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For 20,335 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: 9,412 out of 20335
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20335
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20335
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  1. The Outpost
    The Outpost evolves from what initially feels like a collection of war-movie commonplaces, highlighting crude-talking soldiers in a bad situation, into something more complex and illuminating.
  2. I'm No Longer Here
    Frías de la Parra is thoughtful and precise in conveying the cultural identity of these young people, and their spirit pulses through the story.
  3. Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth
    "Seahorse” is the sort of documentary that gains its interest less from its technique than from its subject, and from the fact that the filmmaker was present at the right time. Articulate, reflective and unhesitant about getting personal, McConnell makes for a complicated character study.
  4. I Will Make You Mine
    The movie accumulates a rueful nostalgia. Soft black-and-white cinematography (by Bill Otto and Carl Nenzen Loven) and low-key humor help offset the limitations of its partly crowd-funded budget, as does the naturalism of the partly improvised performances
  5. Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own
    This documentary portrait of the formidable sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard is, by dint of its brevity, more tantalizing than satiating. But it’s still a welcome cinematic account of her work.
  6. Street Fighting Men
    What makes the movie compelling, then, are not so much the stories that ebb and rise from despair to hope, like the tides, but the portraits of the people living them.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strike Up the Band
    When they take the rugs off the floor and the youngsters begin moving, Strike Up the Band is spanking good entertainment.
  8. For All Mankind
    What emerges is an amazingly fresh visual immersion in space, and a film that works far better when dealing with inanimate objects than with humans.
  9. For They Know Not What They Do
    Its success comes from interrogating the cultural assumption that there is no space for a range of sexual orientations and gender identities within religious communities.
  10. The Awful Truth
    Awfully unimportant, but it is also one of the more laughable screen comedies of 1937.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An Angel at My Table
    For all of the casual brutality of the hospital scenes, An Angel at My Table seems a very gentle film about a woman of such a passionate nature.
  12. Nobody Knows I'm Here
    Not all the misdirection is elegant, but the film’s tenderness flowers in a lovely, unexpected final shot.
  13. Irma Vep
    A minor but witty entry on the exceptionally strong slate of French films at the New York Film Festival this year.
  14. My Father the Spy
    My Father the Spy doesn’t have a tidy point to make, but it succeeds at bringing a turbulent reminiscence to life.
  15. Tortilla Flat
    Tortilla Flatt is really a little idyll which turns its back on a workaday world. But it is filled with solid humor and compassion—and that is pleasant, even for folks who have to work.
  16. If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
    It was created under different circumstances and it is, perhaps inevitably, a less powerful work than “When the Levees Broke,” more diffuse in its storytelling and more uncertain in its point of view.
  17. Save Yourselves!
    The quirky Save Yourselves! is not necessarily a genre reinventor but a good example of how much fun you can have on a non-studio budget.
  18. Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America
    More than the informational nuggets the movie flashes onscreen, these scenes of personal interaction help make “Unsettled” distinctive.
  19. Skyman
    Subdued and temperate, Skyman refuses to lean into the mystery of Carl’s claims or wind us up for a final resolution. Those elements might be present, but they’re never allowed to obscure what is essentially an empathetic, textured portrait of loneliness and loss.
  20. Slalom
    The writer and director, Charlène Favier, had previous experience as a competitive skier, and she is attentive to the textures of mountainside sports and how abuse plays out in this setting.
  21. Summer of 85
    It ultimately stumbles in this balancing act and loses sight of its emotional core, but its efforts remain compelling and delightfully bizarre.
  22. Sputnik
    While Sputnik doesn’t make its substantial borrowings from other sci-fi pictures entirely new, it does juice them up enough to yield a genuinely scary and satisfying experience.
  23. Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
    Even for those familiar with Ai and his work, the film’s offerings of fascinating insights into his personal life and an exploration of the stakes of personal freedom make it a worthy viewing experience.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Killing
    Though The Killing is composed of familiar ingredients and it calls for fuller explanations, it evolves as a fairly diverting melodrama.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mildred Pierce
    Mildred Pierce lacks the driving force of stimulating drama, and its denouement hardly comes as a surprise, but it is cut from a pattern that has been hugely successful in the past and it probably will be this time too.
  26. Dateline—Saigon
    Despite stodgy trappings, Dateline-Saigon captures a swirl of personalities and conveys the excitement of reporting in a fast-moving, confusing and dangerous atmosphere.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Animal Crackers
    A further example of amusing nonsense.
  28. All Together Now
    The movie’s familiar suggestion of music as a light in the darkness works primarily because its star shines so brightly.
  29. Without Limits
    Towne especially excels at the smaller touches that bring such connections to life, whether it's an ear for pop music or a clear familiarity with college girls, circa 1970, or the group of bonsai trees that presumably occupy Bowerman when he isn't measuring feet and molding rubber. His proudly unconventional Without Limits is filled with such souvenirs of the real world.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Flying Down to Rio
    It is a hearty and lively show, the story of which is just about equal to that of other musical offerings.
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