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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. Papa: Hemingway in Cuba
    The film manages to be exceedingly dull, perhaps because it's too enamored of its own design, concept and location to bother with a captivating story.
  2. Rio, I Love You
    Despite its connotation of sun-drenched sensuality, Rio, I Love You is a dispiritingly dull affair.
  3. L'Attesa (The Wait)
    The film is a moody and lyrical contemplation of grief and the connections that can be found within the void of loss.
  4. Dough
    The challah may be extra special, but the humor found in John Goldschmidt's direction and the conventional script by Yehudah Jez Freedman and Jonathan Benson is disappointingly stale.
  5. Tale of Tales
    Diverting but rarely transporting, unpredictable yet strangely overdetermined, Garrone's film never conjures the sustained, enveloping magic promised by its extravagant design and its agreeably unhinged story sense.
  6. The Man Who Knew Infinity
    If The Man Who Knew Infinity had been more concerned with the soul of a raw talent instead of the learn-and-earn ethos of so much accomplishment cinema, it might have produced something soulful rather than something institutional.
  7. Ratchet & Clank
    From a storytelling perspective, the obsession with guns in a movie aimed at children is troubling, in poor taste and is lazy writing to boot.
  8. Viva
    Nothing happens you won't see coming, but it's all so deftly done you're more than happy to wait for the inevitable to arrive.
  9. The Family Fang
    For a project that is a showcase for his talents as both actor and director, Bateman never gets too showy on either front, keeping the emotions of the film at something of a restrained simmer.
  10. Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
    A thoughtful, nuanced examination of a complex thinker.
  11. Sworn Virgin
    Skipping deftly between time frames while keeping her camera close to her protagonist — played with tremulous understatement by the remarkable actress Alba Rohrwacher — Bispuri traces a journey of delicate interior shifts and reversals.
  12. Mother's Day
    From awkward start to merciful finish, Mother's Day is a grim, listless affair that may leave you pining for the relative pep and coherence of its predecessors (both of which were scripted by Katherine Fugate), or at least a few of their incidental pleasures.
  13. An Eye for Beauty
    Insistently distancing if aesthetically pleasing.
  14. No Home Movie
    With its focus on domestic interiors (and interior lives), the movie doesn't simply recall Akerman's past efforts; it reveals their roots.
  15. Keepers of the Game
    Even if its trajectory hews to a well-worn format, Keepers of the Game is as strong an argument that can be made for the rich emotional rewards of schoolgirls hitting the field to show everyone and themselves what they can achieve.
  16. Sky
    Though the first half of the film is far more interesting than the overwrought melodrama that it becomes, Sky remains a deeply compelling and optimistic valentine to the possibilities of the West.
  17. Paradox
    The temporal puzzle is enough to distract from the artless direction, visibly cheap set designs and tacky special effects. But if the expository scenes are any indication, his writing could benefit from some refinement.
  18. Our Last Tango
    While Our Last Tango is a little schematic overall, from moment to moment, it's beautifully choreographed.
  19. Holidays
    The film mostly feels perfunctory and awkward — like calling home at Christmas.
  20. Men & Chicken
    In Jensen's uniquely wacky world, there's a genuine affection for his offbeat characters.
  21. Nina
    There are a few stirring moments, but it never seems authentic or real, just a bizarrely staged re-creation.
  22. I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
    Within the doc's brief running time, Lambert sculpts a discerning overview of the artist and her filmography.
  23. Elvis & Nixon
    Elvis & Nixon meanders its way into the big encounter with a tone too wacky and cutesy to whet our appetite for strangeness.
  24. The Meddler
    The Meddler offers a charming, authentic and well-observed mix of comedy and poignancy.
  25. Hockney
    Hockney is less interested in providing a conventional top-to-bottom narrative than in capturing a sense of who Hockney is and what is important to him.
  26. A Hologram for the King
    Hologram for the King is a baffling film, cinema without weight or heft. The problem is not that anything on screen is troubling, it's that nothing there, not even star Tom Hanks, is capable of holding our interest or attention for very long.
  27. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    A convoluted narrative yields not a single, palpable moment of drama.
  28. Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
    This lively and engaged documentary lives up to its name.
  29. Bill
    There are a few chuckles to be found in Bill, but this is decidedly more "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" than "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
  30. Colonia
    The end product is a standard-issue cult drama that nevertheless has its gripping moments thanks mainly to the presence of Emma Watson.
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