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For 16,536 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: 8,706 out of 16536
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16536
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16536
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  1. The Big Short
    The film packs in so much information and comedy, it would be fun to see it twice: not just to take in what it has to tell us, but also to laugh all over again.
  2. Capture the Flag
    Rarely has outer space seemed so unexciting.
  3. Christmas Eve
    Who knew a movie seemingly meant to spread holiday cheer could be so off-putting in an almost sadistic way?
  4. Uncle Nick
    Demski and director Chris Kasick wrap up the story neatly — in both senses of that word — by suggesting that we can all feel better at somebody else's expense.
  5. MI-5
    The cast and crew work like a well-oiled machine, delivering the quality drama we've come to expect from British TV imports.
  6. Krampus
    Dougherty's effects team is top-notch, and the movie takes unexpected chances with the style and the storytelling — including a beautiful stop-motion interlude.
  7. Stink!
    While Whelan repeats his points too much, it remains gripping and maddening throughout to watch him run into stone walls.
  8. A Royal Night Out
    Despite the perfunctory social commentary and retro political optimism, the film remains a lighthearted romp to its core.
  9. The Girl King
    The greatest appeal of The Girl King lies in the fascinating historical character and the formidable actress portraying her.
  10. Moomins on the Riviera
    "Riviera" suffers from a weak story with an obvious ending.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Cold Deck
    Although viewers have been dealt this sort of hand countless times before, director Zack Bernbaum lays it all down with little discernible style or dramatic heft, signaling the plot's obligatory turned tables and double crosses well ahead of their appearance.
  12. Night Owls
    Instead of sinking into crude, one-night-stand joke territory, Night Owls roots around for the spark of real chemistry and, in the winning turns of Pally and Salazar, finds it.
  13. The Summer of Sangaile
    Distractingly lovely to look at, the film can't make Sangaile's struggles or triumphs matter. Its soaring conclusion feels anticlimactic, the story drifting off into air.
  14. The Wannabe
    The mix of callous humor and romantic doom doesn't always hold up, but in its best moments, The Wannabe finds real spikiness in the pitfalls of anti-hero worship.
  15. The Boy and the Beast
    Hosoda brings emotional depth to what could easily have become a formulaic martial arts saga. Instead, Boy and Beast is a bracing tale of two flawed individuals who find the love and discipline they need to assume their rightful places in their respective worlds.
  16. The Letters
    A biopic about Mother Teresa could have easily been a self-important slog, yet William Riead's The Letters proves a stirring and absorbing if not quite definitive drama.
  17. Bikes vs Cars
    Although the film qualifies as an advocacy documentary, director Fredrik Gertten has put in the time to capture how these cities' unique scenarios unfold to mount a compelling case against the powerful automotive, oil and construction lobbies.
  18. Imba Means Sing
    Filled with humanitarian good cheer — and enough costume changes to rival a Diana Ross concert — Imba Means Sing delivers a heartwarming song of hope for the future.
  19. Every Thing Will Be Fine
    The visually stirring format proves unable to lift the story and performances out of a prevailing, airless stupor.
  20. Killing Them Safely
    With the intensified focus on use of force in police departments, the unsettling documentary Killing Them Safely couldn't be timelier.
  21. Youth
    Youth is a film that goes its own way. Quixotic, idiosyncratic, effortlessly moving, it's as much a cinematic essay as anything else, a meditation on the wonders and complications of life, an examination of what lasts, of what matters to people no matter their age.
  22. The Lady in the Van
    A delicately written, boisterously performed movie about the difficult people who dare us to care about them.
  23. Janis: Little Girl Blue
    From this pastiche Joplin emerges as we've never seen her before, articulate, ambitious, torn between her wild self and her desperate need for stability.
  24. Hitchcock/Truffaut
    Smart, thoughtful and elegantly done, Hitchcock/Truffaut is more than an authoritative look at the careers and interpersonal dynamics of directors Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut, a pair of unlikely soul mates; it's also, as director Kent Jones intended, a love letter to film itself, to the value and lure of the cinematic experience.
  25. Macbeth
    It's the gripping and verbally deft cast, led by a swaggering, formidably brooding Fassbender and a searing and poignant Cotillard, that may emerge most memorable here.
  26. Rock in the Red Zone
    Through a first-person narration, Bialis makes much of the film about herself. Her account certainly turns the daily travails of living in Sderot into something tangible for viewers. But at the same time, her life-experience narrative proves a distraction and a disservice to the promise of the film's title.
  27. Like You Mean It
    The last gasps of a romantic relationship between two very different men are intimately and delicately charted in the beautifully immersive, if decidedly somber, Like You Mean It.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bolshoi Babylon
    These twin tracts of darkness and light, the sordid and the sublime, quite effectively submerge the viewer into a closed world.
  29. Censored Voices
    Censored Voices is a soul debriefing of sorts. The soldiers' tales of killing the captured and uprooting entire villages lead them to question whether the war was more about expansion than survival.
  30. Iraqi Odyssey
    With the mixing of the sprawling family tree with geopolitical imbroglios already proving daunting for viewers, the filmmaker exacerbates the confusion by eschewing a linear chronology.
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