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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. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
    Along the way the movie strikes its chosen couple of notes resoundingly, making clear what makes Singh run.
  2. Pawn Shop Chronicles
    "Hee Haw” meets “Pulp Fiction” at the meth lab: That describes the style of Pawn Shop Chronicles, a hillbilly grindhouse yawp of a movie that belches in your face and leaves a sour stink.
  3. Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
    Sebastián Silva is extremely perceptive about body language, and the characters’ physical presences are as revealing as their words. The performances give you an almost uncomfortable sense of proximity.
  4. Fruitvale Station
    Mr. Coogler, with a ground-level, hand-held shooting style that sometimes evokes the spiritually alert naturalism of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, has enough faith in his actors and in the intrinsic interest of the characters’ lives to keep overt sentimentality and messagemongering to a minimum.
  5. The Shine of Day
    The Shine of Day pulls itself together with an ending that feels a bit ready-made for drawing out the parallels between its kindred performers. But the movie gratifyingly observes the openness that seems the base line for Philipp and Walter, and the glimmer of realization in a stage actor about the void that may lurk among his many liberating roles.
  6. The Hunt
    The Hunt doesn’t know where to stop. It is undermined with a short, unsatisfying epilogue whose shocking final moment isn’t enough to justify its inclusion.
  7. Pacific Rim
    Pacific Rim, with its carefree blend of silliness and solemnity, is clearly the product of an ingenious and playful pop sensibility.
  8. Apparition (Aparisyon)
    Cool and cerebral, Apparition stubbornly resists our desire to connect with its troubled characters... Even so, the film’s sophistication creates space for us to ponder deeper, unanswered questions.
  9. Israel: A Home Movie
    These mostly silent home movies often have the tug of nostalgia, especially those that show domestic life... But images can be slippery, showing something different from what their creators intended. Even as Mr. Lilti constructs a history...he seems to show its fissures.
  10. Sweetgrass
    In Sweetgrass, a graceful and often moving meditation on a disappearing way of life, there is little here that is objective and much that is magnificent.
  11. Of By For
    If the lineup is bipartisan, the analysis oscillates between apt and obvious, culminating inevitably in amen calls for popular action.
  12. Stuck in Love
    Although Stuck in Love is an indie film, it hews slavishly to Hollywood formulas.
  13. The Look of Love
    Had The Look of Love focused more acutely on the father-daughter relationship or explored Mr. Raymond’s relationships with his two sons, only one of whom appears briefly, it might have amounted to something more substantial than a keenly observed period piece that keeps a celebrity journalist’s distance from its subject.
  14. Just Like a Woman
    The story arc is so familiar...that the main emotional response is hollow relief as every beat is, indeed, hit just as expected.
  15. Absence
    Mundane conversations and outings drag on while the central mystery takes baby steps forward, suggesting that a shorter running time or a more developed script might have better served the originality of the premise.
  16. A Girl and a Gun
    Whether viewed as empowerment tools or aphrodisiacs, stress relievers or deadly bodyguards, these weapons and their owners never cohere into an actual point.
  17. The Way, Way Back
    The Way, Way Back has the charm of timelessness but also more than a touch of triteness. Its situations and feelings seem drawn more from available, sentimental ideas about adolescence than from the perceptions of any particular adolescent.
  18. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
    Fans will love it; their main complaint may be that it ends too soon. Amateur psychologists in the audience, meanwhile, may be asking why such a successful guy seems so defensive.
  19. Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
    A deserved tribute that puts us inside the music, and the head space, of a great, lost band.
  20. Ghanchakkar
    The script, written by Mr. Gupta with Parveez Sheikh, has some engaging mysteries and witty payoffs. But the story is stretched too thin, blunting some of its more interesting ideas.
  21. Despicable Me 2
    Once again, the lesson that more is not necessarily better, something rarely learned by blockbuster sequels, is forgotten.
  22. The Lone Ranger
    A very long, very busy movie that will unite the generations in bafflement, stupefaction and occasional delight.
  23. Magic Camp
    The enchantment is irresistible in Judd Ehrlich’s documentary Magic Camp, a spry and revealing examination of Tannen’s Magic Camp.
  24. Petunia
    It’s possible to make a great movie out of family dysfunction, but this one is too short on insight to rank with the best of the genre.
  25. 100 Bloody Acres
    This fairly rote tale of rural ghouls and their passing-through prey has its own hick charm, mostly because of performers who never overplay their hands.
  26. The Secret Disco Revolution
    The Secret Disco Revolution, however limited, is one smart documentary. It’s so clever that it makes fun of itself.
  27. Laurence Anyways
    A big, beautiful, rambling immersion in a passion whose heat is fueled primarily by its impossibility.
  28. A Band Called Death
    A Band Called Death is more concerned with bringing out the personal connections behind their driven music than with insisting upon the group’s distinction in the perennial music history search for oddities and firsts.
  29. Gideon's Army
    Gideon’s Army is a bare film with no narrator and a minimal soundtrack. That’s all it needs to grab you by the throat.
  30. Some Girl(s)
    There are a lot of truthful notes in Some Girl(s), but there are also false ones that let you know that you are being played with. You’d best beware.
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