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For 16,522 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 16522
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16522
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16522
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  1. 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.
  2. People You May Know
    Although there are contrivances, and Joe’s blurry “catfishing” tale meanders, these folks’ emotional growth feels authentic and touchingly earned.
  3. Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story
    In its present form, Ramsey’s story leaves you wanting more — and less.
  4. Operation Mekong
    Though more sensationalistic than serious, this film has a scale and an energy that rivals any Hollywood blockbuster.
  5. 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.
  6. Milton's Secret
    Even for something preaching spiritual tranquility, Milton’s Secret exhibits the barest trace of a pulse.
  7. Maximum Ride
    The obvious exposition, tortured dialogue and shoddy special effects just make you wish you were watching something else.
  8. Generation Startup
    It’s a warm, uplifting portrait of the potentials to be found in startup culture, but feels blinkered by its specific focus.
  9. The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
    Many viewers will find it challenging to see the substance hidden in the documentary’s over-the-top style that makes Michael Moore’s directorial stamp look subtle.
  10. Seed: The Untold Story
    This is a gorgeously made film, put together with as much care as its subjects devote to saving the remaining varieties of seeds.
  11. Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
    Though its chronological organization and issue management is rough around the edges, Esquenazi’s passionately argued film...easily convinces that the charges are impossible to believe.
  12. Danny Says
    What emerges is a rich portrait of one of 20th century pop culture’s great facilitators, whose keen observations, quirky personality and natural affinity for the outré helped greatness happen.
  13. ClownTown
    It tests the theory that a creepy clown lurking in the dark is always terrifying. It turns out that with repetition, some nightmares become boring.
  14. Flock of Dudes
    The cast is stocked with some of comedy’s best actors, which elevates the rather pedestrian material.
  15. The Free World
    An initially compelling but uneven drama elevated by two centered performances.
  16. Come What May
    With its old-fashioned gloss, the incident-packed story proves only mildly engaging and finally has little to say.
  17. Chronic
    For a drama that’s as quiet and circumspect as Chronic, it’s a decidedly bold film, one that pulls few punches as it slowly peels away the emotional layers of its complex protagonist. t also features an ending that’s as devastating as it is shocking.
  18. Amanda Knox
    Without doubt this strong documentary sheds a powerful light on this particular case while emphasizing the ultimate unknowability of absolute truth.
  19. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    The sense of film craft here is so delicate and assured that, even at its most razzle dazzle-prone moments, the movie never seems to be straining for effect.
  20. American Honey
    It’s been a while since a film so powerfully evoked the thrilling possibilities and wasted pleasures of the open road.
  21. Command and Control
    Lots of documentaries these days will tell you to be afraid, to be very afraid, but few will scare you as coolly and as convincingly as Command and Control.
  22. Long Way North
    Long Way North is a complete pleasure, a gorgeous piece of wide-screen animation that is as delightful as it is unexpected.
  23. Denial
    Denial periodically plays like a standard-issue drama. But because Hare's script grapples with serious themes and singular events whose ramifications are still being felt, it is effective when it counts.
  24. Deepwater Horizon
    Swift, no-nonsense and pummelingly intense, this is the big-budget Hollywood disaster flick on a CrossFit regimen and a Paleo diet — a hellish cataclysm that never risks overstaying its welcome.
  25. The Apostate
    It’s a movie that ultimately may mean more to those raised in heavily Catholic cultures, but it has an engaging prickliness as a satiric peek into the life of a brooding idealist.
  26. A Man Called Ove
    Incorporating fluid flashbacks and snippets of narration that refreshingly serve to enhance rather than distract, director-writer Hannes Holm maintains a gentle, lyrical flow while coaxing fine performances from a diverse cast.
  27. Closet Monster
    Dunn juggles the story’s vital, at times fantastical narrative, eclectic imagery, and wellspring of human fears, flaws and desires with vision and confidence. But Jessup’s powerfully empathetic performance really seals the deal.
  28. The Gemini
    This melodrama struggles with serious post-production issues and an unnecessarily complex story, losing any of its intended impact in the process.
  29. Dirty 30
    There are a few times when a viewer less familiar with this world can feel a bit out of place, though it is possible for anyone to find amusement in this winsome if slight film.
  30. Total Frat Movie
    It’s a rare film that can dredge up nostalgic fondness for 2002’s awful “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder,” but Total Frat Movie manages to rise to the dubious occasion.
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