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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. Spinning Plates
    What raises this film to a more interesting level is that in addition to the food, each segment presents a personal drama that extends beyond the table.
  2. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
    It's amazing what a little story and a little substance add to a movie. It might not be a giant leap for mankind, but it is a small step for one old man.
  3. Blue Is the Warmest Color
    The telling is beautiful and explicit. The truth of its emotionally raw, romantic drama is eternal and universal.
  4. The Counselor
    McCarthy has not done himself or his reputation any favors with this original.
  5. Bridging the Gap
    Bridging the Gap may mainly aim for audio-visual delight (Stephan Mussil's cinematography undeniably dazzles), but as an authentic look at a more than 500-year-old institution, the film proves less in tune.
  6. Il Futuro
    The atmospheric heft of Il Futuro is invariably more bracing than oppressive, and in the complexly stoic Martelli and masterfully craggy, haunted Hauer, an alluringly opaque pas de deux of loss and uncertainty is wonderfully realized.
  7. Immigrant
    Scenes can drag; they at times pay homage to the filmmaker's memories rather than drive the narrative forward.
  8. Blood Brother
    Hoover's stubbornly ground-level perspective renders the documentary's lack of context about HIV in India...rather frustrating. But Blood Brother feels important anyway, not so much as a snapshot of one volunteer but for its passionate portrayal of the curative powers of love.
  9. Torn
    Though Torn contains its share of convincingly lived-in moments, there's a heavy-handed quality to both Jeremiah Birnbaum's direction and the script by Michael Richter that often undermines the movie's potential to truly grip and move.
  10. Life According to Sam
    This is the straightforward story of a family facing adversity head-on and making inroads against a rare disease.
  11. Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro
    The fact that Child and Shaw share writing and producing credits here almost assures it will be a self-aggrandizing puff piece.
  12. Let the Fire Burn
    It earns its considerable impact by telling an unnerving story and leaving it, in ways both daring and effective, fundamentally unresolved.
  13. Toad Road
    The home-movie vérité style of the early scenes pays dividends when inexplicable occurrences suddenly take us by surprise.
  14. Lost for Words
    The film's colorblindness does not make up for its latent sexism.
  15. The Paw Project
    The Paw Project is robustly persuasive, with Conrad compellingly framing her crusade as a battle between a right-thinking vet and a deep-pocketed industry group that purportedly represents her.
  16. Bridegroom
    Despite the pain, sadness and vast emotional upheaval depicted here, Bridegroom is also a movie filled with hope and passion, dignity and pride, and many stirring pockets of joy.
  17. God Loves Uganda
    [An] incisive and absorbing documentary.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Broadway Idiot
    A fast-paced, thoroughly entertaining if hardly trenchant show biz documentary.
  19. CZ12
    May please non-discriminating fans of its co-writer/director/star (and more) Jackie Chan, but will likely leave most other viewers dazed, confused and eagerly watching the clock.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Birth of the Living Dead
    Enjoyably recounts how, in 1967, Romero and an assortment of Pittsburgh locals shot a micro-budget chiller that would unexpectedly change the face of horror films.
  21. Big Ass Spider!
    The movie has a fan's heart, a sense of loving every goofball moment, but as directed by Mike Mendez it also seems perpetually caught between being a spoof or playing it straight and winds up falling between the cracks rather than rising above.
  22. 2 Jacks
    Inconsistencies cause more confusion than the magic Rose is presumably going for.
  23. I'm in Love with a Church Girl
    Suffers from the same ills as too many movies that preach to the choir: a laborious length, formulaic plot and dialogue and, disappointing for a film that stars a rapper, a stock score. Content aside, Molina's testimony isn't good cinema either.
  24. Paradise
    Though it's built around a kernel of tender feeling, the comedy never transcends its basic contrivance.
  25. 12 Years a Slave
    This is impressive filmmaking, but it is not easy to take in.
  26. All Is Lost
    All Is Lost, which is only Chandor's second film, reveals itself as remarkably skillful, surprisingly insightful and deeply moving. It's a confident work by an artist who knows himself and trusts his audience.
  27. Escape Plan
    Escape Plan is mostly a gray, thudding metal machine of throwback exploitation, but the goateed, goofy Ah-nold is so happy to be in the thick of an old-school bruiser again that he makes it feel like the dumb-fun flashback party it is.
  28. The Fifth Estate
    Whenever The Fifth Estate leaves the involving one-on-one drama between Assange and Domscheit-Berg, you wish it wouldn't.
  29. Carrie
    Peirce has done a remaking rather than a reimagining.
  30. Kill Your Darlings
    Far too conventional underneath all the trappings, you wish it would howl.
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