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For 16,524 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: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Nicky's Family
    There's a great story at the heart of Matej Minac's documentary Nicky's Family, if only it were allowed to be told unvarnished.
  2. Midnight's Children
    A flavorless feast, with the movie's few mystical leaps clunkily handled.
  3. Tai Chi Hero
    There's still a nagging, cartoonish emptiness — and a trilogy-ending installment still to come.
  4. Greetings from Tim Buckley
    With many languid scenes and little narrative momentum, Algrant may have been aiming for a more ethereal father-son heartbreaker. But all that comes across is twee hipster romanticism.
  5. No One Lives
    No One Lives is a cheap horror prank that's ultimately not clever or accomplished enough to sustain its eccentricities, and they are very bloody eccentricities indeed.
  6. Violet & Daisy
    Violet & Daisy comes out of the gate guns blazing. Too bad it ends as a misfire.
  7. Pawn
    Pawn's cops and robbers game could have been far better played.
  8. Home Run
    Almost from the beginning the message overwhelms the medium.
  9. Arthur Newman
    The promise it begins with doesn't pay off. And while Arthur Newman is not a complete disaster, it does leave you wishing the romance and the ride had been a whole lot smoother.
  10. Girl Most Likely
    A tonal jumble, veering between forced farce and tired, rom-com beats, with little feeling real or true.
  11. The Hot Flashes
    What could have been an empowering and amusing riff on the typically male underdog genre is mostly charmless.
  12. Cockneys vs Zombies
    There's little that feels fresh, freaky or funny about one more batch of eccentric reactions to hungry corpses, one more attempt to creatively splatter, one more metaphor for zombie invasion.
  13. Drift
    When Drift sticks to the likable, gently humorous contours of occasionally fractious brotherly love, broken up by thrillingly shot surfing footage, it has plenty of charm, period flavor and breezy visual breadth... Where the movie routinely disappoints, though, is in pursuit of a perfect storm of conflict story lines.
  14. Sex Tape
    Since it's a comedy, much could be forgiven if the film was consistent in generating laughs, but the comedy is as erratic as the couple's sex life.
  15. Aroused
    The impulse to profile "the world's most sexualized women" is a worthy one. But little sense of individuality emerges in Aroused.
  16. Tammy
    There are some laughs and, at least on screen, more than a few tears. But it doesn't come together with the kind of satisfying punch a comedy should deliver.
  17. Project Almanac
    With "Looper" and the fantastic recent release "Predestination" using the same plot device to explore existentialism, the potboiler Project Almanac feels like a leap backward.
  18. The Other Woman
    Slyness, slapstick and sex can often be mixed to amusing effect whatever the specifics — the original "Hangover," for example, did a credible job of it — but The Other Woman is ultimately undone by its indecision.
  19. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
    It's a strong story of lonely, even futile righteousness, which makes the plodding execution by director Arnaud des Pallierès somewhat mystifying.
  20. I Do
    A sweet, sincere, yet ultimately tepid story.
  21. Free Samples
    Free Samples is a film about wasting time, and it feels like it. Despite clocking in at 79 minutes, Jay Gammill's comedy drags by no fault of its delightfully sour lead.
  22. The Rambler
    It's a handsome nothing, at least until you get sick of the screaming.
  23. The Expendables 3
    Expendables 3 is a kind of ho-hum experience, wherein a lot of bullets are expended and a lot of structures exploded to minimal dramatic effect.
  24. The Book of Life
    The Book of Life juxtaposes overwrought visual imagery with an undernourished, familiar story.
  25. The Gardener
    The elder Makhmalbaf, who wrote and directed, puts many spins on this ethereal mood piece — it is by turns poetic, impressionistic, metaphorical and even a bit trippy — without satisfying such genre basics as structure, depth and resolution.
  26. That Awkward Moment
    What makes this film particularly bedeviling is that you get the sense there is a nice guy behind this mess, one not so callous about matters of the heart. If anything, the raunch seems forced. The closer the film gets to real emotions, the more authentic it feels.
  27. Dolphin Tale 2
    Although children may enjoy the animal action (there's also a fun pelican and a yellow sea turtle) and parents might appreciate the movie's genuinely sweet moments, this is exceedingly mild entertainment.
  28. The Nut Job
    The Nut Job features decent CG animation, especially of animals, but the writing isn't particularly clever, relying on obvious puns and slapstick humor.
  29. 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.
  30. Afternoon Delight
    Aiming to discomfort, the film ends up retreating.
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