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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. Life is Strange
    Life Is Strange is unfocused yet intermittently effective as an illustrated oral history.
  2. 24 Exposures
    This brief, loosely-knit film never builds any empathy or tension.
  3. Gloria
    Between Lelio's ingenuity in staging the film, an extremely clever script co-written with his frequent collaborator, Gonzalo Maza, and the pumping disco that interjects its opinions and assessments of each situation, Gloria is one of the most enjoyable movies to come along in a while.
  4. Like Father, Like Son
    Powered by Kore-eda's innate restraint and natural empathy, Like Father, Like Son takes these characters to places they never expected to be. It's unnerving for them, of course, but watching so many hearts hanging in the balance is a rare privilege for us.
  5. Gimme Shelter
    Gimme Shelter, a ripped-from-real-life story of a pregnant teen's journey toward hope, is filled with very good intentions, very bad dialogue and a surprisingly affecting turn by its star Vanessa Hudgens.
  6. If You Build It
    The film proves not only a stirring look at education's potential to rally and invigorate but also a vital snapshot of contemporary rural America.
  7. Knights of Badassdom
    Knights of Badassdom actually delivers everything the 2011 Danny McBride-James Franco comedy "Your Highness" purported to be but fell short on. The film is "This Is the End" festooned with Middle Ages accouterments.
  8. Run & Jump
    Green's resolution is sensitive, expected, yet visionary. And, like the rest of the film, it is shot with a magnificent play of color and light that makes the characters' corner of the world seem like the cradle of compassion.
  9. Enemies Closer
    Enemies Closer suffers from wincingly bad dialogue delivered as if by jocks in a high-school play and action choreographed as if for a gymnasium stage.
  10. Devil's Due
    We're more than 45 years out from Roman Polanski's director-controlled masterpiece in gestating terror, and yet no gimmick in Devil's Due — no point-of-view shock cut or shaky-cam "realism" — is as dread-inducing as tracking the grim revelations on Mia Farrow's face.
  11. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    There is no shaking the feeling that Branagh and his cast are a kind of an espionage film B team, capable of mild diversion but nothing more.
  12. Ride Along
    The laughs here are lazy, and any sense of logic is definitely on the lam.
  13. Back in the Day
    Cloying and smug when it's not being unfunny and crass, the high school reunion comedy Back in the Day hits lows with a frequency that suggests a world-class sharp shooter or free-throw king.
  14. Reasonable Doubt
    Contrived and predictable yet fairly tense.
  15. The Nut Job
    The Nut Job features decent CG animation, especially of animals, but the writing isn't particularly clever, relying on obvious puns and slapstick humor.
  16. G.B.F.
    Until being young and gay is a nonissue for everyone everywhere, these kinds of stories will always have their place.
  17. Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
    At Troma, puke-green is the warmest color.
  18. Jamesy Boy
    The screenplay by Lane Shadgett and director Trevor White relies far too much on telling rather than showing.
  19. The Rocket
    Australian writer-director Kim Mordaunt doesn't always succeed at balancing the sentimental, the political and the ethnographic, but at its strongest the story is a seamless melding of history's dark undertow and a child's indefatigable optimism.
  20. Hamlet
    A focused, if at times melodramatic, take on the play's beating heart.
  21. Freezer
    Freezer is a snappy action flick that makes good use of its close confines.
  22. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
    Chen's excessive propriety veers treacherously close to barely disguised repulsion.
  23. The Legend of Hercules
    If you admire Kellan Lutz's chiseled body, The Legend of Hercules does offer plenty of that in 3-D glory.
  24. The Truth About Emanuel
    Writer-director Francesca Gregorini builds unbearable tension into scenes that otherwise risk tilting toward melodrama and brings the eye of a fashion photographer to the film's hallucinatory dream sequences.
  25. Dumbbells
    With verbal jabs and sight gags in equal measure, the script proves serviceably funny. As the film progresses, though, the hilarity does not escalate along with the outrageousness.
  26. The Suspect
    The two stunning set pieces, both involving car chases, are so inspired and teeth-grittingly determined that they make the case for the possibility of individual heroism in a harrowingly venal world.
  27. The Saratov Approach
    Overall, writer-director Garrett Batty takes such a tempered approach, the film lacks the kind of gritty, visceral tension that life-and-death tales such as this normally demand.
  28. Raze
    Raze is a sweaty, queasy, bruising experience — and a superbly crafted film.
  29. Cold Comes the Night
    The noirishly titled Cold Comes the Night is a tense little thriller that provides juicy roles for its deft lead actors, Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston, as well as some well-played action and several neat twists.
  30. The Best Offer
    The film has several smart twists and surprises up its well-tailored sleeve.
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