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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. Lore
    Shortland draws fine work from her actors, particularly the haunting Rosendahl, who manages to seem by turns a perfectly unbending Nazi youth, a frightened little girl forced to grow up too quickly, and a sensuous young woman bursting into bloom.
  2. Koch
    It's an effective primer on a voluble and charismatic mayor who embodied the spirit of the city he loved.
  3. Caesar Must Die
    Almost as much as the play itself, the rehearsals are staged; the inmates learning to act, then, are acting like inmates who are learning to act. This leads to some on-the-nose scenes in which they observe the parallels between the text and their own lives.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Somebody Up There Likes Me
    The whole thing comes off as a fairy tale bordering on hallucination, perhaps the vision of life that passes before the eyes at death.
  5. David
    Thankfully, as David's ostentatious subplot-hopping becomes routine, Nambiar's stylistic experiment coalesces into a moving set of faith-based confrontations. It's thrilling to watch Nambiar futz around with tone and style for the sake of establishing a thematic progression.
  6. No
    No uses the actual commercial material the opposition created for its anti-Pinochet campaign and—re-creating the behind-the-scenes filming—deftly appropriates mediated history for fiction.
  7. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
    The third installment, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb may be the best, and even the generally wound-too-tight Ben Stiller — once again playing a bemused Museum of Natural History guard — is easy to tolerate.
  8. Lost in Thailand
    Zheng errs on the side of improvisatory and lazily assembled Apatow-esque narrative episodes; many of those scenes are amiably goofy, but it all holds together based on his cast's charm and energy.
  9. The Berlin File
    The Berlin File keeps narrative coherence far down on a priority list that privileges expertly choreographed hand-to-hand combat, hair-raising stunt work...and such familiar genre accoutrements as secret rooms hidden behind bookshelves, shiny metallic attaché cases, and pens concealing fast-acting vials of poison.
  10. The Numbers Station
    There are some decent shootouts, but the movie's strongest assets are the soulful performances Danish director Kasper Barfoed, making his American debut, draws from Cusack and Akerman.
  11. About Last Night
    Far from a film about sharks sharking and love not working out, this About Last Night revels in friendship, fidelity, and something too rarely seen in the movies today: the idea that being young and black in Los Angeles can be glorious.
  12. 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.
  13. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
    At times it's dense and sluggish, too much like a novel. But there is some exhilaration to be had.
  14. Welcome to Pine Hill
    At times the improvised dialogue seems too schematic and superfluous, especially in view of such exploratory and observant handheld camera work. Otherwise, though, this is wonderful stuff.
  15. Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey
    It’s a moving tale made more so because even after he’s “won,” Pineda maintains a clear-eyed pragmatism about what living a fairy tale costs.
  16. The Sapphires
    First-time director Wayne Blair and screenwriters Keith Thompson and Tony Briggs, adapting Briggs’ stage play, don’t shy away from the era’s social complexities, but they keep their eye on the ball, which in this case is the sweet pull of soul tune harmony.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Electrick Children
    Electrick Children juggles heavy things, with humor and sobriety in their proper, Book of Ecclesiastes turn. Best of all, Thomas has an aversion to the easy resolution—she knows precisely which mysteries to keep dangling.
  18. My Amityville Horror
    Whether it was all a haunting or a hoax is left unanswered, but the film leaves little doubt that Amityville's greatest source of evil was, fundamentally, parental in nature.
  19. The We and the I
    At its finest and most affecting, The We and the I is a window onto youth’s forever moments
  20. Rapture-Palooza
    Always amusing, if never screamingly funny.
  21. Clip
    Milos's film pulses with f#*!-it-all abandon and chintzy eastern-Euro club beats.
  22. Vanishing Waves
    For those who found Inception too plotty and sexless, Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte's sleek sci-fi reverie is hereby advised.
  23. Jupiter Ascending
    The movie's a fascinating mess, grand and gaudy, often hilarious.
  24. Hamesima X
    The mysticism chokes a bit on its own tail, but is tempered by the underlying human drama.
  25. Desperate Acts of Magic
    Desperate Acts of Magic is a pleasant little film.
  26. Eden
    A few moments harp on the sentimental, but overall, this is a powerful addition to the small collection of films dedicated to spreading awareness of this horrific crime.
  27. Stuck in Love
    Writer-director Josh Boone populates Stuck in Love with smart characters breaking from emotional holding patterns of varying contours.
  28. Detour
    The performance and filmmaking are invigorating.
  29. Rescue in the Philippines
    A well-crafted if structurally generic documentary.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Renoir
    Wisely, director Gilles Bourdos keeps the pace slow, what with all the tensions beneath the surface: Oedipal conflict, career choices, even class struggle.
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