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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. The Dead Man and Being Happy
    Stories of humanized hit men make for a small but well-trod patch of screenwriting terrain, but The Dead Man and Being Happy quickly transcends that territory to become a beguiling road movie.
  2. The Citizen
    The Citizen is a heartfelt plea for charity, tolerance and all-around loving kindness — admirable aims sadly shackled to Sam Kadi’s inexpert direction.
  3. Muscle Shoals
    At once overstuffed with interviews and intellectually underdeveloped, the movie charts the area’s music industry and what is lyrically if elusively called the Muscle Shoals sound.
  4. Winter Nomads
    What little we learn of Pascal, who has worked in Switzerland as a shepherd for more than 30 years, and Carole, who is a former dietitian, fits in a scene or two, but their practical journey yields a certain contemplative equanimity.
  5. The Spy: Undercover Operation
    It’s amusing, and a refreshing change from the usual C.G.I.-heavy blockbusters.
  6. Dark Touch
    That space between reality and mirage is where Ms. de Van’s strength, and this movie’s true horror, lies.
  7. Hôtel Normandy
    Hôtel Normandy is a confection spun differently from the typical Hollywood rom-com.
  8. The Secret Lives of Dorks
    There’s no way to prepare yourself for how awful The Secret Lives of Dorks is.
  9. Inequality for All
    Mr. Reich ties together his talking points with a reasonable-sounding analysis and an unassuming warmth sometimes absent from documentaries charting America’s economic woes.
  10. Out in the Dark
    Even though the plot defies credibility at several points, Out in the Dark is gripping.
  11. We Are What We Are
    It’s all a little silly, but Mr. Mickle’s restrained gravity stifles the impulse to laugh.
  12. The Paw Project
    A heartfelt documentary about a subject that inflames cat lovers everywhere: declawing.
  13. We Came Home
    Ariana Delawari documents her father’s role in helping his home country, Afghanistan, modernize its financial system after the fall of the Taliban. But this intimate film, Ms. Delawari’s first, is about so much more.
  14. Wedding Palace
    While the story is a bit weak, the film does a good job of contrasting Korean-Americans who steadfastly adhere to the traditions of their homeland with South Koreans who have renounced old customs.
  15. The Time Is... Now
    The Time Is ... Now is a well-meaning if congenitally flawed bit of uplift about how to endure catastrophe and violence in a world that has no shortage of either.
  16. Metallica: Through the Never
    Despite swooping camera movements and elaborate stagecraft, the film produces detachment rather than immediacy.
  17. Don Jon
    [A] deceptively sincere movie about masculinity and its discontents that Mr. Gordon-Levitt, making a fine feature directing debut, shapes into a story about a young man's moral education.
  18. Morning
    Acute emotional honesty and a frustrating narrative coyness coincide in Morning.
  19. On the Job
    Even at its most incomprehensible, the propulsive thriller On the Job is never less than arresting.
  20. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    At times it felt as if this film might challenge Pixar’s decade-long reign, but that promise wanes. Instead, the movie is sometimes so strange, colorful and wildly cute that it may end up becoming a “Yellow Submarine” for a new generation.
  21. Baggage Claim
    Predictability and clichés get in the way of comedy here, especially with a lead character who rarely comes across as more than blandly sweet.
  22. Shepard & Dark
    The film points toward a rich and complicated story that only partly makes it onto the screen.
  23. Zaytoun
    In grabbing for the heart this one-size-fits-all fable sadly ignores the mind.
  24. The Muslims Are Coming!
    This well-intentioned “docu-comedy” (as the filmmakers label it in publicity notes) is not very funny.
  25. My Lucky Star
    My Lucky Star, a spy-caper romance from China, is sweet and harmless, but it’s also a little disorienting.
  26. The Short Game
    [Mr. Greenbaum] is observant of tears and laughter alike, but he might have made fewer sacrifices in the name of a tidy package.
  27. Arise
    Arise always feels unified, a genuinely felt and executed womanist letter to the world.
  28. Men at Lunch
    The film feels meandering. Not only does it offer a jumble of ideas that aren’t followed through, but it’s also structured oddly.
  29. Generation Iron
    For a documentary about extreme discipline, the filmmakers lack restraint: the movie, about 20 minutes too long, undercuts much of its own momentum.
  30. Haute Cuisine
    As flatly directed by Christian Vincent, Haute Cuisine is a reserved, très simple tale that raises the occasional smile and tummy rumble but keeps hiccuping because of the drawn-out parallel story about her subsequent tour of duty.
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