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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. Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
    Whether the San Pedro does its magic is of course the big question. Regardless, Silva works his, delivering not exactly the Holy Grail of road movies, but a very mellow summer high.
  2. In the Fog
    Intimate in the telling, sweeping in the implications, Loznitsa has created an unusually incisive film.
  3. Grown Ups 2
    Grown Ups 2 looks like it was a lot of fun to make. And the last laugh is on us.
  4. Fruitvale Station
    Made with assurance and deep emotion, Fruitvale Station is more than a remarkable directing debut for 26-year-old Ryan Coogler. It's an outstanding film by any standard.
  5. Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
    The movie is itself rough around the edges, notably in some chintzy attempts at animating pulp graphics. But it's briskly pieced together from interviews and archival footage.
  6. Killing Season
    The pretentious, preposterous, dueling-dialect flameout called Killing Season has to stand as one of the biggest missed opportunities in iconic matchups.
  7. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
    Often an engrossing example of the sweeping, stirring biography.
  8. The Hot Flashes
    What could have been an empowering and amusing riff on the typically male underdog genre is mostly charmless.
  9. Still Mine
    The estimable James Cromwell splendidly anchors this tender, true-life tale.
  10. Pawn Shop Chronicles
    Kramer, 10 years removed from his lone critical success, "The Cooler," and writer Adam Minarovich aren't exactly aping Tarantino, if only because they don't have the talent or inclination to aim that high.
  11. Pacific Rim
    Guillermo del Toro is more than a filmmaker, he's a fantasy visionary with an outsized imagination and a fanatical specificity, a creator of out-of-this world universes carefully conceived down to the smallest detail. His particular gifts and passions are on display in the long-awaited Pacific Rim and the results are spectacular.
  12. Sweetgrass
    Sweetgrass is an unexpectedly intoxicating documentary, unexpected because it blends high artistic standards with the grueling reality of one of the toughest, most exhausting of work environments.
  13. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
    A crafty, brainy and uniquely stirring concoction.
  14. The Way, Way Back
    Authenticity gives the movie its witty, heartwarming, hopeful, sentimental, searing and relatable edge. It is merciless in probing the tender spots of times like these, and tough-guy sweet in patching up the wounds.
  15. The Crash Reel
    The Crash Reel asks pointed questions about hazard, reward and consequence, forcing us to look anew at the rush attached to so many high-stakes sports.
  16. Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
    A skillfully rendered narrative that should satisfy fans and pique the interest of the uninitiated.
  17. The Look of Love
    Skims a host of provocative surfaces without truly dissecting the self-absorbed playboy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Laurence Anyways
    At nearly three hours, it's by turns an extraordinary and exhausting work.
  19. Just Like a Woman
    All that's missing from Just Like a Woman, Rachid Bouchareb's salute to "Thelma & Louise," is the quality.
  20. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
    The hour of mike time isn't as strong as such previous dispatches as "Seriously…Funny."
  21. Despicable Me 2
    Even with slightly heavier issues, like its predecessor, Despicable Me 2 is light on its feet, visually inventive and very fast with the repartee. It requires actors who can pull off the many peppery lines at warp speed and in that the film is lucky with its voice cast.
  22. The Lone Ranger
    The Lone Ranger exists without a convincing sense of jeopardy or, more critically, any place for audiences to emotionally connect.
  23. Un Flic (re-release)
    Though not among Melville's classics, Un Flic is a pleasure to experience.
  24. The Attack
    The Attack rewards your patience. Though it's never less than involving, it grows in stature as it unfolds and ends as a more subtle and disturbing film about love, loss and tragedy than we might initially expect.
  25. Byzantium
    Byzantium's appeal is not so much its bite, which could use some refining, but the emotional journey its undead take. In Jordan's hands, the vampires are so very human.
  26. I'm So Excited
    I'm So Excited! will not stand as one of Almodóvar's defining works. But for some completely frivolous, naughty nonsense, it may be just the ticket.
  27. The Heat
    At times The Heat gets messy, and the comedy is not always pitch perfect. But they're cops. They're enemies. They're friends. They're opposites. It's funny.
  28. Gasland Part II
    With continued arguments and legislation over fracking, this follow-up seems inevitable and necessary.
  29. The Secret Disco Revolution
    The movie feels like a flakey, off-the-cuff blog post that somehow transmogrified itself into a feature-length documentary.
  30. Copperhead
    Painfully lugubrious, any sting Copperhead might contain for its contrarian's view of history is undone by its wayward sense of storytelling.
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