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For 16,523 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: 8,698 out of 16523
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16523
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16523
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  1. The Forbidden Room
    This exercise in beauty, derangement and memory can be contemplative or silly. Often it's both, in just the right proportions.
  2. Crazy About Tiffany's
    As glossy and tony as its rarefied subject matter, Crazy About Tiffany's, although entertaining enough, might be one of the least socially conscious documentaries since writer-director Matthew Miele's last valentine to high-end shopping, 2013's "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's."
  3. Risen
    Risen is a fascinating cultural artifact, but as a film, it's destined for no glory greater than as an appropriate cable rerun on Easter.
  4. Embrace of the Serpent
    Beautiful, strange, disturbing, Embrace of the Serpent is a film with a lot on its mind.
  5. The Witch
    In a way, the movie is a tug of war between the fruits of exhaustive research into old-world madness — which plays out most prominently in the richly possessed performances (particularly Taylor-Joy and young Scrimshaw) and the evocative frontier trappings — and an entertainer's pulpier instincts.
  6. Mavis!
    Mavis! is maybe too short and too plain, but it covers a lot of ground and contains a lot of great music. It's a fitting tribute to a true American original, belatedly getting her due.
  7. Cabin Fever
    It doesn't help that what passes for acting here seems more like a table read.
  8. Glassland
    [Reynor's] performance — fractured yet strong — is a big reason why Glassland works so well.
  9. Nina Forever
    Thanks to a trio of solid performances (especially the dryly bitter O'Shaughnessy, who suggests a young Helena Bonham Carter), this first feature, although a tad long, nevertheless emerges as a diabolically effective anti-date movie.
  10. Touched With Fire
    Writer-director Dalio has firsthand experience with bipolar disorder, and his perspective sheds fresh light on the unique ways in which manic-depressive individuals experience love and creativity.
  11. Standoff
    Unfortunately in the hands of writer-director Adam Alecca, this overly talky, slackly executed game of cat-and-mouse comes off as cheesy rather than chilling.
  12. Deadpool
    You're initially jazzed by his effrontery, but Deadpool, with his relentlessly glib, nothing-sacred attitude, is not an individual who wears particularly well.
  13. The Club
    Larraín, who wrote the movie with Guillermo Calderón and Daniel Villalobos, approaches the material like a scientist both fascinated and cynically bemused by how a particularly virulent sickness operates.
  14. A War
    A War is a film done exactly right about a situation gone horribly wrong.
  15. Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
    The immensely likable Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong is a freshly contemporary change-up on the traditional cross-cultural romantic-comedy.
  16. Bad Hurt
    Although affecting and well acted, the family drama Bad Hurt is too airless and depressing to fully engage.
  17. Zoolander 2
    Zoolander 2 defines haphazard. You may smile at times, but not as often as you'd like.
  18. Regression
    Well-intended seriousness dismantles Regression, a not-exactly-horror horror movie that's also a mystery with no mystery.
  19. Misconduct
    To say everyone plays like they're in separate movies is an understatement.
  20. Southbound
    For all its gore and violence, stabs at tension and nightmarish intrigue, the film proves a slow-going, largely unsatisfying ride.
  21. All Roads Lead to Rome
    The tone is wildly inconsistent, particularly with plucky, lighthearted music accompaniment scoring what is essentially a teen crime spree.
  22. Eisenstein in Guanajuato
    Greenaway's boundary-pushing, breathlessly in-your-face approach begins to take its toll on viewer patience.
  23. Monday at 11:01 A.M.
    Agron's screenplay and Harvey Lowry's direction seem more concerned with scattering bread crumbs than fashioning credible characters and an engaging story.
  24. The Pack
    While Robertson throws in too many cheap jump-scares, he mostly does well by Green's script, coaxing strong performances from the cast and making sure the viewers feel a sickly dread every time some creature is growling and scratching at the ranch-house door.
  25. Tumbledown
    Tumbledown sees its good intentions undermined by cloying sitcom conventions.
  26. Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
    Revolutionary zealots who did not necessarily get along with each other, the temperamental creators of land art took themselves very seriously. But as "Troublemakers" convincingly demonstrates, the work they produced justified their attitude.
  27. 4th Man Out
    Old stereotypes are trotted out for humor's sake, and it's not a question of offensiveness, just that the jokes feel 10 years old.
  28. Rams
    Rams is so much its own film that figuring out where its unusual, unpredictable plot will end up is difficult if not impossible.
  29. Hail, Caesar!
    The great thing about Hail, Caesar! is that it is fun whether you get all its references or not.
  30. The Choice
    There's such mechanical artifice at work that it's hard to do more than squirm and groan at the couple's ultimate travails.
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