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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. Newlyweeds
    Newlyweeds, for all its freshness, never really lands. It remains suspended in a haze of secondhand smoke.
  2. Enough Said
    Line for line, scene for scene, it is one of the best-written American film comedies in recent memory and an implicit rebuke to the raunchy, sloppy spectacles of immaturity that have dominated the genre in recent years.
  3. First Cousin Once Removed
    Mr. Berliner’s film bravely brings us to the edge of language and experience.
  4. Price of Gold
    A noncommittal, occasionally surreal portrait of hardscrabble lives and omnipresent risk.
  5. Naked As We Came
    A lovely small surprise of a film.
  6. Herb & Dorothy 50X50
    It’s difficult to dislike a documentary with such noble, generous subjects, but the film is unfocused and repetitious, not sure whether it is a road trip, a story of a couple or an exploration of small art institutions.
  7. Hawking
    Mr. Hawking — no shy and retiring genius, he — has star quality that he lets shine, whatever the limitations of its packaging.
  8. Informant
    Mr. Meltzer doesn’t quite find an effective tone or structure to stay on top of his unsettling person of interest.
  9. Good Ol' Freda
    Good Ol’ Freda celebrates an intensely private witness to four of the most public lives in pop-culture history.
  10. Wadjda
    With impressive agility, Wadjda finds room to maneuver between harsh realism and a more hopeful kind of storytelling.
  11. Sample This
    The real pleasure of this film lies in its recognition of session artists and in the oddities and mysteries within the evolution of any given item of pop culture.
  12. GMO OMG
    To the informed consumer hoping for greater elucidation, Mr. Seifert’s partisan, oversimplified survey falls short.
  13. Mother of George
    This is not a fable of assimilation or alienation, but rather the keenly observed story of two people seeking guidance in painful and complicated circumstances.
  14. Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
    The film doesn’t really live up to its subtitle. There is little sense of what kinds of debates take place at board meetings or how pressure is applied behind closed doors.
  15. Jayne Mansfield's Car
    Behind the clunky machinery is a lyrical meditation on life, death, heroism, regret and forgiveness written in a florid style that might be described as Tennessee Williams on testosterone.
  16. Blue Caprice
    The Beltway sniper case was solved a long time ago. But in some respects, Mr. Moors’s haunting film suggests, it is still a mystery.
  17. Insidious: Chapter 2
    A mess from start to finish — though, judging by the ending, this story won’t be over any time soon — Insidious: Chapter 2 is the kind of lazy, halfhearted product that gives scary movies a bad name.
  18. And While We Were Here
    Subject matter that seemed mildly shocking, even radical, a half-century ago may be impossible to refresh, though the screenplay, by Ms. Coiro, has a firm grasp of its characters.
  19. The Last Time I Saw Macao
    A sly, amusing if underconceptulized and needlessly elliptical inquiry into truth, memory and appearances.
  20. The Family
    The movie has holes galore. It has abrupt tonal shifts, an incoherent back story and abandoned subplots. It doesn’t even try for basic credibility. But buoyed by hot performances, it sustains a zapping electrical energy.
  21. Four
    The close-ups of faces convey reams of inchoate emotion and enhance the stumbling poetry mouthed by characters whose urge to connect conflicts with their innate sense of caution.
  22. Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
    Matching her subject’s lackadaisical rhythms, Ms. Huber has shaped an unusually poetic biopic.
  23. Mademoiselle C
    The filmmaking has some of the wit and irreverence of its subject, but goes on meandering tangents rather than having a cohesive vision or tone.
  24. Shuddh Desi Romance
    Ms. Kapoor, in her early 20s, gives a performance that seems to reinvent female confidence.
  25. The Ultimate Life
    The Ultimate Life is hampered by a predictable story, stereotypical characters and wooden acting.
  26. I Am Breathing
    Mr. Platt’s good-humored attitude helps keep the potent material from turning mawkish, and having his perspective also wards off a sense of exploitive voyeurism.
  27. 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
    The variety of physical perspectives lends a vivid you-are-there aspect to this record of the Zuccotti Park protest in New York in 2011.
  28. Red Obsession
    Red Obsession, a little too stuffed for its nearly 80 minutes, may already be dated, since China’s wine fever has cooled recently. Still, the movie raises legitimate concerns about the cultural and economic implications of status-minded overconsumption.
  29. My Father and The Man In Black
    No one in this complex and haunting documentary feels fully explained.
  30. 36 Saints
    A modest effort only fitfully attaining its aims.
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