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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. Mid-August Lunch
    A slender Chekhovian vignette about the joys and regrets of old age and the pleasures of sociability.
  2. Vision Portraits
    Despite its focus on as fluid and mysterious a subject as art, Vision Portraits addresses blindness in concrete, comprehensible terms.
  3. Afterimage
    This is an angry, vivid, passionate film.
  4. La Cocina
    The film’s epic finale feels stagy — while these real-life frustrations are anything but.
  5. House
    A midnight movie in lysergic spirit and vibe, this was a film made for late-night screening and screaming.
  6. Caterpillar
    Shinobu Terajima, a major figure in Japan who won the best actress award at the 2010 Berlin film festival for Caterpillar, is effective as the wife, though Mr. Wakamatsu is more interested in scoring political and historical points than in shaping her character.
  7. The Image You Missed
    The Image You Missed is less compelling as an act of personal therapy than it is as filmed film criticism, but even if it doesn’t fully cohere, Foreman’s family stake helps keep it original.
  8. Monica
    Both Lysette and Clarkson are naturally magnetic actors, and they don’t waste the attention they’re given on excess sentimentality.
  9. Microbe and Gasoline
    Time and again, Microbe and Gasoline risks cuteness without going overboard. Too easily taken for granted, its accomplishment is its ability to gaze steadily with warmth but minimal sentimentality at the world through unjaded 14-year-old eyes.
  10. Must Read After My Death
    An alternately fascinating and disquietingly intimate portrait of a 1960s American family falling apart.
  11. Baadasssss!
    Mario Van Peebles, of course, inhabits a very different world from that of his father: a world that his father, in some small way, helped to create. It is his awareness of this paradox, of the progressive import of his father's film and of the repressive import of his father's personality, that informs this modest but interesting work.
  12. Trainwreck
    What’s energizing and exciting about Amy, especially when compared with the sexless cuties populating rom-coms, in which female pleasure is often expressed through shopping, is that her erotic appetites aren’t problems that she needs to narratively solve and vanquish.
  13. Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
    Like flipping through misplaced leaves in a photo book, the documentary maintains a free-flowing tone as it uncovers the work that went into creating some of the indelible scenes in Hollywood history.
  14. Sister Midnight
    In his first feature, Kandhari makes use of morbid humor and expressive imagery, including stop-motion effects. He rarely relies on dialogue and favors a fuzzier plot, which leaves the story with a shapeless and sometimes confusing midsection.
  15. The Jaundiced Eye
    A passionate, angry piece of advocacy, but it is equally, and in consequence, a brave and necessary act of truth-telling.
  16. Secret Ballot
    A very minor contribution to the great corpus of Iranian cinema that has emerged in the last 20 years.
  17. The Believer
    This willfully provocative film portrait offers lots of raging, vulgarity and shock but little insight into the character's psychopathology.
  18. About a Boy
    The Weitz brothers -- notorious as the authors of the "American Pie" series -- handle the sentimentality of the story with a light, sweet touch.
  19. In This World
    If there is heartbreak in this movie, there is also a sense of energy that makes it almost exhilarating.
  20. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Gathers riveting, rarely seen news clips from the era into a chronology that plays like a suspenseful police drama.
  21. Emily
    Building on a series of oppositions — nature and culture, realism and romance, duty and freedom — O’Connor brings Emily the myth to vibrant life, persuasively suggesting that this ostensibly strange and cloistered genius came into being not despite her contradictions but through them.
  22. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Feisty, intellectually engaging.
  23. 10,000 km
    The director’s discipline is remarkable, and also a bit constricting.
  24. Orlando
    This ravishing and witty spectacle invades the mind through eyes that are dazzled without ever being anesthetized
  25. When Lambs Become Lions
    It’s a striking, human portrait of men in trouble, looking for escape and possibly redemption.
  26. A Foreign Affair
    A dandy entertainment which has some shrewd and realistic things to say.
  27. Origin
    It is a great big swing about taking a great big swing, and while the film is more persuasive as a drama than the argument it relays, few American movies this year reach so high so boldly.
  28. Rebuilding
    One could surmise that it takes a village of women to save a stubbornly reticent man. But the lesson of Rebuilding is gentler, broader and timelier: Accepting help is a necessary step toward offering it to others in lasting ways.
  29. Peace Officer
    While Peace Officer could offer more information, what is here is disturbing and sometimes eye-opening.
  30. Point Blank
    I can't recall another thriller that has maintained this kind of velocity without going kablooey and losing its train of thought.
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