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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. A War
    A War is a film done exactly right about a situation gone horribly wrong.
  7. 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.
  8. Bad Hurt
    Although affecting and well acted, the family drama Bad Hurt is too airless and depressing to fully engage.
  9. Zoolander 2
    Zoolander 2 defines haphazard. You may smile at times, but not as often as you'd like.
  10. Regression
    Well-intended seriousness dismantles Regression, a not-exactly-horror horror movie that's also a mystery with no mystery.
  11. Misconduct
    To say everyone plays like they're in separate movies is an understatement.
  12. Southbound
    For all its gore and violence, stabs at tension and nightmarish intrigue, the film proves a slow-going, largely unsatisfying ride.
  13. All Roads Lead to Rome
    The tone is wildly inconsistent, particularly with plucky, lighthearted music accompaniment scoring what is essentially a teen crime spree.
  14. Eisenstein in Guanajuato
    Greenaway's boundary-pushing, breathlessly in-your-face approach begins to take its toll on viewer patience.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Tumbledown
    Tumbledown sees its good intentions undermined by cloying sitcom conventions.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Rams
    Rams is so much its own film that figuring out where its unusual, unpredictable plot will end up is difficult if not impossible.
  21. Hail, Caesar!
    The great thing about Hail, Caesar! is that it is fun whether you get all its references or not.
  22. 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.
  23. Jane Got a Gun
    Jane Got A Gun may not have reinvented the wagon wheel, but it rolls out as a sturdy, well-crafted genre piece despite its rocky road to the screen.
  24. Fifty Shades of Black
    "Black” foregoes too much scene-setting, chronology and logic to stand completely on its own. As a piece of cultural criticism, however, it painstakingly eviscerates nearly every scene in “Grey” and skewers latent sexism, classism and ludicrous sexual innuendoes, as well as the original’s numerous plot holes.
  25. Jim: The James Foley Story
    Foley's family members, colleagues and prison cell mates vividly recount his 2011 imprisonment in Libya, his difficulty reacclimating to home life in sleepy New England after his release, before leaving again for Syria and enduring imprisonment by ISIS.
  26. In the Shadow of Women
    Like his previous feature, "Jealousy," the film is shot in sumptuous black-and-white and revolves around artistic Parisians. But in its elegant almost threadbare simplicity, it's a more effective story, anchored by three persuasive performances and a sly sense of irony.
  27. Rabid Dogs
    Although the original sometimes looked like a bunch of loosely connected scenes, this Rabid Dogs feels more purposeful.
  28. Portrait of a Serial Monogamist
    Despite a few inspired moments and some fun banter, Portrait of a Serial Monogamist is a slight, often random lesbian comedy that offers little new in the way of authentic depth or enlightenment.
  29. Mountain Men
    Tyler Labine, known for his comedic work, contributes a fine dramatic performance tinged with comedy, and Crawford is equally as good. A smart script deftly opens and builds upon itself in a controlled slow burn.
  30. The Finest Hours
    This tale of nautical derring-do has several things going for it to counteract the inherent obviousness of the material. These include a director who knows his way around this kind of material, special effects work that makes the peril fearfully alive, and a pip of a true story of what is considered as daring a rescue mission as the U.S. Coast Guard ever attempted.
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