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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. In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter
    If the film at times seems only a tender profile of a quiet and quirky individual, it is also a meditation of a private life at its end.
  2. Beyond Outrage
    The strategy and strategizing of Beyond Outrage still feel like overkill (if you’ll pardon the expression).
  3. The Best Offer
    Mr. Rush can’t fly far on Mr. Tornatore’s dialogue and workmanlike plotting, and Sylvia Hoeks, as Claire, doesn’t bring a corresponding energy.
  4. Justin Bieber's Believe
    Another piece of propaganda for the Bieber proletariat.
  5. August: Osage County
    August: Osage County falls into an uncanny valley between melodrama and camp, failing to achieve either heights of operatic feeling or flights of knowing parody. The jokes are too labored, too serious.
  6. Lone Survivor
    It is a modest, competent, effective movie, concerned above all with doing the job of explaining how the job was done.
  7. 47 Ronin
    47 Ronin can’t entirely paper over the void at its center, traceable partly to the shadowboxing of computer-aided filmmaking or studio tinkering.
  8. The Wolf of Wall Street
    This movie may tire you out with its hammering, swaggering excess, but it is never less than wide-awake.
  9. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    Though it is a celebration of modesty, there is also quite a lot of vanity in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
  10. The Invisible Woman
    You may become impatient with the leisurely pace of The Invisible Woman and its occasional narrative vagueness, but its open spaces leave room for some of the strongest acting of any contemporary film.
  11. Grudge Match
    [An] overlong, drab, not-so-funny sports comedy.
  12. Dhoom 3
    “Dhoom 3” is very much the Aamir Khan show.
  13. Personal Tailor
    Messy in parts and at least 15 minutes too long, Personal Tailor is also cunningly acted and lushly photographed (by Zhao Xiaoshi) in dazzling candy-bright colors.
  14. All the Light in the Sky
    The cosmic and the microscopic are casually — and delicately — juxtaposed in All the Light in the Sky, an evocative, slightly melancholic movie.
  15. Walking with Dinosaurs
    The movie looks great, the writing is peppered with moments of wit, and there’s even an educational component built in as dinosaur facts are displayed on the screen.
  16. The Selfish Giant
    Intent on showing that Arbor and Swifty live in a world of radically limited possibilities, barely sustained by their families and failed by the state, Ms. Barnard locks them into a narrative prison. Their fates seem predetermined less by their circumstances than by the iron will and limited imagination of their creator.
  17. The Past
    The story is nearly obscured by its schematic design (everyone doesn’t just have his or her reasons; he or she is also guilty), but there are mysteries, surprises and complexities, notably in the representation of the children and in Ms. Bejo’s thorny, layered performance with its strata of neediness, resentment and hope.
  18. The New Rijksmuseum
    The film dwells on the logistical and bureaucratic details of the process, and if it does not exactly write a fresh chapter in the history of art, it stands as an exemplary study in the sociology of art administration.
  19. Her
    At once a brilliant conceptual gag and a deeply sincere romance, Her is the unlikely yet completely plausible love story about a man, who sometimes resembles a machine, and an operating system, who very much suggests a living woman.
  20. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    It’s a frequently amusing, occasionally hilarious, rarely unpleasant grab bag of mild mockery and inspired lunacy, decked out with cameos from beloved comic performers and random celebrities.
  21. Paradise: Hope
    Instead of being contemptuous and sardonic, the portrait of inchoate adolescent longing in Paradise: Hope is poignant.
  22. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    With a character who can essentially say and do whatever she wants, you might expect a bit more.
  23. Liv & Ingmar
    [A] small, likably sentimental film.
  24. Tricked: The Documentary
    A documentary that presents the sexual exploitation of young women as a systemic cancer that feeds on public misconception as much as male appetites.
  25. Friend 2: The Legacy
    In addition to the copious flashbacks, there is an overly generous heaping of styles on display.
  26. The Unbelievers
    Too slight to persuade, The Unbelievers is also too poorly made to entertain. The rational roots of atheism deserve a much better movie than this.
  27. Beatocello’s Umbrella
    Beatocello’s Umbrella could have been a terrible movie. In theory and largely in execution, it is little more than a promotional video for Kantha Bopha, a group of hospitals in Cambodia, and Dr. Richner, who has run them since the early 1990s. But what a guy!
  28. Here Comes the Devil
    A muddled supernatural thriller that fails to capitalize on either its horrific prologue or eerie location.
  29. Hours
    Mr. Walker is convincing as a man battling grief, exhaustion and, occasionally, an intruding outside world where lawlessness has taken hold.
  30. What's in a Name?
    In their intensity, the actors’ incisive, impeccably coordinated performances are pitched slightly above normal conversation but not so much that “What’s in a Name?” shatters credibility.
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