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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. Get a Job
    At its sloppy heart, this is meant to be an affirming movie, but the filmmakers could have taken a cue from one line of dialogue: “Don’t just feel special. Be special.”
  2. Jane Wants a Boyfriend
    The diagrammatic script, by Jarret Kerr, has wit but could sometimes use more nuance. But there are tasty performances.
  3. Born to be Blue
    In Mr. Hawke’s extraordinary performance, this glamorous enigma becomes a credible, if pathetic character who lives for only two things: to play the trumpet and to shoot heroin.
  4. They're Watching
    The storytelling becomes muddled in the middle, and the suspense doesn’t build as well as it ought to, but the winking undercurrent keeps the film watchable.
  5. Fastball
    This appealing documentary makes you understand why aficionados regard baseball as a form of poetry.
  6. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    The comedy is forced, the drama nonexistent and the actors melt into a yapping clan that seems to go everywhere en masse — a gesticulating blob of upraised shoulders and upturned palms.
  7. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    It is about as diverting as having a porcelain sink broken over your head.
  8. Thank You for Playing
    If nothing else, it’s evidence that the digital age has opened up new ways to work through grief.
  9. The Birth of Saké
    Mr. Shirai nicely shuffles in the back stories of several workers, and his shots of sky, sea and early morning landscapes could fit amid Hokusai woodcuts.
  10. Everything Is Copy
    Digging into the psychological space between her wildly public life and intensely private death, Everything Is Copy is a pickle slathered in whipped cream. Just like its subject.
  11. Take Me to the River
    Mr. Sobel’s film skates past any persuasive sense of motivation.
  12. Sweet Bean
    The movie, beautifully shot and acted, earns its ultimate sense of hope by confronting real heartbreak head-on, and with compassion.
  13. A Space Program
    As a tribute to NASA, A Space Program is rich in the core elements that have always propelled humanity’s flights of fancy: imagination and the right tools.
  14. The Preppie Connection
    This film fails even to evoke the ’80s in costumes, soundtrack or other atmospherics.
  15. Ktown Cowboys
    The film doesn’t have the focus, pacing or plotting of the best of such bromance tales.
  16. Krisha
    When Krisha stands in the kitchen, wild-eyed amid all these human sights and sounds, you see a woman overwhelmed by life itself, as well as a movie that is an expressionistic tour de force.
  17. The Confirmation
    The pleasures are modest but rewarding in Bob Nelson’s character study The Confirmation.
  18. The Brainwashing of My Dad
    Feels as if it’s arriving late to its discoveries and, given the current political climate, as if it’s only scratching the surface.
  19. The Clan
    The cleverest and most troubling aspect of the film is its empathy.
  20. The Program
    The Program, much to its detriment, concentrates almost exclusively on the history of the doping effort.
  21. My Golden Days
    My Golden Days is a memory movie, a story told through a glass darkly.
  22. The Bronze
    Ms. Rauch (who wrote the film with her husband, Winston Rauch) nails the portrayal admirably under Bryan Buckley’s direction. But that doesn’t mean Hope is anyone you want to spend almost two hours with.
  23. Pee-wee's Big Holiday
    Like the Muppets and the Simpsons, Pee-wee Herman seems not to age. But in his new Netflix movie, Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, he does take things down a notch; he’s less frenetic and more reactive.
  24. Midnight Special
    The charm and audacity of this film lie in the way it blends the commonplace and the bizarre.
  25. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    A story that kicked off two years ago at a reasonable gallop has now slowed to barely a limp.
  26. Miracles from Heaven
    Until it delivers an eye-rolling scene near the end, Miracles From Heaven is an unexpectedly effective tear-jerker. More surprising still, that late diversion doesn’t negate much of the movie’s early sincerity.
  27. Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
    As with Mr. Farhadi’s other films, every detail of speech and body language resonates.
  28. The Young Messiah
    For all the healing here — the revived include a bird, an ailing uncle and a blind man — The Young Messiah performs no miracles.
  29. The Perfect Match
    The scenarios and their attendant psychologies are utterly conventional, but the characters and cast are appealing in equal measure.
  30. Rise of the Legend
    Mr. Peng has charisma, though his moves are less convincing than those of an earlier Fei.... But “Legend” does offer the hefty authority of Mr. Hung, who at 64 can still — almost — hit, kick and do wire work with the best of them.
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