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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. Redemption
    Its narrative continuity is so sketchy and the screenplay so haphazard that the movie doesn’t add up to more than trash, seasoned with pretentious religiosity.
  2. Byzantium
    Again and again, as the story shifts between women, times and moods, Mr. Jordan adds a punctuating flourish...that exquisitely illustrates the once-upon-a-time mood.
  3. I'm So Excited
    The journey generally drags because the spinning characters, with their tired jokes and familiar melodramas, soon feel so mechanical, like the automated parts in an Almodóvar machine.
  4. Museum Hours
    This movie is rigorously and intensely lifelike, which is to say that it’s also a strange and moving work of art.
  5. White House Down
    As demented and entertaining as promised, and a little less idiotic than feared.
  6. The Heat
    The volatile chemistry between Ms. McCarthy and Ms. Bullock is something to behold, and carries The Heat through its lazy conception and slapdash execution.
  7. Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle
    As a musical experience, it is generous and moving. But as a documentary, “Sing Me the Songs” is an awkward hybrid of concert film and rock-star biography.
  8. How to Make Money Selling Drugs
    There’s a lot to learn from How to Make Money Selling Drugs, but sometimes there’s just a lot.
  9. Homegoings
    Ms. Turner captures the intimacy of solemn, heartfelt moments, and salutes a man who honors their value.
  10. Kuichisan
    At once loose and dense, Ms. Endo’s treatment wilts somewhat when drawn out to feature length, though it’s a nice place to visit.
  11. A Hijacking
    In A Hijacking, his assured, intense second feature, the Danish director Tobias Lindholm turns tedium and frustration into agonizing suspense.
  12. Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship
    If you’re watching this film and waiting for something funny or insightful to come along to assuage your annoyance, you’ll wait a long time.
  13. Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
    On its own terms — setting aside the likelihood of knee-jerk political objections to its mission — it’s more convincing than many films pegged to specific causes.
  14. Rushlights
    When it comes to film plotting, too many twists just result in an annoying tangle. And there are too many twists in Antoni Stutz’s uninvolving Rushlights.
  15. Downloaded
    No one is as intriguing as the thoughtful, soft-spoken Mr. Fanning, a onetime idealist thwarted by the piracy label and the dated assumptions of a calcified communications infrastructure.
  16. Maniac
    By not centering on the victims, Mr. Khalfoun nearly makes the film about pitying the panic-prone killer; the camerawork lacks the ominous, confident glide of much Steadicam horror.
  17. Somm
    Somm, though an entree into a little-known world, rarely finds a second dimension.
  18. Unfinished Song
    The movie, originally titled “Song for Marion,” has more emotional clout than you might reasonably expect from a piece of inspirational hokum.
  19. The Attack
    Mr. Doueiri creates characters, emotional colors and political contradictions that have the agonized sting and breathe of life.
  20. World War Z
    World War Z often feels smaller and quieter than it is, because your attention is drawn to details and moments rather than to showstopping spectacles or self-important themes.
  21. Three Worlds
    Each thread of the plot is followed to its dangling, ragged conclusion in a movie that may be painful to watch but that maintains a chilly integrity.
  22. Monsters University
    While it’s a visual enchantment (there’s a knockout compendium of horror film clichés), its reversion to a largely male domain after “Brave,” its first and only female-driven story, is a drag.
  23. My Best Day
    A gently wry sense of humor about human foibles and some well-turned exchanges keep the proceedings drifting along pleasantly enough, until characters start convening for the requisite heart-to-hearts and making-up.
  24. Vehicle 19
    This one is well photographed, yet it’s still just a lot of cars and noise.
  25. The Stroller Strategy
    Mostly you root for Mr. Michel’s couple to reconnect simply so the movie will come to an end.
  26. Storm Surfers 3D
    The vistas are spectacular, the waves fearsome, the filming often amazing.
  27. Hatchet III
    Too busy with limb-severings and gunfire to bother being intelligent.
  28. Fukrey
    Too often it calls to mind the much better “Delhi Belly,” which had a genuinely madcap script and sharper things to say about being young, urban and Indian.
  29. Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
    A record of a man’s tormented youth, his broad artistic impulses and the price he paid for following them.
  30. Berberian Sound Studio
    It’s not unlike many of Mr. Strickland’s beloved Italian films, which could be superb exercises in cinematic style and atmosphere while remaining imperfect.
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