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For 20,311 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: 9,399 out of 20311
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20311
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20311
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  1. One More Time with Feeling
    Even in the throes of grief, Mr. Cave retains his mystique as a rock shaman.
  2. The Eagle Huntress
    Viewers jaded by daily doses of digital dazzlement might not fully register the reality of the wonders they are witnessing. But that doesn’t, in the end, make The Eagle Huntress any less wonderful.
  3. Splash
    Splash could have been shorter, but it probably couldn't have been much sweeter. Only purists will quibble with the blissfully happy ending, which has the lovers swimming through a shimmering underwater paradise that is supposed to be the bottom of the East River.
  4. Hidden Figures
    From one scene to the next, you may know more or less what is coming, but it is never less than delightful to watch these actors at work.
  5. Kiki
    Kiki shows us a group of brave and beautiful souls for whom the struggle is, unfortunately, probably about to get even harder.
  6. Zoom
    Mr. Morelli mixes live-action and animated scenes to good effect. He doesn’t have time to give his characters depth, but there’s pleasure in figuring out how they connect and pondering the movie’s modest themes.
  7. Miss Stevens
    Ms. Rabe’s beautifully balanced performance reminds you that people never really grow up.
  8. Equal Means Equal
    Broader than it is deep, Equal Means Equal still drills down into enough specific issues to shock us afresh.
  9. Starving the Beast
    As an overview of the issues, the history and the players, Starving the Beast makes a powerful survey course, a prerequisite for further studies.
  10. Free Fire
    Free Fire is an action movie finely tuned to even the most potentially vicious audiences’ tolerances. It is filled with mayhem, but avoids grisly violence — at least until the finale pulls out some gory, and not inapt, punch lines. Luxuriating in disreputability in all the right ways, the film also contains no shortage of profane verbal wit.
  11. Barry
    The movie’s lived-in realism puts Barry on the ground, rather than in the air, where he experiences the usual coming-of-age agonies and joys.
  12. Catfight
    The two leads are mesmerizing, hurling themselves into their physically demented roles with ferocious commitment.
  13. Colossal
    Colossal has such an easygoing, offhand vibe, and takes such pleasure in its characters’ foibles, that it camouflages its deep subject, which is rage.
  14. Frantz
    Frantz takes pains to show both sides’ lingering hostility after a devastating and (the movie implies) senseless war.
  15. I Called Him Morgan
    This is not a lurid true-crime tale of jealousy and drug addiction, but a delicate human drama about love, ambition and the glories of music.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Name Is Albert Ayler
    Named after one of his albums and built around snippets of audio interviews with Mr. Ayler, it attempts and often achieves a fresh, playful style that’s equally informed by jazz traditions and Mr. Ayler’s urge to shatter them.
  17. The Eyes of My Mother
    Unfolding with a minimum of dialogue, Francisca’s maturation from watcher to doer would be laughable if performed with less nuance or photographed with less originality.
  18. The Autopsy of Jane Doe
    Gruesome without being gory, The Autopsy of Jane Doe achieves real scares with a minimum of special effects.
  19. Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang
    A documentary that is as rewarding as this artist’s work.
  20. Harry & Snowman
    In the film, a student of Mr. deLeyer’s recalls some of his advice: “Throw your heart over the top, and your horse will follow.” Harry & Snowman makes you want to do the same.
  21. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
    Because “Merrily” was a musical about the ravages of time on friendship and youthful ideals, the documentary tells parallel stories — one fictional, the other real — of disappointment and disillusion. They give the film a double shot of poignancy.
  22. Thank You for Your Service
    Thank You for Your Service, directed by Tom Donahue, uses its late scenes to explore nongovernment programs that have arisen to help veterans. Those examples are heartfelt and encouraging, and offer some hope after the devastating early sections.
  23. The Son of Joseph
    The Son of Joseph can be trying in its whimsy, yet it builds to a lovely finale that evokes the Bible, the French Resistance and the surreal.
  24. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
    This intelligent, revolting, artistically made and entirely empty look at a murderer comes close to a cinema of pure technique. It is profoundly disturbing, even more for the questions it raises about the use of film than for the mutilated bodies that litter the screen.
  25. Creepy
    Creepy certainly works — looks and feels — like a horror movie, but it also has the conundrums of a detective story, the emotional currents of a domestic drama and the quickening pulse of a psychological thriller, a combination that creates a kind of destabilization.
  26. The Uncondemned
    Most extraordinary are interviews with the women who came forward to provide evidence in court. Their integrity and tenacity, and their loyalty to one another, is enough to bring you to tears.
  27. Disturbing the Peace
    Their stories are compelling — and persuasive.
  28. The Anthropologist
    At this point no documentarian can possibly have a fresh take on climate change, right? Wrong. The Anthropologist, a stealthily insightful film by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger, improbably mixes that topic with a mother-daughter story to produce a distinctive study of change and human adaptability.
  29. Uncle Howard
    The movie is a deft sort of dual narrative.
  30. Portrait of a Garden
    The vision of nature being lovingly tended in Rosie Stapel’s documentary, Portrait of a Garden, is remarkably evocative.
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