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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. Deepwater Horizon
    [Berg] keeps things simple, tight and taut, and does right by the folks who were there for the real thing. He’s made them the heroes of a genuinely exciting action movie.
  2. The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
    Palast slices through all the B.S., and while he may be over-the-top in his presentation, keep in mind, he’s got just the facts, ma’am.
  3. The Ruins of Lifta
    Grounded in the art of listening, The Ruins of Lifta builds a powerful, personal, political conversation between Palestinians and Israelis looking to live differently.
  4. I.T.
    Whatever cautionary point I.T. may be trying to make about privacy gets lost in the formulaic ugliness, and not even the constant stream of facepalm moments make it entertaining or watchable.
  5. Chronic
    Chronic forces viewers to look closely at things they might rather ignore, and intentionally holds its emotions at a distance.
  6. Seed: The Untold Story
    It's a wonder of photography, animation, and sound, and it's a testament to its editors that the many interviews with activists and scientists are compelling and informative, sometimes even poetic.
  7. The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith
    The film is a treasury of photographs and anecdotes, of fleeting peeks at the celebrities (Carla Bley, Steve Reich, Jimmy Giuffre, Dalí) who passed through, but it too rarely slows down and really lets us listen — Fishko is always on to the next striking image that will too quickly pass.
  8. Generation Startup
    It looks like the recruitment appeal that it is; it will probably be pretty effective on campuses.
  9. 1000 Rupee Note
    The film takes an allegorical, symbolic story and sets it within a milieu that suggests authentic life. But it never quite reconciles the tonal dissonance at the heart of this idea — there's great emotional potential here, but we experience the whole thing at a remove.
  10. The Age of Shadows
    You may have seen parts of The Age of Shadows before, but they're rarely this well assembled.
  11. The Good Neighbor
    A film that — from its basic set-up to its dearth of tension — plays like the tedious inverse of Don't Breathe.
  12. The Lovers and the Despot
    The film is brisk and fascinating, ultimately moving, but also less rich than it might have been.
  13. Closet Monster
    [A] superb coming-of-age drama.
  14. Queen of Katwe
    Nair's immersive, energetic style, combined with her talented cast's ability to invest even the most obvious lines with genuine feeling, gives Queen of Katwe a powerful clarity.
  15. Finding Altamira
    Hugh Hudson's Finding Altamira is a rote but engaging historical drama about the eternal debate between truth and mythology.
  16. Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
    The perfect storm of homophobia, racism, and moral panic that sent the San Antonio four to prison is almost too much to cover in a ninety-minute documentary, but Esquenazi paints a tragic and humane portrait of the women who ended up in its center.
  17. The Vessel
    Quintana's emphasis on Jungian dream logic gives his otherwise spartan parable a compelling mythic dimension. The Vessel may bring Malick to mind, but it also feels like a major work by an exciting new talent.
  18. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
    Ron Howard's documentary often plays as an advertorial gunning for maximum intergenerational appeal.
  19. Tanna
    Subtly visualizing the connection shared between the land and its people (and their interior conditions), Tanna proves rich in both sociological detail and roiling emotions.
  20. A Family Affair
    It’s a potent psychodrama, pitting Marianne’s reality against the one Fassaert is documenting
  21. Operation Avalanche
    It's often more The Office than le Carré, and none of it's anywhere as interesting as the great counter-historical gag at the film's heart.
  22. Blair Witch
    Blair Witch’s comparatively maximalist approach shows too much and scares too little.
  23. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
    The film combines agonizing scenes of didactic earnestness about gun violence with the absolutely soul-crushing ennui of flaccid marriage jokes.
  24. Cardboard Boxer
    By emphasizing the uglier aspects of his most complex character, Lee turns an otherwise down-to-earth slice-of-life drama into an unconvincing morality play.
  25. Silicon Cowboys
    Director Jason Cohen (the Oscar-nominated short Facing Fear) wants his documentary history of Compaq computers to be fun — and indeed, compared to the overly earnest clips of Halt and Catch Fire inserted for contrast, the real slow-talking Texans in the tale are a hoot.
  26. Snowden
    Stone seems genuinely interested in the slow and steady process by which Edward Snowden came to distrust the government that he worked for, and the director has made a slow and steady movie to go with it.
  27. Bridget Jones's Baby
    As much as this latest installment draws on affection for the snappy first film, it's the differences that make Bridget Jones's Baby the warmest and most satisfying of the series.
  28. Come What May
    Come What May stirs little suspense or unease as it cuts between these stories.
  29. Sully
    There is in Sully — as there is in Sniper — a purposefully conflicted reckoning with the very tenets of American heroism.
  30. The Apostate
    Ogalla makes it happen: Bedroom-eyed and shaggy, looking every inch like a reincarnation of dead-too-soon ‘70s French star Patrick Dewaere but without the haywire intensity, he's an amiable spectacle.
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