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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 Look of Love
    Had The Look of Love focused more acutely on the father-daughter relationship or explored Mr. Raymond’s relationships with his two sons, only one of whom appears briefly, it might have amounted to something more substantial than a keenly observed period piece that keeps a celebrity journalist’s distance from its subject.
  2. Just Like a Woman
    The story arc is so familiar...that the main emotional response is hollow relief as every beat is, indeed, hit just as expected.
  3. Absence
    Mundane conversations and outings drag on while the central mystery takes baby steps forward, suggesting that a shorter running time or a more developed script might have better served the originality of the premise.
  4. A Girl and a Gun
    Whether viewed as empowerment tools or aphrodisiacs, stress relievers or deadly bodyguards, these weapons and their owners never cohere into an actual point.
  5. The Way, Way Back
    The Way, Way Back has the charm of timelessness but also more than a touch of triteness. Its situations and feelings seem drawn more from available, sentimental ideas about adolescence than from the perceptions of any particular adolescent.
  6. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
    Fans will love it; their main complaint may be that it ends too soon. Amateur psychologists in the audience, meanwhile, may be asking why such a successful guy seems so defensive.
  7. Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
    A deserved tribute that puts us inside the music, and the head space, of a great, lost band.
  8. Ghanchakkar
    The script, written by Mr. Gupta with Parveez Sheikh, has some engaging mysteries and witty payoffs. But the story is stretched too thin, blunting some of its more interesting ideas.
  9. Despicable Me 2
    Once again, the lesson that more is not necessarily better, something rarely learned by blockbuster sequels, is forgotten.
  10. The Lone Ranger
    A very long, very busy movie that will unite the generations in bafflement, stupefaction and occasional delight.
  11. Magic Camp
    The enchantment is irresistible in Judd Ehrlich’s documentary Magic Camp, a spry and revealing examination of Tannen’s Magic Camp.
  12. Petunia
    It’s possible to make a great movie out of family dysfunction, but this one is too short on insight to rank with the best of the genre.
  13. 100 Bloody Acres
    This fairly rote tale of rural ghouls and their passing-through prey has its own hick charm, mostly because of performers who never overplay their hands.
  14. The Secret Disco Revolution
    The Secret Disco Revolution, however limited, is one smart documentary. It’s so clever that it makes fun of itself.
  15. Laurence Anyways
    A big, beautiful, rambling immersion in a passion whose heat is fueled primarily by its impossibility.
  16. A Band Called Death
    A Band Called Death is more concerned with bringing out the personal connections behind their driven music than with insisting upon the group’s distinction in the perennial music history search for oddities and firsts.
  17. Gideon's Army
    Gideon’s Army is a bare film with no narrator and a minimal soundtrack. That’s all it needs to grab you by the throat.
  18. Some Girl(s)
    There are a lot of truthful notes in Some Girl(s), but there are also false ones that let you know that you are being played with. You’d best beware.
  19. Redemption
    Its narrative continuity is so sketchy and the screenplay so haphazard that the movie doesn’t add up to more than trash, seasoned with pretentious religiosity.
  20. Byzantium
    Again and again, as the story shifts between women, times and moods, Mr. Jordan adds a punctuating flourish...that exquisitely illustrates the once-upon-a-time mood.
  21. I'm So Excited
    The journey generally drags because the spinning characters, with their tired jokes and familiar melodramas, soon feel so mechanical, like the automated parts in an Almodóvar machine.
  22. Museum Hours
    This movie is rigorously and intensely lifelike, which is to say that it’s also a strange and moving work of art.
  23. White House Down
    As demented and entertaining as promised, and a little less idiotic than feared.
  24. The Heat
    The volatile chemistry between Ms. McCarthy and Ms. Bullock is something to behold, and carries The Heat through its lazy conception and slapdash execution.
  25. Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle
    As a musical experience, it is generous and moving. But as a documentary, “Sing Me the Songs” is an awkward hybrid of concert film and rock-star biography.
  26. How to Make Money Selling Drugs
    There’s a lot to learn from How to Make Money Selling Drugs, but sometimes there’s just a lot.
  27. Homegoings
    Ms. Turner captures the intimacy of solemn, heartfelt moments, and salutes a man who honors their value.
  28. Kuichisan
    At once loose and dense, Ms. Endo’s treatment wilts somewhat when drawn out to feature length, though it’s a nice place to visit.
  29. A Hijacking
    In A Hijacking, his assured, intense second feature, the Danish director Tobias Lindholm turns tedium and frustration into agonizing suspense.
  30. Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship
    If you’re watching this film and waiting for something funny or insightful to come along to assuage your annoyance, you’ll wait a long time.
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