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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. Sand Dollars
    Sand Dollars has an assured, light touch.
  2. The Hallow
    This backwoods monster movie boasts compelling performances, eye-catching creatures and an effective blend of practical and digital effects.
  3. By the Sea
    As a writer, Jolie Pitt is better at ideas than dialogue, much of which is leaden here. But the characters' behaviors feel true.
  4. Love the Coopers
    The celebrity soup that is Love the Coopers is, indeed, a mess, the kind in which the screenplay by Steven Rogers...is made more chaotic by Jessie Nelson's tonally smeary direction.
  5. Out of My Hand
    The film may deliver an all-too-neat resolution, but the haunting reminder that your past is never far away lingers.
  6. Cut Snake
    In one punchy way it's feverishly, genre-shakingly different. That difference makes the movie almost work. Almost.
  7. Man Up
    Frequently laugh-out-loud funny and tangibly tender where it ought to be, the immensely satisfying screwball romp feels freshly contemporary even as it largely conforms to genre conventions.
  8. Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
    Lisa Immordino Vreeland deftly choreographs the story in her vibrant documentary Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, at once a capsule history of Modernism and a poignant personal portrait.
  9. Shelter
    The story on screen comes off as a naive interpretation of the homeless experience as imagined from a place of great privilege.
  10. This Isn't Funny
    This first feature is populated by blandly underdeveloped main characters who tend to recite their lines rather than inhabit them.
  11. Landmine Goes Click
    It's a shame that what could have been an intriguing situational thriller devolves into a hateful, arduous drag
  12. Care of Footpath 2
    Director Kishan SS has made Care of Footpath 2 (a.k.a. Kill Them Young) as a bombastic, overlong melodrama that doesn't recognize the occasional need to takes things down a decibel or three.
  13. Frame by Frame
    The filmmakers' approach is inherently positive.
  14. Heneral Luna
    Boasting a sizable budget, stirring photography and Arcilla's charismatic lead performance, Heneral Luna would never be mistaken for more serious-minded art-house material, but there are certainly less lively ways to be taught a history lesson.
  15. What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
    Sands' scripted narration sounds detached and dissociated from the grief, frustration and anger he sporadically displays.
  16. Wrecker
    Aside from a few good jump-scares and a couple of original plot twists, Wrecker spends most of its running time cutting between footage of the roadster and footage of the truck, apparently assuming viewers will take those images and use them to imagine something more exciting.
  17. Xenia
    Koutras admirably resists easy wish fulfillment by making the brothers' journey more important than their destination, but the scenario he presents inexplicably turns out to be fantasy.
  18. Sex, Death and Bowling
    At its heart, it's a simple story about a family gathering around a loved one, but there's too much going on narratively and stylistically.
  19. Welcome to Leith
    This cautionary tale couldn't be more timely or essential.
  20. Heart of a Dog
    Heart of a Dog is that rarest of pieces, an unabashedly experimental work that's as inviting as a visit with an old friend, one who may not always make sense, who's sometimes goofy, but has been through a lot lately and treasures the opportunity to artfully unload.
  21. Trumbo
    Trumbo is timely in its portrayal of a moment when political speech is dangerously charged, yet unabashedly old-fashioned in the sincerity of its storytelling.
  22. Lost in the Sun
    Despite some scenic territory, there's just not much to this journey, leaving Lost in the Sun feeling like a short story stretched way too thinly toward feature length.
  23. The Peanuts Movie
    The movie is pleasant and charming, but when making a big-screen adaptation of a beloved classic and genuine touchstone for generations, adequate doesn't feel like quite enough.
  24. Miss You Already
    The film's insistence on laughter through the tears too often feels strained.
  25. Love
    When Love works, Noé achieves a lulling, melancholic frenzy about sex and memory, but the foundation isn't strong enough to make his movie ever seem more than a stereoscopic fermata: one envelope-pushing note held way too long.
  26. Spotlight
    Spotlight doesn't call attention to itself. Its screenplay is self-effacing, its accomplished direction is intentionally low key, and it encourages its fistful of top actors to blend into an eloquent ensemble.
  27. Evidence of Harm
    Since his due-diligence efforts were rebuffed by the American Dental Assn. and the Food and Drug Administration in their declining of interview requests, director Randall Moore doubles down on the already ex parte narrative with heavy-handed editorializing.
  28. SPECTRE
    Yes, some of the individual stunts and action set pieces temporarily hold our interest...but the story itself is not convincing on its own terms, playing like a series of boxes (Bond asking for a martini shaken not stirred) that need to be checked off and forgotten.
  29. Missing Child
    Writer-director Luke Sabis brings some interesting ideas to the well-known genre, exploring the nuances of abuse, spirituality and redemption. Unfortunately, the low-budget execution shows on screen, with a dim and dismal look, and the energy is decidedly lethargic.
  30. The Diplomat
    A rich, occasionally stirring and ultimately plaintive ode to the craft of velvet gloves, iron fists and how to point with either or both.
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