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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. Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
    What pulls us into Fireworks Wednesday is the universality of the emotions its characters display and the familiarity of the situations they find themselves in. Farhadi is a master navigator of these waters, and even his earlier films reward our close attention.
  2. Casa Grande
    Barbosa skillfully skewers the presumptions of rich folks who presume they deserve all that they've gotten, even as they're squandering it.
  3. Sunday Ball
    Even viewers who know nothing about soccer can enjoy how Rocha captures the beauty of a communal event through editing and shot selection alone.
  4. Look at Us Now, Mother!
    "Mother" is definitely worth a look as an involving exercise in parental indiscretion, unexamined and over-examined lives, and a nostalgic look at East Coast Jewish culture.
  5. Daddy
    Daddy is the strained, at times cringe-worthy film adaptation of Dan Via's stage play, which ran off-Broadway in 2010 and the next year in Los Angeles. Based on the show's largely good reviews, something was clearly lost in translation.
  6. Sold
    It's unfortunate that Brown and company were unable to bring stronger narrative and filmmaking skills to this vital subject.
  7. A Space Program
    A Space Program may find cheeky humor in our quest for meaningful science. But it certainly hints that there's something worshipful in the details.
  8. The Invitation
    Kusama reveals and conceals the geography of the house, parceling out just enough information to understand its logic, while leaving certain dim recesses mysterious.
  9. Mad Tiger
    Directors Jonathan Yi and Michael Haertlein put the focus on the standard reality-TV repertoire like "Making the Band." Their repeated disregard for Hioki's pleas to go off the record smacks of opportunism and exploitation rather than revelation.
  10. Darling
    By the umpteenth disruptive shock-cut and patiently framed shot of Carter staring us down, Darling has worn out its welcome even as a mood piece.
  11. Hard Labor
    At its best, the film has the quality of a nightmare, one that keeps happening whether the characters are asleep or awake.
  12. Louder Than Bombs
    Beneath the well-worn dysfunctional-family setup are bracing observations of the human coping mechanism. Startling expressions of longing and denial go off like detonations within the quietest of exchanges.
  13. The Boss
    The movie isn't fantastical enough to sustain itself outside the bounds of reality, yet every time something real creeps in, the movie stumbles and cowers.
  14. High Strung
    In the end, you'll either succumb to the silliness of it all and cheer Johnny B. on to his green card or, more likely, be in desperate need of your own exit visa.
  15. Catching the Sun
    Shalini Kantayya's debut documentary feature never stays in any one place long enough to make a sufficient impact.
  16. Mr. Right
    It feels at once overwritten and thematically thin, coasting on a cutesy concept before descending into relentless, and therefore meaningless, violence.
  17. Temps
    Rosenmeyer and Shaw have an easy charm and chemistry together, but the been-there, done-that material doesn't match their talents.
  18. The Phoenix Incident
    Though the craft is exceptional, there are some storytelling missteps.
  19. One More Time
    Many fine small moments pepper the family dramedy One More Time, but they don't add up to a satisfying enough whole.
  20. Hardcore Henry
    Hardcore Henry is a single-gear novelty that never achieves real liftoff.
  21. Demolition
    Demolition is a well-meaning misfire, terribly earnest but unconvincing for all of that.
  22. Havana Motor Club
    The shared love of the movie's featured racers for their long-rebellious sport makes for a unifying energy, but their individual experiences — and different attitudes toward the future — provide an underlying complexity.
  23. Chongqing Hot Pot
    The twisty plot mostly comes together via flashbacks, following an opening armed robbery. Too often though, Yang opts for brute force over brains, defaulting to violent fights that don't quite fit with the film's overall lightness.
  24. Cloro
    If we have to work a little harder to invest in Cloro's transporting story, so be it. For serious filmgoers, it will be worth it.
  25. Stealing Cars
    While we may have been locked up with these characters before...Cohen's unwavering commitment nevertheless commands attention.
  26. Standing Tall
    If director Emmanuelle Bercot's feature isn't always dramatically satisfying, it is fueled by the fine, flinty chemistry of Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel and newcomer Rod Paradot.
  27. Natural Born Pranksters
    It’s appropriate that the Natural Born Pranksters take their name from the film “Natural Born Killers,” because this group of YouTube stars just murdered prank-based humor. RIP pranks.
  28. Mexico's Bravest Man
    Minn's homegrown filmmaking style creates an absorbing intimacy and urgency. But placing Leyzaola's story within a broader national, even international context may have helped further illuminate Mexico's complex, at times contradictory system of crime and punishment.
  29. Transfixed
    A sensitively wrought profile in courage, hope and self-respect that's truly transfixing.
  30. Someone Else
    Those taking in Someone Else, an unconvincing, nonlinear drama about a pair of dramatically different Korean American cousins who are attracted to the same woman, will soon likely be wishing they had chosen to watch something else.
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