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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. Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
    The details are mesmerizing as is the rule-breaking psychology behind it.
  2. The Iron Ministry
    Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki withholds judgment and resists editorializing, but the result is frustratingly nebulous and devoid of context.
  3. Learning to Drive
    Learning to Drive is a richly observed, crosscultural character study that coasts along pleasurably on the strengths of its virtuoso leads.
  4. Hitman: Agent 47
    Writers Skip Woods and Michael Finch have a few tricks up their sleeves as betrayals emerge and allegiances shift. But it's not enough to make us care or to keep the third act from being a head-scratching mess.
  5. Top Spin
    Top Spin grips, exhilarates and breaks hearts like the 1994 film "Hoop Dreams."
  6. American Ultra
    The action set-pieces and the comedic character scenes in the film seem to be taking turns and are rarely brought together in a meaningful way.
  7. Sinister 2
    Nothing about Sinister 2 comes close to the feel-bad ode to literally and figuratively dark interiors that distinguished the title-earning original.
  8. Grandma
    Weitz's film moves from clunky domestic dramedy to genuine feminist odyssey.
  9. Brothers ... Blood Against Blood
    Bollywood veteran Jackie Shroff, assuming Nick Nolte's part as the recovering alcoholic father, delivers the kind of acting reel that would guarantee an Oscar nomination for some Hollywood actors. It's a pleasure to marvel at his performance alone.
  10. The Kindergarten Teacher
    Lapid confidently peppers the film with enough provocative beats, unsettling behaviors and bold camera moves to keep us intrigued — if not necessarily invested.
  11. Court
    Court invites comparisons with the 2011 Iranian film "A Separation," even if Court director Chaitanya Tamhane hasn't achieved the same level of mastery with his feature debut.
  12. Air
    The film is most effective when Bauer and Cartwright are battling the surroundings instead of each other.
  13. Meru
    Though the Meru climbing and outdoor footage is spectacular, it is the personal struggle of each of the climbers, and the candid way they talk about them on camera, that give this film its considerable impact.
  14. Big Sky
    Director Grau seems to be making up the film as he goes along — never a good idea when tackling the sort of genre piece that requires building tension and some semblance of dread to succeed.
  15. Amnesiac
    With no names given to the characters, you never have to remember them. But it's really best to forget about all of Amnesiac.
  16. People Places Things
    Small, smart and inescapably independent, People Places Things has its own offbeat and charmingly low-key way of seeing the world.
  17. Return to Sender
    Revenge is a dish served lumpy and tasteless in the tonally muddled Return to Sender.
  18. Prince
    Packing plenty of visual zip and terrific character faces into its compact running time, De Jong never allows the considerable quirkiness to upstage the storytelling.
  19. Tom at the Farm
    Tom at the Farm is strange, idiosyncratic tale that straddles a fine line between homoerotic camp and spider-and-fly thriller.
  20. Fort Tilden
    Fort Tilden is cringe-worthy but true. Maybe that's why it's so uncomfortable to watch.
  21. Ten Thousand Saints
    As always, Berman and Pulcini suffuse their movie with a let's-try-anything spirit — and liberate most of their actors. What keeps Ten Thousand Saints from being another "American Splendor" (2003) or "Cinema Verite" (2011) is that this time, their tapestry has a hole in the center, where their pale antihero cannot pull the colorful threads together.
  22. Straight Outta Compton
    Alternately riveting and wearying, up-to-the-minute relevant as well as self-mythologizingly self-indulgent — as much of a heroic origins story as anything out of the Marvel factory — Straight Outta Compton ends up juggling more story lines and moods than it can handle.
  23. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    Being a mildly pleasant, passingly amusing light entertainment isn't exactly saving the world, yet the film crosses its wires to blow up even that modest assignment.
  24. Reset
    An unpleasant exercise in self-indulgence
  25. The Pardon
    Except for a reliably flavorful turn by John Hawkes, compelling in a few key scenes as Henry's accomplice, The Pardon remains stubbornly uninvolving.
  26. Shooting the Warwicks
    The movie can't do much to address the inherent flaws in the premise.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tap World
    Tap World, also takes viewers around the world, and that, plus some flat out terrific performances, make this a surprisingly lovely little film.
  28. Two Step
    Giving flair to the inevitable and imbuing those stakes with emotional heft are key to this type of patiently nasty, slow-boil noir. That Johnson understands this makes his feature debut a particularly confident and enjoyable one.
  29. Sneakerheadz
    The film is more lifestyle puff piece than journalism.
  30. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    A rare gem of a movie.
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