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For 20,269 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: 9,377 out of 20269
  2. Mixed: 8,428 out of 20269
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20269
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  1. Ne Me Quitte Pas
    Ne Me Quitte Pas...is soberingly adept at portraying the tedium of drunken life. Whether it actually avoids emulating said tedium depends on how engaging you find its two stooges. I was sympathetic without being wholly charmed.
  2. Uncle Howard
    The movie is a deft sort of dual narrative.
  3. The Take
    The movie sweeps you along with a brisk pace and even dashes of humor.
  4. A Street Cat Named Bob
    A savvy exercise in inspirational feel-good cinema lightly seasoned with grit.
  5. 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.
  6. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
    Because “Merrily” was a musical about the ravages of time on friendship and youthful ideals, the documentary tells parallel stories — one fictional, the other real — of disappointment and disillusion. They give the film a double shot of poignancy.
  7. 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.
  8. The Love Witch
    Ms. Biller’s movie, like its heroine, presents a fascinating, perfectly composed, brightly colored surface. What’s underneath is marvelously dark, like love itself.
  9. I Am Not Madame Bovary
    There’s some intriguing social commentary in the Chinese comedic melodrama I Am Not Madame Bovary.... But appreciating it, and the other points of interest in the movie, requires a perhaps unusual amount of patience, or even indulgence.
  10. The Edge of Seventeen
    [Ms. Steinfeld] manages a tricky balancing act, making Nadine simultaneously sympathetic and dislikable.
  11. Bleed for This
    With their scrupulous but unobtrusive attention to pertinent details, Mr. Younger, Mr. Teller and the rest of the cast make Bleed for This more than an inspiring version of Mr. Pazienza’s story; they make it a genuinely interesting one.
  12. Nocturnal Animals
    There’s much to admire in Nocturnal Animals, including Mr. Ford’s ambition, but too often it feels like the work of an observant student.
  13. Manchester by the Sea
    Mr. Affleck, in one of the most fiercely disciplined screen performances in recent memory, conveys both Lee’s inner avalanche of feeling and the numb decorum that holds it back.
  14. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    With the strange caws and showy displays, these beasties provide a lot of the movie’s easygoing pleasures. The adults are rather less engaging.
  15. The Illinois Parables
    The Illinois Parables is not, strictly speaking, an educational film, but it conveys a unique and precious kind of knowledge.
  16. Notes on Blindness
    The tone of the narration is so wrenchingly honest that the film never lapses into self-pity or relies on mystical platitudes.
  17. Hunter Gatherer
    This amiable look at life on the margins gradually accumulates a melancholy that punctures the drollness.
  18. Shut In
    In this achingly inept thriller, you will see Naomi Watts do what she can to sell a plot of such preposterousness that the derisory laughter around me began barely 20 minutes in.
  19. Iron Moon
    Iron Moon has a slowly mounting, but lingering, impact.
  20. 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.
  21. USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
    The film, directed by Mario Van Peebles, brays the story in broad strokes and clichés as if the horror of it didn’t speak for itself, which it most certainly does.
  22. Lazy Eye
    Written and directed by Tim Kirkman (“Dear Jesse,” “Loggerheads”), Lazy Eye has realistic dialogue and believable performances by its stars. But unless you consider subjects like saltwater swimming pools and the movie “Harold and Maude” fascinating topics, “Lazy Eye” has little to say.
  23. Disturbing the Peace
    Their stories are compelling — and persuasive.
  24. Come and Find Me
    The writer-director Zack Whedon toggles his plot between “Out of the Past” and “Three Days of the Condor” with highly mixed results before letting loose with a hilariously unconvincing climactic reveal.
  25. Dreamland
    It’s a smart, understated sex comedy, a description that suggests a certain maturity. You’d never suspect it was the first feature from its director, Robert Schwartzman.
  26. Asperger's Are Us
    Asperger’s Are Us rarely stretches to be funny or poignant or touching, and that makes this documentary all the more of each.
  27. The Anthropologist
    At this point no documentarian can possibly have a fresh take on climate change, right? Wrong. The Anthropologist, a stealthily insightful film by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger, improbably mixes that topic with a mother-daughter story to produce a distinctive study of change and human adaptability.
  28. National Bird
    [An] elegantly unsettling documentary.
  29. The Monster
    Part of the ticklish enjoyment in The Monster is how the director, Bryan Bertino (“The Strangers”), plays with genre registers and how, after opening with disquieting stillness and an isolated child, he slowly yet surely turns up the shrieks.
  30. Almost Christmas
    The family comedy-drama Almost Christmas is an often disarmingly entertaining picture, in spite of its being a not particularly well-thought-out cinematic contrivance.
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