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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. Condemned
    Aggressively ugly and gross, the movie boasts a certain low-rent authenticity, but the auteur never figures out how to fill his grubby little rooms.
  2. Heist
    As vapidly generic as its title, British director Scott Mann's Heist is a by-the-numbers crime thriller that squanders a decent cast, including Robert De Niro, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Dave Bautista.
  3. The Funhouse Massacre
    Honestly, The Funhouse Massacre isn't quite enough of either.
  4. Sweet Micky for President
    There's no shortage of political intrigue even with the outcome a foregone conclusion.
  5. Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
    The documentary, far from a glorified making-of featurette, is fittingly cinematic, with spectacularly wide establishing shots and studio-portrait-like testimonials.
  6. Song of Lahore
    The unifying power of music is rewardingly demonstrated in Song of Lahore.
  7. I Remember You
    Writer-director Claudia Sparrow prefers to pay more mind to the abstract.
  8. Joe's War
    The film, unfortunately, treats the important and complex subject of post-traumatic stress disorder in an oversimplified and reductive way.
  9. Karski & the Lords of Humanity
    Although it is often moving, the film is less satisfying than it could be.
  10. Sand Dollars
    Sand Dollars has an assured, light touch.
  11. The Hallow
    This backwoods monster movie boasts compelling performances, eye-catching creatures and an effective blend of practical and digital effects.
  12. By the Sea
    As a writer, Jolie Pitt is better at ideas than dialogue, much of which is leaden here. But the characters' behaviors feel true.
  13. Love the Coopers
    The celebrity soup that is Love the Coopers is, indeed, a mess, the kind in which the screenplay by Steven Rogers...is made more chaotic by Jessie Nelson's tonally smeary direction.
  14. Out of My Hand
    The film may deliver an all-too-neat resolution, but the haunting reminder that your past is never far away lingers.
  15. Cut Snake
    In one punchy way it's feverishly, genre-shakingly different. That difference makes the movie almost work. Almost.
  16. Man Up
    Frequently laugh-out-loud funny and tangibly tender where it ought to be, the immensely satisfying screwball romp feels freshly contemporary even as it largely conforms to genre conventions.
  17. Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
    Lisa Immordino Vreeland deftly choreographs the story in her vibrant documentary Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, at once a capsule history of Modernism and a poignant personal portrait.
  18. Shelter
    The story on screen comes off as a naive interpretation of the homeless experience as imagined from a place of great privilege.
  19. This Isn't Funny
    This first feature is populated by blandly underdeveloped main characters who tend to recite their lines rather than inhabit them.
  20. Landmine Goes Click
    It's a shame that what could have been an intriguing situational thriller devolves into a hateful, arduous drag
  21. Care of Footpath 2
    Director Kishan SS has made Care of Footpath 2 (a.k.a. Kill Them Young) as a bombastic, overlong melodrama that doesn't recognize the occasional need to takes things down a decibel or three.
  22. Frame by Frame
    The filmmakers' approach is inherently positive.
  23. Heneral Luna
    Boasting a sizable budget, stirring photography and Arcilla's charismatic lead performance, Heneral Luna would never be mistaken for more serious-minded art-house material, but there are certainly less lively ways to be taught a history lesson.
  24. What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
    Sands' scripted narration sounds detached and dissociated from the grief, frustration and anger he sporadically displays.
  25. Wrecker
    Aside from a few good jump-scares and a couple of original plot twists, Wrecker spends most of its running time cutting between footage of the roadster and footage of the truck, apparently assuming viewers will take those images and use them to imagine something more exciting.
  26. Xenia
    Koutras admirably resists easy wish fulfillment by making the brothers' journey more important than their destination, but the scenario he presents inexplicably turns out to be fantasy.
  27. Sex, Death and Bowling
    At its heart, it's a simple story about a family gathering around a loved one, but there's too much going on narratively and stylistically.
  28. Welcome to Leith
    This cautionary tale couldn't be more timely or essential.
  29. Heart of a Dog
    Heart of a Dog is that rarest of pieces, an unabashedly experimental work that's as inviting as a visit with an old friend, one who may not always make sense, who's sometimes goofy, but has been through a lot lately and treasures the opportunity to artfully unload.
  30. Trumbo
    Trumbo is timely in its portrayal of a moment when political speech is dangerously charged, yet unabashedly old-fashioned in the sincerity of its storytelling.
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