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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. The Well Digger's Daughter
    Ultimately comes off as curiously anecdotal, lacking the dramatic dynamism that could give Marcel Pagnol's tale new life.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
    Takashi Miike lets his familiar tastelessness get the better of him, relishing the grisly seppuku-by-bamboo in unnecessary detail.
  3. Wagner's Dream
    The title of Susan Froemke's documentary is both an expression of aspiration and a statement of achievement.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours
    Just as Rirkrit Tiravanija had done in the '90s when he converted New York City galleries into live kitchens, he changes one's relation to a movie theater to a space for meditation.
  5. Red Lights
    That all the good things--and there are several--Red Lights has going for it are ultimately in service of an ending that might even make M. Night Shyamalan cringe represents one of the year's biggest missed opportunities.
  6. Ice Age: Continental Drift
    Caters almost exclusively to the remedial, Duplo Blocks demographic, leaving parents and guardians bored to distraction.
  7. Ponies
    Never distinguishes itself as engaging cinema apart from the main character's vile charisma and a few dynamic dialogue sequences.
  8. Family Portrait in Black and White
    Julia Ivanova, a Canadian filmmaker, doesn't judge Olga; she refuses to see her through the eyes of a presumably better-off first-world citizen.
  9. Ballplayer: Pelotero
    The doc is a sly, interesting achievement: It opens as an entertaining sports story and closes as a metaphor for government corruption.
  10. It's the Earth Not the Moon
    After 30 minutes or so, Gonçalo Tocha's anthropological proposition slides into dubiousness.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
    The documentary is a work of careful consideration, moral weighing, and deliberateness of craft.
  12. Farewell, My Queen
    Control is the operative element in Benoît Jacquot's work, with the main caveat being that when someone has it, someone else does not.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Alps
    Both a companion piece to and in many ways a reversal of "Dogtooth," it builds on that film's surreally terse style and notions of communication and identity without diluting its singularity or concentration.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Easy Money
    The humanization of these antiheroic outlaws doesn't feel forced, but it does feel engineered, and there's never a viewer investment to match the story's wide expanse.
  15. Grassroots
    It isn't entirely clear what Stephen Gyllenhaal sees in the material apart from some lukewarm raging against the machine.
  16. The Imposter
    The film shrewdly opts not to proffer its own hypothesis about the true reasons behind the Gibson family buying Frédéric Bourdin's story.
  17. Union Square
    Nancy Savoca's film begins in caricature and ends in sentimentality, only briefly hitting the sweet spot in between.
  18. Invisible
    One can see the difference between the two traumatized main female characters right in their faces.
  19. Trishna
    Class privilege and sexual politics are inextricably linked in Trishna, Michael Winterbottom's blunt, self-consciously brutal, and rather loose updating of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles."
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    China Heavyweight
    Although we never really get to know He or Miao, despite following them around vérité-style, director Yung Chang expertly captures the rays of Western culture bouncing off them.
  21. Collaborator
    The banter is playful and brazenly self-aware, but the ideas are a bit stale and don't lead anywhere emotionally substantial or narratively spontaneous.
  22. Savages
    While his classic hyperbolic visual style is back in force, Stone can't bother to muster any of his usual righteous anger, instead mischanneling his discontent into a kind of zen acceptance of these perpetually tiresome main characters.
  23. Katy Perry: Part of Me
    This frothy 3D concert doc often plays like a Perry ad campaign, assuring viewers that their "Teenage Dream" diva is a good, fun-loving person, and that, by God, she's doing fine.
  24. The Magic of Belle Isle
    This gooey reteaming of Rob Reiner and Morgan Freeman is crammed tight with baldly manipulative elements, its tearjerker quota busting at the seams.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Pact
    When The Pact descends, finally, from suggestion to explication, the scares regrettably slink away.
  26. Starry Starry Night
    A modestly charming bit of whimsy that hopes to speak to anyone who experienced a sense of emotional injustice during their formative years.
  27. The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
    In Jay and Mark Duplass's film, the fragile middle-aged male ego is indulged, massaged, and, finally, critiqued.
  28. Crazy Eyes
    While the male characters are certainly not presented as models of enlightened behavior, their antics and crises are indulged in a manner not extended to their female counterparts.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Madea's Witness Protection
    The film remains buoyed by the same open heart that makes Tyler Perry's best work so endearing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Neil Young Journeys
    As great and intimate as Live at Massey Hall 1971 may be, it's not as transportive as this filming of a Neil Young performance at the venue 30 years later.
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