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For 20,280 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Effie Gray
    The cinematic equivalent of a Brazilian wax, the movie omits much of the story’s most interesting material to create something that’s been smoothly denatured.
  2. Cheatin'
    Mr. Plympton rewrites the laws of physics at will, but within a rigorous and coherent logic. He conjures a world of absolute improbability that, somehow, makes perfect sense.
  3. Furious 7
    There will no doubt be better movies released in 2015, but Furious 7 is an early favorite to win the prize for most picture.
  4. Ned Rifle
    Even if this minor coda plays to an increasingly closed circle of admirers, it gives the trilogy a pleasing, moving symmetry.
  5. Woman in Gold
    Apart from Ms. Mirren’s performance, Woman in Gold smugly and shamelessly pushes familiar buttons.
  6. My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes
    The director, Oren Jacoby, who made the Oscar-nominated short “Sister Rose’s Passion” and the feature “Constantine’s Sword,” doesn’t give My Italian Secret much structural or chronological organization. The anecdotal presentation sometimes seems more suited for museum browsing than for viewing in a theater.
  7. The Riot Club
    Lone Scherfig (“An Education”), the Danish filmmaker who directed the movie from a screenplay by Ms. Wade, has coaxed wonderfully nasty performances from a young cast.
  8. Marfa Girl
    The scandal of Mr. Clark’s more recent movies, including “Wassup Rockers” and “Ken Park” and this new one, resides more in its tedium and lack of insight than its strenuously provocative content.
  9. Cupcakes
    This candy-coated confection is so irresistible that you’re captivated by its sentiment even as you acknowledge its manipulations.
  10. Nightlight
    A spare trifle carried largely by its leading actress.
  11. Man from Reno
    Man From Reno fascinates. It invites you to go back, decipher its clues and discern a grand design, if there is one.
  12. Serena
    The actors don’t just look uncomfortable in their period duds, they also look uneasy in their own skins, which is a feat for two such natural, physically confident screen performers.
  13. A Wolf at the Door
    As a piece of storytelling, A Wolf at the Door may be a tawdry little shocker. But on a visceral level, it is a knife to the gut.
  14. White God
    In classic narrative fashion, Mr. Mundruczo works the setup like a burlesque fan dancer, teasing out the reveal bit by bit.
  15. While We're Young
    This film, Mr. Baumbach’s movie, mostly brings a light touch and a forgiving gloss to its own self-consciousness. It is not afraid to be implicated in the confusion — in the self-involvement, the anxiety, the pettiness — it depicts. But there are also areas where it feels soft and compromised, where the subtlety and clarity of Mr. Baumbach’s vision seem to desert him.
  16. The Barber
    Scott Glenn handles the balancing act required of him in “The Barber” with his usual skill... The film, though, delivers its plot twists muddily and doesn’t really distinguish itself from the countless other creepy-killer tales out there.
  17. 52 Tuesdays
    A frustratingly fragmented yet warmly intimate portrait of an evolving bond that frays but doesn’t sever.
  18. Home
    A charming concoction with positive messages for younger children about conquering fears, understanding outsiders and knowing yourself.
  19. Get Hard
    The highest praise I can give Get Hard is that it is not quite as awful as it could have been.
  20. The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq
    A divertingly eccentric, often comically absurd movie.
  21. Please Be Normal
    A tiny, piercing study of dawning desperation that’s all the more remarkable for being virtually silent.
  22. Growing Up and Other Lies
    Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Grodsky have an extraordinary ear for the rhythms and nuances of everyday speech, as voices overlap, conversations take random directions, and casual remarks carry loaded subtexts.
  23. La Sapienza
    The movie is an unapologetically rarefied undertaking and at the same time a gracious and inviting film. And it embodies an elegant and melancholy paradox: What looks like tourism is really the pursuit of truth and beauty, and vice versa.
  24. She's Lost Control
    She’s Lost Control sustains a mood of deepening alienation, but the attitude of the movie is too detached for it to be emotionally gripping, and its ending is botched.
  25. Lost and Love
    Lost and Love (“Lost Orphan” in the original Chinese title) confronts serious problems but is too busy reaching for epic sweep and soaring moments to nail the fine detail of main characters’ fraught give-and-take.
  26. Metalhead
    It taps into something universal, and very precious, about loss, art and adolescent rebellion.
  27. Spring
    The actors get a chance to create a real relationship, and they make the most of the opportunity.
  28. Secret of Water
    There’s a whole lot of hogwash in Secret of Water, a cheesy documentary stuffed full of pseudoscience masquerading as profound truth.
  29. Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police
    A movie singularly lacking in rock-doc unpredictability and verve.
  30. Zombeavers
    An intermittently diverting stew of low-budget effects and potty-mouth humor.
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