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For 16,533 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 2.2 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: 8,703 out of 16533
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16533
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16533
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  1. Good Time
    At once a swift, relentless chase thriller and an exhilarating mood piece that recalls the great, gritty crime dramas of Sidney Lumet and Abel Ferrara, Good Time is also exactly what it says it is: a thrill, a blast, a fast-acting tonic of a movie.
  2. The Only Living Boy in New York
    "Only Living Boy" fails to convince as a character study, romance or love letter to the CBGB-era New York City. It drops a plot bombshell close to the end of its 88-minute running time, but the filmmakers haven’t laid the track to make it plausible.
  3. The Glass Castle
    Though he is on less certain ground during the narrative's moments of warmth than when things are grim, director Cretton manages it all successfully. With Woody Harrelson as its dependable lodestar, "The Glass Castle" never loses its sense of direction or its belief in where it’s going.
  4. Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
    In lieu of a literal fulfillment of the title’s promise, Dunn gives us a spiritual one, an aggressively poetic elegy to the pre-industrialized agrarian work/life ethic Berry made his most deeply felt cause.
  5. The Farthest
    The film is a stirring salute to human ingenuity.
  6. 4 Days in France
    This is a beautifully shot film whose visuals work well with its philosophical approach to life and relationships.
  7. Icarus
    Even if you’re familiar with the facts, Icarus casts the depth of deception with an immediacy that’s often astounding.
  8. I Dream in Another Language
    This is an unusual venture, both charming and serious, that goes in more directions than anticipated, including more than a touch of magic realism.
  9. Wind River
    The focus here is always on character and storytelling and the acting that brings it all alive. With thrillers this good becoming a lost art, Wind River is definitely one to savor.
  10. Step
    Heartening and unashamedly emotional, it's a certified crowd pleaser that doesn't care who knows it.
  11. The Battleship Island
    The troubling whiff of nationalist sentiment doesn’t entirely blunt the force and sweep of Ryoo’s multi-pronged narrative, even when the story generally proceeds in fits and starts.
  12. The Dark Tower
    From start to finish, the movie exudes a stiff, joyless coherence.
  13. Savage Dog
    There’s not enough story here but every time David pops up on the soundtrack to spout dime-novel clichés like, “Fear the hanged man, because he’s dead already,” this movie takes on the quality of classic storybook, not straight-to-video schlock.
  14. 68 Kill
    The story suffers diminishing returns as it unwinds with increasing violence and absurdity. Or maybe it’s just that “68 Kill” puts the best material upfront.
  15. Kidnap
    For all of Berry’s breathless, screechy effort, Kidnap doesn’t contain any suspense or tension.
  16. Columbus
    What’s remarkable about this wondrously assured debut is that technique never overwhelms feeling, in part because Kogonada makes the two seem inextricably, harmoniously linked.
  17. It's Not Yet Dark
    Although “Dark” eschews overly graphic depiction of the more horrific physiological aspects of MND and barely touches upon the financial toll the illness clearly takes, this is as real a human story as it gets.
  18. The Girl Without Hands
    “Girl” is a welcome reminder that animation doesn’t have to be synonymous with realistically rendered CG, but can be a means of artistic expression as uniquely personal as a signature.
  19. From the Land of the Moon
    Garcia never gets a grasp on her protagonist’s contradictions, or those of her story — certainly not enough to pull off the movie’s jaw-dropper of a twist. But she conjures a powerful sensuality, and Cotillard burns ferociously bright, even when the center does not hold.
  20. Brave New Jersey
    The story is spread too thin, or perhaps there just wasn’t that much substance to begin with.
  21. Fun Mom Dinner
    This raunchy, female-driven comedy should be able to rely on the strength of its cast, but even the collective talents of Katie Aselton, Toni Collette, Molly Shannon and Bridget Everett aren’t enough to make the movie worth a babysitter’s hourly rate.
  22. Armed Response
    By the time one of the gun-toting members of Team Snipes growls “Let’s finish this!” viewers would be hard-pressed to disagree.
  23. Some Freaks
    This visceral and anxiety-laden vision ends on an uneasy, though hopeful, note.
  24. Chronically Metropolitan
    The result is a chronically “meh” coming-of-age meets dysfunctional-family tale, with a particularly unsatisfying ending.
  25. The Untamed
    Escalante draws remarkable performances out of his cast of mostly newcomers in this film about the consequences of pleasure and the many meanings of flesh; where animal intelligence fills the void left by emotional disconnect.
  26. Wolf Warrior 2
    While Wolf Warrior 2 is blandly generic more often than not, there’s something bracing about its patriotic fervor, which asserts that the Chinese will act in the best interests of the world’s downtrodden, while the rest of the world just exploits them.
  27. Birthright: A War Story
    With its chilling evidence of fetus-centric policies in practice, Birthright shows Big Brother in action, and at his most misogynistic.
  28. Santoalla
    It focuses on how the best intentions toward humanity are not enough if an ability to actually get along with fellow human beings is not part of the mix.
  29. 500 Years
    Pamela Yates’ 500 Years is a palpably passionate if somewhat less contained effort than the two films preceding it.
  30. The Conway Curve
    The Conway Curve wants to be a world of colorful characters, wacky high jinks and happy endings, but it’s just so stilted and blandly unfunny that it can’t support its own frantic antics.
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