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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. August: Osage County
    August: Osage County, however, bitterly funny in some places and numbingly earnest in others, is just too much Streep. But all is not lost. Some of her fellow actors are resourceful enough to reconstruct themselves after being obliterated.
  2. Grudge Match
    Segal's gearbox gets jammed between recession-era sports drama and brainless comedy, especially as Hart hollers pop-culture punch lines like he's the squirrel sidekick in a CGI kiddo flick.
  3. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    Stiller balances his big ambitions with small, grounded truths.
  4. Wrong Cops
    Wrong Cops is a tedious exercise in self-consciously hip lowbrow comedy.
  5. Breakfast with Curtis
    A small gem of a film, Breakfast is a lovely tapestry of subtlety, full of sly, smart humor and unforced insights into human nature.
  6. A Journey to Planet Sanity
    This is a guy who seeks to mock idiocy? Physician, heal thyself.
  7. The Great Passage
    A compelling portrait of Japan's stagnant economy and its disheartening effect on younger workers.
  8. Dancing on a Dry Salt Lake
    The cast (which includes familiar character actors like Nicolas Coster and David Leisure) is wildly uneven, talent-wise, and there's a stiltedness to the film's earnestness, but its sincerity is palpable.
  9. Adventures of the Penguin King
    The dull Adventures of the Penguin King is definitely the laziest of the waddle-coms to win theatrical release.
  10. The Wolf of Wall Street
    There are hints of greatness, one or two artfully constructed scenes that remind you why you look forward to new Scorsese films in the first place. But as a highly detailed portrait of true-life corruption and bad behavior in the financial sector, Wolf is pushy and hollow, too much of a bad thing.
  11. The Selfish Giant
    Devastating in its simplicity and honesty, The Selfish Giant is a colossus of feeling.
  12. The Past
    Bolstered by performances that convey profound grief and remorse without look-at-me histrionics, The Past is steeped in the believable micro details of its scenario while also expanding to universals.
  13. The New Rijksmuseum
    A guided tour of a struggle.
  14. Her
    Instead of just being desperately heartfelt, Her keeps reminding us — through cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema's somber-droll camera work, through Phoenix's artfully slumped shoulders — how desperately heartfelt it is.
  15. Coyote
    The narrative hinges at every turn on moments of human connection, scary confrontations other films would resolve with violence finding unexpected (and probably unlikely) detours into humor and empathy.
  16. All the Light in the Sky
    [A] tediously naturalistic and fairly pointless no-budget indie about the compromises of middle-aged femininity.
  17. Beatocello’s Umbrella
    [A] well-intentioned but terribly clunky film.
  18. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    The funniest Madea film in a fair stretch... It's also, of course, not good by any definition.
  19. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    The good news is that Anchorman 2 is pretty funny. It's also more rambling and hit-or-miss than its predecessor, which means, thankfully, that it's less likely to become what we euphemistically call iconic: In other words, fewer annoying guys will be inspired to quote it.
  20. What's in a Name?
    The French chamber dramedy What's in a Name is frequently delightful, full of ribald humor and compelling, intelligent debate.
  21. Sweet Talk
    The mustiness of many of the script's ideas hardly detracts from what feels like a radical premise, at least in film — that a woman can get off with a stranger and leave it at that. Erica Jong would be proud.
  22. Friend 2: The Legacy
    The most compelling thing about Friend 2 is its trifurcated plot, a structural gimmick borrowed from The Godfather Part II.
  23. Tricked: The Documentary
    The film is wisely sparing of melodramatic flair, allowing the inherent drama of the situation to horrify and harrow on its own.
    • Village Voice
      • Posted Dec 10, 2013
  24. Nuclear Nation
    Employing straightforward, music-free aesthetics that express the grim realities of his story, director Funahashi captures both grief and outrage in equal measure.
  25. Some Velvet Morning
    Tucci and the English-born Eve make a riveting team, and although the film's final twist undercuts all that has come before, Some Velvet Morning is provocation of the most artful kind.
  26. Saving Mr. Banks
    Saving Mr. Banks, a fictionalized account of two weeks Travers spent on the lot in Burbank, is proof that Walt has thawed and secretly reclaimed Disney's reins.
  27. Liv & Ingmar
    Liv & Ingmar is an anecdotal treasure chest for cinephiles, but more than that, it's a beautifully told love story.
  28. The Last of the Unjust
    There are no simple denials, nor anything simple at all in Last of the Unjust. Only stories, recovered and retold, of a reality beyond their reach.
  29. Here Comes the Devil
    Bogliano is not a subtle director — check his sudden zooms on items of portent — but he painstakingly shows us Caro opening her mind to the possibility of supernatural evil, and he's careful not to tip his hand too soon as to whether it's real or imagined.
  30. Hours
    The film stirs richer, truer feelings once it becomes a one-man show. This is due both to Heisserer's and Walker's skill — the tension is strong, the scenario elemental, and Walker's harried, urgent hero is compelling — but also the fact that the movies are really good at dudes doing things, especially when those things are scrappy, desperate, and heroic.
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