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For 16,526 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 2.3 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: 8,699 out of 16526
  2. Mixed: 5,810 out of 16526
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16526
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  1. C.O.G.
    For Sedaris fans, C.O.G. is a regrettably patronizing washout.
  2. Thanks for Sharing
    Thanks for Sharing is a bit like the recovery scene it digs into — filled with intoxicating highs and dispiriting lows.
  3. Blue Caprice
    Proves a highly auspicious feature debut for Moors and Porto as well as a much-deserved return to the limelight for Washington. Don't miss it.
  4. Mademoiselle C
    Unfortunately, the film doesn't show its subject's creative process as much as that of her collaborators.
  5. The Colony
    The film strands its archetypal characters in a featureless danger zone and gives them overly familiar dialogue borrowed from a dozen other B-movies.
  6. Prisoners
    Exciting, terrifying, worrisome stuff saturates every second of Prisoners, holding you captive, keeping you guessing until the bitter end.
  7. Kid-Thing
    Kid-Thing proves as disturbing for what it is as for what it's not.
  8. Newlyweeds
    The sights, sounds and sociological quirks of Lyle's and Nina's particular circle of existence are what give Newlyweeds its indie resonance, less a city symphony than an urban alt-fugue.
  9. Generation Iron
    [A] compelling and energetic documentary.
  10. GMO OMG
    If forewarned is forearmed, Seifert's movie might one day prove quite prescient.
  11. The Short Game
    Greenbaum shoots the game play especially well, employing dynamic camera work and kinetic editing to convey the drama of what non-fans might consider a static sport.
  12. A Single Shot
    The film charts no new territory but is terrifically cast and, like its source novel, long on atmosphere.
  13. Haute Cuisine
    Its restraint is its strength. The focus on a woman's passionate hard work without need of marital-status back story is refreshing.
  14. Enough Said
    One of the pleasures of Enough Said is watching Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini, two well-known performers only Holofcener would think of putting together, come alive both as individuals and the two halves of a relationship.
  15. A Strange Brand of Happy
    Any one-man crusade is likely to fail, but a rom-com character's war against sincerity is doomed from the start.
  16. Unacceptable Levels
    Brown's argument is hampered, however, by the chaotic rush of information and speculation, overuse of winking archival footage of commercials and old industrial films, and Brown's charmlessness as a "what's going on?" guide.
  17. Una Noche
    Moving performances from Una Noche's charismatic non-pro cast, Mulloy's keen eye for visual detail and stunning cinematography by Trevor Forrest and Shlomo Godder of Cuba's turquoise water exploding against the sea wall offer a compelling portrait.
  18. Hawking
    What Hawking does do well is open a window onto how his mind works and the passions that ignite his soul.
  19. Touchy Feely
    Shelton's affection for her characters is evident but it's not enough.
  20. Jayne Mansfield's Car
    With actors this good, however, there's rarely a pinched expression, heartfelt speech or laugh line that isn't at least partly sold, even if the stunted-male psychologizing at the expense of the under-written women grows tiresome.
  21. Informant
    What emerges is a vague, often chilling impression of an unpredictable opportunist and provocateur who may not even be sure himself.
  22. Red Obsession
    Documentaries by their nature are prisoners of their moment in time. If they are fortunate, as the makers of Red Obsession are, that moment, even if it's brief, will be able to hold our interest.
  23. The Family
    A messy brew that is a bit too slack to get all the way to actually being good.
  24. Wadjda
    While the uniqueness of the film's Riyadh setting and the disturbing nature of Wadjda's depictions of life for women behind the Saudi curtain are thoroughly involving, the actual plotline of a 10-year-old girl's determination to own a bicycle can be as standard as it sounds.
  25. Sample This
    The film offers disappointingly little insight into the music itself.
  26. Fire in the Blood
    Unfortunately, Dylan Mohan Gray's slow and steady exposé never quite manages the propulsive gut punch its incendiary subject demands.
  27. Insidious: Chapter 2
    This busy-yet-dull sequel feels like Wan robotically flexing his manipulation of fright-film signposts, an exercise more silly than sinister.
  28. The Muslims Are Coming!
    The hint at disagreement among the performers about who can and cannot call themselves Muslim is particularly provocative — a debate that would have been better off played out on-screen rather than summarized after the fact.
  29. Chavez: Cage of Glory
    Good intentions go just so far when a movie is hobbled by such risible, place holder dialogue, contrived plot points, wildly uneven performances and awkward camera work.
  30. I Am Breathing
    "Breathing" takes its humorous, contemplative tonal cues from Neil himself.
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