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For 16,535 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: 8,705 out of 16535
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16535
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16535
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  1. Kung Fu Yoga
    By the time it all culminates in a Chan-led classic Bollywood production number, the cuteness factor may have been pushed to its limit, but good luck trying to stop that goofy smile from spreading across your face.
  2. The Sunshine Makers
    This documentary meanders a bit as it goes between time periods, but it’s never less than entertaining and illuminating.
  3. Strike a Pose
    It’s a loving, honest portrait of these men who were world-famous for a bright moment, and most importantly, what happens after the limelight goes away.
  4. Sophie and the Rising Sun
    There’s a clumsy, soapy tepidness to the procession of plot points, but within individual scenes, the actors pierce the genteel surface.
  5. Gold
    Without its lead, whose full-throttle portrait is at least a burning flame, Gold wouldn’t work on any level.
  6. The Salesman
    The world of The Salesman isn’t quite as intricately imagined as some of its predecessors, and the story’s sleuthing element, while absorbing, often feels more narratively expedient than germane. But if the setup is creaky, the payoff, when it arrives, is a thing to behold.
  7. A Dog's Purpose
    The film has all the emotional resonance of a dog-themed novelty coffee-table book. Adorable, but ultimately forgettable.
  8. Alone in Berlin
    Alone in Berlin is ultimately hobbled by its own cinematic inertia, its inability to reimagine the past with the kind of intensity that would also speak to the present.
  9. Worlds Apart
    It’s an often tender, affecting film that slowly creeps up on you — then completely takes hold.
  10. My Father Die
    My Father Die is all provocation and no substance, and therefore completely meaningless.
  11. Saving Banksy
    The road to hell, the saying goes, is paved with the best of intentions, and that is very much the case with the complex art world conundrum explored in the lively, involving documentary Saving Banksy.
  12. The Axe Murders of Villisca
    The Axe Murders of Villisca never really comes to much, perhaps because its focus is too diffuse. The scares are low, and the plot under-baked.
  13. Sailor Moon R the Movie: The Promise of the Rose
    Earlier English translations soft-pedaled the nature of Fiore’s affection for Mamoru. The lively new version is closer to the original, and suggests Fiore’s feeling are more passionate than fraternal.
  14. Detour
    What’s painfully clear is that all the artfully composed shots, hinky situations and extra conceptual surprises can’t make this Detour all that compelling beyond its crisp artifice.
  15. Staying Vertical
    Its title a sly reference to what distinguishes men from beasts, Staying Vertical hinges on the tension between primal instincts and socially proscribed behavior. Guiraudie isn’t just trying to decimate sexual taboos; he is also taking gently comic aim at the overly rigid roles into which people tend to lock themselves.
  16. Bakery in Brooklyn
    Director Gustavo Ron and co-writer Francisco Zegers fill the movie to bursting with plot, turning what might have been a delightfully airy cream puff of a film into a soggy disaster.
  17. Doobious Sources
    While the fake news angle is admittedly a timely one, the film’s ultimate dubious achievement is its remarkable ability to make “Dude, Where’s My Car?” feel like vintage Kubrick.
  18. Trespass Against Us
    Smith may have some ways to go as a feature filmmaker, but he has given us a world of such grottily realized depravity that it feels like a story unto itself.
  19. Antarctica: Ice and Sky
    The visuals and concepts presented here may be compelling and vital, but director Luc Jacquet (“March of the Penguins”) weaves them together with too little urgency, propulsion and, ultimately, unique sense of purpose.
  20. Split
    Split doesn’t just revive Shyamalan’s career; it resurrects his brand.
  21. Sea of Hope
    The film captures the dazzling beauty of its ocean locales, both above and beneath the surface, while soberly reminding us of the crucial ecological issues — and solutions — at hand.
  22. Monster Trucks
    On first glance, Monster Trucks looks so-bad-it’s-hilarious, and it’s a bit heartening to report that it’s not quite that. The monsters are cute and charming, the production value is high, and the trio of Lennon, Levy and Lowe bring just enough quirk to brighten up the humorous beats.
  23. Sleepless
    A stylish surface goes only so far to disguise the fact that we’re being sold some pretty cut-rate goods.
  24. 48 Hours to Live
    There’s more focus on the dull mystery and predictable story twists, and not nearly enough choreographic ecstasy on-screen.
  25. The Snare
    Writer-director C.A. Cooper’s The Snare is admirably artful and oblique in putting its own twist on the haunted-house story, but it’s derivative of much better psychological suspense films and is obnoxiously unpleasant to boot.
  26. Top Coat Cash
    Like a fog that corrupts your ability to be entertained, Top Coat Cash is genre amateurishness that neither thrills nor makes sense.
  27. The Ardennes
    The Ardennes is an odd mixture of glum-chic style and emotional curiosity, a story of brotherly tensions that primarily comes off like a movie posing as a story of brotherly tensions.
  28. Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies
    It’s not great. It’s not terrible. It’s really not anything.
  29. Bad Kids of Crestview Academy
    Animated comic book panels hint at an attempt at style, but bad camerawork captures bad performances of bad dialogue.
  30. Claire in Motion
    For the most part, nothing about Claire in Motion seems overly calculated. It knows precisely where it’s going, but it’s also wise enough to leave that destination open-ended.
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