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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. My King
    The movie’s ability to express, with directness and humor, the insecurities of intimacy — most remarkably during the couple’s first night together — is a delight.
  2. Joshy
    Mr. Baena (who, with David O. Russell, wrote the tricky 2004 “I ♥ Huckabees”) is more accomplished than many microbudget filmmakers, and the looseness with which he imbues the middle section of Joshy is deceptive, creating a sense that the necessary emotional crash might not actually occur.
  3. Abortion: Stories Women Tell
    What Ms. Tragos succeeds in illustrating is that if you take away the signs and listen to the stories, there is little difference between women on opposite sides of the debate — at least in the region she covers.
  4. Pete's Dragon
    This sentimental, nearly genteel movie demonstrates there’s a world of difference between invoking magic and conjuring it.
  5. Operation Chromite
    The wooden dialogue gives Liam Neeson little to do beyond bite on his corncob pipe and berate subordinates who dare question him. Still, in perhaps the only instance when this is a compliment, he’s no Olivier.
  6. Edge of Winter
    [A] competent but slight thriller.
  7. The Lost Arcade
    Part scrappy, part sweet and wholly enjoyable, The Lost Arcade is a love letter to a vanished piece of New York, and a little wish for the future.
  8. The Model
    Mr. Matthiesen seems as if he might have been trying to make an indictment of sexism and exploitation in the fashion world, but if so he doesn’t hit the theme nearly hard enough.
  9. Hell or High Water
    Furnished with faces as beaten as the vehicles the brothers drive and discard, Hell or High Water is a chase movie disguised as a western. Its humor is as dry as prairie dust...and its morals are steadfastly gray.
  10. Anthropoid
    It takes Sean Ellis’s World War II thriller Anthropoid a while to build steam, but once it does, hang on.
  11. Florence Foster Jenkins
    Ms. Streep is a delight, hilarious when she’s singing and convincingly on edge at all times.
  12. An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell
    There are creatures fished out of formaldehyde, volumes flecked with rot, birds that have been hollowed out and stuffed, household tools battered beyond recognition. The effect of seeing all this is certainly haunting, but too beautiful to be morbid.
  13. Will You Dance with Me?
    This is not a picture about which extravagant claims ought to be made; it really is, in the end, an hour and change in a London disco in 1984. But as a page from an artist’s notebook, and a time capsule curio, it rates pretty high.
  14. Sausage Party
    You will come for the kind of humor promised in the title and the well-earned R rating, but stay for the nuanced meditations on theology and faith.
  15. Nine Lives
    The film, derivative (see “The Shaggy Dog” of 2006) and devoid of wit, is about that tiredest of kid-movie clichés, the parent who is too busy for his children and must be taught a lesson.
  16. The Tenth Man
    The Tenth Man, a modest charmer from Argentina, breathes considerable life into the rather trite scenario of a man discovering his religious roots, in part because it seems genuinely curious about the community in which it’s set.
  17. Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
    [A] deft and comprehensive documentary.
  18. Five Nights in Maine
    Maris Curran had plenty of opportunities to insert a cheesy plot twist into “Five Nights in Maine,” her delicate drama about loss and its aftermath. Yet she stayed true to her intentions, and the result is a believable character study that may not draw crowds but certainly challenges its two lead actors.
  19. Citizen Soldier
    The sense of danger is palpable, as is the sense of misery after the most dreadful scenes.
  20. The Brooklyn Banker
    Acting chops are occasionally on view — Mr. Sorvino and Mr. Proval play well together — but the plot is weak, the subplots tacked on.
  21. Front Cover
    Though too slight to be memorable, the gay romance Front Cover takes a gentle, thoughtful look at the intersection of ethnicity and sexuality.
  22. Bazodee
    The title, by the way, is Trinidadian slang for being disoriented or dizzy or just a little bit crazy, possibly because of romance. And you might go bazodee over that contagious soca beat.
  23. Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
    Such an uncommon artist warrants a less conventional survey than this one.
  24. Neither Heaven Nor Earth
    On the most fundamental level, Neither Heaven Nor Earth is an impressive stunt, a horror movie masquerading as a film about the horrors of war. But its gravity and intelligence...make it something more.
  25. Little Men
    It’s a subtle movie, alert to the almost imperceptible currents of feeling that pass between its title characters.
  26. The Little Prince
    The voice casting and the visual representations of the characters the boy encounters on his journeys are superb.
  27. Suicide Squad
    Suicide Squad is a so-so, off-peak superhero movie. It chases after the nihilistic swagger of “Deadpool” and the anarchic whimsy of “Guardians of the Galaxy” but trips over its own feet.
  28. Tallulah
    The story in Tallulah sometimes strains credulity, but it’s beautifully told and acted.
  29. Shelley
    Maybe expecting a horror film to have a point is expecting too much. In any case, the two actresses give committed performances on the way to a veiled ending.
  30. The Land
    As if to personify the movie’s whiplash-inducing split between gloss and grit, the singer Erykah Badu appears as a prostitute — and also contributes a duet with Nas, one of the executive producers, to the soundtrack.
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