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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. Midnight Special
    Midnight Special announces the arrival of a filmmaker in total control of his technique as well as our emotions. A bravura science-fiction thriller that explores emotional areas like parenthood and the nature of belief, it's a riveting genre exercise as well as something more.
  2. Pee-wee's Big Holiday
    Despite a few delights — chiefly an adorably self-aware Joe Manganiello as the object of Pee-wee's man-crush — the new movie has an unsure tone and the barest thread of a story.
  3. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    Because the series' plot reveal turns out to be more confusing than compelling, and because turning a novel into two films invariably leads to inflated productions, only the most devoted fans of the book will pledge allegiance to what's on the screen.
  4. Bleak Street
    The grubby melodrama should appeal to adventurous moviegoers — and to the director’s small-but-fervent cult — but even that crowd should brace themselves for something slow-paced and opaque.
  5. The Perfect Match
    The facade the film offers is a lovely, and mildly diverting one, but there’s little insight to be found below the surface.
  6. About Scout
    About Scout is a fantasy of escape rooted in the harshly lit realities of life.
  7. The Young Messiah
    In the end, as with too many Gospel-derived dramas, The Young Messiah could’ve used less literalism, and more mystery.
  8. Road Games
    Though built to divert, Road Games mostly feels untethered to any memorably crafty storytelling.
  9. Creative Control
    Creative Control is funny and imaginative, where many films of this type are dispiritingly plain.
  10. Barney Thomson
    Despite the fertile concept, it's hard to care about, much less root for, the irritable, charisma-challenged Barney. The character never emerges as an effective hero or antihero, and performer Carlyle does little to mitigate that.
  11. The Automatic Hate
    A compelling bit of family drama that packs a corrosive punch.
  12. Everything Is Copy
    It's a fitting tribute to the influential journalist-essayist-filmmaker: insightful about the life of a successful writer, engaging about how a smart modern woman navigated the world, but also quizzical about how Ephron was as a daughter, sister, wife and mother.
  13. Cemetery of Splendor
    Each scene, beneath its surface calm, throbs with longing, dislocation and intricately woven layers of time.
  14. Rise of the Legend
    Those looking to learn more about Wong are in the wrong place. Those looking for a slick slugfest with memorable characters will be well satisfied.
  15. Marguerite
    As written and directed by Xavier Giannoli, Marguerite is a thoughtful examination of an unusual, deeply eccentric woman.
  16. Hyena Road
    While the attempt at a certain, documentary-style naturalism is honorable, it's at the expense of focused plotting and sufficient character development.
  17. Hello, My Name Is Doris
    Field amazes with her gameness, range and commitment.
  18. Backgammon
    The film's musings on artists and muses tries to be deep but gets bogged down in tiresome booze-soaked mind games.
  19. Admiral
    With loving shots of booming, towering ships so dominant, and decades squeezed into what feels like a week of action, there's barely enough time to develop De Ruyter as a character in his own movie, or even successfully explain his war strategies.
  20. The Brothers Grimsby
    It's not unfunny in spots, but it huffs and puffs (among other bodily functions) more often than it splits the sides.
  21. 10 Cloverfield Lane
    It is designed to be fun, efficient and accessible and delivers precisely and exactly on that and nothing more.
  22. Rabin, the Last Day
    An unusual work that mixes genres to at times awkward but always powerful effect.
  23. The Wave
    The Wave adds credible writing and effective acting to gangbusters special effects, resulting in a white-knuckle experience a bit higher on the plausibility scale than what we're used to from Hollywood versions of the genre.
  24. Marguerite & Julien
    The operatic tragedy of Marguerite and Julien's plight proves an effectively creepy dramatic engine.
  25. Of Mind and Music
    New Orleans locations and stirring tunes lend texture, intermittently breaking through the film's overriding flatness.
  26. The Final Project
    Even by the shaggy standards of found footage, The Final Project is amateurish.
  27. Camino
    Bell proves to be one tough cookie, but she's ultimately taken down by all the stiff, under-developed dialogue and iffy supporting performances.
  28. Colliding Dreams
    Colliding Dreams is a film of ideas and a film of history, a thorough and engrossing look at the root causes of the tortured relationship between Israel and the Palestinians.
  29. Emelie
    Irish actress Bolger plays her psychopath with cool, calculating intimidation, while first-time feature director Michael Thelin, sharing screenplay credit with Rich Herbeck, lays a solid foundation of suburban domesticity on which to build all the mounting menace.
  30. London Has Fallen
    As long as there are enemies in Islamic lands, we'll probably have to endure risible time-wasters like London Has Fallen, designed to justify blinkered foreign policy attitudes and stoke jokey hatred.
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