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For 16,539 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 16539
  2. Mixed: 5,816 out of 16539
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16539
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  1. Billy & Buddy
    Billy and Buddy manages to maintain the kind of brisk giddiness that many animated films struggle to achieve. But as family fare with a few unsettling Gallic touches, the boy-and-his-dog escapade is an odd fit.
  2. Ass Backwards
    The scenarios in Ass Backwards, which director Chris Nelson contributed to by filming in focus, feel arbitrary rather than organic, as if the creators' list of humor targets — lesbian bikers, trailer trash, drug-addicted reality TV stars, pageant world denizens — were picked out of a hat.
  3. The Wind Rises
    To see The Wind Rises is to simultaneously marvel at the work of a master and regret that this film is likely his last.
  4. The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
    The film's main misstep, however, is its unconvincing use of celebrity voices to re-create various speeches and letters... Though well-intended, their inclusion proves a needless distraction in an otherwise smart and dignified presentation.
  5. A Case of You
    A Case of You is perfectly enjoyable as far as indie rom coms go — just not particularly original.
  6. Blood and Ties
    Director Dong-Suk Kuk ratchets up the tension, effectively toggling back and forth in time to reveal the picture's various puzzle pieces.
  7. Nosotros los Nobles
    The performances are genuine and the narrative beats land solidly for a perfectly enjoyable feel-good dramedy.
  8. Sake-Bomb
    Director Junya Sakino's debut would have been stronger if the comic barbs in Jeff Mizushima's script hadn't been dulled by Mizushima's editing, which bungles the timing of the jokes.
  9. Sal
    Franco seems torn, on the one hand presenting his subject as a likably ordinary, self-involved actor and on the other sanctifying him as a would-be gay icon in a conformist industry.
  10. Last Love
    This somber work about the worthiness of living has little life in it.
  11. Capital
    There's plenty of pacing verve in Costa-Gavras' technique, and the residue from that first thrilling peek inside the hermetic world of big-time money-moving never goes away. What's lacking is most surprising from this dissident filmmaker: the emotional outrage.
  12. The New Black
    Director Yoruba Richen has refreshingly avoided making this polemic into propaganda, a temptation many lesser documentarians could not resist.
  13. Man of Tai Chi
    The brutally efficient shooting style Reeves employs to film master choreographer Yuen Woo Ping's breathtaking fights...is refreshingly grounded and old-school kinetic.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Am Divine
    On the evidence of the documentary I Am Divine, to know the drag star Divine was to love him.
  15. Big Sur
    Although no less fawning and indulgent about its self-centered subject, played by Jean-Marc Barr (who also narrates, run-on style), the muted emptiness of the ill-fated sojourn wills its way toward something like existential meaningfulness.
  16. Not Yet Begun to Fight
    Not Yet Begun to Fight is barely an hour long, but it justifies a theatrical release with a lyrical meditation on nature and war.
  17. Why We Ride
    An unabashed love letter to all things motorcycle, the documentary "Why We Ride" will surely warm the souls of bike enthusiasts while prompting many nonriders to join the fold.
  18. Diana
    Flawed yet intimate, Diana respects its subject's hopes, strengths, weaknesses and legacy and, in the extraordinary Watts, boasts a formidably empathetic advocate.
  19. The Human Scale
    writer-director Andreas M. Dalsgaard takes such a low-key approach to presenting the film's vital, potentially involving topic that viewers may find themselves more inspired to take a snooze than a stroll.
  20. Ender's Game
    Its strong special effects make its simulated battles effective and, echoing the book, its story line touches on a number of intriguing issues.
  21. When I Walk
    When I Walk is extraordinarily accomplished, poignant, and wise.
  22. Free Birds
    With its flat punch lines, formulaic action and undercooked mélange of messages — touching on everything from factory farming to genocide — the film waddles awkwardly.
  23. The Square
    The Square bears witness to history in an articulate, thoughtful and intensely dramatic way.
  24. Bastards
    Bastards is a thriller truly etched in darkness, pools of black broken mostly by the stricken yet soldiering faces of her main characters, like ships in a sea of stormy nights.
  25. Dallas Buyers Club
    Even with some flaws and flailing, Dallas Buyers Club is a rough, raw, ragged and exhilarating ride.
  26. The Impaler
    Director Derek Hockenbrough's vision is bigger than his budget, and it shows.
  27. Marwencol
    Watching Marwencol, Jeff Malmberg's probing documentary on Hogancamp's undertaking, is an exhilarating, utterly unique experience.
  28. Haunter
    Haunter offers a freaky, visceral experience — without a hint of gore.
  29. American Promise
    Because the stories are so specific, and because they play out over such a long period of time, it is hard not to be fascinated by this intimate look at how particular families deal with the great parental challenge of shepherding their children through the all-important educational experience.
  30. Enzo Avitabile Music Life
    In Enzo Avitabile Music Life, Demme has not given us an expansive film, and there are spots you wish he'd dug deeper. But there is such a well of emotion that the music alone is almost enough.
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