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For 20,312 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: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. The Last Shaman
    How The Last Shaman came to be isn’t discussed in the film, but this documentary might be less disquieting if it had been.
  2. Whisky Galore!
    Gone is the original’s joyful sense of mischief; what’s left is an inoffensive piece of twaddle that never fully appreciates the ineluctable bond between community spirit and a drop of the hard stuff.
  3. Tracktown
    Fact and fiction blend nicely in Tracktown.
  4. The Wedding Plan
    In a complicated role, the excellent Ms. Koler exudes a kind of flighty confidence: For all her nuptial-related anxieties, Michal is completely comfortable with who she is.
  5. Hounds of Love
    It’s a tense, sharply assembled debut feature from Ben Young. Its main problem, though, is that it never answers a basic question: Why are we watching this?
  6. Folk Hero & Funny Guy
    Things meander along to the inevitable blowup scene and a too-easy ending in which all is forgiven and personal growth has occurred, though not for the viewing audience.
  7. The Wall
    The vein-popping mood is ultimately more exhausting than exciting.
  8. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    Arthur and Vortigern mix it up amid a lot of shenanigans, detours and filler, some bad, some good and all of it disposable.
  9. Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
    One need not admire Zweig’s writing to recognize the worth of this thoughtful treatment of one of the countless real-life tragedies of 20th-century history.
  10. Urban Hymn
    If Urban Hymn starts with that familiar dynamic, it stays surprisingly fresh thanks to three fine performances and a willingness to be uncompromising.
  11. Get Me Roger Stone
    Topicality is all or at least a large part of the movie’s draw.
  12. Paris Can Wait
    By the time the final meal is devoured, you’ll be wanting nothing so much as an antacid.
  13. Lowriders
    Cars could easily have been the stars of Lowriders, but the film makes them supporting players in a family drama that’s a mix of strong scenes and shopworn ones punctuated by clichés.
  14. Manifesto
    As an oblique examination and critique of political and art history and their various interactions over the 20th century, Manifesto is both witty and provocative. It is not, however, a motion picture for people seeking a plot.
  15. Snatched
    Though this movie ostensibly celebrates the spirit of adventure and openness to experience, it takes no risks and blazes no trails. It’s ultimately as complacent, self-absorbed and clueless as its heroine, and not always in an especially amusing way.
  16. The Drowning
    The Drowning...distinguishes itself by applying a depth of psychological observation that yields a genuinely unsettling vision.
  17. Sacred
    A kaleidoscopic travelogue depicting demonstrations of faith worldwide.
  18. A Woman's Life
    Its images and scenes are suffused by an intensity that seems almost to be a quality of the light and air as they play across Ms. Chemla’s watchful, sometimes inscrutable features.
  19. Another Evil
    An ultra-low-budget ghost story with an off-kilter sensibility that initially intrigues but ultimately fizzles.
  20. Burden
    This is a film unafraid to look at [Burden's] acts, but timid when approaching his ideas.
  21. The Dinner
    Despite frequent flashbacks and Bobby Bukowski’s richly dimensional photography, the movie has a static, stagy look that amplifies the oppressiveness of its increasingly unpleasant exchanges.
  22. Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
    No commercials are shown during Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait. They would only be redundant. Instead this documentary serves as a feature-length advertisement for the artist, and is about as daring as a billboard for skim milk.
  23. Like Crazy
    An energetic, visually attractive but ultimately irritating comedy-drama.
  24. Ta'ang
    Incorporating his typically arduous, slow-paced style, Mr. Wang doesn’t make things easy for viewers.
  25. Risk
    To some degree in spite of Ms. Poitras’s journalistic intentions — though very much as a consequence of her rigorous honesty — the picture that emerges is complicated, unsettling and intriguingly ambivalent.
  26. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    It’s tough being a hitmaker who isn’t weighed down by corporate expectations, but for a while, Mr. Gunn does a pretty good job of keeping the whole thing reasonably fizzy, starting with an opener that winks at the audience with big bangs and slapstick.
  27. 3 Generations
    Ray is courageous just for making the decision to change sexes. The film — which, by the way, includes a surprising amount of droll humor — would be better if it trusted the audience to recognize this, rather than piling ordeals worthy of the Labors of Hercules onto its protagonist.
  28. The Lovers
    Falling with a thud between two stools, it has neither the zip nor the zaniness of farce nor the airy vivacity of the best romantic comedies.
  29. Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia
    The graphic evidence here, in testimony on camera and in period photographs, is absolutely harrowing.
  30. Take Me
    Parts of it work, but the overall package is never really suspenseful enough to have you on edge or overtly funny enough to be a lark.
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