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For 12,919 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: 6,618 out of 12919
  2. Mixed: 5,135 out of 12919
  3. Negative: 1,166 out of 12919
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  1. White Sun
    Skilfully manipulating romantic and social frictions which in lesser hands might have come across as soapily melodramatic, Rauniyar and Barker construct a parable-like tale whose allegorical aspects are there for those who wish to find them. But their priority is the creation of believable characters in a pungently atmospheric setting.
  2. SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock
    The tale is told entirely through Rock’s perspective, with no friends, colleagues, or talking heads weighing in. But that turns out to be no detriment, since the Cambridge-educated photographer proves a witty and rueful commentator whose observations are infused with self-deprecating humor.
  3. The Wound
    John Trengove’s first feature takes real chances, delivering a troubling portrait of the collision between communal and personal identity.
  4. By the Time It Gets Dark
    Expanding her premise into a reflection on an artist's challenge in portraying reality, the director's By the Time It Gets Dark is a magical, melancholic ode to the intellectual's struggle against the forces of history.
  5. Gemini
    While the payoff could have used some extra punch, the teasing path that leads there is bewitching, with Lola Kirke serving as an enigmatic guide.
  6. Karl Marx City
    A key joy of Karl Marx City is its strong, arty aesthetic.
  7. In Search of Israeli Cuisine
    With its assortment of mouthwatering ingredients and dishes, In Search of Israeli Cuisine is an unadulterated foodie delight. But much more than that, Roger Sherman’s documentary offers fascinating insights into a little-understood country, using the culinary prism to illuminate a complex, still-young culture.
  8. God Knows Where I Am
    The Widers apply great artistic ambition to a story few would handle in this manner, resulting in a haunting film.
  9. Stronger
    Perhaps the most striking thing about David Gordon Green’s Stronger is how it refuses to turn its subject into a hero or even a small-time symbol of courage, as one might legitimately expect of a survivor story, even while the world is clamoring to put him on a pedestal.
  10. California Typewriter
    Nichol has created a loving valentine to all the iconoclasts who resist what the rest of the world defines as progress.
  11. A Silent Voice
    Where director Yamada excels is in depicting the interior worlds of the two main characters, paying particular attention to details, whether visual or sonic, that seem to place a constant divide between Shoya and Shoko.
  12. One Week and a Day
    The strength of Asaph Polonsky’s debut feature, One Week and a Day (Shavua Ve Yom), is that it’s actually a bittersweet comedy-drama in which the pain is as real as the frequent chuckles.
  13. Get Me Roger Stone
    A solid backgrounder on a political operative many believe to have changed the course of U.S. history.
  14. Truman
    It’s Gay’s most emotionally direct work to date, thoroughly shedding the clever-cleverness of some of his earlier work, and also his most accessible — a clean-lined, sensitively-written and beautifully played two-hander that tackles complex issues in a refreshingly straightforward, downbeat way.
  15. Heal the Living
    Though the film’s two halves aren’t equally as strong, with the second half lacking some of the complexity and breathtaking sweep of part one, this is an impressive step up for Quillevere.
  16. Eastern Business
    Strictly in terms of basic plot, Eastern Business isn’t exactly innovative. But what makes the film stand out is how perceptive it is about Moldova’s place in (Eastern) Europe and how it uses its characters’ behavior to illustrate points about human behavior that’s recognizable the world over.
  17. Two Lottery Tickets
    A scrappy but at times uproarious Romanian comedy.
  18. Obit
    Engaging and lively.
  19. Finding Oscar
    Suffern puts this tragic story to purposeful and, in some respects, inspiring use: The power of forgiveness can be remarkable, and some countries in the world have actually improved over the past 25 years.
  20. Lucky
    It feels like a gift from one outstanding character actor to another, but never one that indulges the thesp at the expense of the film.
  21. LA 92
    Thanks in part to excellent editing and a subtly gripping score by Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans, LA 92 never lags during its nearly two-hour running time.
  22. Thelma
    While the more enigmatic supernatural elements at times veer close to formulaic Hollywood horror tropes, the movie maintains a compelling seriousness, particularly in its consideration of the conflict between sexuality and repression.
  23. Love Off the Cuff
    Love Off the Cuff’s little parts add up to a much greater whole.
  24. Deadpool 2
    There's action aplenty throughout the film, but Deadpool 2 doesn't bog down in it as many overcooked comic-book sequels do. With Reynolds' charismatic irreverence at its core, the pic moves from bloody mayhem to lewd comedy and back fluidly, occasionally even making room to go warm and mushy.
  25. November
    Though the emotional pull of this love triangle grows more compelling in the second half, for much of its running time November prefers to beguile us with the strangeness of its setting and characters.
  26. Score: A Film Music Documentary
    Schrader’s film gets into the nitty-gritty without losing sight of the alchemy.
  27. A Gray State
    The film makes its case methodically and persuasively.
  28. Gook
    Gook rises above message-movie mediocrity, enjoying its characters too much to use them as political mouthpieces.
  29. A Gentle Creature
    Creature is exceptional in its depiction of the Byzantine bureaucracy that encases gulags, and how the towns adjacent to Russian prisons tend to be seedy snake pits of crime and venality.
  30. In the Fade
    Following the fizzle of his coming-of-ager Goodbye Berlin (Tschick) last year, Fatih Akin bounces back and bounces high with an edge-of-seat thriller inspired by xenophobic murders in Germany by a Neo-Nazi group.
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