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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 Family
    The movie has holes galore. It has abrupt tonal shifts, an incoherent back story and abandoned subplots. It doesn’t even try for basic credibility. But buoyed by hot performances, it sustains a zapping electrical energy.
  2. Four
    The close-ups of faces convey reams of inchoate emotion and enhance the stumbling poetry mouthed by characters whose urge to connect conflicts with their innate sense of caution.
  3. Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
    Matching her subject’s lackadaisical rhythms, Ms. Huber has shaped an unusually poetic biopic.
  4. Mademoiselle C
    The filmmaking has some of the wit and irreverence of its subject, but goes on meandering tangents rather than having a cohesive vision or tone.
  5. Shuddh Desi Romance
    Ms. Kapoor, in her early 20s, gives a performance that seems to reinvent female confidence.
  6. The Ultimate Life
    The Ultimate Life is hampered by a predictable story, stereotypical characters and wooden acting.
  7. I Am Breathing
    Mr. Platt’s good-humored attitude helps keep the potent material from turning mawkish, and having his perspective also wards off a sense of exploitive voyeurism.
  8. 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
    The variety of physical perspectives lends a vivid you-are-there aspect to this record of the Zuccotti Park protest in New York in 2011.
  9. Red Obsession
    Red Obsession, a little too stuffed for its nearly 80 minutes, may already be dated, since China’s wine fever has cooled recently. Still, the movie raises legitimate concerns about the cultural and economic implications of status-minded overconsumption.
  10. My Father and The Man In Black
    No one in this complex and haunting documentary feels fully explained.
  11. 36 Saints
    A modest effort only fitfully attaining its aims.
  12. Tio Papi
    What lingers is the affectionate sense of family and place. Modest goals accomplished.
  13. Bounty Killer
    Watching this movie feels like viewing a very long, expensive car commercial and waiting for the real film to begin.
  14. Fire in the Blood
    This virtuous stance is not unusual for issue-based documentaries, but a film with such illuminating content deserves a more artful vehicle for its moving message.
  15. Il Futuro
    Ms. Scherson’s style — backed wholeheartedly by the cool cinematography of Ricardo de Angelis — may value mood over information, but it’s the perfect vehicle for a portrait of two damaged souls grasping for a security they no longer possess.
  16. Flu
    The romance may be risible, but the scenes of mass panic and political desperation are slickly disturbing.
  17. A Teacher
    Long on atmosphere and short on believability.
  18. Hell Baby
    The film, written and directed by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, rarely dares to be smart, settling instead for familiar gags that would have the Devil himself yawning.
  19. American Made Movie
    American Made Movie ends up feeling as if it were built from well-known facts and wishful thinking.
  20. Mission Park
    [A] regrettably hokey first feature from Bryan Anthony Ramirez.
  21. We the Parents
    Mr. Takata deserves praise for refusing to oversimplify the situation, although his film doesn’t always bring the conflict fully to life.
  22. American Milkshake
    The burlesque take on high school has some fine, ridiculous moments and lets the movie get away with more than a serious drama might.
  23. Out of the Clear Blue Sky
    A fascinating study of a man, and a firm, deeply changed by catastrophe.
  24. Best Kept Secret
    Best Kept Secret is an exemplary documentary: It spotlights an important issue yet never seeks to squeeze the truth into an easily digestible narrative frame. Instead it expands its storytelling to the boundaries of messy, joyful and painful reality.
  25. Populaire
    The best scenes are the contests in which the competitors hammer away, executing the kind of grand flourishes with each return of the carriage that Liberace exhibited at the piano.
  26. Touchy Feely
    Its humor is softer and more ambiguous than that of Ms. Shelton’s earlier films, and its characters are harder to pin down.
  27. Adore
    One of the things that makes Adore, which was written by Christopher Hampton, hard to take seriously is how seriously it takes itself, how utterly purged of humor or credible human complication the drama at its center turns out to be.
  28. Winnie Mandela
    The movie plays like a made-for-television quickie.
  29. Riddick
    There’s one man alone, stranded on a seemingly desolate distant planet with only his wits, his fists and his voice-over. That voice-over is mercifully spare, the landscape atmospherically barren and the action nice and tight.
  30. Salinger
    Salinger, directed by Mr. Salerno, is less a work of cinema than the byproduct of its own publicity campaign.
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