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For 7,776 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. Sanctuary
    This is a theatrical story told in a purposefully and self-consciously theatrical manner.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment
    While very informative, it doesn't work as an introduction to kibbutzim because it requires the viewer to have some prior knowledge of the history of Israel.
  3. Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League's New York
    Nina Rosenblum's love letter never attains that essence of ambiguity that makes the best nonfiction films live on after the credits fade.
  4. The Last Christeros
    The film forsakes most of the underdog sentimentality found in traditional genre treatments of noble sacrifice.
  5. Mr. X
    For a life beyond mere DVD supplementary material, the film could use a dose of rigor to balance out its steady stream of congratulatory pit stops.
  6. Homme Less
    Thomas Wirthensohn frequently sinks into dully positing Mark Reay as something close to the pinnacle of human integrity.
  7. The King of Staten Island
    Throughout, Judd Apatow dramatizes the ideal of community with an almost Eastwoodian sense of rapture.
  8. Blackboard Jungle
    Poitier’s acting is scalding hot. If The Blackboard Jungle is worth anything, it’s for bearing witness to a major star in the making.
  9. Sovereign
    Christian Swegal’s feature-length directorial debut is like staring into a national wound.
  10. The Ides of March
    Clooney's films as director often begin with a familiar point A and conclude at a less-familiar point B, deriving much of their interest from the circuitous path required to navigate the shift.
  11. Shortcomings
    Shortcomings is a mostly comedic but fitfully insightful examination of a character type familiar to indie cinema: the solipsistic guy who fills the gap left by emotional underdevelopment with intense opinions delivered at bad times.
  12. Tesla
    A profound sense of restlessness and loneliness haunts Michael Almereyda’s film, which reinvigorates the biopic genre.
  13. The Great Hack
    It seems so invested in a rehabilitation of Brittany Kaiser’s image that the filmmakers’ own motives end up being its most interesting subject.
  14. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    A risible, somewhat revolting piece of pop martyrdom, made for and isolated to the damaged middle class.
  15. In the Aisles
    By subverting the impulse to indulge a winning romance between its two bright European stars, In the Aisles insists on the dignity of its appealing but rather thin characters.
  16. The History of Future Folk
    Ridiculousness played with a straight face, the film is endearing even if it's never quite hilarious.
  17. Lady Chatterley's Lover
    However faithfully the film transposes the plot and themes of the source material, it struggles to capture the spirit, ironing out D.H. Lawrence’s modernity-skeptical modernism and losing sight of his poetic vision.
  18. Tom at the Farm
    Its allegory for internalized homophobia, a gay man's perilous attraction to straightness itself, seems in this case deeply persona.
  19. The Circle
    The film refuses to tease us with suspense, overwhelm us with sentimentality, or defy us with nuance.
  20. London River
    Rachid Bouchareb casts his account of the horrifying aftermath of tragedy on an intimate scale, allowing the halting words and frightened faces of his two leads to tell us as much as we need to know about the uncertainties of those faced with tracking down their lost loved ones.
  21. Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
    Adios may deepen our understanding of these musicians and their world, but it never quite stands on its own.
  22. A Master Builder
    Jonathan Demme makes loving sport of the trust his actors have clearly placed in him, erecting for them a monument to the joys and terrors of walking an emotional high wire.
  23. Garbo: The Spy
    Using a whirlwind of archival footage, maps, and split screens, Edmon Roch conveys Juan Pujol Garcia's reign as Europe's premiere spy in a constantly fluid fashion, aesthetically mimicking his crafty and cagey nature.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Sapphires
    Wayne Blair isn't interested in historical complexity or subtext, just the seamless flow of Hollywood-style storytelling that lazily connects one musical number to the next.
  25. The Green Prince
    The proceedings have such a rigidly determined structure, amplified by chapter titles, that the power and conviction in their recountings deteriorate into a placid series of back-and-forths.
  26. The Myth of the American Sleepover
    Throughout this American Graffiti-like Circadian shuffle, we can sense these characters coming to grips with human realities that they dare not vocalize.
  27. More Than the Rainbow
    The film's segments move seamlessly from one topic to the next with the unselfconscious ease of a good dinner party.
  28. Unforgivable
    The layered, character-driven drama may subvert expectations of a sunny Venetian noir, but observes its five principal characters with a probing, egalitarian eye.
  29. Cut Throat City
    Cut Throat City is still an ambitious and volatile film, an atmospheric survey of the thankless world of the rich and the damned.
  30. Long Shot
    As it proceeds toward its telegraphed rom-com ending, the film becomes just more empty rhetoric, an ineffectual reiteration.
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