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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. Afternoon
    Obviously, this is not a film for viewers unfamiliar with Mr. Tsai’s work. But its insistently austere format does suggest a purpose beyond its immediate context.
  2. Miles Ahead
    Does it matter that stretches of Miles Ahead — a gun-rattling, squealing-tire car chase included — came out of the filmmakers’ imagination rather than Davis’s life? (Mr. Cheadle shares script credit with Steven Baigelman.) Purists may howl, but they’ll also miss the pleasure and point of this playfully impressionistic movie.
  3. Francofonia
    It’s a work of art that troubles the conscience, in part because it suggests, both by default and by design, that no art is innocent, and that its preservation, like its destruction, depends on the operation of power.
  4. The Dark Horse
    The movie partly resists the temptation to follow a predictable feel-good route to a fairy-tale ending. That said, it has enough conveniently timed little triumphs to send up warning signs.
  5. No Home Movie
    If you let it, No Home Movie invites you in first with its intimacy and then its deep feeling.
  6. Sex and Broadcasting
    Professionally comfortable with improvising, the D.J.s make for affable company, and it’s amusing to watch radio from behind the scenes. But a tinge of melancholy also hovers over the movie.
  7. I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
    Ms. Lambert’s film builds nicely, staying in tune with the ordinariness and intimacy explored in Ms. Akerman’s boldly rendered films.
  8. Everybody Wants Some!!
    Everybody Wants Some!! is more than just nostalgic. It’s downright utopian, a hormonal pastoral endowed with the innocent charm of a children’s book. There are plenty of movies about lust-addled youth, but it’s unusual to find one that feels truly wholesome.
  9. Baskin
    This proudly derivative genre exercise will not be to every taste (or stomach), but the director, Can Evrenol, shows a certain knack for tension and for framing viscera in wide screen, even if his cutting is sometimes too quick.
  10. Valley of Love
    This movie is finally only about Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, and that’s enough.
  11. I Saw the Light
    Part of what defeats Mr. Abraham and may help explain why Mr. Hiddleston’s performance, however appealing, never gets below the surface, is that Williams is one of those artists whose eloquence is expressed through his work.
  12. April and the Extraordinary World
    Influences aside, the movie so teems with delightful detail and has such an exuberant sense of play that it feels entirely fresh.
  13. Get a Job
    At its sloppy heart, this is meant to be an affirming movie, but the filmmakers could have taken a cue from one line of dialogue: “Don’t just feel special. Be special.”
  14. Jane Wants a Boyfriend
    The diagrammatic script, by Jarret Kerr, has wit but could sometimes use more nuance. But there are tasty performances.
  15. Born to be Blue
    In Mr. Hawke’s extraordinary performance, this glamorous enigma becomes a credible, if pathetic character who lives for only two things: to play the trumpet and to shoot heroin.
  16. They're Watching
    The storytelling becomes muddled in the middle, and the suspense doesn’t build as well as it ought to, but the winking undercurrent keeps the film watchable.
  17. Fastball
    This appealing documentary makes you understand why aficionados regard baseball as a form of poetry.
  18. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    The comedy is forced, the drama nonexistent and the actors melt into a yapping clan that seems to go everywhere en masse — a gesticulating blob of upraised shoulders and upturned palms.
  19. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    It is about as diverting as having a porcelain sink broken over your head.
  20. Thank You for Playing
    If nothing else, it’s evidence that the digital age has opened up new ways to work through grief.
  21. The Birth of Saké
    Mr. Shirai nicely shuffles in the back stories of several workers, and his shots of sky, sea and early morning landscapes could fit amid Hokusai woodcuts.
  22. Everything Is Copy
    Digging into the psychological space between her wildly public life and intensely private death, Everything Is Copy is a pickle slathered in whipped cream. Just like its subject.
  23. Take Me to the River
    Mr. Sobel’s film skates past any persuasive sense of motivation.
  24. Sweet Bean
    The movie, beautifully shot and acted, earns its ultimate sense of hope by confronting real heartbreak head-on, and with compassion.
  25. A Space Program
    As a tribute to NASA, A Space Program is rich in the core elements that have always propelled humanity’s flights of fancy: imagination and the right tools.
  26. The Preppie Connection
    This film fails even to evoke the ’80s in costumes, soundtrack or other atmospherics.
  27. Ktown Cowboys
    The film doesn’t have the focus, pacing or plotting of the best of such bromance tales.
  28. Krisha
    When Krisha stands in the kitchen, wild-eyed amid all these human sights and sounds, you see a woman overwhelmed by life itself, as well as a movie that is an expressionistic tour de force.
  29. The Confirmation
    The pleasures are modest but rewarding in Bob Nelson’s character study The Confirmation.
  30. The Brainwashing of My Dad
    Feels as if it’s arriving late to its discoveries and, given the current political climate, as if it’s only scratching the surface.
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