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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. Player Hating: A Love Story
    One of the more intimate and revealing looks at American projects ever made; it's assured and empathetic without indulging in fashionable white guilt.
  2. Kids of Today
    While this uncataloguable and entrancing film gazes back in nostalgia to a time of performance-art priapism when everyone seems to have known Warhol, it also leaves room for a particularly hopeful diagnosis of the present.
    • 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.
  4. Fightville
    Fightville's most worthwhile material tends to lie in the space between what its subjects say and what we know to be true.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    American Animal
    It may be baked with the same ingredients that come in your standard mumblecore starter kit, but because of Matt D'Elia's indebtedness to other movies, the film follows a different recipe altogether.
  7. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
    There's something to be said about a two-and-a-half-hour war epic that manages to make each of its countless decapitation scenes feel earned, even called for, in the moment.
  8. The Giant Mechanical Man
    It's a simple story of simple people intentionally told in simple terms, and the only issues with which it's concerned are those of pure personal connection.
  9. Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story
    Documentarian and subject, past and present blur together like bleeding watercolors in Raymond De Felitta's gripping memoir.
  10. Red Hook Summer
    The seamless juxtaposition of faith and pain, innocence and guilt, allows the film to transcend Spike Lee's occasional bombastic moments and become a strong examination of internal suffering.
  11. Under African Skies
    It does lightly suggest scintillating questions about the responsibility artists have in reflecting current political moments in their music.
  12. The Observers
    Goss's film carries its unique forms of narrative suspense, but her 16mm images imbue both the forbidding landscape and her characters' scientific aerie, though the observatory only dates from 1932, with a poetry of the seemingly eternal.
  13. 5 Broken Cameras
    The documentary provides a birdsong of perseverance in the face of irrational violence, immense historic anger, and grim, seemingly insurmountable realities.
  14. 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.
  15. The Sessions
    It's the rare film to sell sex as something truly tender and life-affirming, and Helen Hunt, in particular, is lovely and poignant.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Tall Man
    Illustrates the problem of class mobility with a dark, troubling premise that holds a harsh light up to our own assumptions and expectations.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Queen of Versailles
    Lauren Greenfield's film evolves from an ode to entitled obliviousness to a more evenhanded character study, tracing the fault lines that develop within the Siegel family.
  18. Found Memories
    Julia Murat shows a fine grasp of form, letting her technique reflect the elements and moods of her story.
  19. Pink Ribbons, Inc.
    A righteously outraged documentary targeting the "warm and fuzzy" iconography of the breast cancer fundraising bureaucracy and its camouflage of corporate priorities.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Invisible War
    Kirby Dick's spartan use of graphics and statistics conveys arguments with little grandstanding.
  21. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    This is a summer blockbuster contingent on grand bargains, tactical retreats, and a ferocious, inevitable shock-and-awe campaign.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Corpo Celeste
    Once Corpo Celeste began to recede a little in my rearview mirror, my initial impatience softened a little.
  23. We Won't Grow Old Together (1969)
    A wild, furious, and genuinely unsettling ego is on display in Maurice Pialat's second proper feature.
  24. Tahrir: Liberation Square
    A direct-cinema document of the Cairo protests that toppled Mubarak, Stefano Savona's film doesn't pretend that Egypt's resolution has yet won a lasting victory.
  25. 2 Days in New York
    It keeps the entrances, exits, and misunderstandings rolling while rooting the action in emotions and character traits that are only slightly exaggerated for comic effect.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Nate & Margaret
    Nathan Adloff's Nate & Margaret is an endearing, hopeful, and quietly radical film.
  27. Arbitrage
    If the film covers well-tread territory (a morally bankrupt player trying to prolong his own influence), it does so with pinpoint control of mood and theme.
  28. Hello I Must Be Going
    Thanks to Melanie Lynskey's performance, the movie feels like a believably worked-out, sympathetically presented study in thirtysomething uncertainty.
  29. 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.
    • 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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