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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. Max
    Max is a big slice of patriotic, down-the-middle genre fare, but it manages to work — and jerk a few tears along the way.
  2. Bound to Vengeance
    Even jaded viewers who have gathered vague ideas from clues planted by screenwriters Rock Shaink and Keith Kjornes about how things will ultimately play out might find a genuine surprise or two in store.
  3. The Little Death
    Alternately silly and provocative, strained and funny.
  4. L.A. Slasher
    Even the most talentless and narcissistic fame seekers on reality television are not nearly as vile, reprehensible or worthless as a film that actively wishes harm on them.
  5. The Midnight Swim
    The film reveals frustratingly little about the sisters themselves.
  6. A Little Chaos
    The story comes to life only fitfully, even with — or perhaps because of — its court intrigue and supporting characters.... But there are striking glimpses of grit, muck and voluptuous beauty (the great Ellen Kuras handled the cinematography) and, above all, there's Winslet.
  7. Big Game
    Gleefully dumb but eager to entertain, this is cheeseball stuff baked with deliciously outsized performances and low comedy and photographed across mighty beautiful landscapes.
  8. Ted 2
    While Ted 2 is absurd and occasionally disgusting, it is also wickedly funny.
  9. Revenge of the Mekons
    Like many music documentaries, this film suffers from the tendency to reiterate its point too often.
  10. The Yes Men Are Revolting
    The faux press conferences and perverse inventions (SurvivaBall, anyone?) that are included here highlight corporate greed and governmental shortsightedness as shrewdly as ever.
  11. The Wanted 18
    Imaginatively interspersing testimonials with reenactments, comic panels and Claymation, the film plays out like an entertaining absurdist satire.
  12. Rubble Kings
    Fascinating as it may be, the film could have used outside perspectives to provide more context.
  13. The New Rijksmuseum
    If nothing else, patience has rewarded Hoogendijk and moviegoers with an inside look at an art administration without common sense.
  14. Charlie, Trevor and a Girl Savannah
    Flashily shot and cut like a long-form music video, the film is merely an empty vessel for a Guy Ritchie-esque stylistic exercise.
  15. I Believe in Unicorns
    In spite of its fanciful tendencies, the film nails the growing pains that result from love and loss.
  16. Dope
    Dope is, in the end, just another unfunny grab bag of stereotypes. Don't believe the hype.
  17. Anarchy Parlor
    Tension is low, pacing uneven and the acting — LaSardo's eerie work aside — proves subpar.
  18. Set Fire to the Stars
    Gorgeous, evocative and well performed.
  19. Burying the Ex
    Burying the Ex is a genre-mashing low for Dante.
  20. The Face of an Angel
    Like the floundering filmmaker at its center, The Face of an Angel never seems sure of what story it wants to tell.
  21. Manglehorn
    Though occasionally distracting, the quirky visual poetry eventually proceeds to work its magic.
  22. Phantom Halo
    Although the performances, including that of Rebecca Romijn channeling Cybill Shepherd as a femme fatale type, are sturdy, their characters have been given absolutely nowhere interesting to go.
  23. Infinitely Polar Bear
    Forbes pushes the positivity a bit insistently, yet one of the most appealing aspects of her film is its depiction of kids thriving in an unorthodox household.
  24. Chagall-Malevich
    Although the results could never be accused of being uneventful, the characters cry out for deeper, more complex dimensions than simply the wide-eyed dreamer and the rhetoric-spewing agitator on display here.
  25. The Wolfpack
    It tells a story irresistible to our age of rampant voyeurism and reality TV, yet it also has a potent emotional core that cannot be denied.
  26. Eden
    No matter what is going on, Hansen-Love's talent for bringing us inside a specific world makes Eden an experience we all can connect to.
  27. The Overnight
    This engaging, funny and frank new film also proves something of a cop-out, especially given the bullet train of a narrative concocted by writer-director Patrick Brice.
  28. Inside Out
    Inside Out manages to be honest and unafraid but never cheaply sentimental where emotion is concerned, evoking a largeness of spirit whose ability to be moving sneaks up and takes us by surprise.
  29. Hungry Hearts
    Dubious ending aside, Constanzo's approach to structuring, shooting and pacing the tricky material proves masterful and memorable.
  30. Love at First Fight
    Cailley never truly builds a narrative head of steam, resulting in periods of logy pacing and diffused focus. Still, the strong leads, several amusing moments and a clutch of intriguing character bits sketch what might have been.
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