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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. Between Us
    The performers fully commit to their unlikable parts but, at least as written, even the best actors couldn't create compelling, relatable characters out of this messed-up bunch.
  2. Aliyah
    Tense, smartly crafted and highly resonant, Aliyah is one of the best films so far this year.
  3. Unfinished Song
    Unfinished Song is a movie so geared toward hitting its spots, it amounts to emotional Muzak rather than something truly played live.
  4. 20 Feet from Stardom
    A moving and joyous behind-the-scenes documentary about a world filled with big, bold personalities and the music they make.
  5. The Bling Ring
    Make no mistake, it is lovely to look at this celebrity bedazzled bit of L.A. crime history for a while. But the movie ultimately leaves you feeling as empty as the lives it means to portray.
  6. Stepping High
    Stepping High is both a trifle and an impassioned argument that dance is a direct route to character, ethics and world peace.
  7. Big Men
    When on-the-ground reality is conveyed with the complexity and fascination it is here, unforgettable documentaries are always the result.
  8. Hey Bartender
    For all his attention to the exactitude of creating righteous cocktails, Tirola never quite nails a specific structure, focus or theme.
  9. Pandora's Promise
    A challenge to eco-orthodoxy, Pandora's Promise subscribes to its own dogma. The lack of opposing voices diminishes the film, even as Stone raises issues that shouldn't be discounted out of hand.
  10. Vehicle 19
    A serviceable if silly B-movie.
  11. The Guillotines
    An action fan could be forgiven for the medicinal taste that this slick but dissipating exercise leaves behind.
  12. The Rambler
    It's a handsome nothing, at least until you get sick of the screaming.
  13. Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
    "Ain't in It" offers a warm and largely satisfying look at a man and his music and, for some, the end of an era.
  14. The Wall
    The Wall is a remarkably involving film, especially given its brave, self-imposed limitations.
  15. Married and Counting
    As might be the case watching any couple repeatedly exchange wedding vows and proclaim their eternal love, things can get a bit mawkish. But there's no denying the sincerity of Pat and Stephen's powerful devotion — to each other and to the vital cause of marriage equality.
  16. Man of Steel
    While its ambition and scope pull one way, its pinched and unconvincing sense of drama pull the other.
  17. Berberian Sound Studio
    Writer-director Peter Strickland...uses atmosphere as others would use plot, and knows how to provoke comic shudders. But he tends to repeat himself, and he doesn't quite find a satisfying denouement for the inventive premise.
  18. This Is the End
    From the clockwork comic timing to the movie's salty mix of the ridiculous and the reflective, This Is the End is stupidly hysterical and smartly heretical. Cross my heart and hope to die, it's funny as hell.
  19. Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
    It's a great trick the filmmakers have pulled off to make us feel as if we're there sorting through the memories with him. The movie's editing is especially artful with Maya Hawke and Casey Brooks doing the nipping and tucking.
  20. Post Tenebras Lux
    Post Tenebras Lux is that real rarity in cinema, a visually striking archaeology of the psyche that benefits both the moviegoer primed to engage Reygadas' ideas, and the ones open to being swallowed in an art film wave.
  21. Much Ado About Nothing
    It feels like a blessing to have this production at all and we are fortunate it turned out as well as it did.
  22. The Lesser Blessed
    Pensively shot, painfully and poetically told.
  23. Hannah Arendt
    Barbara Sukowa's performance in the title role is the kind that reverberates long after the screen goes black.
  24. The Prey
    For moviegoers who prefer cheeky wit, down-and-dirty mayhem and grown-up suspense in their air-conditioned escapism, The Prey deserves to light up the summer art house.
  25. Violet & Daisy
    Violet & Daisy comes out of the gate guns blazing. Too bad it ends as a misfire.
  26. The Girls in the Band
    Director Judy Chaikin, who co-wrote the film with its deft editor, Edward Osei-Gyimah, infuses this fine portrait with grace, nostalgia and a well-calibrated dose of social commentary.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Welcome to Pine Hill
    Mixes real-life situations and characters with fictionalized narrative threads to create a highly authentic slice-of-life drama.
  28. Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
    Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie is as fair a portrayal the weak-chinned warrior will get — and fairer than he deserves.
  29. Lost and Found in Armenia
    The lowbrow comedy Lost and Found in Armenia so shamelessly wallows in its broad humor, silly contrivances and retrograde stereotypes it almost dares you to be annoyed. Mission accomplished.
  30. The History of Future Folk
    The movie could have made its points — war is bad; music is the universal language — in half the time. But the harmonies are sweet, the acoustic picking impressive.
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