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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. Older Than Ireland
    In giving equal weight to all subjects, “Older” flirts with triviality.... But Fegan punctuates some commonplace observations with more peppery ones.
  2. Phantom of the Theatre
    The movie is carried by sweeping widescreen images, dynamic camera movements, impressive special effects and a color scheme that contrasts icy blues against fiery reds.
  3. Tickled
    The story is so nasty, so depraved and troubling, that viewers may well wonder at its value beyond prurient interest.
  4. Elle
    Elle would be too clever by half — not to mention fatally offensive — were it not for Huppert, who in her portrayal of Michèle owns the movie from its opening moments to its bizarre, but not entirely surprising, denouement.
  5. Gimme Danger
    A bittersweet, elegiac tone can’t help but suffuse a film animated by so many anarchic spirits who have since left the planet, but it leaves viewers with the exhilarating, inspiring reassurance that we still have Iggy. To adopt his own highest praise: That’s cool.
  6. Risk
    Risk raises deep misgivings about its subject and its maker. But it’s still queasily, compulsively watchable — and probably necessary, if only as a cautionary example of how ethics, objectivity and agendas come into play in nonfiction filmmaking.
  7. As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM
    Although “As I AM” sometimes gets lost in the weeds of the club scene and Goldstein’s personal entanglements, it approaches the central irony of his life with both clarity and sadness, honoring its subject with a frankness he would have appreciated.
  8. Nerve
    Nerve is exciting, topical and potentially prescient, but it scores no points for character development, and the plot holes are so big that you could, well, drive a speeding motorcycle through them.
  9. Ghost Team
    Ghost Team should have spent more time with its big-hearted living characters instead of chasing after dead ones.
  10. Phantom Boy
    There’s an appealing quaintness to the storytelling that calls to mind the Tintin books of the artist and writer Hergé, especially that series’s old-world charm.
  11. Life, Animated
    Life, Animated makes fascinating points, about the power of cinema, about meeting our loved ones where they are and, as Ron says, about who gets to decide what constitutes a meaningful life.
  12. The Blackcoat's Daughter
    The Blackcoat’s Daughter is a visually striking masterpiece of mood and carefully calibrated storytelling. If only its technical gifts...were in service of a better — or at least more original — story.
  13. Denial
    The movie may be competent at telling its story, but it’s missing one key ingredient: feeling.
  14. The Kind Words
    At times, the film seems pat in its portrayal of modern Judaism struggling to maintain tradition in a changing world. Tonal shifts are problematic, with a maudlin score that evokes television melodrama giving way to quirky, sped-up sequences that treat family drama as light hijinks.
  15. Max Rose
    Max Rose seems to come from someplace personal, but its pain feels dialed down a notch to make it easier to digest. Still, the movie gains resonance from its look at what may be the final years of a movie legend.
  16. Miss Sharon Jones!
    What makes Miss Sharon Jones most captivating is how its subject, in spite of hardship, remains a magnetic stage presence.
  17. Office Christmas Party
    The film’s success is due to the twinkly commitment of the large and talented cast.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    LBJ
    I suspect that none of these actors had as much fun bringing to life the cagey and colorful political vulgarian as his fellow Texan, Woody Harrelson, seems to be having in LBJ, crudely and rudely drawling his lines behind a wall of latex makeup, plus-size prosthetic ears and horn-rimmed glasses that obscure his own facial features.
  19. A United Kingdom
    Although the relationship lacks a certain fire, the acting is superb.
  20. Being 17
    What elevates the film is not just its beautiful setting in the French Pyrenees but also how the beautiful mountain exteriors serve as a metaphor for characters’ inner lives. Téchiné keeps his distance from his subjects, allowing their emotions to reveal themselves and delivering a payoff that is ultimately a delicate one.
  21. Miss Hokusai
    Miss Hokusai is more adept at delivering beautiful visuals than anything deeper. That’s perhaps not all that ironic, given that the movie’s portrayal of Hokusai is as a man who valued art above all else.
  22. Phantasm
    Phantasm will not be remembered as a masterpiece of the horror genre, but it sustains a gauche, hokey, desperately improvisational charm.... It entertains through a half-facetious juvenile gusto.
  23. Chuck
    Although the central match in Chuck is effective, and hits all the right beats, unlike the best of the “Rocky” movies, the drama outside the ring is less potent than drama inside. This, despite strong performances by Schreiber and — especially — Moss, a grounding presence who summons a toughness not usually seen in her work.
  24. We Are X
    You don’t have to understand the lyrics — or even like the music — to find We Are X entertaining, even, at times, moving.
  25. I Called Him Morgan
    The documentary I Called Him Morgan, which charts his brief life and career, offers classic tunes and a vivid history of the New York jazz scene, while never quite managing to sell the drama inherent to its tale.
  26. Gifted
    It is redeemed by an appealing cast, tart dialogue and the preponderance of genuine emotion over the manufactured variety.
  27. Sword Master
    Despite bloody mayhem, Sword Master is more swashbuckling ballet than epic battle.
  28. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
    The new documentary about Al Gore’s continued climate crusade lacks urgency.
  29. Isle of Dogs
    In its own messy, slightly ungovernable way, this digressive bagatelle feels looser than some of Anderson’s most tightly controlled mis-en-scenes. But the story, for all its busyness, is negligible. The script feels less like an organic whole than an effort to keep building up a scrawny central premise until it felt like a movie.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Leap!
    Anyone who’s ever dreamed of tutus, tights and toe shoes will likely get a kick out of Leap!
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