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For 20,324 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
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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:
  1. Positive: 9,408 out of 20324
  2. Mixed: 8,449 out of 20324
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20324
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  1. Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
    In a movie that avoids examining Mr. Walker’s personal history, there are hints of a man struggling with chronic depression and problems with alcohol, but they are only hints. No major personal relationships are mentioned or even alluded to. The music speaks for itself.
  2. Luck by Chance
    It is Mr. Akhtar whose understated performance holds together this far-ranging, cameo-filled film.
  3. Brothers at War
    Well shot but generically scored, Brothers at War has its share of potent moments, most of them with Mr. Rademacher’s family in the States.
  4. Lymelife
    Despite such floundering, Lymelife keeps you hooked, mostly through Mr. Hutton, Mr. Baldwin and Kieran Culkin as Scott's older brother, Jimmy.
  5. The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
    Comprehensive, fulfilling film.
  6. Under Our Skin
    Scary enough to make the faint of heart decide never to venture into the woods or to lie on the grass again without protective covering.
  7. Flame and Citron
    What Flame & Citron has are decent men taking down Nazis (always a crowd pleaser) and some appealing actors — notably Mr. Lindhardt, Mr. Mikkelsen and Christian Berkel as the head of the Copenhagen Gestapo.
  8. Gotta Dance
    The dancers are prone to feel-good sound bites, but Ms. Berinstein also takes the time to draw out their back stories, making for a sweet group portrait of ordinary folks who found a late splash of fame.
  9. Art & Copy
    The world may be going “Mad Men,” but Doug Pray’s documentary Art & Copy,”which is being released just five days after the season premiere of that acclaimed television series, presents a very different picture of the advertising industry.
  10. My One and Only
    A good-natured screwball road film.
  11. American Casino
    The lesson of this story: if enough money is involved, greed trumps morality.
  12. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
    On the spectrum from heroic patriot to craven traitor, this detailed, clearly told and persuasive film, directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, is firmly on the side of heroic.
  13. The Providence Effect
    More an infomercial than a movie, Rollin Binzer’s awed documentary is, at best, a well-earned tribute to one man’s unwavering vision and unrelenting hard work.
  14. Paradise
    Essentially a series of home movies, but home movies of a very high order.
  15. In Search of Beethoven
    The best thing about In Search of Beethoven, Phil Grabsky’s biography of the composer, is the company he brings along on the hunt.
  16. After the Storm
    Directed by Hilla Medalia with exactly the right balance of musical theater and personal drama, After the Storm presents a touching affirmation of the healing power of right-brain stimulation.
  17. Where Is Where?
    Anyone looking for some idiosyncratic, visually stimulating entertainment this week could do worse than Where Is Where?, an intriguing narrative experiment by the Finnish artist and filmmaker Eija-Liisa Ahtila.
  18. The Heretics
    Gives a joyful sense of what it was like to be a feminist in the 1970s, a time when “everything seemed possible.”
  19. Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
    Generally absorbing if sometimes fog-inducing.
  20. The Way We Get By
    Unfailingly modest and profoundly humane, The Way We Get By profiles three people over 70 whose lives have been changed by a simple act of service.
  21. That Evening Sun
    Hal Holbrook strips the stereotype of the grumpy old man of sentimental shtick and cutesy old-codger mannerisms.
  22. The Missing Person
    Sluggish, stylized and frequently washed in a bilious green tint, The Missing Person is yet oddly irresistible.
  23. Home
    Home is, as with so many family stories, also something of a disaster movie: the walls shudder and crack, and eventually so do the people inside them.
  24. Le jour avant le lendemain
    Frustratingly sketchy partly because it is not finally a survival tale but a mystical evocation of the power of Inuit mythology, and how the passing down of ancient wisdom can sustain the human spirit in the direst circumstances. But the unanswered questions still nag.
  25. Garbage Dreams
    Garbage Dreams records the tremblings of a culture at a crossroads.
  26. The Paranoids
    Just like its main character, this smart, slyly witty movie with few laughs undersells itself.
  27. Videocracy
    Given the stakes, it’s hard not to wish that Mr. Gandini had been more ambitious: at 85 minutes, Videocracy can only scratch the surface. Even so, after watching it, you realize that even a cursory look at Mr. Berlusconi is crucial to understanding an age in which celebrity is now the coin of the realm.
  28. October Country
    October Country feels at once personal and objective, a fascinating hybrid of two important tendencies in the modern documentary.
  29. American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
    Because it is a film, American Radical can only begin to sketch the complicated historical and political debates that engage Mr. Finkelstein and his detractors, but it allows both sides to make their cases.
  30. Lourdes
    One of the pleasures of this intelligent, rigorously thoughtful, somewhat sly film is that it takes place in the space between the inexplicable (no explanation is possible) and the unexplained (enlightenment might be around the corner).
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