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For 16,550 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: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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  1. The Great Gilly Hopkins
    Characters and situations are painted in such simple, broad strokes, we’re asked to take much at face value.
  2. The Greasy Strangler
    While The Greasy Strangler eventually becomes tiresome in its relentless repellence, it’s just so odd it deserves to be lauded for simply existing.
  3. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
    Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time: The Imax Experience is a glorious cosmic reverie, a feast for the eyes and a balm for the soul in these angry, contentious times.
  4. Sand Storm
    Sand Storm's great gift is that it is human, not didactic, showing not only how difficult this iron web of culture and tradition is to escape from but also how much it poisons the lives of the men who enforce it as much as the women who are victimized by it.
  5. Astraea
    There are a few story threads left hanging, but ultimately, the film is a thoughtful rumination on the far-reaching tentacles of grief, and the crucial importance of asserting humanity that persists in the face of devastation.
  6. Better Off Single
    With its muddy timeline, kaleidoscope of fantasies, flashbacks and hallucinations, broad characterizations and sitcom slickness, the film never settles down long enough to congeal, much less feel remotely connected to reality.
  7. 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.
  8. Blinky Bill: The Movie
    Even the most sophisticated software can’t give characters a sense of weight or a way of moving that suggests their personality. Nor can it create an engaging story. Sadly, director Deane Taylor and his crew fail to provide those elements.
  9. Under the Shadow
    The movie is first fascinating, then terrifying.
  10. Passage to Mars
    [A] misguided hybrid that makes tediously clear from the outset that the conceit just isn’t working.
  11. Among the Believers
    There’s little that’s not dispiriting about Among the Believers and its measured, direct entrée into a closed world of hopeless boys and girls memorizing the Koran, but forbidden from learning its meanings.
  12. The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America
    And although the film might stint on full renditions of their songs, one of the few played in its entirety is a gorgeous, relaxed acoustic version of “Honky Tonk Women” delivered by Mick and Keith in a vacant dressing room.
  13. 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.
  14. 13th
    What “black lives matter” means in essence, one of this film’s voices says, “is that all lives matter,” a point “13th” makes with undeniable eloquence as well as persuasive force.
  15. The Girl on the Train
    The empathy that Taylor summoned so effortlessly in his previous films feels strained and unpersuasive here, and moments that should be lacerating...are overplayed to ghastly effect.
  16. The Siege of Jadotville
    A scrappy war flick with a fair amount of combat suspense but a whole lot of clichéd dialogue.
  17. 37
    A drama that plays out as an overdetermined thesis, with Genovese herself (Christina Brucato) a footnote to the darkly stylized plunge into lives of quiet desperation.
  18. The Birth of a Nation
    The Birth of a Nation certainly has the power of conviction, but the grace of art escapes it.
  19. As I Open My Eyes
    Baya Medhaffar inhabits the role of Farah with a blazing exuberance that’s matched by a dynamic sense of place. Director Leyla Bouzid may struggle to shape her narrative in the final reels, but through most of its running time her first feature pulses with in-the-moment vitality.
  20. London Town
    The fantasy of a punk icon for a friend is one thing, but the filmmakers undercut the modest liveliness of their enterprise with a save-the-day storyline that seems far removed from the roiling, anti-authoritative ethos of punk.
  21. Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
    Despite the film’s brief running time, it packs in vital social context, gay history and nostalgic imagery along with some sad truths.
  22. The Last Film Festival
    A thoroughly amateurish un-comedy about show business.
  23. Loserville
    Loserville is somehow two different movies — a traditional teen comedy mixed with a message-driven drama about the dangers of bullying — without enough connective tissue linking characters or scenes to lend it cohesion.
  24. Mommy's Box
    Though it’s mildly enjoyable throughout, the movie is ultimately just a loose collection of nice little scenes, held together by a few palliative clichés.
  25. People You May Know
    Although there are contrivances, and Joe’s blurry “catfishing” tale meanders, these folks’ emotional growth feels authentic and touchingly earned.
  26. Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story
    In its present form, Ramsey’s story leaves you wanting more — and less.
  27. Operation Mekong
    Though more sensationalistic than serious, this film has a scale and an energy that rivals any Hollywood blockbuster.
  28. Harry & Snowman
    Equine fans: Gallop, don’t trot to Ron Davis’ winning documentary Harry & Snowman, which recounts the inspiring story of an underdog show horse, his tenacious trainer and their rise to fame in the late 1950s.
  29. Milton's Secret
    Even for something preaching spiritual tranquility, Milton’s Secret exhibits the barest trace of a pulse.
  30. Maximum Ride
    The obvious exposition, tortured dialogue and shoddy special effects just make you wish you were watching something else.
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