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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 7.7 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. The Beauty Inside
    Worse than the latent silliness of such a premise is how little the filmmakers ultimately do with the world of narrative possibilities it presents; in attempting to show the universality of love, The Beauty Inside succeeds in showing the opposite.
  2. Paul Taylor: Creative Domain
    A dance is not only motion, but emotion. This fascinating film reminds us how closely the two are linked.
  3. The Moving Creatures
    A puzzling film that despite being saturated with feeling leaves only a vague impression.
  4. Goodnight Mommy
    Goodnight Mommy is a well-crafted cheat with a killer punch.
  5. Listening
    Rather than pioneering into the frontiers of the mind, Listening slogs through the most well-traveled pits of screenwriting.
  6. Finders Keepers
    Most docs are lucky to have one wild character. The phenomenal Finders Keepers has two.
  7. Wolf Totem
    Wolf Totem itself becomes a pitched battle for supremacy between the breathtaking glories of nature and the grinding banality of man. Here, as ever, nature loses.
  8. Meet the Patels
    Meet the Patels is a good-natured documentary that plays like a romantic comedy.
  9. A Brilliant Young Mind
    The film is novel-rich, so bristling with life that you might not notice how familiar it is in its contours.
  10. Breathe
    It's a chilly, elegantly assured little picture, a horror story with its roots not in fantasy but in the reality of hurt feelings.
  11. The Challenger
    Even the gravitas of Merkerson and Duncan can't save this flimsy construct of boxing-movie clichés. Moran casts himself as a cinematic upstart with The Challenger, but he's punching above his weight.
  12. Sleeping with Other People
    Headland's film might have been more engaging if it were about its supporting characters.
  13. Welcome to Leith
    [A] fascinating, unnerving documentary.
  14. Coming Home
    Coming Home obviously has historical and political significance for Chinese who lived through the Cultural Revolution, and for families that were torn apart by it. But Zhang tells this particular story in a deeply personal way — the time and place of its setting have a specific meaning, but its emotional contours spread out into something bigger.
  15. Time Out of Mind
    Time Out of Mind is an experiment in empathy, an examination of bureaucracy and streetlife mundanity, and a movie that many will find a tough sit.
  16. Dirty Weekend
    While Les eventually becomes more tolerable, LaBute's cloying dialogue makes it impossible to appreciate what turns out to be a bracingly pragmatic sense of optimism.
  17. A Sinner in Mecca
    Stirring, sad, and at times truly frightening.
  18. Creep
    Superior found-footage horror film Creep tellingly loses steam after it stops being a rote but tense game of chicken between a normcore derangoid (he likes hikes, hugs, and pancakes) and his wary victim.
  19. Blind
    This is a haunting puzzle of a movie, one to pick at, to unpeel, to see a second time through eyes that have adjusted to it. It's also alive with tender, tremulous feeling.
  20. Contracted: Phase II
    The virus is spreading, but the filmmakers don't appear fully committed to the idea of a zombie apocalypse, so no sense of dread (or suspense) ever takes hold.
  21. Chloe and Theo
    Chloe and Theo is a film that operates entirely on a vague sense of uplift.
  22. Break Point
    Karas showcases the actors' surprisingly good tennis skills, like the continuous volley they do while reciting the lyrics to "Bust a Move" and the deft way Sisto spins his racquet. But rather than develop these two as characters, Break Point tries to score too many points.
  23. Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine
    Gibney dissects Jobs's image with the calm curiosity of a coroner.
  24. A Walk in the Woods
    It has its charming, lively moments, but also many that just feel tired and listless, as if the filmmakers were working off a checklist of all the things two well-past-middle-age travelers would say and do while trekking through the wilderness.
  25. Dragon Blade
    The picture never quite finds its tone: It's neither go-for-broke outrageous enough to be consistently funny, nor energetic enough to be viscerally entertaining. It's neither as bad as you might fear, nor as much fun as you might hope.
  26. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
    The film, with its traditional mix of talking heads and vintage footage, does not try to hide the Panthers' advocacy of violence.
  27. The Golden Dream
    For all its heart and strong performances, there's little new here. Still, the ending is perfect, triumphant and heartbreaking all at once, demonstrating that Quemada-Diez gets the reality of U.S. life.
  28. My Voice, My Life
    Director Ruby Yang doesn't even try to upend the clichés that practically define the kind of inspirational documentary she's made about art transforming the lives of at-risk and disabled students. She embraces them while pushing the film toward an eye-misting ending you'll see coming from the opening moments.
  29. Butterfly Girl
    Throughout Butterfly Girl, Abbie jokes, rolls her eyes, and pushes herself to take chances despite the pain she always faces.
  30. I Touched All Your Stuff
    Bühler and Mariani make their process part of the narrative, deconstructing the documentary form while delving into Kirk's copious digital life.
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