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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. Trash
    The compelling film, like its energetic young stars, is in constant motion. Although the nominally gritty tone occasionally gives way to the director's weakness for the theatrical, the film is rooted by that trio of engagingly authentic performances.
  2. A Faster Horse
    The whole package, with its bizarre fondness for slow motion, feels correspondingly sluggish. All the components are here, but A Faster Horse cries out for more dynamic performance.
  3. Neorealism: We Were Not Just Bicycles Thieves
    It's like a cozy, informational visit with a beloved professor who assumes you come with a cineaste's built-in appreciation, but enjoys connecting the dots for you in a way that makes the movement's creative signposts — nonprofessional actors, street vitality, stories about poverty and desperation — feel freshly indelible.
  4. Western Religion
    A one-dimensional movie painted in painfully broad strokes and whizzing, hurry-scurry action sequences.
  5. Jafar Panahi's Taxi
    It's an act of defiance that's also a sublime piece of cinema, and it ranks among the director's finest work.
  6. The Final Girls
    A playful deconstruction of the slasher film that ultimately packs a surprisingly affecting punch.
  7. Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
    Winter on Fire never takes its eye off the story's underlying and very dramatic theme, and that would be nothing less than revolution.
  8. Yakuza Apocalypse
    For those fans who don't mind enduring some tedium and confusion, Yakuza Apocalypse at least offers something memorably bizarre.
  9. Big Stone Gap
    The movie mostly plays so strained and corn pone that it undermines its sincere emotional core and good intentions.
  10. Victoria
    It's a film of exceptional technical virtuosity that could have used some help in the dramatic department.
  11. Steve Jobs
    Steve Jobs is a smart, hugely entertaining film that all but bristles with crackling creative energy. What it is not is a standard biopic.
  12. Partisan
    It's hard to tell if director and co-writer Ariel Kleiman is being serious or sarcastic with a story this preposterous.
  13. Shark Lake
    Shark Lake lacks bite. Its audience doesn't even get to revel in blood and guts; the whole thing seems like it was edited for broadcast.
  14. The Visit: An Alien Encounter
    Madsen brings our collective sense of identity into sharp relief through the lens of what could be called a first date with mysterious beings.
  15. Narcopolis
    Narcopolis starts off intriguingly and ends solidly. It's everything else in between that isn't particularly compelling.
  16. Saving Mr. Wu
    As can be gleaned from snippets of news footage shown during the end credits, Ding has done an outstanding job re-creating the events and conveying the complexity and prudence of the cops' investigative chess moves.
  17. Godspeed: The Story of Page Jones
    The film never gives a real sense of the daily travails associated with traumatic brain injury.
  18. Movement and Location
    Systematically yet subtly, the Bolings and their strong cast take this certifiably oddball film in some thoughtfully intriguing places.
  19. This Is Happening
    Leachman's facility with the wackadoodle senior is ever-admirable, but even she can't save the low-energy, charm-free thud that is This Is Happening.
  20. Olvidados (Forgotten)
    By cramming in as many tangents as imaginable, Olvidados ultimately loses sight of what the story is even about.
  21. Manhattan Romance
    Despite what the film might want us to believe, if he walks, talks and acts like a selfish, predatory creep, he is, and there's just no sympathizing with him.
  22. Gravy
    Although a talented cast and crew keep this party lively, the lack of a point becomes a problem.
  23. 99 Homes
    Because of its strong dialogue and convincing acting, 99 Homes stays on point for quite some time, artfully disguising the film's increasing reliance on plot devices.
  24. Becoming Bulletproof
    The term "inspirational" gets bandied about a lot, but Becoming Bulletproof is thoroughly deserving of that tag.
  25. A Christmas Horror Story
    As horror movies go, this one's not especially tense or scary. Instead, it's eerie, provocative and at times ridiculously violent. The ending feels like a cop-out after so much creative mayhem.
  26. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
    No matter how reflectively mellow the gray-haired, reminiscing interviewees are, the blizzard of featured illustrations from the magazine's '70s heyday offer scads of they-couldn't-get-away-with-that-today laughter.
  27. Northern Soul
    The electrifying Northern Soul captures the 1970s British club scene of the same name with ethnographic detail and ebullient style.
  28. Shout Gladi Gladi
    The film can feel like an infomercial for the foundation, but that doesn't stop the power of the stories from coming through.
  29. Shanghai
    Under Mikael Håfström's visually clunky, rhythmless direction, it's a snooze of epic sameness: choppy action scenes, a blankly stern Cusack, and too many allegiance shifts to count or care for.
  30. He Named Me Malala
    While the subject is deeply moving — and bringing tissues is recommended — Guggenheim's treatment is restrained, as he deploys inventive storytelling techniques that invite viewers inside Malala's world, to feel her joy, trauma and ultimately forgiveness.
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