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For 12,933 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: 6,625 out of 12933
  2. Mixed: 5,140 out of 12933
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 12933
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  1. Can We Take a Joke?
    It's hard not to have mixed reactions while watching Ted Balaker's documentary Can We Take a Joke? about how political correctness is stifling free speech, particularly when it comes to satire and stand-up comedy.
  2. Yarn
    Setting out to show the range of expression found in a field of craft it feels is too often dismissed as a trivial women's pastime, Una Lorenzen's Yarn showcases four artists doing things with crochet your spinster great-aunt probably never imagined.
  3. Imperium
    Imperium traffics in familiar undercover cop thriller conventions while gaining resonance from its disturbing, timely milieu.
  4. In Order of Disappearance
    In Order of Disappearance provides a wonderful vehicle for Stellan Skarsgard's stone-faced gravitas and calm intelligence.
  5. Bleed for This
    Bleed for This is a gritty, pungently Rhode Island working class-set boxing drama that connects with most of its punches.
  6. The Seventh Fire
    The first couple of reels are very loosely structured, with no one identified onscreen, which gives the film a verite edge but which also means that it takes a good while for the material to find its footing and make it clear what and, more importantly, who, the film is exactly about.
  7. Demon
    Things head eventually in an abstract direction that may have played better onstage than it does here ("we must forget what we didn't see here," guests are eventually instructed), but a compelling atmosphere lingers.
  8. Command and Control
    Interspersing technical talk with a quick history of nuclear testing and other near-misses, the doc demonstrates how often situations like this arise.
  9. Sea Fog
    It's a gripping ride through the storm...with powerful imagery, a simple and accessible story and a stellar performance from Kim Yoon-seok.
  10. Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil
    Though too inside-baseball for many casual art fans, it should find some takers in its nationwide tour of bookings at art houses and museums.
  11. 13th
    To say 13th is stimulating and thought-provoking is the understatement of the year.
  12. Citizen Soldier
    The film will have a hard time attracting attention outside the community of veterans. But that doesn't diminish its ability to put us in the shoes of ordinary men balancing boredom with life-or-death action on a daily basis.
  13. The Lost Arcade
    For all the sloppiness of its approach, The Lost Arcade is an enjoyable and nostalgic portrait of a bygone era and a local institution that has now lost the pungent atmospheric flavor that made it so unique.
  14. Women He's Undressed
    A rollicking if somewhat ham-handed documentary about the life of costume designer Orry-Kelly.
  15. Mr. Church
    The film is emotionally manipulative, to be sure, but it's ultimately hard to resist, especially given the quality of the lead performances.
  16. Spa Night
    Though more mainstream-oriented audiences will not be on board with Ahn’s brand of subtlety, for those willing to fully invest themselves, Spa Night offers a carefully considered story about identity or rather identities.
  17. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
    Predictably full of great performing footage and incorporating new interviews with the too-few surviving witnesses, the doc may hold few revelations for baby boomers and their kids, who've had ample opportunities to revisit the material. But it will make a fine entry point for younger auds who grew up with the songs but never had Beatlemania shoved down their throats.
  18. The Bad Batch
    Even when the dramatic momentum slackens, the movie's grindhouse world remains vividly rendered and immersive.
  19. The Secret Scripture
    Rooney Mara and Theo James deliver their most richly nuanced screen work to date in the drama, a memory piece whose true subject is Ireland’s tangled, bloody history and the Church’s toxic paternalism toward women.
  20. Their Finest
    While the strong ensemble cast is Their Finest's most valuable asset, the movie also looks quite handsome on what appears to be a modest budget, and includes some delightful glimpses of how screen effects were achieved way back in those handcrafted days.
  21. The Tenth Man
    The smartest touch of Burman's bouncy, unobtrusively informative screenplay is to make Usher such a dominant offscreen presence before he finally shows up in the closing minutes.
  22. Brother Nature
    Killam, who recently departed SNL after six seasons, shows a great grasp of his character’s escalating bewilderment and frustration.
  23. Abortion: Stories Women Tell
    Tracy Droz Tragos works to get beyond us-versus-them simplicity in Abortion: Stories Women Tell, focusing on personal narrative over politics in a humanistic look at an issue that promises to remain divisive for the foreseeable future.
  24. Hidden Figures
    The fine, spirited work of Taraji P. Henson, Spencer and Janelle Monae as irresistible rooting interests, as well as Kevin Costner’s winningly lived-in turn as the head of Langley’s Space Task Group, deepen a film that’s propelled by sitcommy beats and expository dialogue.
  25. Landfill Harmonic
    Directors Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley offer a straightforward account of this unlikely story, following as their young subjects (and the adults who made this possible) enjoy the fruits of overnight social-media stardom.
  26. Girl Asleep
    Girl Asleep might be about an awakening, but it’s not a sexual awakening, and this is one teen comedy in which, at long last, the geek doesn’t get the girl.
  27. Born in China
    If all of the overemoting can be ignored, Born in China delivers gorgeous visuals in its close-up perspective on some of the world’s rarest wildlife species, as well as the imposing habitats they call home.
  28. The Ruins of Lifta
    Directors Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky may not solve Israeli-Palestinian animosities, but they find illuminating angles of exploration for one of the world’s most intractable conflicts.
  29. Starving the Beast
    Though never hard to follow, the discussion can sometimes challenge an unwonky viewer's attention span. But it contains big insights for those who wade in.
  30. Fences
    Denzel Washington and Viola Davis know their parts here backward and forward, and they, along with the rest of the fine cast, bat a thousand, hitting both the humorous and serious notes. But with this comes a sense that all the conflicts, jokes and meanings are being smacked right on the nose in vivid close-ups, with nothing left to suggestion, implication and interpretation.
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