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For 20,280 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
    An exemplary work of cinéma vérité that allows its subjects to speak for themselves, traffics neither in pity nor in political grandstanding.
  2. Dirty Pretty Things
    This film has a conquering spirit. The dankness is replaced by an optimistic blast of sunlight at the end, a contrast to the earlier lighting dimmed with human misery. Mr. Frears blasts away the blight, though he doesn't have to work to restore Okwe's dignity. It shines through from the start.
  3. Punch-Drunk Love
    Poetry is perhaps the best way to think about Mr. Anderson's suave, exuberant balance of free-form inspiration and formal control.
  4. Diamond Men
    Eddie Miller (Robert Forster), the stolid protagonist of Diamond Men, a small, finely acted slice of American life, is the sort of character the movies normally shun like the plague for lack of glamour.
  5. Chungking Express
    While its slender, two-tiered plot links love affairs that happen largely by accident, the film's real interest seems to lie in raffish affectation. Mr. Wong has legitimate visual flair, but his characters spend an awful lot of time playing impish tricks.
  6. Merrily We Roll Along
    Merrily We Roll Along is an OK movie of a good production of a great musical: on balance, another worthy addition to the Stephen Sondheim canon, which can always stand to be expanded.
  7. O'Horten
    O'Horten is about frustration, patience, kindness and the wildness that lurks in even the calmest hearts. What's odd about that?
  8. The Princess Bride
    Mr. Reiner seems to understand exactly what Mr. Goldman loves about stories of this kind, and he conveys it with clarity and affection.
  9. In Between
    In Between, Ms. Hamoud’s debut feature, is an unusually welcoming and engaging film, inviting you to become a part of the circle of friends it depicts with such energy and warmth. For that reason, it can also be frustrating.
  10. The Summit of the Gods
    On limited terms — capturing the physicality of mountain climbing within the ethereal medium of animation — The Summit of the Gods is distinctive.
  11. Not Yet Begun to Fight
    With their sensitive feature clocking in at an hour, the filmmakers make you wish only that they had developed their material further.
  12. Oceans Are the Real Continents
    The much-in-vogue hybrid mode proves more cryptic than edifying this time around.
  13. Pray the Devil Back to Hell
    Uplifting, disheartening, inspiring, enraging -- the mind reels while watching the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, even as the eyes water, the temples pound and the body trembles.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wings
    Amazing air duels and an impressive study of aviators are depicted in Wings, Paramount's epic of the flying fighters of the World War.
  15. The Chronology of Water
    Imogen Poots’s fantastically expressive performance as the adult Lidia transforms this movie (the feature directing debut of Kristen Stewart) from punishing to mesmerizing.
  16. The Thin Red Line
    One more film that could have been helped by excising repetition and focusing performances, but it wanders almost randomly instead. The heart-piercing moments that punctuate its rambling are glimpses of what a tighter film might have been.
  17. Born to Fly
    A singularly focused and avant-garde talent, Ms. Streb bends the messy rush of risk to her indomitable will.
  18. Trouble in Mind
    Alan Rudolph's latest movie seems to be striving to say something but isn't able to break through the fog of his script.
  19. Diego Maradona
    It is exhausting and exhilarating, cheap looking and slick, a documentary for Maradona fans but also for many others besides.
  20. Lost Bullet
    This impressively lean French thriller wastes nothing in its quest to deliver the goods.
    • The New York Times
      • Posted Jun 25, 2020
  21. The Phantom
    Adapting research that is, by now, hardly breaking news, Forbes has some solid strategies for making the material cinematic.
  22. Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
    The light provides wordless, and conveniently apolitical, explanation for why a person might endure nearly three decades (or in cinematic terms, nearly three hours) without action.
  23. After Dark, My Sweet
    James Foley's After Dark, My Sweet is a brisk, entertaining contemporary melodrama about the kind of sleazy characters who populated California crime literature 35 years ago. That's no surprise, since the screenplay, adapted by Robert Redlin and Mr. Foley, is based on Jim Thompson's novel, published in 1955.
  24. A Passage to India
    Mr. Lean's Passage to India, which he wrote and directed, is by far his best work since The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia and perhaps his most humane and moving film since Brief Encounter.
  25. Spellbound
    Not to be speechless about it, David O. Selznick has a rare film in Spellbound.
  26. I, Daniel Blake
    What makes the pain of this film bearable is Daniel’s unquenchable decency, courage and perseverance.
  27. The Counterfeiters
    The Counterfeiters is a swift and suspenseful thriller, and perhaps a little too entertaining for its own good.
  28. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
    Its one-week theatrical run will make it eligible for Academy Award consideration, though given that organization's often pitiful record when it comes to nonfiction film, it seems unlikely that a movie this subtly intelligent would make its short list.
  29. After the Wedding
    A fine and, on a scene-by-scene basis, often better than fine, if effectively unadventurous work.
  30. Playing with Sharks
    Playing With Sharks would like to position Valerie as both intrepid diver and valiant activist, but with its focus on thrills and gills, the film goes light on the context needed to reconcile these two identities.
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