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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. After
    After catalogs so many clichés in the dysfunctional family at its center that the film could be taught in a screenwriting class as a lesson in what not to do.
  2. I Am Happiness on Earth
    By turns sexy and exasperating, hypnotic and confusing, this Mexican import is an art film for the patient, adventurous and, let's be honest, forgiving.
  3. Weaving the Past: Journey of Discovery
    A painstakingly crafted, lovingly wrought piece.
  4. Coldwater
    Too many roles remain underdeveloped — if developed at all. A lack of cohesion or camaraderie among the inmates compounds the film's impersonal vibe.
  5. Fort McCoy
    The period details are so lovingly burnished in this uneven, if heartfelt, feature that for a while they threaten to overpower the story, which delves gently into a rarely explored aspect of the war.
  6. Found
    Movies with no redeeming qualities are rare, but the execrable Found comes pretty close.
  7. Level Five
    It humanely, intelligently questions the very nature of our desire to make sense of the past with the tools of the present, when the human mind remains the most aggressively obliterating battlefield of all.
  8. Jake Squared
    Koteas and the rest of the cast (including Jane Seymour, Virginia Madsen and Jennifer Jason Leigh) struggle gamely with the material, but they're defeated by the nonstop chatter, Goldberg's flat-footed direction and the needlessly choppy cutting.
  9. Finding Fela!
    [Gibney's] chronicle informs rather than inspires, but it's a solid introduction to a fascinating figure.
  10. Cheatin'
    A welcome reminder that the art of animation is too protean to be limited to a single visual style, medium or point of view.
  11. NightLights
    NightLights achieves something admirably genuine about the queasy mixture of anguish and joy attached to caretaking for the most needy of loved ones.
  12. Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart
    [A] well-crafted but frankly nonessential documentary.
  13. Septic Man
    It's a grotesque, deadly dull piece of cinematic upchuck, a horror film minus tension or chills.
  14. Fifi Howls from Happiness
    By its bittersweet end, Fifi Howls From Happiness has stayed almost entirely in one apartment and yet somehow unveiled both a life in full and a blank canvas.
  15. Life After Beth
    Stars Aubrey Plaza and Dane DeHaan are game, as is the lineup of mostly wasted supporting actors. But what might have been a snappy short is interminable at feature length, the mayhem-in-suburbia conceit generating few laughs as it stomps along.
  16. Deepsea Challenge 3D
    By allowing Cameron's first-person account to take command of the narrative, though, the film seems to gloss over meaningful logistics of the expedition.
  17. Let's Be Cops
    The movie relies too much on the same comic tension in each scene: Johnson is the gung-ho one, Wayans says no (a lot).
  18. Step Up: All In
    The film has a muscled buoyancy and thrilling, joyful spectacles that make the fifth installment of the popular franchise an energetic crowd-pleaser.
  19. What If
    Although What If nobly attempts to honor and embellish the tropes of the genre rather than reinvent them, the filmmakers get tripped up on their own good intentions and uncertain comedic instincts.
  20. Into the Storm
    Its story line and performances are no more than serviceable, but those terrible twisters are state of the art.
  21. Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
    "Battle of Gods" delivers not only the familiar look but also the slapstick comedy, character interaction and over-the-top martial arts fights that "Dragon Ball" fans want and expect.
  22. War Story
    Keener's performance riveting.
  23. The Kill Team
    A harrowing picture of the casualties of war — and the unchecked madness that may drive those entrusted to defend us.
  24. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Not out-and-out terrible enough to be completely dismissed, while also not particularly memorable either, perhaps the truest summation of the film is to say simply that the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a movie that exists.
  25. 37: A Final Promise
    37: A Final Promise comes off as a paranormal and schizophrenic take on a Lifetime movie with themes of terminal illness and assisted suicide.
  26. As It Is in Heaven
    This journey into "Martha Marcy May Marlene" territory is never as tense and gripping as it should be, the incidents and most of the performances too tamped-down to spark a much-needed sense of animating friction.
  27. The Maid's Room
    There's just enough compelling reversals and anything-could-happen suspense to make this increasingly claustrophobic work effective.
  28. Us and the Game Industry
    The film takes such an emotionally based, non-wonky approach to its featured business, it should absorb gamers and non-gamers alike.
  29. The Dog
    The film is a real "whew"-factor yarn, a hearty soup of thick accents, bold personalities and complicated motives, with an unmistakable taste of charismatic, ornery American hedonism.
  30. About Alex
    The movie stalls in a limbo of half-realized characters and superficial weightiness.
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