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For 16,520 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: 8,697 out of 16520
  2. Mixed: 5,806 out of 16520
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16520
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  1. The Snowman
    A wretched waste of time and talent.
  2. Alex & Eve
    The romance lacks the depth that can make a love story feel real, but the performances charm, as does the film’s well-meaning take on culture clashes.
  3. Prosperity
    The end result comes across less as a bona fide, issue-oriented documentary than a package of company profiles.
  4. Surviving Peace
    Based on the dubious, and occasionally eye-rolling responses from the majority of those being pitched, the plan would appear to be as ill-conceived as Surviving Peace itself.
  5. Angels Within
    Though it lacks the sophistication and depth its subject merits, Angels Within does suggest the possibility of reconciling some of the cultural divisions that face the nation if we are willing to drop the labels and judgments and see one another as human beings.
  6. Haze
    As a morality tale, Haze is old news. But as an in-the-moment explanation of how hazing happens, it’s so fresh, it’s raw.
  7. Bad Blood: The Movie
    There’s barely enough plot here to fill a feature, but this energetic throwback’s DIY effects and general looniness should appeal to horror mavens.
  8. Paradise
    Paradise and its predictable waltz of suffering, choked consciousness and monstrosity adds little to the problematic subset of camp-themed World War II movies, which feel like nostalgia for hell.
  9. Blood Money
    Coltrane displays a range he hasn’t shown before onscreen, dipping into darker realms as the romantically spurned blue collar townie Victor. But Fitzgerald runs away with Blood Money as femme fatale Lynn.
  10. M.F.A.
    Tonally, M.F.A is sometimes jarring, as these outrageous, fantastical killings are motivated by authentic, grounded emotions. But at the center, Eastwood is absolutely riveting, inhabiting a true violent vigilante worth rooting for.
  11. Swing Away
    Directed by Michael Achilles Nickles, the movie can’t maintain a consistent tone, veering from earnestness to silliness like a bad slice.
  12. Bending the Arc
    The archival footage, the impassioned interviews, and the inspiring story of how warriors for solutions can overcome entrenched views on poverty and health, make for something genuinely stirring.
  13. Wasted! The Story of Food Waste
    The skillfully assembled documentary Wasted! The Story of Food Waste proves as eye-opening as it is mouth-watering.
  14. Bugs
    Input from a broader range of chefs and food experts, as well as sociologists and scientists, could have better fleshed out this brief study.
  15. Rat Film
    There’s a thrilling friction between the smoothly assembled pieces of Anthony’s narrative, and often sparks.
  16. Faces Places
    Faces Places turns out to be a road movie in more than a merely literal sense. It is at once a roving journey into environments we rarely see in cinema and an incomplete but invaluable map of Varda’s memories.
  17. Goodbye Christopher Robin
    If you do see the movie, by all means surrender to its portrait of an earlier era of toxic celebrity culture, and also to the bracing nastiness of the central performances.
  18. Take My Nose... Please!
    Take My Nose … Please! is a lively and enjoyable documentary about comedians, plastic surgery, female self-image, aging in Hollywood, and other facets of facial politics.
  19. Trafficked
    Movies can warp any urgent issue into disposable melodrama, and what’s cringe-worthy about Trafficked, directed by Will Wallace, is how unnecessarily eroticized it is, like something from the made-for-video bin in a ’90s-era Blockbuster.
  20. Breathe
    In leaving out the rasp of life from this unusual story, Breathe too often feels like a mechanized exhale.
  21. Blood Stripe
    Made with passion, integrity and skill, Blood Stripe is American independent filmmaking at its most effective. It takes on a difficult subject and treats it with an honesty that can't help but capture us from start to finish.
  22. 6 Below: Miracle On The Mountain
    While Harnett’s a real trooper and stuntman-turned-filmmaker Scott Waugh (“Act of Valor”) establishes an effectively bone-chilling milieu heightened by an immersive sound design that keeps those whipping winds and howling wolves in uncomfortably close proximity, the embellishments fail to create crucial suspense.
  23. Te Ata
    The film rarely soars with the kind of authentic spirit and passion needed to fully sell this decidedly old-fashioned material.
  24. Walking Out
    The Smiths may be working on a comparatively modest scale, but it’s precisely that modesty that gives their work its bone-deep authority and humanity, along with a refusal to indulge in violence for its own sake.
  25. Una
    It’s at once talky yet emotionally remote, and while posing a risky set of questions about sexual abuse, power and relationships, the experience is an unsatisfactory and draining slog.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Happy Death Day
    If you’re looking to enjoy some scares while trying to figure out a clever mystery, don’t miss Happy Death Day.
  27. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    You may long for a more disreputable, less buttoned-up telling, but there is something about this one’s sleek, streamlined conventionality that feels both appropriate and pleasing.
  28. Marshall
    While the film is constructed from top to bottom for maximum popular entertainment, it is unwilling to let us leave the theater without reminding us that these battles are far from over.
  29. Dina
    From the mundane to the eventful, the movie takes a fairly unflinching, yet respectful view of Dina and Scott’s world.
  30. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    "Meyerowitz” feels very much from the heart. It has an unexpected maturity and warmth, a compassion that seems to reflect Baumbach’s desire to dig as deeply as he can into the myriad conundrums of family life. And, as noted, it is often quite funny.
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