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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 Zero Theorem
    This "Theorem" is all sizzle, zero steak.
  2. Hector and the Search for Happiness
    Hector may indeed learn that narcissism stands in the way of happiness, but he also walks away with his privileges intact and unchallenged.
  3. Christmas Ride
    The bargain-basement Christmas Ride is so inept on every level that it almost has to be seen to be believed.
  4. We Are Kings
    The film's heart is unmistakably in the right place — even when the camera isn't.
  5. The Frontier
    Despite a few contrivances like the impending romance between Nina and Tennessee, The Frontier remains for the most part refreshing and astute.
  6. Iceman
    Simultaneously overblown and underdeveloped, "Iceman" fails equally at showcasing the talent of its star and resolving its baroque plot.
  7. Reclaim
    Carmine Gaeta and Luke Davies' screenplay is constructed from plot mechanics, and the emotional stakes grow less convincing with every twist of the screw.
  8. Tusk
    This tonal mishmash is a misfire of literally gross proportions.
  9. Keep On Keepin' On
    Hicks' unabashed love letter is, above all, a stirring picture of communion between artists.
  10. Altina
    The product is more pop vanity project — and one that's a bit late to the party — than onion-peeling dissection.
  11. Last Days in Vietnam
    These stranger-than-fiction tales, piled one on top of the other in the most gripping way, not only mesmerize us, they also point up another of Last Days in Vietnam's provocative points, that the chaos surrounding the evacuation was, in effect, the entire war in microcosm.
  12. I Am Eleven
    Given the number and range of kids in view, there's a limit to how much specificity can be jammed into one movie.
  13. Autumn Blood
    Whereas Haneke's films grapple with the blunt force of violence, novice filmmaker Markus Blunder just lets the violence snowball all the way down a slippery slope.
  14. The Scribbler
    Director John Suits seems more concerned with plying eyeballs with creepy atmospherics, showy visual effects and sexy interludes than with propulsive pacing or roiling tension.
  15. Kelly & Cal
    Written by Amy Lowe Starbin and directed by Jen McGowan, both first-timers, the feature is alive with interactions that feel spontaneous.
  16. Life's a Breeze
    Life's a Breeze is a small film with a considerable amount of charm. Comic and idiosyncratic, it takes a warmhearted view toward its protagonists while still seeing them for exactly who they are.
  17. Fort Bliss
    Despite what seem like the trappings of a Lifetime movie, writer-director Claudia Myers presents us with an unflinching and complex character study of an imperfect woman.
  18. Pump
    As far as documentaries go, the film is exhaustively researched, interviewed and documented.
  19. Space Station 76
    Director Jack Plotnick and his co-screenwriters Sam Pancake, Jennifer Elise Cox, Kali Rocha and Michael Stoyanov fail to nail a satisfying theme, narrative or purpose.
  20. This Is Where I Leave You
    When the grown-up going gets tough, the one thing you know is that the Altmans won't abandon one another. Which makes "This Is Where I Leave You" not earthshaking by any stretch, but somehow reassuring.
  21. Tracks
    The desert trek in Tracks is as brutal as it is beautiful; the performance by Mia Wasikowska as raw as the reality. And the camels? If they don't steal your heart it must be stone-hinged.
  22. A Walk Among the Tombstones
    A Walk Among the Tombstones is the creepiest film I've seen in quite some time, and that's not meant as a compliment.
  23. The Maze Runner
    Ball tends to slice and dice action sequences in a way that drains them of energy, and his attempts to churn up emotion fall disconcertingly flat. But he does stage a couple of effective adrenaline-pumping chases through the maze's industrial wasteland.
  24. The Guest
    It's Stevens, as the all-American cover-model mercenary both friendly and fatal, who gives The Guest its literally killer personality.
  25. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
    "Them" is spun from callow romantic notions, the sort that make for heady moments. What's conspicuously missing is any grasp of the lovers themselves.
  26. No Good Deed
    It’s a little dumb (OK, maybe more than a little), but No Good Deed is an otherwise brisk, efficient thriller that won’t punish audiences who drop in.
  27. Swearnet: The Movie
    "Swearnet" builds up enough brazen energy and crass goodwill to propel a watchable first hour before it starts to flounder.
  28. Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes
    The documentary Pay 2 Play lays out a compelling case against corporate personhood and money as free speech.
  29. Rocks in My Pockets
    Rocks in My Pockets is not an easy film to watch... But it serves as a striking reminder of the individuals who suffer similar pains in silence, and of the special power of animation to make the unseen visible.
  30. Honeymoon
    The gory final act can't help but be an explanatory letdown after so much enigmatic fizz, but that's little bother when the rest of "Honeymoon" delivers a steady dose of newlywed nightmare.
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