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For 20,323 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: 9,408 out of 20323
  2. Mixed: 8,448 out of 20323
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20323
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  1. Resilience
    One of those rare ensemble dramas whose actors work toward common goals rather than individual awards, the movie resolves its creeping escalation of poor judgment and reprehensible behavior with surprising emotional force.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Sacrifice
    Nonfiction doesn't quite describe what Ms. Bruno does. Her work takes risks with form to imply that individual suffering and transcendence are but particles in a river of spiritual energy that dwarfs geography and time.
  3. I Love You
    An unusually perceptive scrutiny of absence and emptiness.
  4. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
    If it tells, in Mr. Ludin’s words, "a typical German story," the movie also offers an unusually matter-of-fact picture of the private and public effects of ordinary evil.
  5. China Blue
    A heartbreaking and meticulous documentary about life inside a blue-jeans factory in China.
  6. Room 314
    Like most films of this type, Room 314 demands a great deal from its performers, not all of whom withstand the intense scrutiny. Fortunately, the action is bookended by four of the best.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    East of Havana
    So much of American pop thrives on a bratty facsimile of courage that when you see the real deal, it's a revelation. East of Havana is the real deal.
  8. Notes on Marie Menken
    Notes on Marie Menken shines a quavering if welcome ray of light on a largely forgotten figure in the American avant-garde film scene of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s.
  9. The Border Post
    Border Post is notable for representing all of Yugoslavia's former member republics among its producers and for a tone that juggles humor and harshness without sacrificing either.
  10. The Go Master
    Gorgeously shot, moving through the decades in a gentle adagio, it is less a chronicle than a tribute -- and also, to non-initiates in the game of go, a bit of a puzzle.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sacco and Vanzetti
    The movie's meat-and-potatoes style seems less a failure of imagination than a means of putting in the foreground its intriguing subject matter.
  12. Syndromes and a Century
    Syndromes and a Century, like its curious title, has the logic of a dream, a piece of music or perhaps a John Ashbery poem. Its coherence is evident; it is too lovely and lucid to be frustrating or dull. But it takes place just on the other side of conscious apprehension.
  13. Severance
    A lively romp through terrain less traveled than you might think.
  14. Missing Victor Pellerin
    An enigmatic and utterly compelling story of incinerated art, unbridled egos and exotic plants.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    ShowBusiness is packed with telling details that the director, Dori Berinstein, was lucky to catch on camera.
  16. Memories of Tomorrow
    Memories of Tomorrow finally understands that the real victim of this terrible affliction is the partner left behind.
  17. The Boss of It All
    Like all of Mr. von Trier's films, The Boss of It All is a cold, misanthropic work that places no faith in institutions and in humanity itself. But it's also very funny.
  18. Steel City
    Mostly Mr. Jun's script is sharp, and Laurie Metcalf, James McDaniel, America Ferrera and Raymond J. Barry in supporting roles help keep the tale mesmerizing, in a small-scale sort of way.
  19. Pierrepoint
    In Pierrepoint:The Last Hangman Timothy Spall sinks his teeth into one of the juiciest roles of his career.
  20. Being Human
    Set against lovely verdant scenery but structured as a series of rambling vignettes, the stories in Being Human don't entirely mesh.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beyond Hatred
    An example of a film whose style doesn’t merely suit its story but amplifies its meanings.
  22. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
    A giddy romantic comedy with star power.
  23. Czech Dream
    When they discover they've been made fools of, they accept this performance event with surprising equanimity. There is a lot of grumbling but no riot. They get the joke.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Longing
    Intrigues because it presents an outwardly decent man falling equally in love with two women but eschews simplistic judgments.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Method
    The sum total of this gamesmanship is a suspenseful, funny film that touches on a corporation’s responsibility to society, the price of ambition, the persistence of workplace sexism, the destructive competition between women, and why it’s a good idea to take an extra shirt to your next interview.
  26. Closing Escrow
    Even naysayers of reality TV’s simplistic structure, which the film openly borrows, may find themselves rooting for a couple of choice -- and having fun in the process. The real-estate game can actually be a laughing matter when you’re not a contestant.
  27. Primo Levi's Journey
    Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious.
  28. The Unknown Soldier
    The reckoning with the past, which has occupied West German society since the 1960s, has been painful and divisive, which makes the calm, empirical spirit of this film all the more impressive.
  29. Great World of Sound
    I found Mr. Zobel’s film touching and amusing, but it also left me a bit queasy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Outsourced
    In its modest way, Outsourced may be unique: a charming culture-clash romance that could be taught in business schools.
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