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For 7,768 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 6.2 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: 4,345 out of 7768
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7768
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7768
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Viola
    In essentially offering up The Twelfth Night as a hazy Shakespearean mash-up, Viola isn't so much deeply disrespecting notions of ownership, authorship, etc., as charitably redefining them.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Hijacking
    Tobias Lindholm's hostage-negotiation drama that wields its verité style for maximum tension.
  3. The Act of Killing
    In Joshua Oppenheimer's extraordinary The Act of Killing, film becomes the medium for a bold historical reckoning--and in more ways than one.
  4. Blue Caprice
    The filmmakers are more interested in questioning what brings people to commit senseless and merciless acts than they are preoccupied with the historical record.
  5. Stories We Tell
    Sarah Polley is much more interested in the malleability of memory and the consequential refractions felt throughout her kin rather than telling a linear narrative.
  6. Eden
    The "male gaze" that often despicably and hypocritically surfaces in these kinds of films is pointedly absent throughout.
  7. Silver Circle
    Amateurish and hyperbolic, this animated feature directed by Pasha Roberts makes quite clear his political leanings.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Caroline and Jackie
    Because the whole thing feels so amateurishly improvised, Caroline and Jackie doesn't so much enter into Michael Haneke territory as slip backward, over a banana peel, into some bad-faith parody of the same.
  9. Stars in Shorts
    Generally, these shorts do little to advance their own arguments, but then again, they don't need to; if the short film is the arena of students, amateurs, and small-timers, then these are overdogs from frame one, coming off every bit as expensive and banal as their makers allow them to be.
  10. Come Out and Play
    Makinov's film expertly crafts a sense of dawning madness that hinges on its villains' unspoken fury at their elders.
  11. Starbuck
    Yet another example of modern-family predicaments getting stuffed into the traditional-family-values message of conventional comedies.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Everybody Has a Plan
    Ana Piterbarg's handsome, if uninvolving, film privileges mood over narrative and dumb brooding over character.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    108 (Cuchillo de Palo)
    Renate Costa's doc gradually simplifies into an elaborate seesaw between general, journalistic scoopery and unabashedly personal confrontation.
  14. Clip
    A raw, sophisticated, and stomach-turning look at what it means to be a young woman in Serbia, what it means to be a woman tout court.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Place Beyond the Pines
    The film never reaches a climax because it's always in one, distilling the lives of its characters to their tensest moments.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Something in the Air
    Despite a fixation on fire as a cleansing agent (explosions, burning paintings, or a blazing house), the film, enveloping as it is, proves woefully short on burning dramatic or thematic intensity.
  17. Vanishing Waves
    A scintillating sci-fi throwback, Vanishing Waves draws inspiration from Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky, among others, but without feeling plagiaristic.
  18. Reincarnated
    Essentially 90-minute promo video carefully orchestrated by the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg and his handlers.
  19. Crazy and Thief
    It's eventually obvious that Cory McAbee mistakenly believes that his characters' resolutely dull adventures speak for themselves.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Call
    Brad Anderson's film is defined by an often frustrating combination of cleverness and stupidity.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    I Killed My Mother
    I Killed My Mother is a film best heard than seen, as the earnest, nimble scrubbiness of Dolan's screenplay is ill-served by his conceited visuals, an aesthetic mode that feels insecurely borrowed from perfume commercials and the work of Jean-Luc Godard and Wong Kar-Wai.
  22. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
    The film is overtly suspicious and critical of the new and only serviceably romantic about the old.
  23. Upside Down
    The highlight of the film is the moment Jim Sturgess's Adam inadvertently pisses on the ceiling.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Philip Roth: Unmasked
    In spite of the film's exhaustive chronology, those who deduce from its title that they're in for an unveiling, or an unraveling, of a major literary figure may come out empty-handed.
  25. K-11
    It careens from one tonal extreme to the next, uncertain about whether it wants to be a gritty drama, camp artifact, or violent prison-sploitation flick.
  26. My Amityville Horror
    The film is a tender character portrait rooted in deep curiosity and sympathy for its subject.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Spring Breakers
    One of the effects of Harmony Korine's feverish, hypnotic style is that the whole thing feels like a fantasy—or rather a nightmare perversion of the American dream.
  28. Reality
    Matteo Garrone has a sure eye for outlandish set pieces that exhibit the expansive outlines of his ideas, but these spectacles are sporadic, and the spaces between them tend to lag.
  29. If I Were You
    A wannabe French-style infidelity farce that keeps indulging in unnecessary bathos and subplots.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    From Up on Poppy Hill
    The story arc is somewhat facile, and its lesson about preserving history instead of demolishing it to make way for new, shiny things is too obvious.
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