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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Things Change
    In Things Change, the gangsters and bodyguards, the lounges and limos don't got, whaddya call, da same allure. You watch the whole thing with a detached amusement, like a goon cooling his heels in the lobby, just waiting for things to change.
  2. Kusama - Infinity
    Directed by Heather Lenz, the film offers insight and eye candy, despite the fact that it is far more traditional — in style and format — than its subject.
  3. Manhattan Murder Mystery
    Writing with his old partner Marshall Brickman ("Sleeper," "Annie Hall," "Manhattan"), Allen produces his blithest film ever. It's an amiable caper descended from the "Thin Man" series, with Keaton as a kookier Nora Charles and Allen not as Nick but Asta, their twitchy wire-haired fox terrier.
  4. Don't Breathe
    Despite the violence, the real horror of Don’t Breathe may be the sense of futility that all its characters feel, whether they can see or not.
  5. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
    Here's a science fiction movie where the special effects are in the background. And the effect is, well, rather special.
  6. Molly's Game
    Swift, stylish, tough-minded and sharp-tongued, this engaging fact-based drama, about a young woman who at one point ran the richest poker game in the world, is worth recommending if only to see its star, Jessica Chastain, at the top of her nerviest, most icily self-controlled game.
  7. Beyond the Gates
    The film may employ the well-worn tradition of filtering African stories through the experiences of Europeans, but they use the conceit for some penetrating revelations.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Training Day
    A taut, high-velocity film that departs from the action flick template by having actual ideas.
  9. Bagdad Cafe
    With its foibles and quirks, it's something like a Sam Shepard play by way of the Black Forest.
  10. Mayor of the Sunset Strip
    An elegy for an aging rock pixie.
  11. Blinded by the Light
    Warm, funny, humane and deeply sincere, this ode to Bruce Springsteen, breaking free and belonging isn’t content merely to revel in Springsteen’s greatest hits — although it does, with vibrant, vicarious exhilaration. It delves into the singular power of music, and by extension art itself, to make its audience feel comprehended.
  12. Sketches of Frank Gehry
    Just when Sydney Pollack's new film about super-architect Frank Gehry, Sketches of Frank Gehry, threatens to get really interesting, Pollack, perhaps unconsciously channeling about 100 years' worth of bad movies about great artists, reverts to fall-back mode.
  13. The Woman Who Loves Giraffes
    The first story “Giraffes” tells is one of endangered animals. The second — and equally powerful one — is a narrative of not just one woman’s struggle to be taken seriously, but the struggle of all women to do so.
  14. In July
    Unabashedly, un-graphically romantic.
  15. Tape
    A typical student film with its arty angles, bad lighting and pretentious observations.
  16. Black Book
    The new Dutch film Black Book manages to turn World War II into a large piece of cheese. A lurid, pulpy, slightly perverse potboiler, the movie suffers mainly from its utter lack of seriousness.
  17. Girls Trip
    Girls Trip accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do: shock and amuse. Along the way, it reminds us how important old friends can be.
  18. Ed Wood
    Burton has evoked the surface of Ed Wood's life, but in a story about a man who loves angora and frilly panties, he has barely unbuttoned Wood's uniform.
  19. The Way He Looks
    The tale, from Brazilian writer-director Daniel Ribeiro, is told with such tenderness, such intelligence and such aching honesty that it takes on the weight of something far more significant than puppy love. Like its subject, first kisses and best friends, it’s hard to forget.
  20. A Walk on the Moon
    It's just a simple, actorly drama about big, gaping emotional needs and the consequences a woman can face -- particularly during the 1960s -- for simply owning up to them.
  21. What Happened Was...
    An uneventful actors' exercise better suited to off-off-Broadway theater.
  22. Florence Foster Jenkins
    Florence Foster Jenkins brims with love for its characters and forbearance for even their most blinkered self-deception.
  23. Splash
    Splash betrays a slightly drippy side, but by and large it's a refreshing plunge into unabashed romantic fantasy and not to be missed for the sake of John Candy, who hits the screen like a playful fat diver cannonballing off the high board. [09 Mar 1984, p.D1]
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  24. Remote Area Medical
    Remote Area Medical is an in­cred­ibly tragic movie. It’s also an important one, reminding viewers that America is more than its coasts and cities. There are corners of the country we all too easily forget.
  25. The Farewell Party
    Despite its missteps, The Farewell Party feels special in the way it covers the Big Stuff — love, death, friendship, family — without losing its playful streak.
  26. Francofonia
    The director Alexander Sokurov is a visual virtuoso. So it’s odd, not to mention a bit disappointing, to find that the Russian filmmaker’s latest project, Francofonia, is so talky and, with rare exceptions, visually dull.
  27. The Theory of Everything
    It’s an exceptional film, not because of its protagonists’ impressive triumphs, but because it honors their struggle.
  28. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    The subject is huge and worthy, and the film makes a noble effort to embrace some of its complexity.
  29. The Descent
    Marshall keeps the film lean and focused. He does have a nice taste for horror imagery.
  30. Rana's Wedding
    Clara Khoury delivers a performance that is luminous, fierce and intensely focused as the title character of Rana's Wedding.
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