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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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. Grin Without a Cat
    More impressionistic than analytical, A Grin Without a Cat is a grand immersion.
  2. OT: Our Town
    Kennedy takes pains to illuminate aspects and insights that buck cliché.
  3. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    Stiller balances his big ambitions with small, grounded truths.
  4. Advantageous
    Challenging viewers this way — denying clean resolutions, chucking out the urgent drama of the first hour of movie — is bound to alienate some audiences. But from its arresting first scenes, Phang's film is as much about why? as it is what next?
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Hardcore
    The story of American punk rock (1980–1986) isn't a lot easier to summarize than that of any other major war, but it's quite a bit funnier, as this belated documentary overview--based on Steven Blush's like-titled tome--proves in each of its 90 exuberantly irritable minutes.
  6. Pioneer
    The tension never lets up.
  7. My Winnipeg
    In the course of this clanging, spectral memoir, all of the artist's previous movies--from his underground mock epic "Tales from the Gimli Hospital" through his faux–Soviet silent "The Heart of the World" to his period spectacular "The Saddest Music in the World"--come to mind.
  8. Milk
    Milk is so immediate that it's impossible to separate the movie's moment from this one.
  9. The Tenant
    it may be the director's quintessential movie. It's an exercise in urban paranoia and mental disintegration that echoes or anticipates everything from "Repulsion" and "Rosemary's Baby" to "Bitter Moon" and "The Pianist."
  10. Pete's Dragon
    More than anything, this is a slice-of-life tale, whisper-thin but still full of feeling and a generous sense of place. With the world's most adorable dragon at the center of it all.
  11. Chan Is Missing
    Viewers must ultimately draw their own conclusions about Chan's identity, making Chan Is Missing a classic, albeit unsolvable, brainteaser.
  12. All I Wanna Do
    A smart, sweet, and altogether smashing evocation of teenage girlhood.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trouble the Water
    The resilience of the movie's subjects--survivors of street crime and drugs and HIV--irradiates Trouble the Water like sunshine.
  14. S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
    S21 is understated and unforgettable; in its modest way, this movie is as horrific an exposure to evil as Lanzmann's "Shoah."
  15. In the Last Days of the City
    It is not easy to describe In the Last Days of the City, an immersive visual experience with a wisp of a story and a wellspring of ideas.
  16. Dark River
    It’s in Alice’s battle with her brother Joe (Mark Stanley) that the film is at its most compelling.
  17. Fever
    You can see the strenuously grand conclusion of Alex Winter's clammy psychological thriller, Fever, coming a mile off, but the director's impeccably chic expressionism and Henry Thomas's persuasive, dread-soaked performance make the wait a painless one.
  18. When Two Worlds Collide
    The directors shot over the course of years, and they put epochal moments on the screen, including a 2007 battle between protesters and police that left more than ten of each dead.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Time
    Simply put, Time is about the eternal war between infatuation and familiarity, and our irreconcilable need to find both in the same person. In other words, it's a parable about the root of human unhappiness.
  20. Casting By
    While Dougherty clearly had an almost eerie sense of how a particular actor might inhabit a part, this film also shows that she may have single-handedly created a filmmaking craft and then made it indispensable.
  21. The Guilty
    The Guilty beautifully demonstrates how people can act with absolute conviction even when they don’t have the full picture of a situation, and the monstrousness this can in turn lead to. And if that doesn’t speak to our time, then I don’t know what does.
  22. Herman's House
    Herman's House coasts on the strength of its portrait of two systemic outsiders.
  23. Chuck & Buck
    Manages to be not only consistently droll but cumulatively poignant and even scary.
  24. The Only Real Game
    This film is like another work in the canon of baseball poetry.
  25. Patton
    George C. Scott's full-bodied performance and Franklin Schaffner's chillingly stylized direction will satisfy neither the doves nor the hawks, but it does reverberate with paradoxical impressions. [28 May 1970, p.60]
    • Village Voice
  26. The Guitar Mongoloid
    Distant, enigmatic, fragmented, and possessing a dead-eyed steeliness in the tradition of Michael Haneke, Tsai Ming-liang, and Ulrich Seidl. The Guitar Mongoloid is a quilt of moments, set pieces, and voyeuristic opportunities building to no specific thematic idea.
  27. Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
    "Beautiful clothes on good-looking people just moving across the stage" to the sounds of Barry White and Al Green. "It was the presence of these African-American models that really animated the stage," notes Harold Koda of the Met's Costume Institute-- a sentiment that fashion historian Barbara Summers expresses more memorably: The crowd was "peeing in their seats because these girls were so fabulous."
  28. The Tainted Veil
    The Tainted Veil is a long conversation, wide in scope and geography, but nonetheless intimate.
  29. The Last Five Years
    From moment to moment, this Last Five Years is a robust entertainment, often stirring, sad, and funny.
  30. Under Fire: Journalists in Combat
    Fascinating and often devastating.
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