. The Keeping Room
    The Keeping Room looks at the brutality of humanity.
  7. Good Dick
    At its best, the film is undeniably tender. Sweet, even.
  8. De-Lovely
    This intelligent, postmodern biography from director Irwin Winkler and screenwriter Jay Cocks uses Porter's songs, by turns haunting and hilarious, to decode and reconstruct a life hinted at in the familiar words and music.
  9. The Idol
    While its rather formulaic second half relies on clichés about underdogs' triumphing against the odds, The Idol opens with a terrific look at Assaf's childhood that has the feel of "Stand By Me."
  10. Finding Dory
    Much of Finding Dory is funny, and fun. But there's something kind of haunting about our heroine's memory thing. If you forget where you are, and who you are, and why you are - isn't that called Losing Dory?
  11. Queen of Katwe
    This terrific film and its inspirational message have been filtered through an individualistic, American point of view, suggesting that anyone can make a better life for themselves if they are willing to work. And that's not the case everywhere.
  12. A Bridge Too Far
    Attenborough's underrated 1977 epic A Bridge Too Far fashioned an antiwar statement from the foolhardiness that stranded 35,000 paratroopers behind German lines in an attempt to take key bridges. [02 Feb 2002, p.C01]
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  13. The Lake House
    An enjoyably sudsy romance starring a moody Keanu Reeves, a broody Sandra Bullock, and the titular structure - a jewel box of glass and steel perched on stilts over Lake Michigan.
  14. Renaissance
    The result is something both fluid and stark, cinematic and comic book-y, and incredible.
  15. The Spiderwick Chronicles
    The film underscores the power of reading, and applying what we read to problem-solving. The story suggests that we don't really see the natural world around us, and if we did our lives, like Jared's and his siblings', would be immeasurably richer.
  16. Deadpool
    Deadpool is, on the whole, a big bowl of fun filled with great stunts, gory fight scenes, and sexy poses.
  17. Young Adam
    Also quite fine is the film's musical score from David Byrne, as unsettling and edgy as the story.
  18. Baadasssss!
    Sobering and wildly entertaining.
  19. Dark Horse
    Americans seem uncommonly uncomfortable discussing our own class struggles. But, boy, do we love to watch the Brits do it. I think that's one reason the inspiring and joyful Dark Horse is such an appealing film.
  20. Lan Yu
    It's not often that Chinese cinema tackles same-sex relationships, and rarer still to see a film of such stark, muted emotion coming from mainland China.
  21. The Count of Monte Cristo
    This delicious adventure of crude betrayal and elegant revenge is yummy even when reheated by director Kevin Reynolds.
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  22. John Dies at the End
    John Dies at the End isn't deep. But it is deeply amusing, in the sickest possible way.
  23. Noah
    Darren Aronofsky's Noah is the Old Testament on acid. It's the movie equivalent of Christian death metal. It's an antediluvian Lord of the Rings, fist-pumping, ferocious, apocalyptic, and wet - very wet.
  24. Toy Story 4
    A funny, freaky, often profound animated adventure that is certainly the best movie ever made about a spork.
  25. Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    While the impulse for his concert may have been confession and atonement, the cumulative effect is one of a guy struggling mightily to reconcile his divided self.
  26. Who Killed the Electric Car?
    As efficient and zippy as its subject.
  27. 50/50
    It's half hilarious, half serious; all poignant.
  28. The Paperboy
    The Paperboy is over-the-top every which way you look.
  29. The Signal
    The Signal has its share of things to say about urban paranoia, road rage, addiction - whether to sex, drugs or, more dangerously, consumerism. But it stands apart from other pictures of the same ilk by using its apocalypse as a backdrop to a bitter-sweet love story.
  30. Appaloosa
    First and last, Appaloosa is the slow-but-sure story of the friendship between Virgil and Everett, one a man of action surprised by emotion, the other a man of emotion surprised by action.
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