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For 20,324 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 20324
  2. Mixed: 8,449 out of 20324
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20324
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  1. Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
    “I want to make abstract art that’s funny, happy, energetic, joyful,” he exclaims at one point. That he did. This movie is a good introduction to it.
  2. Truman
    This well-made, low-key drama, written by Mr. Gay and Tomàs Aragay, offers some insights into terminal illness.
  3. Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back
    The art is the star and Ms. Axelrod features plenty of it. She also outlines a knowing path through Mr. Cattelan’s career, leaving just enough room to have you wondering if the artist is more of a con man than a genius.
  4. Alex Strangelove
    Alex Strangelove is witty, compassionate and enjoyable throughout; a charming movie and in many respects an enlightened one.
  5. LA 92
    [A] taut and commanding primer.
  6. Thelma
    Mr. Trier’s experimenting mostly works, especially when the genre pieces dovetail with his gifts and Thelma’s story.
  7. The Tiger Hunter
    With a likable cast and a wholesome message about the true meaning of success, The Tiger Hunter might balk at the harsher details of immigrant life, but it has a generosity of spirit that lifts everyone up.
  8. November
    Suffused with sorcery and silvery light, November, written and directed by Rainer Sarnet, is a bizarre Estonian love story — a mishmash of folklore, farm animals and scabrous fun — in which beauty and ugliness fight to the death.
  9. Bang! The Bert Berns Story
    If you love the music Berns made, you’ll love this movie; if you don’t, I feel for you, but “Bang!” might nevertheless entertain with its dish.
  10. Natasha
    Mr. Bezmozgis creates a disturbing portrait of a girl turned calculating and nihilistic by her upbringing, and there is no coyness here.
  11. The Kid Who Would Be King
    The action is creatively staged, without ever getting too intense or scary for young viewers. And the script balances humor, pathos and wish fulfillment as it portrays Alex’s rise from mopey dreamer to confident warrior, without overdoing the mythic portent.
  12. Widows
    The result is a fascinating and sometimes frustrating hybrid, a film that tries both to transcend and to exploit its genre.
  13. Everything Else (Todo Lo Demás)
    A low-key character study whose gently repetitive rhythms mask an unusually keen sense of nuance and subtlety.
  14. Gook
    The film isn’t perfect — Mr. Chon’s wild camera motions seem more undisciplined than electric — but it does find an angle on the riots that hasn’t been seen much onscreen.
  15. In the Fade
    The ending is puzzling, when it wants to be devastating, and the political and personal sides of the story, rather than illuminating each other, fight to a stalemate. Ms. Kruger, however, who won the best actress award at Cannes in May, leaves a vivid, haunting impression.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Back to School
    The film is a good-natured potpourri of gags, funny bits, populist sentiment and anti-intellectualism.
  17. Whitney: Can I Be Me
    A surprisingly conventional, dutifully respectful behind-the-scenes portrait of Whitney Houston’s rise and struggles with fame and drugs before her death at 48.
  18. The Divine Order
    The Divine Order effectively illustrates how peer pressure can influence the political process. Collective silence, whether it’s from women unwilling to publicly press for their rights or men afraid to voice agreement with their wives for fear of looking weak around co-workers, proves more of an obstacle than any opponent. That message gives Ms. Volpe’s lark a timely edge.
  19. Bachelor Party
    It takes much longer than might be expected for Bachelor Party...to degenerate into a mindless mob scene. Until it takes that turn for the worse, the movie is actually funny. That is, it's as funny as "Police Academy," which like this film was written by Neal Israel and Pat Proft. And it's certainly funnier than it has been made to look by its advertising campaign, which seems to feature the usual gang of suspects enjoying the usual sophomoric sex romp.
  20. The Drowning
    The Drowning...distinguishes itself by applying a depth of psychological observation that yields a genuinely unsettling vision.
  21. Food Evolution
    With a soft tone, respectful to opponents but insistent on the data, Food Evolution posits an inconvenient truth for organic boosters to swallow: In a world desperate for safe, sustainable food, G.M.O.s may well be a force for good.
  22. Fletch
    An enjoyable paperback of a film, a lightweight, breezy experience that, by never pretending to be anything more than what it is, disarms criticism.
  23. The Incomparable Rose Hartman
    Pushy, judgmental, tart-tongued and self-obsessed, the photographer at the heart of Otis Mass’s penetrating documentary, The Incomparable Rose Hartman, is, like her snapshots, a piece of work.
  24. Becoming Who I Was
    The filmmakers rarely delve into the spiritual aspects of the story, but that’s O.K. You don’t have to believe in Padma and Urgain’s religion to believe in them.
  25. 32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide
    The more Hope’s own obsession grows, the more involving the movie gets, even as it raises ethical questions about its making — and about those who continue to watch.
  26. The Challenge
    Shot in rich, wide-screen color, with minimal camera movements (except when a small camera is attached to a falcon’s restless head) and almost no dialogue, it is detached almost to the point of abstraction.
  27. Gaslight
    Prepare yourselves rather for a lengthy and restless stretch on tenterhooks.
  28. The Limehouse Golem
    Marrying fact and fiction, Jane Goldman’s seamy screenplay is wildly overstuffed; but the director, Juan Carlos Medina, gives the music hall scenes a rowdy authenticity.
  29. Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
    Its enchantments are dark, its ideas somber and brutal.
  30. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
    It’s a kind of stealth home movie: a portrait of two generations of an immigrant family in the United States.
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