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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 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. Geography Club
    If the characterizations are perfunctory, the performances give them unexpected weight.
  2. Speciesism: The Movie
    Ultimately, Devries seems to want to impress viewers with his anger.
  3. The Long Island Railroad Massacre
    The film registers like a more compelling episode of A&E's The First 48, complete with overwrought, ominous music and tacky re-enactments.
  4. Sunlight Jr.
    Collyer has a keen eye for underrepresented populations, but she'd be better served in the future to scale back on the overstatement.
  5. Nebraska
    Nebraska is the antidote to other family charmers about goofballs in matching sweaters.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lion Ark
    Finding balance between the rescue of abused circus lions and the fascinating cause and effect of a ban that led to the rescue of said lions proves too much for the creators of Lion Ark.
  7. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here
    No longer silent but still the lesser talker between them, Ilya is marvelously fluent in spatial forms.
  8. The Great Fallacy
    Each theory and statistic supports the thesis, but the degree to which everyone and everything agrees elicits suspicion rather than interest.
  9. The Great Beauty
    There's little sense in trying to resist the film's relentless boogie-woogie party vibe, its tumultuous visual banquet, its unpredictable sense of switchblade satire, its fools' parade of modern grotesques, or its river of startling melancholy, turning from a wary trickle to a flash flood by film's end. Sorrentino's vision is the size of Rome itself, and his confidence is dazzling.
  10. Faust
    Faust is not your great-granddaddy's selling-your-soul fable, but something new, a dreamy immersion into the messiness of myth, where hubris and desire can get lost in the chaos of time and retelling.
  11. Dear Mr. Watterson
    [A] heartfelt but largely inarticulate documentary.
  12. Charlie Countryman
    LaBeouf and Wood don't clang, but they don't quite click, either. That's not enough for the film to persuade us of its message, that love is worth any sacrifice.
  13. 12-12-12
    Despite some pleasant backstage-footage filler, however, 12-12-12 ultimately so truncates its artists' performances (each is given one song, and those are heavily edited) that the effect is like watching the original TV broadcast in fast-forward.
  14. The Best Man Holiday
    Lee seems less interested in capturing how people of color talk than in capturing how people talk. He coaxes us to step in and listen, and the very casualness of his invitation is the key to the joyousness of The Best Man Holiday, flaws be damned.
  15. The Book Thief
    The Book Thief is just too tidy to have much impact.
  16. Caucus
    Caucus is a lively, hilarious, upsetting crash-course in recent history. It's also revelatory at times, especially as it reframes infamous sound bites in their of-the-moment context.
  17. The Wind Rises
    An emotionally generous and expansively detailed romantic fantasy.
  18. Reaching for the Moon
    Poetry refracts life; this film can only reflect it, and tritely at that.
  19. People of a Feather
    Heath never puts together a larger narrative about the decline of Inuit culture and offers little political history of the situation.
  20. Paris Countdown
    The skirmishes are alternately silly and wan. The film's gloomy techno score is its most lasting attribute.
  21. The Motel Life
    The Motel Life too often revisits the same emotions and sentiments, leaving us with a portrait that feels frustratingly simple.
  22. Medora
    This stellar, incisive slice-of-life doc centers on the kind of crowd-pleasing competition story that lures in audiences and then lays bare heartsick truths about small-town America today.
  23. How I Live Now
    Tender, humane, and searing, How I Live Now stands as something all too rare: a movie about young people that young people may love — but not one that lies to them, and not one built for them alone.
  24. Great Expectations
    Newell's film doesn't supplant Lean's, of course. The yearning is more vague, the gloom less consummate. But it's the best since, rich in feeling and dark beauty, alive with the superior scenecraft, chatter, and imagination of the most beloved of novelists.
  25. Go for Sisters
    It's not bad, but it feels rote, as if the film's events are just an excuse for us to hang with the film's people.
  26. The Ghosts in Our Machine
    A film whose sense of urgency and purpose is utterly engrossing.
  27. Finding Mr. Right
    A pleasant enough way to spend two hours if you're not looking to be surprised.
  28. A Case of You
    A Case of You is a disappointing romantic comedy that aspires to social relevance until the third act, when it settles for pat Freudian revelations.
  29. Billy & Buddy
    Despite a few manic comic episodes, writer-directors Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier never again capture the sense of joyous connection that can exist between child and pet.
  30. At Berkeley
    Wiseman's generally static camera spends prolonged periods of time in the classroom, at student gatherings, and in the halls of educational power, training a multifaceted gaze on opinions regarding an economic shift affecting faculty salaries, subsidized programs, student tuition, and the university's fundamental "public" character.
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