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For 20,280 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. The Convent
    Hyett proves more successful with atmosphere than plot.
  2. Clara
    While the movie’s morose mysticism is tolerable enough, once “Clara” starts arguing for following feelings instead of data, it puts on its own tinfoil hat.
  3. El Chicano
    The director Ben Hernandez Bray began his career in Hollywood as a stuntman, and though too many bones are crunched to describe this film as elegant, Bray directs action with merciless kinetic logic.
  4. Shadow
    A martial-arts movie landmark, as strong in its performances as it is spectacularly novel in its violence.
  5. Meeting Gorbachev
    But if Meeting Gorbachev finds its subject mostly staying on a pro-peace, antinuclear message — and it’s a script that’s hard to argue with — Herzog shapes the film into a study in how world events often come down to quirks of character and circumstance.
  6. The Intruder
    More silly than scary. This doesn’t seem to be entirely intentional, and it isn’t altogether unwelcome.
  7. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
    Working ostensibly from the viewpoint of Bundy’s longtime girlfriend, Liz Kendall (an excellent Lily Collins), [Director] Berlinger never fully commits. Instead, he appears as seduced by Bundy as virtually everyone else in the movie.
  8. Long Shot
    Long Shot isn’t going to save the romantic comedy, but it’s an adrenaline shot of pure pleasure to the genre’s failing heart.
  9. Decade of Fire
    Decade of Fire is at its best when showing how the fires affected individuals effectively left to fend for themselves.
  10. Non-Fiction
    Witty, intelligent, sometimes cryptic.
  11. UglyDolls
    Every aspect of this computer-animated movie directed by Kelly Asbury seems equally overdetermined and tossed-off, as if it were a caffeinated weekend project for everyone involved.
  12. Knock Down the House
    Exuberant.
  13. Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High a.k.a. Vol. 2
    This putrid but at times oddly amiable exercise raised questions of an esoteric nature to this reviewer’s mind, such as “Why do all the female extras look as if they’ve been kidnapped from the post-punk club Coney Island High, since that club closed over 20 years ago?” If you too are apt to be diverted by such concerns, you might be amused by this.
  14. The Silence
    The Silence posits a grand evolutionary struggle between mankind and its winged tormentors, but every moment feels like regression.
  15. Tesla Nation
    Mostly, the movie, directed by Zeljko Mirkovic, consists of a barely organized series of interviews with notable Serbs and Serbian-Americans, and name-checks of others.
  16. J.T. Leroy
    Anchored by its two excellent leads, the movie is sympathetic and, for the most part, unsentimental.
  17. Thriller
    Some early, halfhearted attempts at social relevance aside, Thriller is an act of quotation and little else. It’s less a movie than a mix tape.
  18. If the Dancer Dances
    As Wechsler allows rehearsal scenes to play out at length, the perfectionism of dancer-to-dancer lessons becomes improbably poignant.
  19. I Trapped the Devil
    By seesawing between bland normalcy and hellishness, Lobo denies his audience the immersive horror that his film’s best images promise.
  20. Chasing Portraits
    Chasing Portraits is small and subtle, with some missed opportunities and occasionally inexpert filmmaking. But it’s not an insignificant effort, and Ms. Rynecki’s cause is admirable.
  21. The White Crow
    The problem is that while there are dance performances scattered throughout The White Crow, as well as interludes with a sweaty Rudy practicing and striving, the offstage scenes tend to feel like filler, the bits stuck between the barre and the theater.
  22. Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
    By the end of “Be Natural,” you won’t only have a clear idea of who this remarkable woman was; you may well have acquired a new taste in old movies.
  23. Carmine Street Guitars
    In a film full of pleasant harmonies, a note of dread comes in.
  24. Avengers: Endgame
    Settling scores, wrapping up loose ends and taking a victory lap — the main objects of the game this ostensibly last time around — generate some comic sparks as well as a few honest tears.
  25. Kalank
    This kind of fantasy-spectacle is Mr. Varman’s forte, not storytelling. When the singing and dancing and action stop, which is less often than you might think, so does “Kalank.”
  26. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
    Has moments of slackness and chaos (the book does, too), but for the most part it’s a lively, charming excursion.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Someone Great
    The hooks on which Someone Great chooses to hang its emotional hats are a little clichéd, but Rodriguez, Snow and Wise have enough chemistry to pull it all off.
  28. The Curse of La Llorona
    The scares are plentiful and sometimes ticklishly funny in The Curse of La Llorona, an enjoyably old-fashioned ghost story.
  29. Family
    Thoroughly good-natured and with a handful of decent jokes (like Kate McKinnon as a vulpine suburban mom), Family would be more interesting if, instead of trying to rewire Kate, it just admitted that her harsh honesty and benign neglect were more beneficial to Maddie than her mother’s anxious hovering.
  30. Red Joan
    Leave it to the feted British theater director Trevor Nunn to flatten the intrigue and dampen the lust that could have made Red Joan zing.
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