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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. The Witness
    A re-creation of the night, with an actress playing the screaming victim while Mr. Genovese observes, is harrowing.
  2. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    “Popstar” takes aim at everything that is artificial and plastic in contemporary pop in a spirit of love rather than spite. It’s a celebration of the curious authenticity — the innocence, the sweetness, the guiltless pleasure — of music whose badness is sometimes hard to separate from its genius.
  3. Presenting Princess Shaw
    Yes, the documentary is undeniably uplifting. But …
  4. The Idol
    Mr. Abu-Assad’s pop filmmaking is resolutely simple in its approach and efficiently sentimental.
  5. Chevalier
    [Ms. Tsangari's] inquiry stops short of the hearts of these men, and she seems content to dramatize some of the sad, ridiculous and tender ways that boys will be boys.
  6. As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM
    “As I AM” rockets through its subject’s life, teeming with testimonials from the superstar producer-D.J.s Mark Ronson and Paul Oakenfold, among many others. And then it ends, leaving you spent. And wistful.
  7. Holy Hell
    Mr. Allen has made an engrossing and tense documentary, though his insider knowledge is sometimes a hindrance.
  8. Jia Zhangke, A guy from Fenyang
    The movie’s most moving sequence is near the end, when Mr. Jia discusses his father, who faced awful hardships during the Cultural Revolution.
  9. The Ones Below
    Toward the end, Mr. Farr employs familiar cinematic sleights of hand, but with a finely calibrated touch.
  10. Princess
    Thanks to Ms. Haas’s truly remarkable lead performance (she was 16 at the time of filming) and Ms. Shalom-Ezer’s nuanced dialogue, Adar’s journey finally feels more like one of empowerment than victimization.
  11. To Life
    There is a delicate beauty to this movie and its visual composition.
  12. X-Men: Apocalypse
    For every lively moment, there’s a reminder that the franchise is tiring.
  13. Alice Through the Looking Glass
    The best and maybe the only way to appreciate Alice Through the Looking Glass is to surrender to its mad digital excess and be whirled around through time and space in a world of grotesque overabundance.
  14. Unlocking the Cage
    Part courtroom drama, part rumination on what separates human beings from other animals, the film is above all a sympathetic portrait of an advocate.
  15. A Moment of Silence
    This ambitious documentary, by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, is largely pleasing to the eye, and it pays close attention to the eloquent activists at its core. Journalists of every stripe provide context, perhaps more than we can digest.
  16. Welcome to Happiness
    Welcome to Happiness is an airy fantasy of a film, cute but also frustrating. It’s a little too determined to be eccentric.
  17. ma ma
    Penélope Cruz is an Oscar-winning actress we don’t see often enough in prominent leading roles. So how disappointing to find her having to carry Julio Medem’s florid Ma Ma, a melodrama only glancing at profundity.
  18. Maggie's Plan
    Ms. Miller’s choices are hard to argue with. She steers gracefully through a zigzagging plot, slowing down for quiet, contemplative stretches and pausing for jokes that are irrelevant but irresistible. She finds a tricky balance of farce, satire and emotional sincerity, a way of treating people as ridiculous without denying them empathy.
  19. Weiner
    Infuriating and depressing but rivetingly watchable.
  20. Manhattan Night
    Unlike the juicy, overripe prose in the novel from which it was adapted, Mr. DeCubellis’s screenplay is utterly lacking in style. Mr. Brody captures his character’s attitude, but the colorless screenplay robs the character of literary imagination.
  21. Kaili Blues
    As lovely as the movie is to look at (and the final scene is exceptionally wonderful), it’s too oblique to concentrate its energies and sharpen its focus.
  22. Almost Holy
    A good example of how a charismatic figure doesn’t automatically generate a deep or compelling documentary.
  23. The Other Side
    Whatever genre it belongs to, The Other Side is powerful and disturbing.
  24. The Angry Birds Movie
    The kids of today deserve better. So do I, come to think of it.
  25. Phantom Detective
    Our hero’s quest, however — updated to the 1980s, when the country’s corporations enjoyed unprecedented government benefits — never ignites, mostly because of Mr. Lee’s acting deficits.
  26. Pervert Park
    To be sure, nothing in this film is easy to hear. But that doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be said, and learned from.
  27. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
    Proudly crass and amiably dumb, Nicholas Stoller’s gag-crammed sequel essentially takes the bones of the 2014 original and gives them a gender flip.
  28. The Nice Guys
    This is a dumb movie pretending to be smart, even as it wants you to believe the opposite. Still, dumb can be fun.
  29. Los Sures (1984)
    It’s a must see for those interested in both the history of Lost New York and the power of nonfiction cinema.
  30. The Trust
    The script, by Adam Hirsch and Benjamin Brewer, is full of both humor and menace, giving the actors plenty to work with. That makes for an enjoyably slow buildup to an unexpected ending.
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