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For 16,524 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Donnie Darko
    If you let it be what it is, Donnie Darko will knock you flat.
  2. Attack the Block
    Pulsing with a rowdy energy, the film works as both a sci-fi horror flick and a teen adventure film.
  3. Oblivion
    Oblivion has the ability to haunt you visually and, with an unanticipated love story, even emotionally.
  4. Bully
    If you feel like you've already read quite a bit about the documentary Bully, you have. But that still won't prepare you for the experience of seeing it.
  5. Halloween
    With a canny balance of empathy and exploitation, Halloween treats its heroine’s lingering trauma with surprising emotional realism and only a hint of comic exaggeration.
  6. Crime After Crime
    A deeply affecting account of the very real effect of political corruption, but also of resilience and grace.
  7. Rapt
    Rapt fuses strands of dramatic tension in a shrewd enough way that it even saves its sharpest cuts for the kidnapping's aftermath, when a well-heeled life laid bare must reconcile with a much different form of enforced solitude.
  8. Daylight
    Replete with superior acting and visual splendor, the film is a fine instance of the overly familiar made fresh.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Point Blank
    A taut, roller-coaster ride clocking in at under 90 minutes about another everyman caught in an extraordinary situation.
  10. Sleeping Beauty
    As repellent as Lucy's story can be, its mystery has a seductive sway, and it does add up to more than the sum of its insistently elliptical parts.
  11. Star Trek Into Darkness
    So many things are done right that even with the bombast, "Into Darkness" is the best of this summer's biggies thus far. It's a great deal of brash fun.
  12. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    What DeBlois has deepened in No. 2, is the film's emotional core. Though there are moments when the tension goes slack, the cast steps up to keep things afloat.
  13. Tucker & Dale vs Evil
    A farce of misunderstanding first, body-count nightmare second and at nearly all times a refreshingly upending horror-comedy bromance.
  14. Mysteries of Lisbon
    The storytelling is straightforward, with a classical sheen, even as mischief and hallucination puncture the serene surface.
  15. Bodyguard
    A rousing example of Bollywood-style pure escapist entertainment.
  16. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    An effective piece of melodramatic popular entertainment that savvily builds on the foundation established by the first Hunger Games movie.
  17. Summer Pasture
    Summer Pasture has an earthy intimacy and compassion for its subjects that will have you thinking about their plight long after they've packed up and moved on for winter.
  18. Toast
    By turns sweet and tart, airy and rich and, above all, a thoroughly irresistible confection.
  19. Outrage
    Though it may at times seem like just another Japanese gangster picture, in Outrage, Kitano's sense of pacing is so precise, at once restrained and relentless, that the film becomes a vortex, pulling audiences in deeper and deeper.
  20. Special Treatment
    Special Treatment is a serious film, but Labrune allows a touch of dark comedy in her depictions of Alice's clients and Xavier's patients.
  21. Rebirth
    A unique glimpse into the recovery mechanism of damaged hearts and bewildered minds, how a visage of hollowed-out sorrow after one year becomes a look of more peaceful acceptance down the road.
  22. Love Exposure
    The film's maximalist storytelling, both expansive and precise, snatching specific emotions from its torrid swirl, is best exemplified by the fact that the title card doesn't appear until an hour in.
  23. Undefeated
    Like all memorable sports documentaries - Undefeated is really an examination not of how games are won and lost but how lives are lived, how young people faced with daunting challenges come to see, often in the most dramatic fashion, what is important going forward and what is not.
  24. Pariah
    At its soulful heart, Pariah is a stinging street-smart story of an African American teen's struggle to come of age and come out - to the father who still calls her "daddy's little girl" and the mother who quotes the Bible and buys her pink frills.
  25. The Woman on the 6th Floor
    The French have a knack for it. They've been making funny and agreeable movie farces for forever, and seeing The Women on the 6th Floor makes you hope they'll never stop.
  26. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
    With its hefty running time, the film builds an unexpected emotional resonance, though never exactly sympathy, as over the years Ceausescu seems to drift further and further into his fantasy vision of himself, making the film like a loop that repeats endlessly in his head.
  27. Bobby Fischer Against the World
    This expertly constructed film follows the curious and tragic life of the troubled chess icon as he went from child prodigy to global legend to paranoid recluse.
  28. Hope Springs
    An unusually intelligent cut at the relationship game.
  29. Les Miserables
    Despite its pitfalls, this movie musical is a clutch player that delivers an emotional wallop when it counts. You can walk into the theater as an agnostic, but you may just leave singing with the choir.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To Be Heard
    For how well this finely crafted work captures the pressures of inner-city poverty, single-parent families and abusive relationships, one of its strengths lies in its ability to also gracefully locate the drama in filling out a college application.
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