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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 5.4 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. Rebel Hearts
    Director Pedro Kos makes lively use of archival footage and animation in Rebel Hearts, but the stars are the women themselves.
  2. The Devil You Know
    The screenplay is thoughtful and nuanced, and Epps’s performance anchors the narrative with a solid, unfussy portrayal of ethical indecision, even if the third act detours into more melodramatic territory.
  3. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
    In The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, deeper meaning is left by the wayside, in a tale with way too much story and not nearly enough life.
  4. The Corridors of Power
    The discussions that take place on camera, in tastefully appointed suites, are frank and often offer fascinating insights into these dilemmas. But it is the sharply jarring — and dismayingly repetitive — footage of carnage that will stay with you long after the echoes of the film’s subjects’ words have faded from your mind.
  5. Sweetwater
    The result is competent and informative, but lacks swagger and elegance. Sweetwater is no three-pointer.
  6. Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
    The documentary could have been shapelier and better focused, but it packs lots of information and even more emotion.
  7. The Keeper
    The Keeper will win no filmmaking prizes. But it doesn’t mean, or need, to. Like an infomercial, its aim is more simple, direct and unapologetic: to call attention to an epidemic hiding in plain sight. By that measure: mission accomplished.
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    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sixth
    Civics lessons rarely come this disturbing or this convincing.
  9. October 8
    Without demonizing either side, it shows how Israel’s pattern of mistakes, if not arrogance, may have helped set a pot on the stove that is now boiling over with venom.
  10. Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
    In an era beset with dizzying setbacks in the ideals it celebrates, Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round feels particularly necessary right now.
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    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tinā
    Directed and co-written by the Samoan filmmaker Miki Magasiva, the movie features a unique central character, a powerhouse star performance and some truly uplifting choral singing. Those are the good parts. The less good part is a script that pummels audiences with melodrama, manipulation and sentimental clichés until we all cry uncle.
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