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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 Pirates
    It's a derivative trove of swashbuckling action, romance, comedy, special effects and revisionist history — the kind of film that would be pitched to studio execs as "Pirates of the Caribbean" meets "Free Willy."
  2. 108 Stitches
    A fatally clueless, painfully overlong sports spoof.
  3. Take Me to the River
    Take Me to the River is at its most interesting when zeroing in on the back-and-forth between musicians of different eras who rely on unique jam-session skills.
  4. Dolphin Tale 2
    Although children may enjoy the animal action (there's also a fun pelican and a yellow sea turtle) and parents might appreciate the movie's genuinely sweet moments, this is exceedingly mild entertainment.
  5. The Rule
    More objectivity would have made this case study a lot more persuasive.
  6. A Picture of You
    Nimbly avoiding the excesses of melodrama and the recessiveness of mumblecore, Chan and his likably low-key cast navigate hairpin turns from drama to comedy to outright farce with an impressive sense of proportion.
  7. Memphis
    The film feels like a sketch rather than a portrait, beautifully rendered but incomplete in the details.
  8. The Green Prince
    This is not great filmmaking, but their story is so involving that it doesn't matter as much as it might.
  9. Canopy
    Chittenden and Tzu-yi are expressive actors, but, like the film itself, are hamstrung by the project's self-imposed confines.
  10. The Skeleton Twins
    One of the better movies to come along this year.
  11. Wetlands
    Director and co-writer David Wnendt is after serious comedy here, a character study of psychic pain, wounds hereditary and self-inflicted, and body-conscious absurdity that treats the human condition with wry intelligence, not empty prurience.
  12. Last Weekend
    All the possibilities of a richly drawn family squabble fade faster than the final days of summer.
  13. My Old Lady
    Awkwardly balanced between comedy and significance, with plotting that gets increasingly schematic and unconvincing, My Old Lady is bound and determined to get more serious than it is capable of sustaining.
  14. God Help the Girl
    No one comes out and says that music is the language of the soul, but no one has to. We see it happening right before our eyes.
  15. Levitated Mass
    Well-directed with exceptional access by veteran documentarian Doug Pray, whose previous films include "Hype!," "Scratch" and "Art & Copy," Levitated Mass in essence intercuts three stories, each of which is more unexpected than one might imagine.
  16. Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering
    This one's for the conspiracy-minded only.
  17. No No: A Dockumentary
    [An] engaging portrait of a complicated but vivid sports figure.
  18. Frontera
    In trying to create a balanced portrait of the conflicts and the ordinary people affected by them, director Michael Berry, who co-wrote the screenplay with Luis Moulinet III, chips away at the authenticity and intensity that an issue-driven film like this sorely needs.
  19. The Identical
    The Identical is ultimately too schematically sentimental, even with Liotta playing against type, to have much of an impact.
  20. Thunder and the House of Magic
    Directors Ben Stassen and Jérémie Degruson have assembled so many clichés and bits borrowed from other films that "Thunder" feels like a rerun on its first viewing.
  21. The Longest Week
    Like so many filmmaking wunderkinds who could have used a course in common sense, Glanz is technically assured but emotionally hollow.
  22. Innocence
    A movie of such snowballing stupidity that it's a wonder the actors could keep straight faces while shooting it (outtakes, please!).
  23. Jason Nash Is Married
    he film, a largely point-and-shoot affair, is an enjoyable, lightly satirical glimpse at the uneasy intersection of marriage, showbiz and life in Los Angeles.
  24. But Always
    Hokey dialogue, a syrupy score, a corny use of slow motion and a slew of contrived or undercooked plot developments further sink a movie whose appeal may elude even die-hard romantics.
  25. Kabbalah Me
    Bram, who also narrates (and writes, with co-director Judah Lazarus and Adam Zucker), may be earnest in his desire for enlightenment. But his approach feels overly self-serving; too much "Me," not enough "Kabbalah."
  26. Life of Crime
    Life of Crime has the authentic Leonard snap, crackle and pop.
  27. Expedition to the End of the World
    Composed of breathtaking images and cheeky bits of humor, Dencik's travelogue reveals a journey with curious traces of the past, eye-popping encounters with a wild present and — in discovering an oil company's ship in the group's midst — a weighted reminder of our future as stewards of the Earth.
  28. The Last of Robin Hood
    Instead of a cautionary tale, they've looked at Flynn's life through rose-colored glasses.
  29. As Above, So Below
    An entertainment-free sinkhole of Dramamine-worthy nonsense.
  30. Cantinflas
    Cantinflas the movie tries to capture the magic of this much-loved legend, and it does so in fits and starts.
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