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For 12,922 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,619 out of 12922
  2. Mixed: 5,136 out of 12922
  3. Negative: 1,167 out of 12922
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  1. It
    It is a solid thriller that works best when it is most involved in its adolescent heroes' non-monster-related concerns. It will prove much more satisfying to King's legion of fans than "Dark Tower" did. But it falls well short of the King-derived film it clearly wants to evoke, "Stand By Me"; and newcomers who were spoiled by the eight richly developed hours of Stranger Things may wonder what the big deal is supposed to be.
  2. Peepli Live
    A satisfying comic gem.
  3. Digging for Fire
    More lightweight than its ample talk of weighty subjects suggests, the film is nevertheless enjoyable.
  4. Black Gold
    While plenty of information is imparted in the impassioned proceedings, the film loses some impact because of its lack of a compelling structure.
  5. Cold Souls
    Giamatti is aptly cast, playing his own persona with awkward anxiety and suitably skewed humor.
  6. How to Build a Girl
    As fun as a night in the mosh pit with your best mate ... Directed by Coky Giedroyc with a fizzy vibrancy and supercharged by Feldstein's intense charisma, this crowd-pleasing comedy has smart things to say about class, sex and female identity.
  7. Tuesday
    As a woman who has pushed away a lot of hard truths, Louis-Dreyfus delves into a sphere of emotion that she’s never before explored onscreen. She gives us not just the psychology but the feelings of fear, loss and resilience that infuse Tuesday, a story with the sensibility of an Eastern European fairy tale.
  8. The Sun Rises on Us All
    Most romantic dramas go from meet-cute to hooking up to some kind of major dilemma, but The Sun Rises on Us All heads more or less in the opposite direction.
  9. Dragonfly
    This is a slight film, but the jolts do stay with you, and the two stars offer a humanity that many horror movies lack.
  10. Charli XCX: Alone Together
    At only 67 minutes, Bradley&Pablo's doc is aspiring much more to the former. Less brevity and more depth could possibly have yielded a superior movie, but Alone Together may be an example of a documentary better served by leaving fans wanting more than making casually curious viewers want less.
  11. Bitter Christmas
    Bitter Christmas feels like a tortured analysis construct, in which Almodóvar — normally the most generous of artists — is working things out in his own head rather than coaxing his audience in to share the experience.
  12. I Am Jane Doe
    Mary Mazzio’s eye-opening documentary reveals that the buying and selling of tweens and teens, long recognized as a plight in some developing nations, is also very much a domestic problem.
  13. The Vigil
    Thomas keeps the tension high throughout most of the movie, even if some of his scare tactics can feel redundant.
  14. Life During Wartime
    A heady mix of deadpan humor that boldly uses such topics as pedophilia, race and terrorism to plead the need for forgiveness at a personal and national level.
  15. Tahrir: Liberation Square
    Instantly proves itself an invaluable historical document. Shot verite-style with no narration, soundtrack or other embellishments, Tahrir: Liberation Square simply depicts the events of late January and early February 2011 with a vital immediacy.
  16. A Life in Dirty Movies
    A Life in Dirty Movies is still a sweet and illuminating journey into cult cinema history, but it would have been more honest and psychologically rich if it had shown us the money shot.
  17. General Magic
    Provides a compelling history of a company that created a groundbreaking product that was unfortunately ahead of its time.
  18. Q Ball
    Q Ball delivers a stirring and moving portrait of a program that provides inmates an opportunity to channel their energy in non-violent fashion.
  19. Papicha
    Very knowing about female friendships and the different possible reactions to forced social change, this is a lovingly acted film that, unfortunately, derails in the third act; the calamitous events depicted work fine as a blunt metaphor for where the country found itself or was headed, but doesn't convince on a narrative level or in terms of its psychological impact on the characters.
  20. East of the Mountains
    With a lesser actor, East of the Mountains could have come across as tedious or maudlin, or both. Instead, Skerritt delivers a performance of such understated eloquence and dignity that it emerges as a quiet gem.
  21. The Unknown Known
    An unsuccessful attempt to get inside the head, under the skin or through the looking glass of Bush administration Secretary of Defense and Iraq War proponent Donald Rumsfeld.
  22. I Am Greta
    I Am Greta is a smoothly constructed view of a heroine in the making, and of how the world largely embraced and sometimes dismissed her.
  23. Becoming Mike Nichols
    A short, funny and illuminating interview-based documentary that will leave theater and film mavens both satisfied and hungry for many additional courses.
  24. Kill Me Please
    There's a nicely rendered sense of aesthetics, whether it’s in the safe pastel shades which fill Bea’s bedroom and which contrast with the high, sharp tones of the fantasy scenes.
  25. Penguins
    Even more than those acclaimed lion, chimp and bear films that have preceded it, Penguins proves especially delightful — a coming-of-age story outfitted with an engaging anthropomorphic overlay that can make you forget you’re watching an intimately filmed documentary instead of an animated adventure.
  26. Operation Avalanche
    The film pulls off the action climax of this spy-vs-spy narrative quite well given its obviously limited means. But Avalanche will attract more attention for its sneaky ethic...and for its efforts at recreating a period-appropriate look.
  27. Fire in Babylon
    Crisply shot and edited, with effective use of Ashutosh Phatak’s graceful music, this is a powerful documentary that demands to be seen by as wide an audience as possible.
  28. This Is Not Berlin
    Smart, good-looking and buzzing with edginess, Sama's fourth feature has been made with a love and care that's palpable in every frame, allowing us to forgive its occasional, inevitable brushes with cliche.
  29. What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
    What begins as a friendly trip grows increasingly tense as the men visit sites of mass murder.
  30. Kill It and Leave This Town
    Although the story is not easy to follow, the anger behind it is so virulent that it sweeps the narrative along on a wave of rage and repulsion. A downer on this scale will not, clearly, be everyone's cup of tea.
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