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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: 4,346 out of 7772
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7772
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7772
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Snow on Tha Bluff
    Questions of authenticity aside, Damon Russell evinces a shrewd understanding of how to juxtapose the handheld camera's finite sightline with the bursts of chaos that suddenly invade it.
  2. Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance
    While the documentary offers us a story that needs to be told, it does so in very non-Joffrey ways.
  3. ReGeneration
    Phillip Montgomery's film is ironically as undeveloped and busy as the sensational media it criticizes.
  4. You Hurt My Feelings
    For a film that often veers into potentially absurd territory, You Hurt My Feelings shows a great deal of sensitivity toward its sad-sack characters.
  5. Meeting Evil
    Chris Fisher so over-directs his material that the action takes on the sheen of a parody or, at least, of a film that doesn't realize its clichés are being exaggerated to the point of absurdity.
  6. The Woman in the Septic Tank
    A lighthearted critique on the fetishized notion of the "non-actor," the ethics (or lack thereof) of the "docudrama," and the packaging of national despair for exportation.
  7. Richard's Wedding
    In the director's preference for above-it-all contempt over tough-minded empathy, the film ends up seeming little more than an 89-minute hatefest.
  8. Knockdown
    The film is a tedious narrative shambles that's almost hilariously unaware of its racism and sexism.
  9. We Won't Grow Old Together (1969)
    A wild, furious, and genuinely unsettling ego is on display in Maurice Pialat's second proper feature.
  10. UFO in Her Eyes
    The serio-comic technique and ping-ponging aesthetics ultimately make for a winning approach.
  11. It's the Earth Not the Moon
    After 30 minutes or so, Gonçalo Tocha's anthropological proposition slides into dubiousness.
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    • 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.
  13. Drought
    Everado González isn't above capturing some striking landscape shots, seemingly for the shear desolate prettiness of it, but they always double as a reminder of the very real plight facing the subjects.
  14. Max and the Junkmen (1971)
    Regarding Michel Piccoli's Max, Claude Sautet's film resists judgment, neither condoning nor signposting the despicable nature of his choices.
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    • 38 Critic Score
    Mark Lombardi: Death-Defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy
    Feels like one of those thin, audio-visual supplements on an artist that you casually view as you browse a gallery show.
  16. Dear Mandela
    A devout political documentary that insists that community, dignity, and solidarity are sustaining, but not the baseline by which one should settle.
  17. Janeane from Des Moines
    The film betrays its own fictions by overloading on cheap worst-case-scenario mythology.
  18. The Double Steps
    One can't help but sense that underneath the complicated art-house game-playing of Isaki Lacuesta's The Double Steps resides a theme that's sentimental and old-hat.
  19. Avé
    The film exudes an elemental, intriguing mysteriousness, a reminder that things remain unseen and in a state of unrest.
  20. Dinotasia
    This decision to avoid treating the dinosaurs as surrogate people for easy identification is both the film's boldest move and the source of much of its problems.
  21. Girl Walk: All Day
    "You should always be happy." That's a succinct encapsulation of the proudly optimistic spirit animating this joyous film, a worldview which the rest of Girl Walk // All Day illustrates with a combination of thrilling street ballet, exultant music, and unflagging verve.
  22. The Art of Flight 3D
    An aesthetic showcase whose repetitive nature winds up diminishing the excitement of its breathtaking feats of mountainous flight.
  23. The Loving Story
    Perhaps the strongest aspect of the documentary is that it allows the Lovings to tell their story in their own words.
  24. Welcome to the Machine
    The focus on Weider's fatherly duties and modest personal insights is what provides the film with its moral grounding.
  25. Southwest (Sudoeste)
    The inscrutability of the plot, intriguing at first, is ultimately impenetrable.
  26. San Diego Surf
    Here, the glamorous and the infantile cohabitate on a casual level, and frivolity remains the Factory's default mode.
  27. Crazy and Thief
    It's eventually obvious that Cory McAbee mistakenly believes that his characters' resolutely dull adventures speak for themselves.
  28. Code of the West
    The filmmaker's failure of empathy for those who strive to outlaw medicinal marijuana turns the protestors into hissable puritanical bad guys.
  29. The Happy House
    D.W. Young navigates his varying moods with an ease that's particularly impressive for a director making his feature debut, but he never capitalizes on his ability to coax down our guard.
  30. Three Sisters
    Wang Bing's no-frills style of documentation visually echoes the preadolescent trio's simple yet unforgiving world and its sense of labor as life.
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