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For 20,311 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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: 9,399 out of 20311
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20311
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20311
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  1. Too Late
    Mr. Hauck’s affection is apparent in every frame, yet outside of an occasionally clunky line or show-offy moment (O.K., sometimes it’s more occasional than just occasionally), he rarely allows it to alter his aim. That aim is to make a modern noir. That aim is true.
  2. Boom Bust Boom
    A remarkably enjoyable, and sometimes very funny, documentary about a frightening topic.
  3. Presenting Princess Shaw
    Yes, the documentary is undeniably uplifting. But …
  4. The Trust
    The script, by Adam Hirsch and Benjamin Brewer, is full of both humor and menace, giving the actors plenty to work with. That makes for an enjoyably slow buildup to an unexpected ending.
  5. Don't Think Twice
    Don’t Think Twice, which has a warm heart, could have been a much nastier movie. Yet its disappointed show-business hopefuls dreading their expiration dates make no bones about their insecurities.
  6. Standing Tall
    Mr. Paradot’s performance is so viscerally intense that there is no escaping its force.
  7. Catching the Sun
    One notion underlying Shalini Kantayya’s winning documentary, Catching the Sun, is that solar power is not only a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels but can also effectively curtail unemployment.
  8. Art Bastard
    For philistines mystified by the value attached to so many artworks that to an untrained eye look worthless, Mr. Cenedella comes across as a reassuring voice of sanity.
  9. Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
    Ms. Ushpiz is determined to rescue her subject from the banality of biography. The details of Arendt’s childhood, education, romantic life and professional activity are not ignored, but they nearly always illuminate her ideas.
  10. Julieta
    Julieta is scrupulous, compassionate and surprising, even if it does not always quite communicate the full gravity and sweep of the feelings it engages.
  11. As I Open My Eyes
    As I Open My Eyes is best when it observes the fraught but loving mother-daughter relationship between Hayet and Farah.
  12. Class Divide
    What Class Divide does exceptionally well is capture the sense of change at warp speed.
  13. Kicks
    The characters have enough dimension to avoid appearing to be symbols of a social tragedy, and the movie’s relative gentleness makes the harsher realities of Brandon’s world all the more distressing.
  14. The Take
    The movie sweeps you along with a brisk pace and even dashes of humor.
  15. Keepers of the Game
    There are heroic adults here.... There is also deft editing, artful camerawork and effective music in abundance.
  16. Richard III
    For all the talk nowadays about a revival of swank, nothing in contemporary fashion can compete with the glamour of upper-class English life in the 1930's as it is elegantly caricatured in Ian McKellen's updated Richard III.
  17. Older Than Ireland
    It’s often said that the Irish, blessed with the gift of gab, can be splendid raconteurs. You’ll find generous evidence to that effect here. And a bit of poetry as well.
  18. Jia Zhangke, A guy from Fenyang
    The movie’s most moving sequence is near the end, when Mr. Jia discusses his father, who faced awful hardships during the Cultural Revolution.
  19. Tickled
    [Mr. Farrier] and Mr. Reeve see the humor, but they also see the pathos — because it’s all fun and giggles until someone gets hurt.
  20. Los Sures (1984)
    It’s a must see for those interested in both the history of Lost New York and the power of nonfiction cinema.
  21. Cash Only
    I must have breathed while watching Cash Only. But it sure felt as if I didn’t. This brutal and severe film has that effect.
  22. The Other Side
    Whatever genre it belongs to, The Other Side is powerful and disturbing.
  23. I, Daniel Blake
    What makes the pain of this film bearable is Daniel’s unquenchable decency, courage and perseverance.
  24. Neruda
    Mr. Larraín invites us to believe that history is on the side of the poets and the humanists, and that art will make fools of politicians and policemen. But he is also aware, as Pablo Neruda was, that history sometimes has other plans.
  25. Blood Father
    Mr. Gibson makes a persuasive derelict John Wayne with a loose, energetic performance, finely tuned comic timing and an amused, self-aware “Lethal Weapon” glint.
  26. Gimme Danger
    Gimme Danger is still plenty entertaining and includes many moments of foaming-at-the-mouth musical fury.
  27. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
    The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki deepens quietly. This is Mr. Kuosmanen’s first feature (he has directed a few shorts), and if he had any rookie jitters you wouldn’t know it.
  28. The Wailing
    I was so invested with Jong-gu and his family that as the suspense, violence and worse ratcheted up, I was not merely scared, but heartbroken. An overly literal bit of business at the end slightly undermines the film. As a whole, though, The Wailing is the hard stuff. Handle with care.
  29. Len and Company
    Len and Company...never strains for profundity. Instead, it savors observational subtleties, especially in Mr. Ifans’s assured performance. For a baby-boomer-meets-millennial family drama, that’s plenty.
  30. The Final Master
    The characters and the actors playing them are appealing, and the fight scenes have a lot of moxie, not to mention a lot of steel-slinging.
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