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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. My Father Die
    Bathed in a funk of testosterone, and heaving with homophobia and misogyny, My Father Die is a trashy jewel.
  2. Strike a Pose
    Beyond the personal stories, the movie frames the tour and Truth or Dare as landmarks in the push for gay rights and awareness, and makes a convincing case.
  3. Vivo
    Vivo, despite its exuberant beginning and heartfelt ending, struggles to offer more than odd turns and clichés in the rest of its story.
  4. Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends)
    The vivid recollections of the attack by survivors, including Mr. Hughes, take over the film midway through, and the friendship story line never quite re-establishes itself.
  5. All These Sleepless Nights
    For all its visual and sonic pleasures — see it in a theater with a good subwoofer — All These Sleepless Nights feels simple-minded in its commitment to drift above all else.
  6. Ingrid Goes West
    Ingrid Goes West comes close to saying something sharp about how social media promotes envy and the illusion of connectivity, but when a comedy chooses such an obvious target, it should have the courtesy to aim from an oblique angle.
  7. Berlin Syndrome
    Her insistent imagery and sometimes oblique narrative approach don’t always deliver the dividends sought. But the movie identifies Ms. Shortland as a talent to watch.
  8. Person to Person
    While Mr. Defa’s dialogue mostly flows naturally from Mr. Coopersmith, it can seem too self-aware and precious in the other characters’ mouths.
  9. Thoroughbreds
    For all the chatter and intrigue, Mr. Finley never settles on a point or theme.
  10. Marshall
    Like his character, Mr. Boseman is the star of this show, while Mr. Gad is the second banana and often comic relief. Both performers are natural showmen who never step on each other’s moment; they’re fun to watch.
  11. In This Corner of the World
    As our window into a world lost to violence, Suzu gives us the chance to see rabbits in rivers, though her rosy view obscures history’s shadows with a preponderance of golden light.
  12. This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
    Adam Wescott and Scott Fisher, Ms. Lazzarato’s management team, are executive producers for the film, and to a great extent “This Is Everything” seems to follow an agenda set by them in tandem with the movie’s subject, which is largely commendable in its pitch for acceptance and against bigotry.
  13. Punching Henry
    Mr. Phillips’s self-deprecating humor is amusing but not funny enough to give him the edge he needs to rise up and conquer.
  14. I Am Jane Doe
    Without these balancing voices, I Am Jane Doe coalesces into a steamroller of pain that squashes our ability to see beyond its wounded families.
  15. Final Portrait
    Now and then, brisk restaurant visits and slow strolls through a cemetery (an unnecessary foreshadowing, given the movie’s title) ventilate the film, but Final Portrait (adapted from Lord’s 1965 book, “A Giacometti Portrait”) is pretty thin on drama.
  16. Spoor
    Spoor is sensationally atmospheric. . . . The structure, though, seems counterproductively, even confusingly, elliptical, and the timing of flashbacks muddles the point of view. This is a whodunit that plays tricks with the “who.”
  17. The Devil's Candy
    To enjoy The Devil’s Candy, then, one must tolerate slapdash writing (by the director, Sean Byrne) and profoundly irritating adult behavior. Yet Mr. Byrne...somehow whips his ingredients into an improbably taut man-versus-Satan showdown.
  18. The First Purge
    Even the most ardent fan could find its bluntness uncomfortably timely: In our build-that-wall moment, a story about a government-sponsored plan to cull poor minorities feels less like political satire than current-affairs commentary.
  19. Actor Martinez
    Some movies about making movies (Truffaut’s “Day for Night,” for one) are charming. The self-references here, while intriguing, approach a comic navel-gaze. Actor Martinez has a saving grace, however: Ms. Burdge.
  20. First They Killed My Father
    It is gorgeous and suspenseful, and it rushes heedlessly into dangerous terrain.
  21. 11:55
    This first feature from Ari Issler and Ben Snyder (who both wrote the script with Mr. Almanzar, a military veteran) refuses to revel in violence.
  22. Past Life
    Past Life is a page-turner that transforms into a clarion call: always compelling, but slightly stifled by noble intentions.
  23. Take Me
    Parts of it work, but the overall package is never really suspenseful enough to have you on edge or overtly funny enough to be a lark.
  24. Live Cargo
    We are largely left with the images, which take us far, if not far enough.
  25. Hounds of Love
    It’s a tense, sharply assembled debut feature from Ben Young. Its main problem, though, is that it never answers a basic question: Why are we watching this?
  26. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
    Only intermittently stimulating.
  27. The Ballad of Lefty Brown
    While Mr. Moshé’s ambitions can be frustratingly modest, he does know that — however fraudulent the genre’s myths — the image of a man riding a horse into the sunset is in our cinematic DNA.
  28. I Am Another You
    Ms. Wang delves further into Dylan’s past. If by the end she probably still puts too much trust in Dylan’s aphorisms, give her credit for recognizing the shortcomings of her footage and correcting course.
  29. Mr. Roosevelt
    Ms. Wells is appealing onscreen and is a smart writer. She gives Emily some good zingers.
  30. Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
    While the recordings are wall-to-wall, this somewhat busy documentary rarely accords time for simply listening.
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