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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. Blood Brother
    A stirring documentary directed with narrative depth and unguarded heart.
  2. 2 Jacks
    Written and directed by Bernard Rose (“Immortal Beloved”), 2 Jacks has a pleasing circular structure, and it doesn’t push the parallels between old and new Hollywood to absurd limits.
  3. Escape Plan
    The script never gives them the kind of memorable exchange that makes fans howl with delight. But all in all, Escape Plan does what it sets out to do.
  4. I'm in Love with a Church Girl
    This is a message film with the narrative sophistication of a recruiting pamphlet.
  5. Paradise
    Like much of Ms. Cody’s work, Paradise plays out in quippy sound bites, only this time they feel entirely unsuited to Lamb’s sheltered background.
  6. All Is Lost
    The ancient Greeks believed that character should be revealed through action. I can’t think of another film that has upheld this notion so thoroughly and thrillingly. There is certainly no other actor who can command our attention — our empathy, our loyalty, our love — with such efficiency.
  7. The Fifth Estate
    This version of the WikiLeaks story, directed by Bill Condon from a script by Josh Singer, is a moderate snoozefest, undone by its timid, muddled efforts at fair-mindedness.
  8. Carrie
    Ms. Peirce plays up the story’s religious themes and Carrie’s burgeoning power as she discovers her telekinetic gifts, even as the dread of the female body that deepens Mr. De Palma’s version somehow goes missing.
  9. 12 Years a Slave
    The genius of 12 Years a Slave is its insistence on banal evil, and on terror, that seeped into souls, bound bodies and reaped an enduring, terrible price.
  10. Camille Claudel 1915
    Ms. Binoche’s portrayal of Camille is one of the most wrenching performances she has given.
  11. Kill Your Darlings
    Mr. Krokidas deftly shows how the ambition to write is entangled with other impulses.
  12. Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird
    Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird skillfully introduces this pleasant man with the demented visions and delves into how he got them.
  13. Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
    In its allegiance to detail, the film is too long and perhaps overstates its case in claiming that later generations have lost an understanding of common courage, as depicted by these two artists. Their work endures, and so does what they stood for.
  14. Design Is One
    The information-rich film is enlivened by the charm of the intelligent, eccentric couple at its heart.
  15. Zero Charisma
    Has plenty of humor but no satirical bite.
  16. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
    The hormonal realism to the performances and a laid-back run-up give the film a fairly legitimate feel for adolescence.
  17. The Institute
    The Institute stumbles between documentary and exploratory simulation, at once confusing and pedantic.
  18. God Loves Uganda
    A searing look at the role of American evangelical missionaries in the persecution of gay Africans, Roger Ross Williams’s God Loves Uganda approaches this intersection of faith and politics with some fairness and a good deal of outrage.
  19. Symphony of the Soil
    Infused with an infectious love for its subject, Symphony of the Soil presents a wondrous world of critters and bacteria, mulch and manure.
  20. Broadway Idiot
    As a chronicle of how one rock star slowly fell victim to the Broadway bug, it’s kind of amusing.
  21. McConkey
    It’s not about why he was such a thrill-seeking risk-taker but about appreciating his success in living life on his own terms.
  22. Cassadaga
    This eager film piles on common fears: evil puppetry, haunted homes and overly generous hosts. So despite a sloppy and humorless execution, it is scary by association.
  23. I Will Follow You Into the Dark
    This fiasco from the writer and director Mark Edwin Robinson will persuade you that the title refers not to a place without light (though there’s precious little) but to a story without reason.
  24. Ghost Team One
    It’s not the derivative scares and rudimentary effects that keep this low-budget effort percolating but the improvisational energy of Mr. Santos and Mr. Villarreal, whose ease, chemistry and humor never flag.
  25. Forgetting the Girl
    Its characterizations may be overwrought — it is a thriller, after all — and the audience might prefer to have sympathy for a character without being practically told to feel it. But the acting is strong.
  26. The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
    [Mr.Tillman] does lovely work here, particularly with the actors, even if his insistent ebullience can feel like a sales pitch.
  27. Escape from Tomorrow
    None of it is as scary or as funny as it should be, and what starts out as a sly thumb in the eye of corporate power ends up as a muddled and amateurish homage to David Lynch.
  28. Romeo & Juliet
    A sufficiently entertaining, adamantly old-fashioned adaptation that follows the play’s general outline without ever rising to the passionate intensity of its star-cross’d crazy kids.
  29. CBGB
    There is no story to speak of. Just a series of anecdotes that gain very little when acted out on screen.
  30. As I Lay Dying
    In rushing in where wise men might fear to tread, Mr. Franco has accomplished something serious and worthwhile. His As I Lay Dying is certainly ambitious, but it is also admirably modest.
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