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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 Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
    This wisecracking, tear-jerking, deep-fried decadence is plenty satisfying if you’re in the mood to indulge.
  2. Twice Colonized
    Much like its heroine, Twice Colonized is a storm of emotion and conviction.
  3. Meanwhile on Earth
    Small and strange, Meanwhile on Earth seduces with its soft, barren beauty (the chilled cinematography is by Robrecht Heyvaert) and Dan Levy’s surreal score.
  4. Eden
    It’s a little surprising that these proceedings are led by the director Ron Howard, since this subject matter is more perverse than anything he has set his sights on before. The actors are up to the task, however.
  5. Memoir of a Snail
    The world that Elliot creates is so strangely beautiful that it’s fun to look at. Plus, the end of “Memoir of a Snail” redeems its flights into tedium by giving us a reason to have watched them.
  6. Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net
    Porter’s inquisitive camera gives the viewer enticing detail on how everything comes together — for instance, unbeknown to the audience, the pool is constantly monitored by rescue divers in scuba gear who also serve as prop people — while holding in suitable awe the actual magic all this work eventually yields.
  7. The Great Waldo Pepper
    Its moods don't quite mesh and its aerial sequences are so vivid—sometimes literally breathtaking—that they upstage the human drama, but the total effect is healthily romantic. It's the kind of movie that enriches dreams even though its story seems sort of strung-out, like a first draft, and includes moments that slip into bathos.
  8. Peak Season
    A lovely ending makes up for the filmmakers’ giving this triangle one blunt side.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Road to Rio
    Maybe this is not the funniest picture ever made; maybe it is not even quite as rewarding as some of those earlier journeys, but there are patches in this crazy quilt that are as good and, perhaps, even better than anything the boys have done before.
  10. The World According to Allee Willis
    I think the real story of The World According to Allee Willis isn’t just about Willis: It’s about the community that she formed, the friendships and relationships she maintained, and the way that art, imagination and love can make a life.
  11. Unstoppable
    William Goldenberg’s feature directing debut comes to life more often as a conventional family drama than as a conventional sports movie.
  12. My First Film
    The irony of My First Film is its two layers: It’s not Anger’s first film, nor is it Vita’s, but it tells the story of one that never quite made it into the world. But really, it’s a movie about learning to have compassion for your younger self, for her dreams and foibles and failures.
  13. The Road to Hong Kong
    Practically every moment spent with Bing and Bob is good for consecutive chuckles and frequent belly-deep guffaws.
  14. April
    April is easy to admire, but Kulumbegashvili’s use of art-film conventions can be wearyingly familiar, especially when the leisurely pace turns to a crawl.
  15. Elton John: Never Too Late
    It’s true that every documentary about a musician made with their involvement functions, on some level, as a piece of marketing, an attempt to write the narrative of their life. That mode can get a bit wearying. But when the results are this endearing, it feels like a little celebration instead.
  16. Bring Them Down
    This portrait of already wounded people who can’t stop inflicting pain on themselves and each other has a great deal of integrity. But if you’re seeking ennobling sentiment, you’ll do well to look elsewhere.
  17. The Cut
    Bloom plays his role with a feral commitment, and while Turturro has portrayed several villains in his career, here his refusal to ingratiate even slightly yields a genuinely frightening characterization.
  18. Friendship
    These men are so lonely. Thankfully, in a movie, they’re also really funny.
  19. The Order
    The movie is more effective as a grim, involving cop thriller than it is as an ostensible statement on the Order’s reverberations in the present.
  20. Cloud
    For all of his genre-bending on display, Kurosawa is interested in something more real and more dark about humanity’s capacity for greed and bitterness, and the quiet ways that the internet can further mutate those diseases in us.
  21. 2073
    Kapadia is a gifted storyteller in both modes, yet one wishes for a version of “2073” in which the veil between them was more permeable. As the film makes clear, they may soon be one and the same.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Song of the Thin Man
    While Song of the Thin Man is no world beater, it still is a mighty pleasant picture to have around.
  23. Relay
    Relay, a slick, sneaky thriller that’s elevated by both the actor and the director, David Mackenzie, makes it clear that Ahmed also has a silent-era performer’s gift for feverish stillness.
  24. Vice Is Broke
    Huang has made an eye-opening capsule history that will resonate most keenly with Vice fans. But there’s something more widely instructive, too, in his portrait of a culture clash that turned into an unlikely courtship: ragtag punks and the investment bankers eager to hit the “millennial sweet spot.”
  25. From Ground Zero
    The most moving entry might be Etimad Washah’s Taxi Wanissa.
  26. The Luckiest Man in America
    The events, and the mind games, appear to have been goosed for dramatic interest. . . But it is still fun to watch Michael and CBS compete for the upper hand.
  27. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
    Perhaps "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" extends a bit longer than it should. As such things do, it inclines to repetition. But most of it is good, fast, wholesome fun.
  28. Wicked: For Good
    Despite its unsettling political resonance, “Wicked” is finally most convincing as a story of an intense, soulfully nurturing female friendship.
  29. Superboys of Malegaon
    This tale — inspired by the 2008 documentary “Supermen of Malegaon” — succeeds most as a touching tribute to friendship.
  30. Separated
    If Separated is likely too straightforward — too much of a conventional issue documentary — to be remembered as one of Morris’s richest films, it is not as if the director has abandoned his sense of profound absurdity.
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