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For 361 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Lowest review score: 0 Seventh Son
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 246 out of 361
  2. Mixed: 88 out of 361
  3. Negative: 27 out of 361
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  1. Sully
    There are no real stakes, and I find the attempts at creating suspense to be almost offensive. Irritating, at the very least.
  2. Jason Bourne
    There are scenes I dug and a few set-pieces that work, and there’s an overall level of intensity that I like from director Paul Greengrass. Taken as a whole, though, this is very familiar territory, and I just don’t care when the stakes are this low and the violence is this rough.
  3. The Purge: Election Year
    This film says everything the first two films tried to say, but better and in a more coherent thematic way.
  4. Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
    Whatever affection I once held for this story was ruined by this documentary, and I hope that these guys are, once and for all, finished with Raiders and remaking it. I certainly am.
  5. Warcraft
    Warcraft errs in how much it asks the audience to juggle, and as a result, the things that the film does well (and I think there are many) are muffled somewhat.
  6. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    From scene to scene, there are some beautiful images in the fantasy world where this is set, but frustratingly, it never adds up to something that comes to life. This feels like terrific production design and costuming in search of a story worth telling.
  7. Standing Tall
    While Bercot's intentions are admirable, she and co-screenwriter Marcia Romano have conjured up too many moments that play out like thousands of courtroom scenes you've seen before.
  8. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    I’m not sure how a filmmaker whose work normally speaks to me as clearly as Snyder’s does could deliver something that feels this confused, this impersonal, and this corporate. It is a confounding mess of a movie, and while there are individual sequences that I enjoyed as isolated moments, it is almost breathtakingly incoherent storytelling.
  9. In the Heart of the Sea
    Overall, it is false, both narratively and visually, in a way that just doesn't sit right with me, and it feels like a lesser effort from Howard, an itch he scratched but that hold little interest for anyone else.
  10. Joy
    While [Lawrence] does robust, heartfelt work in the lead in his new film Joy, this is the most miscast she's been in a while, and it's such a strangely imagined film in the first place that it never really gets its bearings.
  11. Krampus
    There are a number of moments where Doughtery introduces something truly interesting and then never returns to it. Yes, the movie is perhaps overstuffed with interesting ideas, but that can be just as frustrating as a film with no good ideas at all.
  12. SPECTRE
    They have tried, with this Daniel Craig run of films, to elevate the Bond movies so they are more than just acceptably silly spy movies, and one of the reasons SPECTRE is so frustrating is because it feels like the collapse of that ambition, and it is in one moment that you can see the entire thing burn to the ground.
  13. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
    To the bitter end, the series manages to wring some fun, solid scares out of something other invading something utterly familiar.
  14. The Program
    The Program works when it has you questioning how on earth this secret could be kept so quiet for so long when so many people knew exactly what was going on.
  15. The Family Fang
    The movie wants to make a statement about the intersection of art and family, but it’s all too muddled to add up to anything that astute.
  16. Trumbo
    Cranston has his moments and you have to laud his attention to detain in channeling Trumbo’s unique voice and mannerisms. Unfortunately, he’s so committed that his character borders on being a caricature.
  17. Freeheld
    An impressive cast and significant real-life events can’t trump the fact it’s a badly made movie.
  18. Suffragette
    All the actresses do their best with the material, but only Mulligan truly transcends its limitations.
  19. The Dressmaker
    Its admittedly interesting source material, but the movie’s tone is all over the place and not in a good way.
  20. Where to Invade Next
    The pacing on this one is flaccid, and while I think he has some interesting points to make, the framing device to the film is a total bust.
  21. I Saw the Light
    Despite the worthy efforts of stars Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen, the Hank Williams biopic I Saw The Light is a shockingly bad movie.
  22. The Visit
    If this was someone's first film, I'd be okay with the small signs of life that make this merely an annoying film instead of a completely dreadful one, but for this to be the latest work by a guy who made his first impression on the general public by sticking to his guns and refusing to compromise his voice… unthinkable.
  23. Fantastic Four
    Neither the disaster the fanboy nation seems to be itching to attack nor a significant improvement over the Tim Story movies, Fantastic Four seems doomed to please no one.
  24. Cop Car
    Watts co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher D. Ford (“Robot & Frank”) and, frankly, it’s not as clever or compelling as it wants to be.... The filmmaker does deserve credit, however, for conjuring up some nicely tense cinematic moments.
  25. Vacation
    The biggest problem I have is that the film seems determined to push the outrageousness as far as possible, and there comes a point where it just stops working because it's all so outrageous.
  26. Paper Towns
    The film feels 30 minutes longer than its 109 minute run time mostly due to the fact that “Paper” seems distinctly like three different films.
  27. Southpaw
    Unfortunately, Southpaw descends into a tedious exercise of formulaic filmmaking that leaves you feeling worse for Gyllenhaal and Whitaker than the characters they play on screen.
  28. Ted 2
    Like most comedy sequels, it is too long and too indulgent in calling back to the original film.
  29. Burying the Ex
    There's a slightly muted quality to the film, though, which keeps it from being a complete pleasure, but considering how rarely we get a new film from Dante, I'll take something slight over nothing at all.
  30. Insidious: Chapter 3
    There's nothing particularly wrong with the ghost story itself. It makes sense, there's an internal logic to the way things happen, and Whannell does his best to keep a certain pace up so there are near-constant ghost attacks punctuated by scenes of the characters trying to figure out how to handle them. Quinn's just not a very interesting character.
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