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For 16,524 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 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. TransFatty Lives
    A raucous, weird, occasionally fascinating entry in the genre of disease-documenting, a portrait of raw nerve in the face of deteriorating nerves.
  2. Altered Minds
    A good mystery and earnest performances keep the movie lively, though the confined location and limited plot ultimately make the end product feel paltry.
  3. Very Semi-Serious
    It's a very, very funny film but also sweetly sad and poignant, echoing the mix of humor and pathos that marks a New Yorker cartoon exactly what it is.
  4. The Pearl Button
    By turns lyrical, impressionistic and profound, the documentary The Pearl Button requires patience but offers stirring rewards.
  5. #Horror
    The film works better as social satire than straight horror, as the murder plot that drives it along always feels unconvincing.
  6. Flowers
    Flowers is too exquisitely formalist — symmetric framings followed by willfully asymmetric shots — to ever feel flushed with real feeling.
  7. Entertainment
    There's a chic emptiness to Entertainment, undoubtedly, and anti-comedy constructs that may rub the wrong way, but there's also a spiky intelligence at work too, one that engages through the artifice of disengagement and the illusion of "performance."
  8. James White
    Ultimately, though, it's Abbott's show to steal — and steal it he does — as he rivetingly conjures a character who's chaotically charismatic, hugely affecting and for better or worse thoroughly real.
  9. Kingdom of Shadows
    Director Bernardo Ruiz never manages to weave the multiple narratives into a complex but cohesive big picture.
  10. Drone
    Drone is a solid, thought-provoking documentary that raises some pertinent questions even if they may not originate from the most objective of places.
  11. Criminal Activities
    Working from a glib, chatty script by Robert Lowell that's not as cleverly hatched as it likes to think it is, Haley whips it into something reasonably entertaining.
  12. Legend
    As told by Helgeland this Legend simply isn't memorable, because a tremendous effort by Hardy is let down by unfocused storytelling.
  13. Mediterranea
    Writer-director Jonas Carpignano glosses over much of the sociopolitical context in his depictions of the chain of events.
  14. Mustang
    It's a moving portrait of sisterhood, a celebration of a fierce femininity and a damning indictment of patriarchal systems that seek to destroy and control this spirit.
  15. Secret in Their Eyes
    As screenwriter, Billy Ray's adapting the original's Argentina-centric trappings to a tense post-9/11 milieu is smart, but as director his style is hardly atmospheric.
  16. The Night Before
    A raucous and refreshing new take on the Christmas movie.
  17. Carol
    Haynes understands that swooningly beautiful traditional technique bolstered by thrilling performances creates the greatest impact. He has made a serious melodrama about the geometry of desire, a dreamy example of heightened reality that fully engages emotions despite the exact calculations with which it's been made.
  18. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    The aesthetically misguided idea of breaking the final book into two films, commercially remunerative though it might have been, has ended up making the dragged-out proceedings feel anti-climactic and emotionally static.
  19. Coming Home
    Succeeds despite an intrusive soundtrack that underscores each genuinely heartfelt moment.
  20. My All American
    Strict adherence to the playbook may work in sports, but My All American shows the pitfalls of that approach with movies.
  21. Of Men and War
    The access that Bécue-Renard got, reportedly after five months of being there without a camera, is remarkable.
  22. Condemned
    Aggressively ugly and gross, the movie boasts a certain low-rent authenticity, but the auteur never figures out how to fill his grubby little rooms.
  23. Heist
    As vapidly generic as its title, British director Scott Mann's Heist is a by-the-numbers crime thriller that squanders a decent cast, including Robert De Niro, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Dave Bautista.
  24. The Funhouse Massacre
    Honestly, The Funhouse Massacre isn't quite enough of either.
  25. Sweet Micky for President
    There's no shortage of political intrigue even with the outcome a foregone conclusion.
  26. Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
    The documentary, far from a glorified making-of featurette, is fittingly cinematic, with spectacularly wide establishing shots and studio-portrait-like testimonials.
  27. Song of Lahore
    The unifying power of music is rewardingly demonstrated in Song of Lahore.
  28. I Remember You
    Writer-director Claudia Sparrow prefers to pay more mind to the abstract.
  29. Joe's War
    The film, unfortunately, treats the important and complex subject of post-traumatic stress disorder in an oversimplified and reductive way.
  30. Karski & the Lords of Humanity
    Although it is often moving, the film is less satisfying than it could be.
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