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For 16,526 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: 8,699 out of 16526
  2. Mixed: 5,810 out of 16526
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16526
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  1. The Last Face
    Shedding light on world atrocities is vital, but spelling them out in neon is deadly.
  2. Person to Person
    It’s a slight film, but it’s populated by enjoyable moments and wry observations that will appeal to fans of talky indies.
  3. Strange Weather
    Watching an actress of Hunter’s caliber in a meaty leading role partly compensates for the creaky plot and overearnest tone.
  4. Brigsby Bear
    Brigsby Bear becomes a winning tribute to the joys of amateur filmmaking, one whose lovingly crafted sets and props recall the handmade sensibility and do-it-yourself spirit of other independent movies.
  5. Amnesia
    While its insights into the consequences of selective memory loss continue to resonate the world over, at its heart, Amnesia is a beautifully acted depiction of confronting regret.
  6. Awaken the Shadowman
    Somehow worse than its ridiculous title, Awaken the Shadowman is sillier than it is scary.
  7. The Black Prince
    The historical saga can feel cursory, at times unconvincingly rendered given how many events and far-flung locales this overly ambitious film strains to cover on a seemingly limited budget.
  8. Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey
    An engaging documentary.
  9. False Confessions
    Despite a few playful flourishes, filmmaker Luc Bondy’s experiment in artifice never takes flight.
  10. Landline
    Tonal swerves can be a source of useful friction; here they’re simply awkward, and Robespierre’s efforts to meld sentiment and laughs grow increasingly strained.
  11. The Gracefield Incident
    The Gracefield Incident sports some impressive special effects in key scenes, but remains yet another found-footage thriller where the dialogue feels phony, the nonscary action is tedious and the images are artless. The angle may be different, but we’ve seen this before.
  12. First Kill
    Every character states their inner motivation out loud, often without prompting, making for a film that loses its intrigue almost immediately.
  13. The Wrong Light
    The results, although emotional, intriguing and a bit surprising, lack the journalistic urgency, heft and deeper danger often connected to these sorts of cinematic unravelings.
  14. Killing Ground
    Killing Ground is an effective indie creeper that unnerves the audience with its all-too-realistic violence.
  15. Dunkirk
    The surpassing accomplishment of Dunkirk is to make us feel an almost literal fusion with its story. It's not so much that we've seen a splendid movie, though we have, but as if we've been taken inside a historic event, become wholly immersed in something real and alive.
  16. Kuso
    Kuso won’t be for everybody. It’s gross, it’s repetitive, and if it has a point, it’s hard to discern. But it’s not artless. Every densely layered image of oozing pus and gassy orifices is as imaginatively rendered as it is disgusting.
  17. Swim Team
    It’s a touching glimpse at a community solution to an inclusion problem, where the water’s more than just fine.
  18. Who the F**K Is That Guy?
    Who the … is That Guy shines a light on Alago’s amazing life story, but the film itself lacks the verve and style of its subject.
  19. Girls Trip
    The mix of outrageous comedy and gentle sentimentality is familiar but very fresh, especially in the hands of four actresses who effortlessly establish a sense of shared history.
  20. The Midwife
    Provost’s movie jolts to life whenever its two great Catherines are sharing the screen, whether driving each other crazy or collapsing in tears.
  21. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    Besson, an industrial-strength entertainer and the reigning maximalist of the European film industry, isn’t selling originality so much as volume. He has made a madly overstuffed Mos Eisley Cantina of a movie, one that surveys its diverse alien constituencies with the wide-eyed wonderment of a small child and the attention span to boot.
  22. Granny of the Dead
    While writer-director Tudley James has a disarmingly light touch and some stylistic flair, this “Granny” ultimately isn’t clever or funny enough.
  23. Blue Velvet Revisited
    The approach isn’t always satisfying. Some clips could use more setup, or even just a basic explanation.
  24. Man Underground
    The oddball premise and quirky characters ultimately aren’t enough to lift up Man Underground.
  25. Misfortune
    Misfortune recycles such familiar genre tropes as ill-gotten gains, double-crosses, ruthless gunplay and last-chance locales, but serves them up in a taut, twisty and involving way.
  26. Swallows and Amazons
    As clunky as the movie can feel, there’s a winning toughness to its unsentimental view of childhood and its nostalgia for a pre-digital age.
  27. City of Ghosts
    City of Ghosts demonstrates, in Hamoud’s phrase, that “the camera is more powerful than a weapon,” but it also shows the horrible price it extracts from those who wield it.
  28. Battle Scars
    Battle Scars is an uneasy mix of military drama and low-rent crime thriller whose seamy elements, under-examined characters and forced plot turns undercut its attempted messaging about war-induced post-traumatic stress disorder.
  29. The Persian Connection
    Writer-director Daniel Y-Li Grove impresses with his sleek, inventive style and effective pacing but falls short on depth and substance.
  30. Chasing Coral
    While governments and politicians dither about global warming, the world’s undersea coral is moving toward a devastating death. If you don’t believe that, or don’t think it really matters, Chasing Coral presents the evidence with beauty, intelligence and a surprising amount of emotion.
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