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For 20,278 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: 9,380 out of 20278
  2. Mixed: 8,434 out of 20278
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20278
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  1. Some Kind Of Beautiful
    One of the worst films to sport the label “romantic comedy.”
  2. The Iron Ministry
    The Iron Ministry is neither boring nor confining, which is just to say that it’s not a long trip through a faraway country. It’s a work of art — vivid and mysterious and full of life.
  3. Learning to Drive
    As this movie, directed by Isabel Coixet, tracks the deepening friendship between people from different cultures and backgrounds, it acquires an unforced metaphorical resonance.
  4. Youth
    The kidnapping and ensuing complications make for a harrowing spectacle of cruelty and bumbling from which the camera doesn’t shrink.
  5. Being Evel
    The movie overreaches when trying to contextualize Knievel as a hero inspiring the country after Vietnam-Watergate disillusionment. He was simply an all-American self-promoter. But Being Evel largely nails his story.
  6. The Boy
    The Boy, despite remarkable performances and gorgeous imagery, does not sufficiently flesh out its subject.
  7. After Words
    Ms. Harden is fine in a role that requires little, but her character is a lazy stereotype that ought to make real librarians wince.
  8. Digging for Fire
    The film has an appealing honesty and an enjoyably low-key comic style.
  9. Sinister 2
    Despite Mr. Ransone’s goofy charm, Sinister 2 can’t claim the same finesse, substituting pedestrian plotting and a more graphic gore for the original’s restraint.
  10. Hitman: Agent 47
    Dumb as dirt and just as generic, Hitman: Agent 47 trades brains for bullets and characters for windup toys.
  11. American Ultra
    If you go, expect a diverting summer action adventure with occasional laughs, not a diverting stoner comedy with occasional action.
  12. Guidance
    Mr. Mills (drawing on his own experiences and doing triple duty as the director and screenwriter) gives a performance of rancid single-mindedness. It’s a fearlessly unsympathetic role that provides plenty of space for train-wreck humor but almost no wiggle room for redemption.
  13. Grandma
    There is much to praise about this sweet, smart comedy of intergenerational conflict and solidarity.... But honestly, the wonder that is Grandma can be summed up in two words: Lily Tomlin.
  14. Slow Learners
    Only a few scenes fail to draw laughs in a movie that’s unexpectedly smart and consistently amusing.
  15. Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
    Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery is a case in which a great documentary topic hasn’t yielded a great documentary.
  16. Brothers ... Blood Against Blood
    Although Brothers is a remake of Gavin O’Connor’s 2011 “Warrior,” its plotting, timeouts for montages and a song or two — Kareena Kapoor appears as a spangly item girl, the sole female in a sea of leering chorus boys — are echt Hindi movie. Even more so is its emotional appeal.
  17. One & Two
    The film tries, unsuccessfully, to walk the same eerie, atmospheric trail as “The Village” by M. Night Shyamalan, or any number of Stephen King works.
  18. Rosenwald
    [A] rich and fascinating biography.
  19. Tango Negro: The African Roots of Tango
    Theories that are worth voicing are apparently worth repeating, and beats that sound catchy are sure to be replayed many times.
  20. Air
    Juicy dilemmas are dangled in front of the audience, then disappointingly yanked away.
  21. Big Sky
    The film rests on the attractive but opaque Ms. Thorne, who is not ready for such weight. Commendably, she stretches her acting muscles, but Hazel’s internal struggle remains elusive. Viewers need more to connect with.
  22. People Places Things
    As the movie fizzles, Mr. Clement’s endearing performance breathes what little life is left into a movie that, much like the insufferable Charlie, can’t make up its mind about where to go or how to get there.
  23. Return to Sender
    For most of the way, Return to Sender merges creepy and sexy to good effect, thanks to a close-to-the-vest performance by Rosamund Pike.
  24. Tom at the Farm
    Wildly entertaining, sexy and beautifully shot in the Canadian heartland.
  25. Fort Tilden
    Rarely has a movie so humorously illustrated the meaning of “frenemy.”
  26. Ten Thousand Saints
    If you are one of those people who romanticize the East Village in New York when it was at its grungiest, Ten Thousand Saints might be the movie of your dreams. Even if you’re not, it’s still a very fine film, full of quietly impressive performances and young characters who register as authentic.
  27. Meru
    Blindingly beautiful and meticulously assembled by the award-winning editor Bob Eisenhardt, Meru easily makes you forget that what you are watching is completely bananas.
  28. We Come as Friends
    With an eye for landscapes stunning and hellish, [Mr. Sauper] is the rare documentary filmmaker who not only takes on tough subjects but also explores them with a vivid visual and aural approach.
  29. Prince
    At times tender and at others unflinchingly brutal, this small drama of innocence and temptation could have aimed much higher.
  30. The Great Man
    The filmmaker Sarah Leonor has a keen eye and a gentle, unassuming touch. In The Great Man, she discreetly changes moods and storytelling modes like a pianist sliding her hand down a short, soft glissando.
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