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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. Sex Tape
    Since it's a comedy, much could be forgiven if the film was consistent in generating laughs, but the comedy is as erratic as the couple's sex life.
  2. Wish I Was Here
    For a film that purports to be about the process of maturity and growth, it is woefully un-evolved, lacking in understanding and insight.
  3. Video Games: The Movie
    It's a lovefest in which critics' voices and debate are simply absent, and the only talking space is wonder, nostalgia and excitement for the future.
  4. K Missing Kings
    Making sense was never a top priority for "K," and its sequel is just as much of a hot mess.
  5. Closed Curtain
    Closed Curtain is richly allegorical, but the film succeeds even more as an exiled artist's reassurance that the law can't stamp out art.
  6. Among Ravens
    There's simply nobody to care about in Among Ravens, even as a case study in unhappiness and delusion.
  7. Affluenza
    The movie opens with the suggestion that it will address the generational divide, but it has nothing of substance to say.
  8. Aftermath
    Even if this largely contained movie remains more low key than frantic, it features enough well-executed bursts of tension and strong emotional beats to hold interest.
  9. Audrey
    The comedy unfolds mostly in real time, but its grasp of real human behavior is shaky.
  10. The Battered Bastards of Baseball
    The joy on display here is contagious.
  11. Siddharth
    Mehta explores matters more complex and unsettling than movie-tidy, against-the-odds heroism. In Tailang's fine performance, the enormity of Mahendra's mission registers in all its devastating weight.
  12. Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
    Joe Berlinger's densely detailed new documentary about the legendary Boston mobster is disturbing on so many levels it's hard not to wonder why Bulger was the only one on trial.
  13. Underwater Dreams
    [A] moving and insightful piece.
  14. Road to Paloma
    Momoa creates an involving if relaxed pace, one whose moody rhythms are infused with a kind of soulful spirituality.
  15. Rage
    There's a late-breaking twist that might seem impressive if it didn't make all the previous mayhem feel so intensely pointless.
  16. Land Ho!
    Land Ho! is full of surprises, rich in the way it noses around the rocky terrain of aging in an indifferent world through the engaging performances of its two stars.
  17. Boyhood
    An extraordinarily intimate portrait of a life unfolding and an exceptional, unconventional film.
  18. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    "Dawn's" vision of masses of intelligent apes swarming the screen as masters of all they survey is even more impressive than it was the last time around and reason enough to see the film all by itself.
  19. Venus in Fur
    It is a caustic, comic, cerebral romp for a long time before it hits you with its best shot — some Polanski-worthy darkness.
  20. The Pleasures of Being Out of Step
    Director David Lewis' movie functions as mostly a highlights reel rather than an exhaustive look at Hentoff's life.
  21. Life Itself
    Life Itself may sound like it's a film that would only be of interest to those who knew Ebert personally or to fellow film critics, but the opposite is true.
  22. Gabrielle
    Though the movie wears its agenda on its sleeve, the music and the cast, many of them members of the real Les Muses, as Marion-Rivard was for a time, are simply so charming that it makes Gabrielle hard to resist.
  23. Cinemanovels
    Writer-director Terry Miles' revisionist homage is a thoughtful thesis on the melodrama but a letdown in its attempt to serve as an affecting example of that genre.
  24. The Girl on the Train
    Writer-director Larry Brand is all too eager to show off his cleverness. Bad dialogue and Cinemax aesthetics make all the clichés seem even more clichéd.
  25. America: Imagine a World Without Her
    It's far more invested in elaborate historical reenactments, hypothetical dramatizations and special effects than interviews, research and data.
  26. Begin Again
    Even if Dan and Gretta charm each other more than they charm us, the music they make is harder to resist than they are.
  27. Tammy
    There are some laughs and, at least on screen, more than a few tears. But it doesn't come together with the kind of satisfying punch a comedy should deliver.
  28. Deliver Us From Evil
    Buckle up for the ride that is Deliver Us From Evil, a highly intense and effective mash-up of police procedural and horror show.
  29. Earth to Echo
    It's no "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial." (What is?) But on its own modest terms, the alien adventure Earth to Echo is a lively and likable knockoff that should divert, if not exactly enthrall, tweens and young teens.
  30. Code Black
    McGarry has created something that feels personal, vital and revelatory, allowing the rest of us behind the curtain.
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