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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. This Is Not a Ball
    The journey, an exploration of the passion for soccer that evolves into a history of the ball (a sort of film version of the anthropologist John Fox’s 2012 book, “The Ball”), is somewhat illuminating, often indulgent and never wholly satisfying.
  2. Filmistaan
    Teetering somewhere between audacious and offensive, the stylistically voracious Filmistaan only intermittently reveals any sense of danger in its comedy.
  3. Rigor Mortis
    Applying ghoulish special effects and atmospheric slow pacing, the film also maintains a dark palette of blacks, browns and ash grays, the better to serve as a backdrop when the blood starts spattering.
  4. Small Small Thing
    There is no gore here, and no on-screen violence, but this is in every way a horror movie. With a devastating ending.
  5. Burning Blue
    The script, by Mr. Greer and Helene Kvale, rolls along with lifeless, profoundly unimaginative dialogue.
  6. The Moment
    Disorientation is a double-edged sword, especially when the ostensible reorientation is as unsatisfying as it is here.
  7. Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
    As travelogue, this is a persuasive introduction.
  8. Burt's Buzz
    The film, by Jody Shapiro, seems so hagiographic that when it finally gets around to its 20 minutes’ worth of interesting stuff, you’re not sure whether to trust it.
  9. Dormant Beauty
    If Dormant Beauty does not rank among Mr. Bellocchio’s best movies, it nonetheless still occasionally shows him at his best. His eye for the latent beauty and evident absurdity of Italian life remains acute, as does his appreciation for vivid performance.
  10. Master of the Universe
    Mr. Voss’s metaphors pile up helplessly: Finance is like being in the army, like catching a virus and as hard to grasp as quantum particles. The film in which he appears is a vertiginous look inside the bubble behind the financial bubble, with no end in sight.
  11. The Only Real Game
    The history lesson is fascinating, and it’s nice to see an American export other than a Hollywood blockbuster engendering good will.
  12. The Case Against 8
    The Case Against 8 functions as a valuable record of the nuts-and-bolts conference room side of advocacy — an aspect of civil rights work not often seen on screen.
  13. 2 Autumns, 3 Winters
    The wistful, overarching theme is the passing of time in the lives of young adults, aware of growing older, who seek to ground themselves in relationships and work, but relationships most of all. The movie reminds you with a series of gentle nudges that whether you want it to or not, the future happens.
  14. The Sacrament
    Mr. West sets the scene reasonably well, ratcheting up a sense of unease with old-fashioned shadows and some nighttime scrambling, but he gets lost once he shifts from fooling around in the dark to recreating mass death.
  15. Willow Creek
    Mr. Goldthwait exercises so much caution that you want to get behind his characters and push.
  16. Trust Me
    As the movie picks up speed and undergoes sudden, confusing plot reversals, it loses its satirical edge.
  17. Ping Pong Summer
    This gentle comedy, while entirely unmemorable, releases a genuine warmth that deflects harsh judgment. It doesn’t, however, excuse characters that are little more than props for embarrassing fashion or delivery systems for dated slang.
  18. Borgman
    That Borgman restrains itself from turning into a full-scale horror movie makes it all the more unsettling, although it has its bumpy moments.
  19. Obvious Child
    It’s both funny and serious without trying too hard to be either, and by trying above all to be honest.
  20. Citizen Koch
    It’s a hodgepodge that Michael Moore (whose movies Ms. Lessin and Mr. Deal have produced) and his editors might snappily dice together, but here the construction falls short.
  21. Edge of Tomorrow
    In Edge of Tomorrow, Mr. Liman brings Mr. Cruise’s smile out of semiretirement and also gives him the kind of physical challenges at which he so brilliantly excels.
  22. Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
    Mr. Gordon is likable, though it would be naïve to think he is unaware of cultivating his own image here.
  23. The Fault in Our Stars
    Though it is a tragic love story, it is also a perfect and irresistible fantasy.
  24. Emoticon
    With its underwritten characters (especially Walter) and scenes, it seems like a generic ABC Family plotline melded to a commercial for Facebook, Twitter and Skype.
  25. The Hornet's Nest
    The Hornet’s Nest lets its soldiers do most of the talking. The action — the rapid fire of automatic weapons, the crack of a sniper’s shot, the medevac rescues — is vivid.
  26. Lucky Them
    While Ms. Collette grounds Ellie and her emotions in a tough-minded plausibility, she can only hint at what the script fails to deliver: the complexities of a flawed woman’s midlife crisis.
  27. Korengal
    The sequel is much more than a collection of outtakes from the first film, augmented by footage shot later.
  28. Before You Know It
    There’s much sympathy but little tension in P J Raval’s new documentary.
  29. The Grand Seduction
    It’s adorable.
  30. Filth
    After a certain point, watching it is like listening to the ravings of an increasingly incoherent and abusive drunk.
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