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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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
    Nobody Speak drifts at times and lacks sweep and historical perspective. But it is a troubling foreshadowing of things to come if journalists are threatened, sidelined or attacked by powerful institutions and people more concerned with their own interests than what’s best for the country or communities.
  2. The Big Sick
    The Big Sick is both a delightful comedy and an imperfect milestone. With any luck, we’ll look back on it someday and it won’t feel like a milestone at all.
  3. Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All
    The film effectively summons an evocative moment in time. But...the film ultimately feels like a marketing tool for ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
  4. The House on Coco Road
    The House on Coco Road is a remarkable document of how social forces affected the lives of Baker and his ancestors. It might lack the scope to encompass all of the story it wants to tell, but it’s a compelling conversation starter.
  5. Long Live the King
    The documentary by Frank Dietz and Trish Geiger is big on enthusiasm though it ultimately lacks depth.
  6. Blood Road
    The film is a moving experience for both its subjects and the audience.
  7. Transformers: The Last Knight
    If the film’s trio of new screenwriters (replacing series mainstay Ehren Kruger) have seamlessly upheld the crass and juvenile “Transformers” sensibility, then Bay’s visual sensibility has, if anything, matured, to the point of demanding and earning your exasperated surrender.
  8. 47 Meters Down
    47 Meters Down doesn't have the campy sparkle that made “The Shallows” a cult hit, but it's the kind of cheesy thriller that's good for a few jumps and a few chuckles at its own silliness.
  9. Marina Abramovic In Brazil: The Space In Between
    More specific sense of time and route (a map, anyone?) and a bit of even basic scientific scrutiny would have improved this otherwise compelling and provocative journey.
  10. Can Hitler Happen Here?
    It’s a gutsy, often off-putting piece whose eccentric little New York story and experimental vibe might have been better served by a short film.
  11. Pray for Rain
    The drought is ultimately presented as a man-made occurrence, wrapped up in regulations and red tape, rather than a troubling environmental reality. The reality is far more complicated than anything that can be neatly wrapped up within the conventions of genre filmmaking.
  12. Hearing Is Believing
    Hearing Is Believing could have offered more insight into Rachel’s experience, but instead it invests in the action of its title, including long stretches of witnessing Rachel at the piano and on various other instruments.
  13. Once Upon a Time in Venice
    A wincingly unfunny comedy caper.
  14. Moscow Never Sleeps
    Moscow Never Sleeps is well made but stilted, following too many characters to give any their due.
  15. Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
    "Stefan Zweig" is only Schrader's second film as a director, but, armed with clear ideas of what she wanted to convey and how she wanted to convey it, she's made a movie that allows its actors to fully inhabit their characters in a potent but low-key way.
  16. Jasmine
    Even when the movie shades too far into the oblique or the obvious, its evocative scenes of urban life and Tobin’s powerful performance provide ample compensation. Plot twists or no, this is a vivid depiction of a lost soul.
  17. Maudie
    Unlike the thick directness in Maud’s work, the movie about her is almost pointillist in detailing the tiny steps that make up an enduring marriage.
  18. The Book of Henry
    At no point do the filmmakers seem to evince any real interest in the emotional misery they inflict on their characters; trauma here is just the quickest means to an uplifting end, or in this case, a montage’s worth of wretched epiphanies.
  19. Rough Night
    The title of this strenuously crude and crotch-obsessed movie may be lazy, but it’s also pretty apt.
  20. Cars 3
    This warmly sentimental G-rated film about facing new realities and recapturing lost dreams has, despite its relatively adult story line, a beguilingly effortless feeling to it, as if it had nothing to prove.
  21. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    The thrilling documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time is indescribable not because it's ambiguous (it's totally straightforward) but because it does so many things so beautifully it is hard to know where to begin.
  22. From Hollywood to Rose
    While it’s a cute love letter to a certain strip of L.A., and Annenberg brings a winsomeness to her role, the story is thin and clichéd, relying on tired gags and stereotypes for humor.
  23. Kill Switch
    It’s an illogical, simple-minded mess in which Stevens is primarily a disembodied voice in a first-person-shooter-style video game movie.
  24. The Farm (La Granja)
    Striking images of sex and violence combine with an often effective sense of dread as these grim story lines unfold. But without sufficient context and psychological underpinning, less proves decidedly less.
  25. Capps Crossing
    Unfortunately, the worst fault in this horror movie isn’t the amateur performances, beginner-level editing or the special effects; it’s the dreadfully dumb script.
  26. Middle Man
    It commits the worst comedy crime of all — there’s no punchline.
  27. Lucky
    An ethnically diverse cast and authentic New York locations help to effectively ground Lucky, a palpably gritty, if familiar, take on the immigrant experience.
  28. Awakening the Zodiac
    The costars have good chemistry and bring a sense of desperation to their roles that animates a thin plot.
  29. As Good As You
    At its strongest, the movie dissects such pat notions as “closure” and “moving on” with wit and intelligence.
  30. Radio Dreams
    Jalali peppers this darkly funny, often absurdist piece with enough socio-political messaging to add heft but not didacticism. It all makes for a singular, well-observed balancing act.
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