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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. Miles Ahead
    The sophistication gap between the character Cheadle has created and the film that contains him is so great it begins to feel like you're watching two different stories that have been unaccountably spliced together.
  2. Everybody Wants Some!!
    The ostensible college comedy Everybody Wants Some!! is like a stream that looks shallow but once you're in the middle of it reveals an unforeseen depth.
  3. Valley of Love
    It's illuminating to see Huppert and Depardieu in a different mode, and Huppert brings a delicate physical and emotional fragility to her role. These two are fantastic, and they're fantastic together.
  4. Born to be Blue
    By reducing Baker's story to just a couple of pivotal years, Budreau makes every moment matter, including a tense final scene that treats the preparation for a performance like a duel at high noon. Like Baker himself, Born to Be Blue finds drama in minimalism.
  5. Take Me to the River
    Take Me to the River reaches its end sadder and wiser if not satisfactorily complete as a psychodrama. But Sobel thrives on the unevenness, and it gives his admirably off-putting wade into fractured-family waters its own specialized charge.
  6. No Letting Go
    No Letting Go has all the subtlety of an after-school special, and the performances feel like they're from a public service announcement about mental illness.
  7. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
    In the new documentary Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato do an ultra-fine job tracing a born provocateur's commitment to his calling.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mountains May Depart
    Sequences in which Tao helps an ill friend and deals with the death of a parent are as finely staged and acted, as sorrowful and transcendent, as anything ever to grace the screen.
  9. Lolo
    This strained, often crass comedy traffics in broadness and inconsistency far more than anything smart, clever or dimensional. That might be more forgivable if the film was at least funny. It's not.
  10. They're Watching
    The movie doesn't do justice to a promising premise. A scarcity of laughs and scares limits this property's curb appeal.
  11. I Saw the Light
    I Saw the Light is solid but not spectacular, a retelling of a sad story that never catches fire.
  12. Jane Wants a Boyfriend
    "Jane's" affecting emotional core and cathartic conclusion carry the day.
  13. Get a Job
    The payoff is sporadically rewarding at best.
  14. Fastball
    You don't have to be a baseball fanatic or for that matter a historian or a physicist to appreciate Fastball.
  15. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    The sequel is a little like a bear hug from a beloved old relative — the embrace is too tight, the perfume is too strong, but ultimately it still leaves you feeling good inside.
  16. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    The director, a strong technician whose slam-bang emphatic, occasionally operatic style seems made for comic book adaptations, has been well-served by an adept script co-written by Chris Terrio (an Oscar winner for Ben Affleck's "Argo") and David S. Goyer, which raises a number of interesting issues.
  17. Thank You for Playing
    Make no mistake: This film is a tear-jerker, taking an intimate look at one family's heartbreak and how their art moves people.
  18. Too Late
    Hauck, with a strong assist from Bill Fernandez's clever, well-modulated Techniscope lensing, impressively choreographs the movie's continuous takes with a nice balance of intimacy and breadth. Hauck's a talent to watch.
  19. All the Time In The World
    Although their extreme staycation is obviously not everybody's idea of a swell time, the bracingly gorgeous images and meditative serenity still offer a vicarious respite from all those urgent headlines and deadlines — no bear spray required.
  20. The Dog Wedding
    The Dog Wedding is rather a minor effort, and the amateurish acting of the supporting cast and stilted energy are hard to forgive.
  21. Burning Bodhi
    The cinematography, by David J. Myrick, is lovely and luminous, but the story itself lacks insight or deep emotion.
  22. Remember
    While its flaws are considerable, the Holocaust-themed thriller Remember benefits mightily from a quietly commanding Christopher Plummer performance that almost makes you forget the wonky plot logic.
  23. The Preppie Connection
    While the film is well-acted and appealingly slick, the end result lacks novelty.
  24. Ktown Cowboys
    The film persistently misses the mark as a raunchy comedy amid all the side commentaries and Park's earnest tone. Yet it's equally clumsy at making sense of its portrayals of the indignities that Asian Americans routinely endure.
  25. Krisha
    The fertility of Shults' image-making and storytelling skills is almost breathtaking, and much of Krisha draws on the subconscious power of his direction in tandem with Krisha Fairchild's mesmerizing turn.
  26. The Confirmation
    Feature films these days rarely come as gentle and equitable as The Confirmation. It's a sweet, decidedly low-key little picture starring a deftly understated Clive Owen.
  27. The Clan
    Francella and Lanzani are excellent, not only in their charged moments together, but throughout this nervy and provocative picture.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Program
    The Program pedals fast, but the end result is little more than a psychologically shallow recap reel.
  29. My Golden Days
    Film has always been especially effective it portraying what it can feel like, what it can mean to be in love, and My Golden Days is right up there with the best of them.
  30. The Bronze
    The protagonist's unlikable routine is too high a degree of difficulty to execute flawlessly.
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