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For 20,336 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: 9,413 out of 20336
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20336
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20336
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  1. Crosscurrent
    Cramming fantasy and mysticism, faith and history into a single riverboat journey, this dirgelike meditation on China’s painful economic rebirth dispenses with narrative in favor of semiotics.
  2. Carlito's Way
    Carlito's Way is best watched as lively, colorful posturing and as a fine demonstration of this director's bravura visual style.
  3. Buster's Mal Heart
    Buster’s Mal Heart is about the making of a madman. It also aspires, with less success, to philosophically query the void at the center of modern life and Christianity’s failure to fill it.
  4. Finding Babel
    In what probably qualifies as both an accomplishment and a shortcoming, the movie makes you want to read Babel’s writing instead.
  5. You've Been Trumped Too
    As a filmmaker, Mr. Baxter often tends toward needless force-feeding.
  6. Ali and Nino
    Asif Kapadia, the director (whose film “Amy” won an Oscar for best documentary), has a fine eye for splendor, as does Gokhan Tiryaki, his cinematographer. Mr. Kapadia’s sense of pacing isn’t as acute.
  7. Growing Up Smith
    The movie has a roughly equal number of clumsy moments and sweet ones.
  8. Blood on the Mountain
    The film may be one-sided, but if nothing else, it is a reminder that the “coal equals jobs” equation is a serious oversimplification.
  9. American Assassin
    The movie, directed by Michael Cuesta from a script by a team of blue-chip writers (Stephen Schiff and Michael Finch are credited, along with Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz), shows more skill than personality.
  10. Gifted
    What’s in a child’s best interest? It depends on who’s answering the question. That’s the crux of Gifted.
  11. Like Crazy
    An energetic, visually attractive but ultimately irritating comedy-drama.
  12. Uncle Kent 2
    Uncle Kent 2, directed (for the most part) by Todd Rohal from Mr. Osborne’s script, is a funnier and more imaginative film than its predecessor, but it’s still what you might call a niche proposition.
  13. Downsizing
    Downsizing is an ambitious movie about the value of modesty, and its faults are proportionate to its insights. I sort of wish it felt like a bigger deal, but maybe that’s my problem.
  14. Space Jam
    It's both a frantic, innovative mixture of animation technologies and a fan magazine full of adulation for Michael Jordan. He handles this tribute with regal bearing and good grace.
  15. The Wall
    The vein-popping mood is ultimately more exhausting than exciting.
  16. Sky on Fire
    This is a Hong Kong action picture in the classical mode, balancing mayhem with sentimentality, offering up bone-crunching and jaw-dropping set pieces, and pulling out all the stops for a finale teeming with stressful twists and turnabouts — not to mention kicks, punches, gunshots and explosions.
  17. Contemporary Color
    Over all, this movie is less “you are there” than “you had to be there.”
  18. The Sense of an Ending
    Directed by Ritesh Batra from a screenplay by Nick Payne, The Sense of an Ending maintains intrigue and emotional magnetism as its mystery unfolds.
  19. Dying Laughing
    As one comic after another recalls triumphs, misadventures and painful lessons learned, the stories become redundant.
  20. The Ardennes
    Even though, in retrospect, The Ardennes feels a little obvious and secondhand, it unfolds with enough speed and wit to hold your attention.
  21. How to Be a Latin Lover
    The whole enterprise is so fundamentally good-natured and fluffy that it’s sometimes hard to stay annoyed by it.
  22. A Different American Dream
    Mr. Brook and Ms. Wells are in a sense not documenting a controversy at all; they are capturing an endemic, heartbreaking defeatism.
  23. Leap!
    Leap! remains peppy as it sets its bar at a low-to-medium height then cheerfully clears it.
  24. The House
    It is a dark, startlingly bloody journey into the bitter, empty, broken heart of the American middle class, a blend of farce and satire built on a foundation of social despair.
  25. Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
    Despite its risqué origins, “Paws of Fury” manages to dish out lighthearted fun, swashbuckling action and surface-level messaging about following your dreams, though not every joke lands.
  26. Victoria and Abdul
    In the shift from comedy to drama the movie goes wobbly.
  27. S Is for Stanley
    For Kubrick enthusiasts, this picture will provide a fun and sometimes moving fix.
  28. The Other Half
    Mr. Klein is well served by his actors, who exude conviction, charisma and palpable ardor.
  29. My Name Is Emily
    It’s a sometimes rocky road cinematically, slipping from enchanting to trite, magical to indulgent with some regularity.
  30. Dean
    If Mr. Martin’s take on grief is facile, the movie overall is a pleasant trip, and Dean’s doodles — by Mr. Martin himself — are a treat.
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