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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. 1000 Rupee Note
    A parable about the contagious nature of corruption and the curse of dirty money, 1000 Rupee Note asks, How valuable is a windfall to people who live their lives largely without money?
  2. My Blind Brother
    It’s made watchable by an appealing cast.
  3. I.T.
    John Moore, the director, and Dan Kay and William Wisher, the screenwriters, don’t have anything new to add to that familiar dynamic.
  4. Queen of Katwe
    In Ms. Nair’s hands, Phiona’s story has a richness and unpredictability that separates it from other, superficially similar movies. It also has the buoyant, cleareyed feel for the particulars of culture and place that is among this director’s great gifts.
  5. The Magnificent Seven
    The new movie is as moth-eaten as the serapes strewn through the 1960 film, but there’s no denying the appeal of the image of Mr. Washington riding a horse, shooting a Colt and leading a posse of vigilantes to save a mostly white Western town.
  6. Tanna
    Despite its best efforts, Tanna drifts into a mode of exoticism that renders it an ultimately frustrating experience.
  7. Silicon Cowboys
    Silicon Cowboys prizes the human drama behind business events, much as in “The Social Network” or “Steve Jobs.” Those films, too, pretended that technology was the star. But they knew that people were the real story.
  8. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
    Everybody involved with the awful comedy Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?... owes Aristophanes an apology. It’s one thing to borrow a guy’s premise; it’s quite another to transform it into something this unwatchable.
  9. Finding Altamira
    In Antonio Banderas, Mr. Hudson has a winning de Sautuola of personal modesty, scientific integrity and paternal warmth.
  10. Hillsong - Let Hope Rise
    “He can move the mountains.” “I was blind but now I see.” Those lines are but drops in the torrent of clichés saturating Michael John Warren’s narcotizing documentary Hillsong — Let Hope Rise.
  11. Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
    "Southwest of Salem” proceeds with what have become sobering tropes for true-crime documentaries: a defendant saying she didn’t realize she needed a lawyer; outsiders explaining how they grew convinced of a miscarriage of justice.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dancer
    In Dancer, Mr. Polunin’s suffering may be on display, but too little of his artistry.
  13. A Family Affair
    By the jaw-dropping climax (an argument over a family portrait), and the film’s not-entirely unpredictable denouement, you aren’t sure whether you are witnessing an investigative family chronicle or an act of revenge.
  14. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
    The way to watch is to ignore the image burnishing and just feel the moment.
  15. The Vessel
    The Vessel is a modest, but not maudlin, parable of hope about mustering the strength to vigorously plunge again into life’s uncertainties after a devastating loss.
  16. Miss Stevens
    Ms. Rabe’s beautifully balanced performance reminds you that people never really grow up.
  17. Operation Avalanche
    There’s a headlong temerity to Mr. Johnson’s style that places the dippy thrill of moviemaking front and center, revealing a director (and a character) so high on his power to misrepresent reality that a future in politics seems all but assured.
  18. Cardboard Boxer
    Mr. Church fully inhabits the character, making the most of Willie’s dented moral sense and his many limitations. But the film constructs some too-perfect solutions to problems and manipulates our emotions.
  19. Blair Witch
    The acting and filmmaking are too crude to make you care about what happens to any of them, even though you know pretty much exactly what that will be.
  20. Snowden
    Mr. Stone has made an honorable and absorbing contribution to the imaginative record of our confusing times. He tells a story torn from slightly faded headlines, filling in some details you may have forgotten, and discreetly embellishing the record in the service of drama and suspense.
  21. Bridget Jones's Baby
    Despite an abundance of mostly tepid jokes that keeps the comedic tone at a quiet simmer, Bridget Jones’s Baby doesn’t jell. Ms. Zellweger floats through the picture, charming but strangely detached from her suitors.
  22. Command and Control
    The film effectively recreates the sense of confusion over how to try to contain the leak and what might happen if the fuel ignited.
  23. When the Bough Breaks
    There’s not an ounce of suspense in any of this, because you’ve seen it all before, and the director, Jon Cassar, seems uninterested in veering from the well-established formula.
  24. The Apostate
    The Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj’s leisurely comedy-drama The Apostate has its charms, though the story (and its hero) could benefit from a tarter approach.
  25. Landfill Harmonic
    The story behind “Landfill Harmonic” is so good that even some imperfect filmmaking can’t hold it back.
  26. Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
    Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War is a generic documentary about two people who were anything but. Yet even when the film wanes, its subjects still come across as remarkable.
  27. Come What May
    The depredations of the Nazis are depicted in a way that will make viewers want to declare war on Germany anew. But Come What May is also too pretty of a movie. It is often sentimental and, worse, schematic.
  28. Starving the Beast
    As an overview of the issues, the history and the players, Starving the Beast makes a powerful survey course, a prerequisite for further studies.
  29. The Wild Life
    The Wild Life is pretty to look at, with its skies and ocean, calm or stormy, and it has a driving soundtrack. But the story lacks that extra layer of complexity and meaning that parents can appreciate.
  30. London Road
    The artifice of the form works something wondrous with the material, highlighting the generic nature of our response to extreme violence.
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