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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. Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird
    Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird skillfully introduces this pleasant man with the demented visions and delves into how he got them.
  2. Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
    In its allegiance to detail, the film is too long and perhaps overstates its case in claiming that later generations have lost an understanding of common courage, as depicted by these two artists. Their work endures, and so does what they stood for.
  3. Design Is One
    The information-rich film is enlivened by the charm of the intelligent, eccentric couple at its heart.
  4. Zero Charisma
    Has plenty of humor but no satirical bite.
  5. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
    The hormonal realism to the performances and a laid-back run-up give the film a fairly legitimate feel for adolescence.
  6. The Institute
    The Institute stumbles between documentary and exploratory simulation, at once confusing and pedantic.
  7. God Loves Uganda
    A searing look at the role of American evangelical missionaries in the persecution of gay Africans, Roger Ross Williams’s God Loves Uganda approaches this intersection of faith and politics with some fairness and a good deal of outrage.
  8. Symphony of the Soil
    Infused with an infectious love for its subject, Symphony of the Soil presents a wondrous world of critters and bacteria, mulch and manure.
  9. Broadway Idiot
    As a chronicle of how one rock star slowly fell victim to the Broadway bug, it’s kind of amusing.
  10. McConkey
    It’s not about why he was such a thrill-seeking risk-taker but about appreciating his success in living life on his own terms.
  11. Cassadaga
    This eager film piles on common fears: evil puppetry, haunted homes and overly generous hosts. So despite a sloppy and humorless execution, it is scary by association.
  12. I Will Follow You Into the Dark
    This fiasco from the writer and director Mark Edwin Robinson will persuade you that the title refers not to a place without light (though there’s precious little) but to a story without reason.
  13. Ghost Team One
    It’s not the derivative scares and rudimentary effects that keep this low-budget effort percolating but the improvisational energy of Mr. Santos and Mr. Villarreal, whose ease, chemistry and humor never flag.
  14. Forgetting the Girl
    Its characterizations may be overwrought — it is a thriller, after all — and the audience might prefer to have sympathy for a character without being practically told to feel it. But the acting is strong.
  15. The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
    [Mr.Tillman] does lovely work here, particularly with the actors, even if his insistent ebullience can feel like a sales pitch.
  16. Escape from Tomorrow
    None of it is as scary or as funny as it should be, and what starts out as a sly thumb in the eye of corporate power ends up as a muddled and amateurish homage to David Lynch.
  17. Romeo & Juliet
    A sufficiently entertaining, adamantly old-fashioned adaptation that follows the play’s general outline without ever rising to the passionate intensity of its star-cross’d crazy kids.
  18. CBGB
    There is no story to speak of. Just a series of anecdotes that gain very little when acted out on screen.
  19. As I Lay Dying
    In rushing in where wise men might fear to tread, Mr. Franco has accomplished something serious and worthwhile. His As I Lay Dying is certainly ambitious, but it is also admirably modest.
  20. Machete Kills
    All too soon, Machete Kills collapses into a deranged, directionless splatter comedy that exhausts its bag of tricks, many of them recycled from this grindhouse auteur’s 2010 spoof.
  21. Captain Phillips
    Captain Phillips, a movie that insistently closes the distance between us and them, has a vital moral immediacy.
  22. Réquiem NN
    More a medium-length gallery piece than a feature, the movie can look a little rudimentary in presentation... But its subject is eternal.
  23. Grace Unplugged
    Feels like a religious tract more than a movie.
  24. The Last Day of August
    The film benefits from nice performances and nice work by Mr. DiFolco (making his directorial debut), even if the ending is not as psychologically complex as earlier scenes lead us to hope.
  25. Nothing Left to Fear
    The familiar special effects are not the most disappointing element here. It’s the squandering of the talented Ms. Heche, who is given top billing but almost nothing to do.
  26. Five Dances
    A promising, though static, new film that never leaves its taciturn shadows for a single emotionally gripping moment.
  27. Dislecksia: The Movie
    The film’s primary mission is to destigmatize dyslexia, and it achieves that admirably, presenting technical material with a light touch and compassion.
  28. Bridegroom
    What Bridegroom celebrates is not simply gay rights; it’s the human spirit.
  29. Bad Milo!
    What could have been a very funny short film about self-control and befriending your id instead becomes a rambling commentary on father-son dysfunction and the limits of proctology.
  30. Babygirl
    Predictable musical montages fail to deflate an exceptionally subtle script (by Mr. Vallely) and Ms. Ynoa’s astonishingly mature, hard-to-pin-down performance.
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