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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. The Missing Picture
    The Missing Picture is personal and unexpected, a documentary that mixes media in an unusual way to very potent effect.
  2. CBGB
    In its stylistically flailing stab at authenticity, CBGB ends up merely a mess of caricatures.
  3. The Dirties
    A masterful blend of black humor and queasy dread.
  4. Vikingdom
    Once you look past the carnage, special effects and colossal locales, all you're left with is the supper show at Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament.
  5. Concussion
    It is Weigert's performance that gives the film its mystery and charge. Playing seriously with identity, she draws the viewer ever closer. The way she never reveals everything is electrifying.
  6. Bad Milo!
    Its lo-fi charms — the cutesy-scary monster design, earnest family values and Danny Elfman-esque soundtrack — make the film feel like an '80s throwback in a way that justifies the nostalgia.
  7. The Summit
    The Summit tells a multifaceted story that deals with more than the expected peril and exhilaration of adventure tales. Here you'll find love, fear and forgiveness, personality conflicts and cultural differences, even mysteries that have stubbornly resisted solving.
  8. Argento's Dracula 3D
    The effects may be cheap and unconvincing, the sets spare, the costumes from some unwanted back rack, but Argento still brings enough moments of kinky madness to his not-great "Dracula" to indicate there may yet be greatness lurking within him.
  9. Gravity
    Gravity is out of this world. Words can do little to convey the visual astonishment this space opera creates. It is a film whose impact must be experienced in 3-D on a theatrical screen to be fully understood.
  10. Valentine Road
    A moving and infuriating look at the 2008 murder of openly gay teenager Lawrence "Larry" King.
  11. Linsanity
    [An] enjoyable documentary.
  12. Men at Lunch
    Regrettably, Men at Lunch obsesses over disappearing ghosts instead of the records we already have and the history we should know.
  13. After Tiller
    Filmmakers Martha Shane and Lana Wilson, whose profiles in courage are sympathetic but not adulatory, have crafted an absorbing, thoughtful report.
  14. Herb & Dorothy 50X50
    Megumi Sasaki's follow-up to her first documentary, 2008's Herb & Dorothy, is as engaging and unpretentious as its subjects.
  15. Don Jon
    Who would have thought one of the most amusing and oddly insightful romantic comedies would be built around the power and the potent pull of porn?
  16. Wolf Children
    Wolf Children is rather an odd story, told in a one-of-a-kind style that feels equal parts sentimental, somber and strange.
  17. Inequality for All
    Reich and documentary director Jacob Kornbluth turn out to be the ideal collaborators to tell the story of what that gap is, why it happened and why it's important, all in a totally engaging way.
  18. We Are What We Are
    Like the family, the film occasionally comes apart at the seams. But Childers and Garner are absolutely mesmerizing as Iris and Rose.
  19. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    It is the inventive design of the many creatures that feels so fresh. The detail is so rich, and so dense, that you wish some of the frames would freeze so you had more time for savoring.
  20. The Trials of Muhammad Ali
    The Trials of Muhammad Ali is a complex and involving documentary.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Metallica: Through the Never
    The problem is that Antal and Metallica took two different movies — a fine live-band document and a supernatural end-of-days romp — and smashed them together to make both of them more boring.
  22. Cleaver's Destiny
    Cleaver's Destiny" is an earnest but ultimately amateur production on all fronts that misses an opportunity to deal seriously with topics writer-director-star Karl Lentini obviously cares about.
  23. We Came Home
    We Came Home has its amateurish side, but it's effortlessly affecting when showing how music acts as an extended hand across generations and cultures.
  24. Winter Nomads
    An exhilarating vérité work by first-timer Manuel von Stürler, the documentary follows this seasonal migration, or transhumance, with a sense of quiet awe and intimacy, capturing the feel of cold rain, deep snow and the comforting heat of a campfire.
  25. The Secret Lives of Dorks
    Johnny Severin and Nicholas David Brandt's otherwise clever and original script takes an unexpected turn at nearly every intersection, resulting in a funny and big-hearted coming-of-age romance.
  26. The Spy: Undercover Operation
    Regrettably, the subtitles fail to capture Sul and Moon's witty wordplay — but their snappy, prickly chemistry is obvious to all.
  27. Out in the Dark
    It's unique, powerful stuff.
  28. On the Job
    The film is as heartbreaking as it is heart-stopping.
  29. Wedding Palace
    The genre elements of the romantic comedy Wedding Palace attempt a transpacific transit, but get lost in translation.
  30. Baggage Claim
    Baggage Claim promotes painfully outdated social mores.
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