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For 20,312 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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:
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  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. xXx: Return of Xander Cage
    Characters are simply triggers for the overwrought action sequences, though between the Edward Scissorhands editing and occasional wobbling background, even those are less than distinct.
  2. Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
    The movie is a worthy time capsule and a must for Cohen devotees. Its occasional meanderings into artiness, which take the form of interpolation of outside footage (war atrocities and home movies, mainly) are emblematic of the time it was made and mercifully brief.
  3. Strike a Pose
    Beyond the personal stories, the movie frames the tour and Truth or Dare as landmarks in the push for gay rights and awareness, and makes a convincing case.
  4. Sleepless
    Sleepless, directed by Baran bo Odar, sets a low bar for itself, and then trips over it.
  5. Claire in Motion
    Ms. Robinson and Ms. Howell have kitted out their movie handsomely, but there’s not enough story here or enough anything else, namely a persuasive psychological portrait of Claire, to make up for that lack.
  6. 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.
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    [A] riveting documentary.
  8. Ma
    Alternately sexy and silly, galvanic and gentle, MA is best enjoyed as a slide show of visual blessings and, sometimes, bafflements.
  9. 100 Streets
    The threads may not all be original, but they’re kept nicely distinct. Rather than awkwardly intertwining, they merely brush up against one another.
  10. Bad Kids of Crestview Academy
    Bad Kids of Crestview Academy traffics in exploitation movie flourishes.
  11. Alone in Berlin
    Adapted from Hans Fallada’s 1947 novel (and based on a true story), Alone in Berlin is dour and flavorless.
  12. Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past
    This movie, directed and produced by Dave Davidson and Amber Edwards, digs deeply enough into Mr. Giordano’s world to convey the drudgery and headaches of being a bandleader.
  13. Monster Trucks
    It’s an eco-fable devoid of didactic overkill, delivered with energy, winking mischief, unobtrusive effects and a skilled cast.
  14. The Bye Bye Man
    Jonathan Penner’s sharp script (from a story by Robert Damon Schneck) and Stacy Title’s assured direction keep the heat on, and there’s some resourceful misdirection that deepens the story and intensifies the scares.
  15. Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
    [A] cogent, fascinating portrait of the artist.
  16. One Piece Film: Gold
    If you’re a boy between, say, 8 and 12 and wired to the hilt on Coca-Cola, the shrill, exhausting “Gold” might be for you. But only if.
  17. Underworld: Blood Wars
    This film is so heavy with exposition that you would think that the director, Anna Foerster, and the screenwriter, Cory Goodman, had set out to complete a dissertation instead of a sequel.
  18. German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
    This restoration of German Concentration Camps Factual Survey is an extraordinary act of cinematic reclamation and historiography.
  19. A Different American Dream
    Mr. Brook and Ms. Wells are in a sense not documenting a controversy at all; they are capturing an endemic, heartbreaking defeatism.
  20. Between Us
    Stingingly attuned to the tension between long-term love and last-minute misgivings, Between Us makes a familiar situation feel remarkably fresh.
  21. Arsenal
    Despite solid acting (including John Cusack as a plainclothes detective), Arsenal is hobbled mainly by its director’s histrionic tendencies.
  22. Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
    Mr. Davis, speaking to Faith Morris of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, poses a knotty question about how far his cause of eliminating race hate has yet to go. Her reply: “How long is this documentary going to be?”
  23. The Ardennes
    Even though, in retrospect, The Ardennes feels a little obvious and secondhand, it unfolds with enough speed and wit to hold your attention.
  24. Railroad Tigers
    It’s heartening to see Mr. Chan, who plays the avuncular leader of the guerrillas, demonstrating that he’s still game, but you wish his energy were being expended in more consistently enjoyable pictures.
  25. Master
    Slick production values can’t disguise the lack of imagination.
  26. Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer?
    Embracing a structure that implicitly acknowledges the complexity of the issue, Ms. Marson nevertheless contributes to the film’s general fuzziness by failing to clarify the legal and moral guidelines that govern these kinds of prescriptions.
  27. 20th Century Women
    20th Century Women is a memory movie, one in which people are conjured up to bump against the larger world, exuberantly and uneasily.
  28. Paterson
    With visual precision and emotional restraint — and aided by Mr. Driver’s tamped-down, sober and gently endearing performance — Mr. Jarmusch creates that rarest portrait of the artist: the one who’s happy being hard at work.
  29. Ocean Waves (1993)
    In its sensitivity and attention to detail, Ocean Waves makes itself into something special, and kind of magical, and so proves very much a Ghibli gem.
  30. Dangal
    As goosed as the drama gets...the uplift feels earned, or at least tough to resist.
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