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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story
    A grassroots refutation of Discovery Channel/National Geographic dispassion, The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story is hot and sweaty with fetching curves.
  2. Altered States of Plaine
    Altered States of Plaine, like indies Pi and Primer, harbors ambition that towers over its super-saver discount budget.
  3. Elemental
    Elemental isn't essential, but it's a fascinating if limited portrait of the diversity of eco-warriordom today.
  4. The Thomas Crown Affair
    A sealskin-slick, cat-and-mouse romance-caper trifle with a hard-on for wealth that feels downright Trumpian.
  5. Curling
    In Curling, his (Cote) interest in individuals with "one foot outside of society" continues with a crisp portrait of a Québécois solitary man and his cloistered preteen daughter.
  6. Siddharth
    The photography fascinates even when the story flags, and the film bristles with small revelations.
  7. The Incredible Jessica James
    The Incredible Jessica James strikes me as little more than an extended sketch – somewhat formless and repetitive. But its saving grace is that, unlike a lot of sketch movies, it doesn’t rely on shtick or wink-wink contrivance.
  8. Anesthesia
    Anesthesia doesn't cast judgment. Instead, Nelson slowly reveals awful things about his characters after we've decided to like them. I admire the film's vigor, even if at times it feels like a cruel, clumsy trick.
  9. 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris
    What kept Paris from the top? The answers provided rarely qualify as revelation, but this affectionate portrait distinguishes itself from the ongoing epidemic of musician docs by mere virtue of staking out ground that hasn't already been thoroughly tilled.
  10. Red Flag
    Some genuinely tender moments—especially the final scene, which at this admittedly early point in 2013 qualifies as one of the best of the year—offset the occasional dramatic misfire.
  11. Chappie
    There's something fearlessly uncool about the film, which suffers mostly from being made 30 years too late.
  12. Tangerines
    Interior scenes focus theater-like on the dining room table-as-vortex: Threats and insults whip about, but, finally, so do forays of friendship.
  13. Venus and Serena
    What Venus and Serena does extraordinarily well is capture the work ethic and undersung smarts of the sisters while taking viewers deep into their enviably close relationship.
  14. Land and Shade
    You might not want to live here, but the imagery makes for a nice postcard.
  15. Star Trek Beyond
    Star Trek Beyond might be the Star Trekkiest film of the new, J.J. Abrams–ified Trek era. That is to say, it's the one that feels the most like a turbo-loaded episode of the original series, and has at least some of that classic spirit of exploration and derring-do.
  16. Price of Gold
    The men's faces often vanish as they go underground, threatened with permanent disappearance: the risk of dynamite bursting early, or of rope breaking and leaving them trapped. The filmmakers find those faces again in private interviews above ground, each miner sitting away from the others to discuss how he feels about the job.
  17. Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
    The director doesn't bother to interview the experts-only those who knew the man best.
  18. Edge of Darkness
    Onscreen much of the time, thicker and more creased than you remember, Gibson can make this rather unshapely movie seem taut.
  19. Alex of Venice
    Messina, making his directorial debut, keeps it simple. Alex undergoes a surprising amount of personal maturation in a week, but Winstead never lets the character bog down in excessive navel-gazing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Goodbye First Love
    Like "Father of My Children," Goodbye First Love loosely fictionalizes lived experience in order to capture the ineffable - in this case, emotional maturation or, as Sullivan phrases it, "becom[ing] a real person."
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das
    Frindel can't rescue Kagel from marginalization as a New Agey preacher man, but he does portray this hippest of all Krishnas as someone who deeply believes in the self-sacrificing mantra he chants, even if the very act of starring in a film seems to threaten it.
  22. Star Trek Into Darkness
    Cumberbatch, a tweedy Brit with an M.A. in Classical Acting and a face like a monstrous Timothy Dalton, has beefed up to become a convincing killer. He's brutal and bold, and the film around him isn't bad either.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Portraits chinois
    The performances are uniformly strong.
  24. The Tenants
    Stilted and gloomy as it sounds (and sometimes is), The Tenants gets by on its nimble approximation of Malamud's robust prose, subtle turns of deadpan humor and gut-tingling menace, and remarkable performances. McDermott does credible work here, but Snoop's casting is a stroke of genius.
  25. Finding Altamira
    Hugh Hudson's Finding Altamira is a rote but engaging historical drama about the eternal debate between truth and mythology.
  26. Lumumba
    As cliché-rich as it is compelling.
  27. Peaches Does Herself
    While it helps to already be a fan, it's imaginative and energetic enough to be entertaining for the uninitiated.
  28. Urbania
    Derails toward the end, becoming platitudinous, not to mention kitschy, but, given the Cheerios wholesomeness of most gay indies, its grief-stricken delirium is a welcome relief.
  29. Speed Sisters
    Although Speed Sisters is not comprehensive, it's vital.
  30. The Town
    It's good enough at least that you wish it was better.
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