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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. Starving the Beast
    Clear-eyed and urgent.
  2. The Abolitionists
    This vital, heartfelt portrait lacks the visceral gut-punch needed to fully resonate.
  3. Moments of Clarity
    This odd friendship dramedy has its winning moments, thanks to a fine cast, including Eric Roberts and Marguerite Moreau, and a bold visual design that underlines the quirky and fantastical tone.
  4. Cardboard Boxer
    Although he effectively establishes the downtrodden milieu, Lee’s script ultimately succumbs to mounting clichés and plot contrivances.
  5. A Family Affair
    Tom gradually chips away at the preening facade to seemingly unmask a complex woman whose self-image was largely shaped by her appearance-obsessed father. However, the deeper he digs, the more elusive his subject becomes.
  6. A Beautiful Now
    The ambitious but unwieldy screenplay suffers from a lack of cohesion and loses control of the nonlinear memories and fantasies of seven people, with some of the characters’ motivations also lost in the shuffle.
  7. Mr. Church
    Somehow Murphy manages to lift his dignified, all-knowing servant character off the page, giving a meticulously composed performance in a vehicle that can’t help but feel superficially repackaged.
  8. Miss Stevens
    That Rabe (daughter of the late Jill Clayburgh and playwright David Rabe) proves so intriguing to watch is more a testament to her acting focus and stirring, lovely presence than to the dreary role she inhabits.
  9. The Devil's Dolls
    It’s just a listless, routine exercise in religious horror, infused with a whiff of the exotic that tends toward the xenophobic. There might be a shred of entertainment to be found if only it were worse.
  10. Hillsong - Let Hope Rise
    The film is at its most effective when band members and lead pastor Brian Houston testify to the strength their faith provides during times of crisis.
  11. Silicon Cowboys
    Director Cohen, whose “Facing Fear” was among the 2014 Oscar nominees for documentary short, lends this classic David versus Goliath story a playfully retro feel.
  12. London Road
    This enchantingly strange movie couldn’t possibly be called naturalistic, but at times, it feels somewhat disappointingly normalized.
  13. The Vessel
    It’s a strange brew: stark yet beautiful, urgent yet dreamlike.
  14. Fatima
    Faucon, whose own grandparents came to France without speaking the language, has a gift for artfully removing the melodrama from potentially overheated situations, leaving behind a scenario that is honest, direct and dramatic without any sense of special pleading or situations pushed too hard.
  15. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
    The music is so strong, and such a demonstration of how potent the group was in action, that it alone makes the film worth seeing.
  16. Snowden
    There’s a deeper emptiness at the core of the movie, a failure of nerve and a fundamental incuriosity about what makes the Snowden affair interesting and relevant, then and now.
  17. Operation Avalanche
    While the movie balances a spirited celebration of America’s space race ingenuity with a satire about the cleverness of mass deceit, it’s hard to ignore the one thing Operation Avalanche understands implicitly: whether you’re a believer or a skeptic, a well-crafted image can sell anything.
  18. Kate Plays Christine
    Although Greene swerves unnecessarily into obvious audience indictment at the end, Kate Plays Christine makes for a twisty, unsettling probe into our fascination with transforming lives, and deaths, into digestible storytelling.
  19. Bridget Jones's Baby
    Zellweger plays Bridget just as charmingly as she always has -- flawed but endearing; just right in her own idiosyncratic way.
  20. Blair Witch
    Wingard’s movie, for all its abundant mischief, doesn’t trust the power of its own illusion. You can see these woods a lot more clearly now, and what you see is that you’ve been here before.
  21. The Good Neighbor
    Any movie that leeches the perverse fun out of illicit voyeurism, then tosses in a grim gotcha of an ending to make everyone feel worse, when the kids’ actions are distasteful enough, is worth avoiding.
  22. Finding Altamira
    Although the script by Olivia Hetreed and José Luis López-Linares traffics in vital ideas and still-timely assertions (“We shouldn’t try to fit facts into a set of beliefs!”), a looser, less self-important approach would have helped.
  23. When the Bough Breaks
    Under the workmanlike direction of Jon Cassar (“Forsaken”), “Bough” breaks little new or inspired ground as it spins out its mildly effective, occasionally silly cautionary tale.
  24. The Disappointments Room
    The script telegraphs things, but also often descends into incoherence. It tries to be too many things at once, and ends up being nothing.
  25. Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
    Though its focus is the two years the Sharps spent in Europe, it rushes through elements of their lives that would seem to warrant more examination
  26. The Green Fairy
    Like a wedding toast gone awry, the movie doesn’t know where to begin or end and is cluttered with factoids and awkward asides.
  27. Ithaca
    That the World War II-era drama Ithaca was directed by actress Meg Ryan may prove the most notable yet least successful thing about this oppressively sentimental journey.
  28. Germans & Jews
    Germans and Jews is too sophisticated to provide a glib answer, but it shows how deeply involving just asking the question can be.
  29. The People Garden
    The People Garden is so slow and spare that it barely registers. It just floats through the forest, silent and bloodless.
  30. Kicks
    Perhaps the best thing you can say about Kicks is that its strengths and weaknesses make for intriguing bedfellows, like a cautionary fable that’s as much about the hazards of forging an artistic authenticity as it is the pitfalls of a corrosive approach to manhood.
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