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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. Happy Valley
    Happy Valley, even as it revisits past events, has a chilling timeliness.
  2. Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
    A kooky, affectionate tribute that’s happily superficial.
  3. Love Hunter
    In its feel for nocturnal light, this is one of the most refreshing New York independent features since Ramin Bahrani’s “Man Push Cart.” Both acoustically and dramatically, Mr. Mumin is a winning performer.
  4. Occupy the Farm
    Rather than present an evenhanded assessment of the issues at stake, the director, Todd Darling, is so busy fist-pumping for urban farming — and so dazzled by his granola heroes — that naysayers must be demeaned and denigrated.
  5. Beside Still Waters
    Bathed in a nostalgic glow that just avoids maudlin, the group’s problems — a sexless marriage, an unexpected job loss — bark but don’t bite. Scenes flirt with cliché, yet the writing has spark.
  6. Beyond the Lights
    Beyond the Lights may be a fantasy — movies about love, like songs about love, tend to fall into that category — but it is an uncommonly smart and honest fantasy.
  7. Dumb and Dumber To
    The Farrellys are still not much interested in film as a visual medium, and when Lloyd and Harry aren’t smacking each other or dropping their pants, you might as well be listening to a radio play. There’s a story, but it doesn’t matter, certainly not to the leads or the good-natured sidekicks like Kathleen Turner and Rob Riggle.
  8. Levitated Mass
    [A] sneakily compelling documentary.
  9. Wolves
    Silly beyond words, Wolves is indifferently acted and unconvincingly realized.
  10. Rosewater
    Mr. Stewart’s interest in the material is obviously personal, but his movie transcends mere self-interest.
  11. Miss Meadows
    The dark comedy (punctuated by the catchphrase “Toodle-oo”) doesn’t always come off, and the filmmaking is more off-kilter than necessary, with capricious camerawork and pacing.
  12. The Homesman
    The Homesman is both a captivating western and a meticulous, devastating feminist critique of the genre.
  13. Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty
    Driven by mostly Spanish-language folk music, the movie provides a potent if piecemeal counterbalance to the sensationalism of “Breaking Bad.”
  14. Brahmin Bulls
    Mr. Pailoor (who wrote the screenplay with Anu Pradhan) shows a taste for blunt metaphor... It’s hard to find fault with the performances, though, particularly Mr. Seth’s.
  15. Always Woodstock
    This is a movie that runs on magical thinking.
  16. Starry Eyes
    A pretty young actress. A casting call. A private meeting with the lecherous man who has the power to give her the role. Starry Eyes tries to wring a horror movie out of this tired old setup but, halfway in, seems to realize it has nothing new to offer and becomes a mere gorefest.
  17. Penance
    Mr. Kurosawa expertly modulates an uncanny flow of energies between shame and grief, between venal urges and high-minded moral demands. The women’s travails suggest something that’s part curse, part mythic cycle of guilt and part kaleidoscopic dread.
  18. Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
    Saving Christmas seems determined to win any perceived war on Christmas through brute force.
  19. Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
    The setup’s clichés grow harder to ignore, despite a welcome mischievous streak and some bucolic imagery.
  20. Butter on the Latch
    Butter on the Latch thrives on its casually true snapshots of confusion and connection.
  21. Bad Turn Worse
    A juicy neo-noir like Bad Turn Worse doesn’t have to make total sense to grab you.
  22. Foxcatcher
    Mr. Miller does his finest work with his three superb leads.
  23. Red Army
    Good sports movies are always about more than sports... Red Army touches on themes of friendship and perseverance, and also offers a compact and vivid summary of recent Russian history.
  24. Open Windows
    Smothered by a storm of visual tics — and the tiniest of nods to “Rear Window” (1954) — any social commentary takes second place to multitasking gimmickry.
  25. Hangar 10
    Saving most of its special-effects pennies until the final five minutes, Hangar 10 struggles to build a science-fiction movie from little more than a ghost of an idea and an infamous location.
  26. Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain
    This is crudely mounted, earnest advocacy, getting its points across at any cost.
  27. On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
    Motorbikes careening round corners just millimeters off the track still quicken the pulse, but “The Next Chapter” also demonstrates the padding that documentaries in general have picked up in recent years.
  28. Sex Ed
    Unevenly directed by Isaac Feder, Sex Ed droops.
  29. The Invisible Front
    This film, somewhat clumsy yet full of illuminating interviews, seems mostly like an exercise in building national pride, but it holds lessons for anyone trying to resist an overwhelming force.
  30. Fugly!
    Mr. Leguizamo, 50, still has charisma, but with his maniacal stage persona barely seen and the themes recycled from earlier projects, Fugly! is a dud.
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