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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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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    20 Feet from Stardom
    This generous, fascinating documentary about the careers of backup singers, most of them African-American women, seeks to rewrite the history of pop music by focusing attention on voices at once marginal and vital.
  2. In the Fog
    Mr. Loznitsa doesn’t lighten the mood with any familiar filmmaking tricks: there are, for instance, no musical cues to guide you over the troubling or ambiguous passages. Like the characters, you work through each surprising turn.
  3. The Guillotines
    The incrementally served up pieces never satisfactorily cohere. The blades fly as do the heads, but the movie remains disappointingly aground.
  4. Call Me Kuchu
    This is a scary but inspiring film with real heroes and villains.
  5. Aliyah
    This smart, sober movie makes you feel the full weight of the challenges he faces.
  6. The Bling Ring
    The Bling Ring occupies a vertiginous middle ground between banality and transcendence, and its refusal to commit to one or the other is both a mark of integrity and a source of frustration.
  7. Man of Steel
    At once frantically overblown and beautifully filigreed, Man of Steel will turn on everyone it doesn’t turn off.
  8. More Than Honey
    A fascinating but rambling documentary.
  9. Pandora's Promise
    Mr. Stone builds his case seamlessly but leaves no room for dissent, much less a drop of doubt.
  10. This Is the End
    The film, at its phoned-in worst and also at its riotous best, has a terminal feeling. It suggests that a comic subgenre based on the immaturity, sexual panic and self-mocking tendencies of men who should be old enough to know better has reached its expiration date.
  11. Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
    This pull-no-punches portrait shocks and amuses with equal frequency.
  12. Finding Joy
    A clumsy mixed-nuts comedy.
  13. Hey Bartender
    [A] tidy and ingratiating documentary ode to high-end mixologists.
  14. I Send You This Place
    Less a documentary than an experimental essay tapping age-old notions of the sublime, it’s a perplexing artifact that flirts with the banal yet moves with lovely intuitive rhythms.
  15. The Rambler
    The Rambler...feels like a slender plot with additional scenes pasted on.
  16. Tiger Eyes
    It’s all a bit precious and predictable.
  17. One Mile Above
    Cinematographer Du Jie delivers moments of visual ecstasy that almost make us forget that they’re framing a reckless cipher.
  18. Fame High
    Fame High, a timely plug for arts education, does what its subjects hope to do: it opens our hearts and entertains with truth.
  19. Free Samples
    Free Samples is a modest but pleasant small-budget movie with two bits of laziness in the script, but one particularly sweet performance that makes up for them.
  20. Hello Herman
    Pointing at everything and elucidating nothing, Hello Herman arrives freighted with the anti-bullying agenda of its director, Michelle Danner.
  21. Free China: The Courage to Believe
    “Free China” is not news, and, however moving, it’s really not art. It’s advocacy. In that aim, it is ardently committed.
  22. Rapture-Palooza
    Rapture-Palooza has a promising setup and a cast with a good track record of bringing the funny, yet it never does live up to its potential.
  23. Violet & Daisy
    While the film has an appealingly dreamy, summer-in-New-York look and a pleasantly languorous rhythm, it gives the actors very little to do and the audience almost nothing to care about.
  24. The Purge
    The message just gets louder and louder, cruder and cruder, which is too bad because Mr. DeMonaco knows how to set a stage.
  25. As Cool as I Am
    Just when its parts should come together, As Cool as I Am crumbles to bits.
  26. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
    You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet is a sly, elegant meditation on the relationship between reality and artifice. But it is a thought-experiment driven above all by emotion.
  27. Wish You Were Here
    After the painstaking buildup, the revelations are disappointingly predictable.
  28. The Prey
    It doesn’t aspire to art-house significance, just to white-knuckled entertainment.
  29. Dirty Wars
    [A] pessimistic, grimly outraged and utterly riveting documentary.
  30. The Internship
    Written by Mr. Vaughn and Jared Stern, The Internship spreads the corporate gospel with sporadic jokes, the usual buddy-film shenanigans (a visit to a strip club, a teasingly shared bed) and a lot of motivational cant.
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