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For 1,406 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 32% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 10.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 51
Highest review score:
The Color Wheel
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Losing Control
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 631 out of 1406
  2. Mixed: 284 out of 1406
  3. Negative: 491 out of 1406
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    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 88
    Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
    The exquisite live-action Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog may be the family film of the year.
  2. El Velador
    El Velador doesn't pass judgment or manipulate emotionally, instead choosing simply to consider the arduousness of survival in a land wracked by slaughter.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Critic Score 88
    Extraterrestrial
    In almost every respect, Extraterrestrial is an exceptional and traditional romantic comedy. It just happens to be set during an alien invasion.
  4. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Benh Zeitlin's lived-in, almost abstract sense of social realism is partly what makes the film so refreshing and uniquely affecting.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Critic Score 88
    Alps
    Both a companion piece to and in many ways a reversal of "Dogtooth," it builds on that film's surreally terse style and notions of communication and identity without diluting its singularity or concentration.
  6. Farewell, My Queen
    Control is the operative element in Benoît Jacquot's work, with the main caveat being that when someone has it, someone else does not.
  7. Meet the Fokkens
    Few recent studies of commercialized sex have been character profiles, so Rob Schröder and Gabrielle Provaas's documentary is an unusual and welcome polemic.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 88
    Cosmopolis
    Diamond-hard and dazzlingly brilliant, David Cronenberg's film plays like a deeply perverse, darkly comic successor to Videodrome.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Critic Score 88
    Beauty Is Embarrassing
    Neil Berkeley's documentary is as puckish as its subject, so steeped in artist Wayne White's creative juices that it makes you want to go straight home and start making things.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 88
    Girl Model
    The documentary makes you wonder about every beautiful woman who's ever stared out from a publication, poster, or billboard, looking sophisticated and self-assured.
  11. Las Acacias
    This lovely film is ultimately an articulation of something at once simple and universal: the discontent of traveling through life with sad resignation.
  12. Resident Evil: Retribution
    At this point in the franchise, Anderson is content to alight the saga on a perpetual rewind loop, ever-ending, ever-rebooting, all subsidized by his nonpareil compositional sense.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 88
    How to Survive a Plague
    Presents a cast of characters who must continue fighting, for what's at stake is the very real, very imminent threat of their own deaths.
  14. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
    The film captures Vreeland's perhaps unwitting philosophical integrity just as much as it drowns us in the exuberance of her work.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 88
    Looper
    As in the very best Anthony Mann and John Ford westerns, Looper at once understands the visual power of violence and is deeply critical of it.
  16. Photographic Memory
    Ross McElwee is less anxious of death itself than of finally comprehending the vast faultiness of the life he's lived.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 88
    Gayby
    While Jonathan Lisecki is well in tune with his film's niche market, his knack for comedy, both visual and verbal, is universally hilarious.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Critic Score 88
    Bestiaire
    Bestiaire argues persuasively without words, making a case without explicating one at all.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 88
    Flight
    A unique, audacious studio movie, kicking off as a star-driven spectacle before whittling itself down to a raw and riveting character study.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 88
    Skyfall
    Bond's latest is a remarkable high watermark for the series: at once solemn and deeply funny, sexy and sad, self-conscious without all the rib-bruising elbowing.
  21. This Must Be the Place
    The film believes in maturity, but only as a freely continual process of acceptance.
  22. Vamps
    A sense of anachronism is what provides the film with its melancholy heart.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 88
    Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
    Brief Encounters is great entertainment.
  24. Lincoln
    Steven Spielberg's film may further the heroism so associated with its subject, and favor a liberal viewpoint that leers down at the Confederates, but it's no bleeding-heart glamorization.
  25. The Comedy
    Tim Heidecker's Swanson does not amuse us in spite of the pity he inspires but because of it.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Critic Score 88
    In Another Country
    Hong Sang-soo hits the beach once again in his latest project, another austerely amusing study of hopeless neurotics making a mockery of leisure.
  27. Burn
    The endless scenes of burning buildings and macho posturing merely provide an action-driven context for the filmmakers to deal with more personal topics like loneliness and resiliency.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 88
    Miami Connection (1987)
    Love it or hate it, it's doubtful you'll ever forget it, and it may just force you to redefine your definition of what constitutes "good" cinema.
  29. Buffalo Girls
    Todd Kellstein doesn't allow you to entirely indulge convenient (though understandable and perhaps irresistible) armchair outrage.
  30. The Law in These Parts
    A film for those who, whether here or in Israel, believe the law is the beginning, and not the end, of rights discourse.
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