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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. Baaghi
    Because the filmmakers have given their characters labels (rebel, guru, villain) instead of personalities, the movie’s bid for epic resonance feels particularly hollow.
  2. Older Than Ireland
    It’s often said that the Irish, blessed with the gift of gab, can be splendid raconteurs. You’ll find generous evidence to that effect here. And a bit of poetry as well.
  3. The Man Who Knew Infinity
    Mr. Irons handily hits the emotional beats, as does Mr. Patel.
  4. Special Correspondents
    There’s nothing wrong with the type of movie Special Correspondents wants to be. The problem is that Mr. Gervais doesn’t appear capable of making a good version of it.
  5. L'Attesa (The Wait)
    The performances are vivid and moving, but there is ultimately less to this well-made, impeccably acted film than meets the eye. Its meticulousness is to some degree a flaw, an evasion of nearly every variety of human messiness.
  6. Bourek
    Viewers...are unlikely to be more than marginally amused by its fair-to-middling acting, enervated plot and forcibly diverse group of drifting souls gathered on the fictional Greek island of Khronos.
  7. Sacrifice
    Dowling’s direction, while competent, also trots out every cliché that a 90-minute movie can contain.
  8. Pali Road
    A lot of the weight of selling the story falls on Ms. Chen, and she’s not entirely up to the challenge, but Mr. Lim is able to build suspense anyway.
  9. Papa: Hemingway in Cuba
    Bob Yari’s Papa: Hemingway in Cuba is more artifact than art.
  10. Dough
    Dough is sweet, often funny and always nonthreatening, a movie for those who wish the intractable realities of the world would just disappear.
  11. A Beautiful Planet
    It’s appealing to adults and accessible to younger viewers. And it delivers an environmental message that is strong and serious while remaining encouraging and optimistic. That’s important to hear. The rest is just amazing to watch.
  12. The American Side
    If the self-consciousness can be charming, it also prevents The American Side from becoming fully its own film.
  13. Ratchet & Clank
    It has little story to tell and few ideas to offer. Just a great deal of product to sell.
  14. Mother's Day
    The movie, a goopy, glossy mess with 10 times more respect for contrived sentimentality than for film grammar, is bereft of genuinely amusing jokes — Mr. Marshall really had some nerve naming his autobiography “Wake Me When It’s Funny.”
  15. Transfixed
    For sure, there are plenty of humorous moments here. But that underlying sadness is the most affecting aspect of the film.
  16. Viktoria
    As more and more perfect shots drift by, the reality of the characters and their relationships dissipates, and we’re left with just picturesque moods.
  17. Viva
    It infuses a too-familiar story with so much heart that you surrender to its charm and forgive it for being unabashedly formulaic.
  18. Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands
    The access to Fassbinder that the relationship provided was a boon to the film, but a disadvantage as well because the close-up view results in a patchy portrait rather than a coherent biography.
  19. Keanu
    As the genre machinery chugs along, the bang-bang begins to overwhelm the movie, and the underlying critique gives way to a what-me-worry shrug.
  20. Eva Hesse
    It’s like a comprehensive exhibition catalog or a thorough critical essay — an indispensable aid to understanding and appreciating a fascinating artist.
  21. Love Thy Nature
    Even when it could be specific, Love Thy Nature isn’t.
  22. Keepers of the Game
    There are heroic adults here.... There is also deft editing, artful camerawork and effective music in abundance.
  23. We the People: The Market Basket Effect
    The tale, ripped from the headlines, is stirring, even if the repeated rally scenes and aerial views of the region grow stale.
  24. Tale of Tales
    Strip away the smatterings of sex and globs of gore, and children would really get a kick out of Tale of Tales, Matteo Garrone’s colorful and kinky exploration of what women want. And what men will do to give it to them.
  25. Sworn Virgin
    Although Ms. Rohrwacher captures Mark’s uncertain, shifting physicality, the movie doesn’t always succeed in getting inside the character’s head.
  26. Nina
    Ms. Mort’s writing lacks psychological texture, and her direction generates little intensity, or even continuity.
  27. Men & Chicken
    The movie’s grave commitment to its own quirkiness is admirable, I suppose. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to recommend it.
  28. The Meddler
    Affable, earnest and humanly scaled, The Meddler is the kind of entertainment that the studios used to supply by the boatload and that now tends to show up on the small screen.
  29. A Hologram for the King
    It takes an actor with the finesse of Tom Hanks to turn a story of confusion, perplexity, frustration and panic into an agreeably uncomfortable comedy.
  30. Hockney
    When it deepens its intellectual focus, Hockney begins to lose coherence, with rushed sequences that cover his stage designs, his landscapes and his experiments with photography.
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