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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. Sleepless
    A stylish surface goes only so far to disguise the fact that we’re being sold some pretty cut-rate goods.
  2. All in Time
    The “time travel” bit kicks in for real — or rather surreal. But this half-baked device proves too little, too late and fails to jump start the film’s prosaic narrative.
  3. Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
    Much of the dialogue is too literal and undercut by its stolid earnestness, and many of the characters are left underdeveloped.
  4. Life on the Line
    Life on the Line traffics in piled-on, predictable melodrama, with only intermittent sparks.
  5. 100 Streets
    It’s six or so characters in search of a meaningful movie.
  6. 25 April
    Although the filmmakers use the soldiers’ own words, they fail to create believable characters who can engage the audience.
  7. The Beat Beneath My Feet
    Michael Mueller’s character-driven script is about the only thing that feels driven in this otherwise listless vehicle, and “The Beat Beneath My Feet” conveys all the pulse-pounding energy of a funeral procession.
  8. Bitter Harvest
    Given the scope of the early-1930s atrocity, the most shocking thing about director George Mendeluk’s new dramatization is how utterly devoid of emotional impact it is.
  9. A Billion Lives
    A Billion Lives employs a variety of experts in relaying its message, but it sometimes feels like a statistic-filled, 95-minute commercial for the vaping industry rather than a feature-length documentary.
  10. Ali and Nino
    There’s zero chemistry or feeling to this sweeping, predictable endeavor, only the scent of what might have been.
  11. Tank 432
    A few memorable shots don’t offer enough justification to watch a film that’s not scary, rarely exciting and never as engrossing a puzzle as it means to be.
  12. Railroad Tigers
    Instead of a grand lark of fast fists and derring-do, we get a lumbering, choppy voyage of minimal excitement.
  13. Abattoir
    Ultimately, this film has a memorable villain and a stunning location, and not much else.
  14. Sky on Fire
    Keeping up with the betrayals and shifting allegiances is more tedious than fun, while the simplistic moralizing about callous corporate greed, and the detours into tragedy, fall flat.
  15. Sword Master
    Slick and silly, Sword Master rarely reaches the thrilling heights of the many kinetic twirl-and-slice epics directed by its producer, the legendary Tsui Hark.
  16. Blood Brothers
    It’s hard to recommend Blood Brothers, which is mostly unpleasant and shrill. But it is unusual enough to suggest that Prendes’ next film might be better.
  17. Sins of Our Youth
    With its saturated colors, swirling camerawork and aggressive techno beats, Sins of Our Youth is rarely dull, but it lacks the emotional resonance that one expects from a film with the death of a child at its heart.
  18. The Ottoman Lieutenant
    This well-intentioned, sumptuously shot tale of love and war, directed by Joseph Ruben, lacks the emotional depth and romantic grandeur to fulfill its epic ambitions.
  19. Let It Snow
    With its cast of veteran child actors and its baked-in holiday warmth, Let It Snow has some baseline appeal. But like the formulaic Christmas movies that fill the Hallmark Channel this time of year, this film isn’t exactly a timeless classic. It’s more like something to put on in the background, while making cookies or wrapping presents.
  20. The Axe Murders of Villisca
    The Axe Murders of Villisca never really comes to much, perhaps because its focus is too diffuse. The scares are low, and the plot under-baked.
  21. Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies
    It’s not great. It’s not terrible. It’s really not anything.
  22. The Grace of Jake
    It earns points for not being overly pious, but there’s little depth in its exploration of one man’s spiritual evolution.
  23. Dean
    It’s almost afraid to invite true messiness or insightful belly laughs, and remains content to cruise on a wispy likability.
  24. This Beautiful Fantastic
    The friendship lessons are sweet enough, but such a low-stakes story strains one’s patience for such affected cinematic style.
  25. Fall
    Murphy’s quietly precise performance ultimately can’t overcome the film’s chilly gravity and unsatisfying finale.
  26. Casting JonBenét
    Though a thoughtful reflection is occasionally allowed — sometimes humanity finds its way out — this indulgent, stylized slog is straight out of a well-worn aren’t-people-weird-and-awful playbook.
  27. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions
    The flashy battle sequences will delight “Yu-Gi-Oh” fans. Viewers not familiar with the game will themselves be hopelessly lost.
  28. The Ticket
    Directed by Ido Fluk from a screenplay he wrote with Sharon Mashihi, the film is sensitively observed, its performances convincingly understated. But it rapidly devolves into a standard, and increasingly unfocused, story of materialism and greed.
  29. Bethany
    James Cullen Bressack’s Bethany is polished, well-acted and filled with memorably disgusting images, but its portrait of a frazzled adult survivor of child abuse is ultimately formulaic and a little sleazy.
  30. Year by the Sea
    Unfortunately, this overlong picture rarely feels particularly authentic.
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