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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. The Battleship Island
    Though Mr. Ryoo’s taste for heightened theatricality threatens his story’s credibility at times, there is no denying his skill with a large-scale action set piece.
  2. Brave New Jersey
    The film’s narrative simplicity can be charming or frustrating, depending on your feelings about awkward dialogue and overreacting actors.
  3. Icarus
    Mr. Fogel could be considered either daring or foolhardy for his initial plan. But his work with Dr. Rodchenkov is levelheaded, and his documentary illuminating.
  4. Chronically Metropolitan
    One longs to praise Mr. Manrique for attempting a serious-minded story in this, his first feature. But there needs to be a real reason to embrace it, rather than what’s on this screen.
  5. 4 Days in France
    While Mr. Reybaud has exemplary artistic confidence and an interesting vision, this is a movie that in many ways defines or justifies the “not for everybody” critical hedge.
  6. Fun Mom Dinner
    All four actresses have a natural chemistry and manage to give some inner dimensions to these otherwise archetypal characters.
  7. Step
    The film’s success is directly dependent on the personalities — and achievements — of the young women highlighted. Despite the narrative gaps, Ms. Lipitz excels at putting across those personalities.
  8. Kidnap
    The greatest strength of Kidnap is that it casts the maternal instinct as a primordial will to enact violence.
  9. The Dark Tower
    About the only thing holding it together is Idris Elba, whose irrepressible magnetism and man-of-stone solidity anchors this mess but can’t redeem it.
  10. Wind River
    An actor before he was a screenwriter, Mr. Sheridan clearly spent a lot of his time learning about filmmaking on movie sets; his direction is assured throughout.
  11. Columbus
    The existence of a debut as confident and allusive as Columbus is almost as improbable as the existence of Columbus, Ind., where the movie is set.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
    In the end, “Water and Sugar” proves the best view of Di Palma is still the gaze from his own eyes.
  13. Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
    While zine-style animated sequences and VHS taped interviews enliven the pace, the documentary is burdened by too much minutiae. Not every scar earned at a concert deserves to be immortalized in a documentary.
  14. Sled Dogs
    It’s easy to fall in love with the animals in Sled Dogs. It’s thornier to sift through the words of the handlers and mushers — many of whom seem to genuinely care for the dogs — and determine how pervasive abuse is in dog-sledding ventures.
  15. The Last Face
    As well meaning as this movie is, it is also a turgid, muddled one.
  16. The Last Dalai Lama?
    A surplus of wisdom and benevolence radiates from The Last Dalai Lama?.
  17. I Dream in Another Language
    The story is not without interest, and it touches on a couple of worthwhile themes: cultural erasure and the way religious and provincial prejudices can suppress love. But its treatment of these subjects is perhaps undercut by its conventionality.
  18. From the Land of the Moon
    Ms. Cotillard can be magnetic even when playing an unplayable character, but when Gabrielle falls for a veteran (Louis Garrel, who has perfected the facial expression of someone looking for another conversation), the chasm between her abilities and her co-star’s is mountainous.
  19. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
    In a summer movie landscape with Spider-Man, a simian army waging further battle for the planet and Charlize Theron as a sexy Cold War-era superspy, it says something that one of the most compelling characters is Al Gore.
  20. Imperfections
    Most of the movie’s pleasures come from Ms. Kull, a better actress than the one she plays, and the convolutions of the plot, which has a few good feints and dodges.
  21. Menashe
    For sure, this funny and tender film prompts cheerful smiles, but sometimes they turn melancholy.
  22. Strange Weather
    A case of excellent actors’ straining to elevate a contrived screenplay.
  23. Person to Person
    While Mr. Defa’s dialogue mostly flows naturally from Mr. Coopersmith, it can seem too self-aware and precious in the other characters’ mouths.
  24. Brigsby Bear
    Mr. Mooney, currently cutting it up on “Saturday Night Live,” manages the twists and tonal fluctuations in Brigsby Bear beautifully.
  25. The Emoji Movie
    To add to the pain and despair of the experience, The Emoji Movie is preceded by a short, “Puppy,” featuring the characters from the “Hotel Transylvania” animated movies. It is also idiotic.
  26. Atomic Blonde
    As she does, Ms. Theron locks down your attention immediately, holding you with her beauty and quiet vigilance.
  27. Detroit
    The film’s struggle against simplification — against the sentimentality, wishful thinking and outright denial that defines most Hollywood considerations of America’s racial past — is palpable, almost heroic, even if it is not always successful.
  28. Women Who Kill
    The humor is dry and the acting deadpan in Women Who Kill, a comedy that plays it droll and is all the funnier for it.
  29. Escapes
    Mr. Fancher’s movie love and way of spinning a yarn to its near-breaking point — one detour opens onto another — dovetail nicely with the cinephilia and playfulness that characterize Mr. Almereyda’s movies.
  30. Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
    If you couldn’t name two Native American musicians at the beginning of the documentary, you’ll remember at least a half-dozen after the end. And it’s a good bet you’ll be searching for their albums, too.
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