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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
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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. Samba
    Samba's relationship with Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a volunteer at an immigration advocacy center, has moments of sweetness, but is painted in too-broad brushstrokes.
  2. Five Star
    New York onscreen is often a fantasy of hustlers, hardened cops, and the spoiled urban yuppies of the Baumbach and Dunham universes. In that sense, writer-director Keith Miller's modest drama Five Star is the kind of depiction the city sorely needs.
  3. Phoenix
    The director's last film was the superb 2012 Barbara, also starring Hoss and Zehrfeld, another romance with a mystery built in; Phoenix is an even finer piece of work, so beautifully made that it comes close to perfect.
  4. Unexpected
    Unexpected isn't about, but rather a product of, class-based condescension in America.
  5. Southpaw
    Southpaw is an exhausting brutalist melodrama, but if nothing else, Fuqua always works with fine actors, and he's got a passel of them here.
  6. Lucky Stiff
    Lucky Stiff shoots for "zany" and lands at "attention deficit disorder," but the songs aren't bad.
  7. Twinsters
    Twinsters is a heartwarming true story that might not have happened without social media, so score one for modern technology.
  8. Famous Nathan
    Terrific documentaries are a dime a dozen; ones this multifaceted are to be cherished.
  9. Steak (R)evolution
    If your vegan stomach and ethics do flip-flops at this spectacle, pull back for the cultural comparisons.
  10. A Hard Day
    Kim Seong-hun's riveting if empty-headed A Hard Day will be remembered for its increasingly ominous jump-cuts to mobiles ringing, vibrating, and flashing profane messages.
  11. Stung
    Though quite silly, none of this feels self-reflexive or -satisfied. It delights in its own stupidity the way a dog rolls in dirt, but is nearly as difficult to get mad at after it muddies up the rug.
  12. Alléluia
    Sensuous and arresting, Alleluia constantly feels as though a séance or ritual murder is about to be performed; the actual deaths, when they arrive, turn out to be rather unceremonious affairs.
  13. Court
    The film is richly detailed, and its acting seems almost invisible — the performers just seem to be these people. Court is one of the strongest debut features in years.
  14. Ardor
    Too bad that Ardor's arrhythmic editing and glacial pacing make it impossible to get lost in its jungles — or to invest in its pseudo-mystical ambiance.
  15. The Stanford Prison Experiment
    Even simply sticking to the facts, the film is a painful watch.
  16. Lila & Eve
    The movie, directed by Charles Stone III — who gave us 2002's likable Drumline — runs hot and cold, suspenseful and well observed, well acted and often affecting, but somewhat tiresome and implausible by the end.
  17. Jellyfish Eyes
    Jellyfish Eyes may be blessedly unpretentious, but it's also immediately unmoving and relentlessly boring.
  18. The Look of Silence
    If it's a far less flashy film than The Act of Killing, it's also a better and possibly more honest one.
  19. Mr. Holmes
    Condon, like this Holmes, can't quite keep everything in his story straight and clear, but he and his film come close just often enough.
  20. Irrational Man
    It works better than most of Allen's recent films because it's a trifle without pretense, and because the director's finally smartened up — a little — right when everyone's written him off.
  21. Trainwreck
    Schumer, writing and performing a character close to the one she’s been presenting to the public, may never be this funny again, but funny she is.
  22. SlingShot
    The story demands journalism rather than hagiography.
  23. The Gallows
    The Gallows is only good enough to make you wish its creators did something novel with its formulaic style, plot, and characterizations.
  24. Ant-Man
    Ant-Man is spry and often funny, despite its familiarity.
  25. Self/less
    [Singh's] film is good with physics and lousy at philosophy.
  26. Tap World
    It's rare to find a film that portrays dancers of all shapes, colors, ages, and sizes as beautiful, which they are.
  27. Mad Women
    The biggest problem in Lipsky's scattershot narrative is situational ethics.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Meet Me in Montenegro
    The quiet honesty of Anderson and Lina's interactions and raw, often handheld camerawork wash away the film's meandering pace and sometimes grating dialogue.
  29. What We Did on Our Holiday
    Jones and Connolly have terrific chemistry, particularly as Lottie works through the fact that adults encourage dishonesty and lying when it suits their own needs, and that secrets are more pervasive than openness.
  30. Do I Sound Gay?
    Thorpe offers charming, intimate glimpses of his life, including memorable chats with friends and experts, and he's adept at drawing winning quotes from interview subjects — one of the most moving moments comes from George Takei.
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