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For 7,609 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,113 out of 7609
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7609
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7609
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  1. Norma Rae
    Norma Rae is not a bad film, just one that made me angry for what it might have been. Imagine another, more skillful actor, say Dustin Hoffman or Al Pacino, in Leibman's part; then strip away some of the more broadly drawn scenes, and Norma Rae could have been yet another fine film by director Martin Ritt ("Hud," "Sounder," and "Conrack"). [2 March 1979, p.4-12]
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  2. King Richard
    Even the verifiably true material in King Richard has a way of coming off like a Hollywood movie in the most “Hollywood movie” sense of those words.
  3. The Revenant
    That first hour is big, and imposing. The rest grows smaller, with the script's self-conscious deeper meanings either layered on top, like pelts, or — more successfully — left to Luzbeki's meticulous images of a sun-dappled 19th century Eden now home to one too many Wal-Mart stores.
  4. The Big Short
    If a film can essentially succeed while also remaining essentially frustrating, here's a prime example.
  5. Strange Days
    Not for a moment did I believe any of these characters. They were not as provocative as the clips Fiennes was selling, and, in a strange way, "Strange Days" is undone by the very product it condemns. [13 Oct 1995, p.B]
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  6. Death at a Funeral
    Gets by for many of the same reasons "Date Night" got by, all of them performance-related.
  7. Palindromes
    As bizarre, provocative and almost deliberately off-putting an indie picture as anything that's popped up in theaters recently.
  8. The Trip
    Call it a weepy for the gay community:The Trip is an oddly marketed, oddly titled romance. Yes, there is a trip, but it takes place during the last 15 minutes of the film and seems almost tangential.
  9. The King
    The King simply unsettles and bothers us -- and it finally misses both the true terror and the twisted redemption it needs for its wicked song, a would-be "Heartbreak Hotel" of horror, to really chill our spines.
  10. La Vie en Rose
    Wildly uneven.
  11. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    The script’s a messy sort of mess. There are also clear signs of a nervy director at work.
  12. Edge of Seventeen
    In Edge of Seventeen, a sensitive if racy evocation of coming-of-age in Ohio of the mid-1980s, writer Todd Stephens and director David Moreton show a gift for solid, emotionally realistic storytelling. [02 Jul 1999, p.B]
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  13. Evolution
    This is "Ghostbusters" meets "Men in Black" meets a whole lot of butt humor.
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  14. The International
    While its globe-trotting itinerary recalls the mad whirl of a "Bourne" picture, nothing about this film's style resembles the second or third "Bourne" outings (which I loved).
  15. 300
    This is a mixed blessing. For a story replete with open-air combat 300 is strangely claustrophobic. And for a film with lotsa flesh and even more blood, it's light on flesh-and-blood characters.
  16. The TV Set
    For all its bright writing, TV Set is contrived and predictable, another morality lesson from a poisoned pen telling us what we've heard before.
  17. Everything, Everything
    Aside from its leading lady, what Everything, Everything has going for it is its light, fantastical aesthetic, an unexpected sense of buoyancy and light.
  18. The Rental
    It starts out good and turns out dumb, ditching a promising, nicely suggestive first half for second-half payoffs (revealed in the trailer) taking director Dave Franco’s feature directorial debut into lame and lamer slasher-film territory.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Election
    Entertaining but frustratingly uneven.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    See the movie, flaws and all, simply to see where you stand in this digital river that runs through all our lives, connecting and isolating us in ways we're barely able to comprehend.
  21. Annihilation
    The movie feels torn between styles and intentions. It’s trippier than “Ex Machina,” and Garland makes a valiant go of its concerns, but Annihilation feels like a short-story amount of story pulled and twisted into feature length.
  22. Explorers
    Explorers offers an attractive premise to a very small payoff.
  23. Intact
    Mix of stylish action and meta-musings, provides plenty of confusing, satisfying surprises, though it could have used more tightness and punch.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Bless the Child
    Entertaining, but it doesn't add enough to the genre to make it truly blessed.
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Woman on Top
    A dish that's pretty easy to swallow, but if it could have borrowed some of Isabella's more potent spices, it might have boasted a more lasting flavor.
  26. The Nun
    The surface may be ominous, richly textured and morbidly fascinating, but storywise, it remains shallow.
  27. Body of War
    It’s uneven and, in many instances, avoidably cheesy.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
    Yauch clearly understands this world, but his film would have profited from looking more deeply at fewer players.
  29. Death of a Unicorn
    Writer and director Alex Sharfman’s splurchy dark comedy carves itself into halves, a clever first half followed by a more routine second one. Yet it’s a feature film debut signaling a filmmaker of actual wit. So you go with it — I did, anyway, most of it, more or less — even when its sense of tone and direction goes sideways.
  30. Aquarela
    It’s a pretty interesting nature documentary as far as it goes. But given its globe-trotting scope and the risky location work involved for the filmmakers, it’s a tiny bit strange Aquarela goes only so far.
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