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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. Last Cab to Darwin
    There’s much to admire about this alternately tough and tender film, including a fine turn by Caton, some striking outback scenery, and many resonant thoughts about living — and dying.
  2. Clown
    Refreshingly dark and sick, this is a movie for those who like cinematic monsters that hit so hard they leave a mark.
  3. Bourek
    Bourek is well-meaning but woefully lacking in dimension or urgency, the movie equivalent of a scenic tourist trap.
  4. The Last Heist
    While it has a sharp hook — and is reasonably diverting — it never rises above the routine.
  5. Len and Company
    Thanks to Ifans, though, this remains a watchable film, one that, perhaps like Len himself, falls short of its potential.
  6. No Stranger Than Love
    Few will likely embrace the insufferably chirpy, high-concept rom-com that struggles to stretch a mighty shallow premise into a feature-length proposition.
  7. Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
    Though indulgently overlong, “Raiders!” manages to unearth the inner geek in all of us.
  8. Parched
    Leena Yadav’s Parched is a bright jewel of a film, surprisingly funny, fresh and upbeat in the way it takes on the complicated and often dark topic of sexual politics in rural India. T
  9. Tickled
    By the end you may feel moderately relieved and more than a little creeped out, but you may also wish that this undeniably compelling documentary had done more than lightly brush the surface.
  10. Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)
    Husson’s film details the consequences of such free love, but it celebrates sex too — the kind based on intimacy and love. Teens and sex: it’s a tale as old as time but this take is surprising, invigorating and sharply frank.
  11. Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary
    They both saw themselves, "Dying to Know" posits, as adventurers exploring alternate realities, and hearing where they ended up is a trip all by itself.
  12. The Flight Fantastic
    A trapeze enthusiast himself, Moore is not shy about displaying his passion. His shambling, amiable film has a tendency to wander and digress, sometimes effectively, sometimes not. But its core of balletic trapeze footage is always gripping.
  13. From Afar
    A tightly coiled, beautifully acted relationship study that occasionally swerves in the direction of a gangland thriller.
  14. Finding Dory
    Because no one compensates for a thin concept like the people at Pixar, there is a lot to admire in the animated “Dory,” including stunning undersea visuals and an ocean full of eccentric and engaging aquatic creatures. But, as the 13-year gap between “Nemo” and “Dory” indicates, this was not a concept that cried out to be made.
  15. Central Intelligence
    Central Intelligence is dumb in all the right ways, and also a bit smarter than you might expect.
  16. Blackway
    Gray and listless, the Anthony Hopkins/Ray Liotta-starrer Blackway is a vengeance tale set in a cold, foggy Pacific Northwest logging town where clichés are as prevalent as trees.
  17. Queen of Spades: The Dark Rite
    A compendium of genre clichés — or, more charitably, “homages” — Queen of Spades offers little that fright fans haven’t seen before.
  18. Honeyglue
    Writer-director James Bird took inspiration from real-life experiences, and the story is obviously heartfelt. But despite a stylized, edgy surface, Honeyglue doesn’t stray from the well-worn weepy narrative.
  19. The God Cells
    Remains intriguing despite its troublesome issues.
  20. Gurukulam
    For a movie seemingly concerned with clarity and enlightenment, it’s woefully lacking in both.
  21. Paths of the Soul
    The movie’s physicality is never pushed to suggest suffering. It’s like a constant meditation, something to absorb and exhale.
  22. Viktoria
    While the intended dramatic payoff proves a letdown, it doesn’t undo the allegorical power of the movie’s searing depiction of groupthink and its fallout.
  23. Diary of a Chambermaid
    Unfolding elliptically, the new film can feel abrupt and unsatisfying, but it’s filled with sharp commentary on class and servitude, and the actress delivers another extraordinary performance.
  24. Puerto Ricans in Paris
    Despite an energetic set-up, the broad script fails to deliver the anticipated goods once the action relocates to Paris.
  25. Therapy for a Vampire
    Although amusing and filled with many well-timed comic bits, especially by the deft Moretti, the movie loses some of its farcical steam en route and suffers from a diffused point of view.
  26. King Jack
    Although he’s working with familiar tropes, writer-director Felix Thompson, in his feature debut, wisely keeps clear of big, dramatic moments, maintaining instead a palpable naturalism through dialogue that has an unmannered, improvised feel and acting that follows suit.
  27. Careful What You Wish For
    It’s a color-by-numbers thriller that’s flat.
  28. The Fits
    Made by a first-time feature director working with a microscopic budget and a tiny, 11-year-old protagonist, it’s a 72-minute wonder, a self-assured, gently mysterious little film that is hypnotic in unexpected ways.
  29. De Palma
    De Palma's biggest asset, not surprisingly, is the man himself. A formidable talker who is invariably smart, candid and acerbic, De Palma is a person of considerable self-confidence, and listening to him hold forth gives us an always-involving glimpse inside a singular cinematic mind.
  30. The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
    As directed by Morgan Neville, "Strangers" turns out to be as concerned with emotion as with performance, spending much of its time investigating how so much joyous music was able to come out of exploration, disturbance, even pain.
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