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For 7,775 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: 4,349 out of 7775
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7775
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7775
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  1. Grey Matter
    Director Kivu Ruhorahoza dares to demolish fiction's inherent distance from what might be considered "reality."
  2. Come Back, Africa (1959)
    A solid, affecting artifact of the cruelty of late 1950s South Africa, in which music often makes despair and long-suppressed anger bearable.
  3. Pretty Poison (1968)
    The movie's big joke is that Sue Ann turns out to be the potent, sociopathic one; for once, Perkins is out-psychoed by an honor-roll student who worries she'll be late for hygiene class.
  4. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
    In the race to achieve unadulterated fourth-wall breakage, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is the new pack leader.
  5. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
    Director David Gelb details, among other things, the painstaking process that goes into creating mouthwatering pieces of sushi.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    First Position
    The documentary twists out its six narrative threads with measured compassion and even-handedness.
  7. Grandma, a Thousand Times
    Director Mahmoud Kaabour is Fatima's grandson, and she instantly seizes on--lightly, in her way--the guilt and panic that's inspired him to make this film.
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Feb 11, 2012
  8. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
    The film ends on a note of courage, and a call-to-action that we "remember," naturally, but we can't completely buy it: What Freidrichs has accomplished is a portrait of unknowability.
  9. The Miners' Hymns
    A study of the this former mining region in both its de-industralized present and its past state as an active coalfield, The Miners' Hymns arranges its two parts as a set of binary oppositions.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Forgotten Space
    If you think of Wall Street as capitalism's symbolic headquarters, filmmakers Allan Sekula and Noël Burch more or less show us in The Forgotten Space how the sea is capitalism's global trading floor writ large.
  11. Cirkus Columbia
    Its lightheartedness and overtly traditional narrative structure become a smart strategy for crafting what is ultimately a very nuanced political critique of capital.
  12. Sound of Noise
    The film is ultimately winning because of its devilish anarchic streak, aiming its arrows at the stuffiness of the traditional musical establishment.
  13. Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
    The film provides a crisp, succinct answer to a question that nags most Americans: What the hell happened?
  14. Safety Not Guaranteed
    More focused on emotion than adventure, it teases out the possibilities and perils of time travel without embroiling itself in the confusion inherent to the subject.
  15. Identity Thief
    Melissa McCarthy is riveting in simply-penned moments of remorse and confession, adding tearful depth to her ace timing and formidable physical comedy.
  16. We the Party
    While We the Party can be insensitive, or blind, to the misogyny and homophobia of the general culture (the token gay teen is a finger-snapping, head-bobbing fashionista), it takes the issues of race and class quite seriously.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Surviving Progress
    By turning the idea of progress on its head, the nimble Surviving Progress exquisitely presents to us the possibility that humankind's achievements may cause its downfall.
  18. Whores' Glory
    While Michael Glawogger does make overtures in the wrong directions, he usually seems to know where to steer his material.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shakespeare High
    These SoCal kids are passionate about their craft and it shows in their renditions of the famous bard's work.
  20. Convento
    Convento is an unusual experimental film that conjures the free-floating aura of a dream, only without the stylized, hyper-symbolic imagery that we generally associate with films attempting to convey dream states.
  21. Dissolution
    The camera is at its most effective when it seems dumbfounded at what it's indexing.
  22. Middle of Nowhere
    In a cinema landscape where the representation of the black female experience is most visibly explored through the modes of outlandish comedy, unironic melodrama, or not at all, Ava DuVernay's take is a decidedly refreshing one.
  23. Downtown Express
    The movie's final act tries, somewhat admirably, to consolidate the plot's myriad interpersonal conflicts.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Loved Ones
    Sean Byrne endows his rote slasher material with the kind of blackly comic wit and levity that virtually guarantee its entry into the contemporary midnight-movie canon.
  25. The Wise Kids
    Hovering over the narrative is the fear of the domino effect that change can enact, the dread that one person's "queerness" may perhaps expose everyone else's.
  26. All In: The Poker Movie
    The film has a shambling charm that actively disputes an unspoken notion that a documentary must be well-structured in order to effectively land its points.
  27. Ruby Sparks
    Succeeds as a satirical fantasy about writerly self-involvement, but it's worth celebrating as a testament to self-made greatness, particularly in regard to the efforts of writer/star Zoe Kazan.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Love in the Buff
    The film has an exhilarating tossed-off quality that characterized many of the most entertaining works of the French New Wave.
  29. Artificial Paradises
    The juxtaposition between the gorgeous natural beauty of a remote beach with the stubborn human need to escape somewhere, no matter what cost, is what really enthralls in the film.
  30. Scenes of a Crime
    A true-crime documentary of invigorating analytical clarity and evenhandedness.
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