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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 7.5 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. Spider-Man: Homecoming
    Spider-Man: Homecoming is comics, unapologetically, as close as blockbuster filmmaking gets to cartooning.
  2. Old Dog
    Old Dog has the look and feel of a documentary, which adds senses of urgency and immediacy to a tale that moves at a languid, but never boring, pace.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Food, Inc.
    Expertly crafted documentary.
  4. The Hunting Party
    Like many of the best movies about war and its lingering echo, The Hunting Party is full of dark humor. Writer-director Richard Shepard, maker of 2005's "The Matador," is becoming a master at finding the right tone, balancing the seriousness of his characters' purpose with the madness of their intentions.
  5. Hard to Be a God
    Textually, the setting's brutalist conflation between the far future and the distant past makes the film timeless, an elusive fable told with the viscous immediacy of a life on the diseased edge of civilization.
  6. Last Men in Aleppo
    The film has plenty of unflinching truth and emotion and outrage, and it ends with a gut punch. It's the subtly unreal quality of what we're seeing throughout, however, that truly highlights the obscenity of war.
  7. 52 Tuesdays
    Grippingly plotted and exquisitely thoughtful, 52 Tuesdays is a poignant reminder that neither confusion nor crisis is doomed to be calamitous.
  8. Nuts!
    This marvelous, mostly animated doc/drama hybrid couldn't have come along at a better time.
  9. The House of Mirth
    Leisurely yet streamlined film, brilliantly adapted by British filmmaker Terence Davies from Edith Wharton's most powerful novel.
  10. Day Night Day Night
    Terror is existential in this highly intelligent, somewhat sadistic, totally fascinating movie.
  11. National Gallery
    Like so much of his celebrated work, documentarian Frederick Wiseman's National Gallery is long, leisurely paced, wide-ranging, meticulously crafted, intellectually intricate, and touched with profundity.
  12. Fort Buchanan
    It's squirrelly, surprising, and elusive, but this beaut of a debut is no curio.
  13. Attack the Block
    The smartest, funniest cheap monster-movie import this side of June's "Trollhunter," Attack the Block is a near-perfectly balanced seasonal trifle: Anchored in social realism yet determinedly goofy, it's neither too eager for laughs nor overtly preachy.
  14. The Jungle Book
    If only all blockbusters could be this exciting, engrossing, and beautiful.
  15. I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
    Road movies don't get any purer.
  16. Silent Light
    The results are extraordinary. As understated as it is, the movie is both deeply absurd and powerfully affecting.
  17. Paul Taylor: Creative Domain
    A dance is not only motion, but emotion. This fascinating film reminds us how closely the two are linked.
  18. Portrait of a Garden
    Meditative in its slowness and exquisite beauty, Portrait of a Garden is more than a fine documentary — it's a balm for the soul.
  19. The Theory of Everything
    The film is striking, at times even piercing, for the way it infiltrates some universal realities of marriage.
  20. The Others
    This is one scary movie, not because we see ghosts or monsters, but because Kidman makes us feel her fear as our own.
  21. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Knowing the real-life inspiration for On the Beach at Night Alone may help one appreciate the film’s moral trajectory a bit better. But the movie’s charms work on a much more immediate level, in the way it captures the ever-shifting dynamic between men and women, and the difficulty of matching one’s feelings to one’s words.
  22. Golda's Balcony
    Jeremy Kagan's excellent adaptation of William Gibson's stage play.
  23. All About My Mother
    As straightforward and plot-driven as any movie about life imitating art imitating life could possibly be.
  24. Born in Flames
    Like her namesake, the filmmaker Lizzie Borden took an ax...to cinema conventions and tidy political resolutions in her 1983 landmark Born in Flames.
  25. Limelight
    There is no test of behavioral range in Limelight that Chaplin does not pass superbly. [01 Oct 1964, p.15]
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  26. Sexy Beast
    There are long stretches in Sexy Beast that are so exhilarating it feels churlish to dwell on its flaws.
  27. Marwencol
    Exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy experience you hope to get from documentaries and rarely do, Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol is something like a homegrown slice of Herzog oddness, complete with true-crime backfill and juicy metafictive upshot.
  28. 35 Shots of Rum
    35 Shots is Denis's warmest, most radiant work, honoring a family of two's extreme closeness while suggesting its potential for suffocation.
  29. The Guardians
    Unassumingly powerful details make The Guardians one of the year’s most affecting love stories.
  30. Nymphomaniac: Volume II
    Nymphomaniac is a jigsaw opus, an extended and generally exquisitely crafted riff. Story, theme, and character (despite Gainsbourg's captivations) bow to von Trier's gamesmanship, which makes his own promiscuities the film's true subject.
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