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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. Trapped
    While the situation seems at times dire, Trapped contains a distinct hopeful streak that is at once defiant and singularly human.
  2. Ava's Possessions
    Ava's Possessions is powered by an amusing conceit that configures demonic possession as a metaphor for addiction. But the metaphor alone is not enough to sustain this minor effort, which wears thin over the course of a feature length.
  3. Zootopia
    Bursting with a rich blend of timely themes, superb voice work, wonderful visuals and laugh-out-loud wit, Walt Disney Animation Studios' Zootopia is quite simply a great time at the movies.
  4. Knight of Cups
    The only thing that keeps Knight of Cups from terminal artistic overreach as it follows Rick around town is the knockout cinematography of three-time Oscar winner Emmanuel Lubezki, who does superb work showing us contemporary Los Angeles in a most magical way.
  5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
    There are a few inventive battles on a frozen pond and atop the tiled roof of a temple, but they are so CGI-enhanced as to seem cartoonish, not marvelous.
  6. They Look Like People
    An effective and unsettling neuro-psychological thriller, They Look Like People creates a creepily mundane sense of dread in its depictions of a schizophrenic's paranoid delusions.
  7. Backtrack
    While everyone involved with Backtrack is a polished pro, the movie's tastefulness gets in the way of the suspense.
  8. Who's Driving Doug
    By turns earnest and profane, the story of three twentysomethings' Sin City sortie contains flashes of wit.... But this road is lined with clichés and blunt dialogue, the emotional shifts all too neatly underlined by Death Cab for Cutie tracks.
  9. A Country Called Home
    A paint-by-numbers indie that barely uses its most vivid hues.
  10. Jack of the Red Hearts
    There's a poignant, powerful story lurking at the edges of Jack of the Red Hearts but, as is, the film proves a strained, implausible family drama.
  11. Only Yesterday (1991)
    Only Yesterday is a realistic, personal story made universal in a delicate way.
  12. Triple 9
    With a stacked cast and skillful filmmaking, Triple 9 proves to be a satisfying crooked-cop heist thriller, imbued with complicated topical issues that last long after the adrenaline rush.
  13. King Georges
    [A] poignant, funny and well-seasoned portrait of autumnal fervor.
  14. The Last Man on the Moon
    The film traces Cernan's career trajectory, going back to his days in San Diego as a hot-shot naval aviator, blending terrific archival footage with contemporary perspectives to quietly poetic effect.
  15. 1982
    It's little more than an artsy but hollow Lifetime cable movie.
  16. Eddie the Eagle
    Director Dexter Fletcher ("Sunshine on Leith") keeps things enjoyably hurtling forward, even when the otherwise engaging script by Sean Macaulay and Simon Kelton overworks a cliché, shorthands certain practical and financial matters, or proves a bit one-note.
  17. The Mermaid
    Crass and macabre, yet big-hearted, it makes a wonderfully adult bedtime story.
  18. Becoming Mike Nichols
    By concentrating on the early projects, we get a richer sense of the development of Nichols the artist in his own words and illustrated with photos and extended clips of performances.
  19. Forsaken
    It's a treat to see Kiefer and Donald side by side, and both give fine performances. But a pairing this special deserved a story more unique than "reluctant killer reaches for his guns."
  20. Rolling Papers
    Generally leaving the weightier political stuff to others, Mitch Dickman's lively documentary functions as both a handy pot primer and a telling portrait of the volatile, adapt-or-die climate that continues to hover over the newspaper industry.
  21. Snowtime!
    Directors Jean-François Pouliot and François Brisson fail to organize the material into a coherent story or strike a consistent emotional tone.
  22. We Are Twisted F***ing Sister!
    The film itself is a bit rudimentary, with amateurish titles, and editing choices that bloat the already extended length, but the interviews with band members and fans are insightful and engaging, with archival footage that truly rocks.
  23. The Forbidden Room
    This exercise in beauty, derangement and memory can be contemplative or silly. Often it's both, in just the right proportions.
  24. 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."
  25. 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.
  26. Embrace of the Serpent
    Beautiful, strange, disturbing, Embrace of the Serpent is a film with a lot on its mind.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. Cabin Fever
    It doesn't help that what passes for acting here seems more like a table read.
  30. Glassland
    [Reynor's] performance — fractured yet strong — is a big reason why Glassland works so well.
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