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For 20,271 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 20271
  2. Mixed: 8,430 out of 20271
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20271
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  1. Keanu
    As the genre machinery chugs along, the bang-bang begins to overwhelm the movie, and the underlying critique gives way to a what-me-worry shrug.
  2. Eva Hesse
    It’s like a comprehensive exhibition catalog or a thorough critical essay — an indispensable aid to understanding and appreciating a fascinating artist.
  3. Love Thy Nature
    Even when it could be specific, Love Thy Nature isn’t.
  4. Keepers of the Game
    There are heroic adults here.... There is also deft editing, artful camerawork and effective music in abundance.
  5. We the People: The Market Basket Effect
    The tale, ripped from the headlines, is stirring, even if the repeated rally scenes and aerial views of the region grow stale.
  6. Tale of Tales
    Strip away the smatterings of sex and globs of gore, and children would really get a kick out of Tale of Tales, Matteo Garrone’s colorful and kinky exploration of what women want. And what men will do to give it to them.
  7. Sworn Virgin
    Although Ms. Rohrwacher captures Mark’s uncertain, shifting physicality, the movie doesn’t always succeed in getting inside the character’s head.
  8. Nina
    Ms. Mort’s writing lacks psychological texture, and her direction generates little intensity, or even continuity.
  9. Men & Chicken
    The movie’s grave commitment to its own quirkiness is admirable, I suppose. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to recommend it.
  10. The Meddler
    Affable, earnest and humanly scaled, The Meddler is the kind of entertainment that the studios used to supply by the boatload and that now tends to show up on the small screen.
  11. A Hologram for the King
    It takes an actor with the finesse of Tom Hanks to turn a story of confusion, perplexity, frustration and panic into an agreeably uncomfortable comedy.
  12. Hockney
    When it deepens its intellectual focus, Hockney begins to lose coherence, with rushed sequences that cover his stage designs, his landscapes and his experiments with photography.
  13. Elvis & Nixon
    Despite Mr. Shannon and Mr. Spacey, who appear to be having a fine time working off each other, the meeting is anticlimactic.
  14. Compadres
    Compadres tries to be a lighthearted cross-border buddy film, and sometimes it succeeds. But consistency is a problem — it doesn’t hit those humorous high notes often enough, and when it’s not in the comedic groove, it’s muddy.
  15. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    Its badness is not extreme, but exemplary: It’s everything wrong with Hollywood today stuffed into a little less than two hours.
  16. How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change
    A one-word assessment of this documentary: Tough. As in, tough to watch. Tough to consider. Tough to ignore.
  17. Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
    Despite much talk of diversity and tradition, Mr. Levine has little fresh to say about gentrification issues or documentary storytelling.
  18. Echo Park
    An understated and often charming film.
  19. Wedding Doll
    Mr. Gilady, a documentarian making his fiction feature debut as a writer and director, over-stacks the deck with this belabored if artfully shot story.
  20. Sky
    This expressionistic portrait of the American West is an oddity that only a director from another country could have conjured.
  21. Sing Street
    The charms of Sing Street should not be underestimated. Partly because its manner is unassuming and its story none too original...it’s easy to overlook Mr. Carney’s ingenuity and sensitivity.
  22. New York New York
    Its tightly shot scenes never reveal much context, and the rather cryptic subtitles can lead a viewer to mistaken conclusions until the identities and motivations of the characters click into focus.
  23. Our Last Tango
    German Kral’s documentary Our Last Tango is a combination of things, all fascinating.
  24. Rio, I Love You
    Tourism is what it has to sell.
  25. The Measure of a Man
    Mr. Lindon’s physically reserved, inward turn as Thierry (wrinkled brow, downcast eyes) dovetails with Mr. Brizé’s restrained realism.
  26. My Big Night
    Thanks to his editor, Domingo González, Mr. de la Iglesia skillfully keeps these many balls in the air, a palpable affection for his players seeping through.
  27. An Eye for Beauty
    A low point in the director’s career, this sleek chilly film isn’t acted so much as posed.
  28. The First Monday in May
    The movie is sloppy.
  29. Colonia
    It somehow manages to feel more like a Hallmark Channel romance than like a serious film.
  30. 13 Cameras
    Yes, it’s an exploitative sort of filmmaking, but Mr. Zarcoff keeps it fairly restrained for most of the way. You know things will end badly for someone, and perhaps everyone. The ominousness just keeps building.
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