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For 20,304 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: 9,394 out of 20304
  2. Mixed: 8,445 out of 20304
  3. Negative: 2,465 out of 20304
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  1. Somewhere Slow
    The whole enterprise rests on Ms. Gilsig, who plays Anna with a subtlety rarely required of her crazypants girlfriend on “Nip/Tuck” or her clingy spouse on “Glee.”
  2. Peter Brook: The Tightrope
    Simon Brook used five hidden cameras, and the audience has a sense of witnessing intimate moments rather than watching a performance.
  3. Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
    It’s informative but not enlightening, and Mr. Berlinger packs in chattering news clips and a score that’s audible under the interview.
  4. Brightest Star
    Allegories involving astronomy, baseball and sandwiches are hinted at but are no better developed than the characters.
  5. Breaking the Frame
    Breaking the Frame is a tantalizing teaser for a story that still needs to be told.
  6. 12 O'Clock Boys
    12 O’Clock Boys packs more life into its 72 minutes than many longer documentaries do.
  7. Love Is in the Air
    The two leads have enough genuine sex appeal to make the film endurable.
  8. At Middleton
    Yes, it’s full of droll humor, but it’s also a bittersweet portrait of two people, who, in the process of helping their children choose a college, confront the emptiness of their respective marriages.
  9. Labor Day
    The movie’s principal saving grace is Ms. Winslet’s convincing portrayal of Adele, a despairing woman of low self-esteem just a twitch away from a nervous breakdown. In almost every other respect, this overbaked romantic hokum is preposterous.
  10. That Awkward Moment
    A vile, witless sex comedy.
  11. Charlie Victor Romeo
    It is a curious hybrid of documentary and experimental theater. It is also one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen.
  12. I, Frankenstein
    Having established a downbeat, even stoically plain tone, this economical affair feels like a canvas prepped for, and awaiting, further detail (or straight-to-video-on-demand sequels).
  13. Life is Strange
    [A] useful, if slightly redundant, oral history.
  14. Papirosen
    But instead of a dignified stroll down genealogy lane, Mr. Solnicki has made a sparking, gossipy soap opera that’s riddled with emotion and stuffed with strong characters.
  15. Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys
    This challenging and mesmerizing documentary captures horror and joy with the same gorgeous dispassion.
  16. 24 Exposures
    24 Exposures plays like an exercise. With a thin plot — the usual parade of possible killers — it falls to the actors to provide zing.
  17. Old Goats
    The root of the movie’s appeal is less the scripted story than watching three game oldsters.
  18. Gimme Shelter
    The film is more of a pageant than a convincing drama. It’s so determined to deliver its moral that it loses its grip on the reality of its characters.
  19. Run & Jump
    Run & Jump is as real and messy as life itself.
  20. Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America
    Despite the glorious singing heard in archival footage from various periods of her career, the film is frustratingly sketchy.
  21. Enemies Closer
    With a manic performance by Jean-Claude Van Damme and an improbable but intriguing plot variation, Enemies Closer is an improvement over most hunt-or-be-hunted fare. A small improvement, but still.
  22. G.B.F.
    Unlike such forerunners as “Clueless” and “Mean Girls,” however, this movie, doesn’t have a believable moment in it.
  23. Stranger by the Lake
    Stranger by the Lake is seductive and fascinating, but it is also a bit trapped in its own conceit, and in its carefully maintained emotional detachment.
  24. Gloria
    The great accomplishment of Gloria, the Chilean writer-director Sebastián Lelio’s astute, unpretentious and thrillingly humane new film, is that it acknowledges both sides of its heroine’s temperament without judgment or sentimentality.
  25. Visitors
    Time slows to a near-standstill as the film peers into humanity’s troubled soul, glimpsed through the individual faces, which sometimes appear to be studying us as intently as we are studying them.
  26. Towheads
    The movie is a watchable collection of images that never quite come together.
  27. Devil's Due
    Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett direct with competence but a dispiriting lack of originality.
  28. Band of Sisters
    A sweeping but disorganized and sometimes monotonous exploration.
  29. Indigo Children
    Indigo is vaguely defined here as having a certain sensitivity and even power, but the movie doesn’t quite share those qualities, collapsing from a lack of direction in more than one sense.
  30. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
    Dutifully hitting its marks up to a point, this story of a married man struggling to stay closeted proves to have a maturity that eludes more overtly ambitious dramas on the subject.
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