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For 20,280 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    It’s less that Mr. Cedar blends realism with absurdity than that he refuses to acknowledge any distinction between them.
  2. A Family Affair
    By the jaw-dropping climax (an argument over a family portrait), and the film’s not-entirely unpredictable denouement, you aren’t sure whether you are witnessing an investigative family chronicle or an act of revenge.
  3. Ascent
    Ultimately, Ascent is a genuinely poetic portrait of a place, and various people’s relation to it.
  4. Lucas
    No, it's not a daringly original plot and yes, it is sentimental, but Mr. Seltzer handles his small story as gently as Lucas handles the baby locust he finds in the road.
  5. Inherit the Wind
    One of the most intelligent, respectable and entertaining motion pictures of this year.
  6. Kiss the Future
    This is history told through emotions as much as through well-documented events, conveying both the resilience of Sarajevans and the power of pop music (without falling into too much celebrity self-regard).
  7. Queen of Chess
    Kennedy sticks largely to conventional documentary techniques for Queen of Chess, which is not a bad thing: It’s a good story, well told, and Polgar makes for an interesting subject.
  8. Ghost Trail
    The cat-and-mouse game, which involves Hamid tracking his suspect throughout campus, plays out in a relatively low-key manner, with the film relying on Bessa (and eventually, an eerie Barhom) to deepen the survivor’s dilemma.
  9. Taboo
    Illustrates the underlying fear that when energies that should be directed toward warfare are diverted into passion, unity is impossible.
  10. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    Simultaneously fascinating and vexing in ways that might tax informed devotees of both baseball and film.
  11. Pistol Opera
    Insanely likable but suffers from anemia.
  12. State and Main
    A surprisingly unpolished piece of work that plays as though it were written for the stage and only slightly modified for the screen.
  13. OT: Our Town
    At the end, when they have created a vibrant new theater program for their school, their sense of triumph is infectious. " 'Our Town' Is Ghetto!" one of them exults. Thornton Wilder, wherever he is, would understand and take it as a compliment.
  14. Mistress America
    Far from romanticizing creativity and the artistic process, Mr. Baumbach’s films portray the world of painters, filmmakers and literati as an overcrowded, amoral jungle of viperish entitled narcissists stealing from one another for fame and profit.
  15. The Hottest August
    This collection of interactions with ordinary people is a cinematic gift both simple and multilayered, an intellectual challenge and an emotional adventure.
  16. Look at Me: XXXTentacion
    Fascinating and exasperating.
  17. Cinema Sabaya
    Rotem’s organic approach steers clear of icky idealism, but its conclusions nevertheless feel worn out. Talking helps, sure, but getting people in the same room is too often the stuff of fiction.
  18. OBEX
    There’s something smarter between the lines about the way technology warps our (self-) perception, but maybe that’s giving too much credit to a film so giddy about its warping. That’s not totally bad: Some films are like dreams whose meanings never materialize.
  19. Young@Heart
    The movie offers an encouraging vision of old age in which the depression commonly associated with decrepitude is held at bay by music making, camaraderie and a sense of humor.
  20. Rango
    Rango, which may take place entirely within its hero's head - that kind of ambiguity worked in "Inception" and "Black Swan," so why not here? - is about the appetite for myths and stories, whether or not they make sense. It is about the worlds we dream inside our fishbowls, helped by the weird reflections on the walls.
  21. Once Upon a Time in Uganda
    Once Upon a Time in Uganda reminds you how the art of moviemaking can make dreams real.
  22. Patience (After Sebald)
    If he is a self-revealing writer, it is not in the usual, confessional sense, but rather because he seems so strongly present in his books, with a personality that is both the source and aftereffect of the prose.
  23. Border
    This is a movie that aims to startle in overt and subtextual ways; the less known before viewing, the better.
  24. Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys
    This challenging and mesmerizing documentary captures horror and joy with the same gorgeous dispassion.
  25. Waiting for August
    Soft in tone and muted in color, Waiting for August is a child’s-eye view of one family — among many in today’s Romanian economy — rising to the challenge of living without parents.
  26. Ali & Ava
    The onscreen chemistry between them feels forced and flat, and the decidedly tame portrayals of physical intimacy only accentuate this absence.
  27. From Nowhere
    Their ordeal feels cruel, unnecessary and infuriatingly real.
  28. Frank
    Mr. Abrahamson’s main achievement, enabled by the sensitive and resourceful cast, is to find a tone that is funny without flippancy, sincere without turning to mush.
  29. Europa Europa
    This film includes several remarkable episodes illustrating the strange events that shaped Mr. Perel's destiny and the full force of his terror and sorrow.
  30. Easy Money
    In a director's note Mr. Espinosa describes his fascination with "the idea of thief's honor" and with portraying criminals who, from their point of view, "are trying to do good through their own ethics." And this soul-searching quest lends Easy Money a depth rarely found in gangster films.
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