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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. The Kindergarten Teacher
    Lapid confidently peppers the film with enough provocative beats, unsettling behaviors and bold camera moves to keep us intrigued — if not necessarily invested.
  2. Court
    Court invites comparisons with the 2011 Iranian film "A Separation," even if Court director Chaitanya Tamhane hasn't achieved the same level of mastery with his feature debut.
  3. Air
    The film is most effective when Bauer and Cartwright are battling the surroundings instead of each other.
  4. Meru
    Though the Meru climbing and outdoor footage is spectacular, it is the personal struggle of each of the climbers, and the candid way they talk about them on camera, that give this film its considerable impact.
  5. Big Sky
    Director Grau seems to be making up the film as he goes along — never a good idea when tackling the sort of genre piece that requires building tension and some semblance of dread to succeed.
  6. Amnesiac
    With no names given to the characters, you never have to remember them. But it's really best to forget about all of Amnesiac.
  7. People Places Things
    Small, smart and inescapably independent, People Places Things has its own offbeat and charmingly low-key way of seeing the world.
  8. Return to Sender
    Revenge is a dish served lumpy and tasteless in the tonally muddled Return to Sender.
  9. Prince
    Packing plenty of visual zip and terrific character faces into its compact running time, De Jong never allows the considerable quirkiness to upstage the storytelling.
  10. Tom at the Farm
    Tom at the Farm is strange, idiosyncratic tale that straddles a fine line between homoerotic camp and spider-and-fly thriller.
  11. Fort Tilden
    Fort Tilden is cringe-worthy but true. Maybe that's why it's so uncomfortable to watch.
  12. Ten Thousand Saints
    As always, Berman and Pulcini suffuse their movie with a let's-try-anything spirit — and liberate most of their actors. What keeps Ten Thousand Saints from being another "American Splendor" (2003) or "Cinema Verite" (2011) is that this time, their tapestry has a hole in the center, where their pale antihero cannot pull the colorful threads together.
  13. Straight Outta Compton
    Alternately riveting and wearying, up-to-the-minute relevant as well as self-mythologizingly self-indulgent — as much of a heroic origins story as anything out of the Marvel factory — Straight Outta Compton ends up juggling more story lines and moods than it can handle.
  14. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    Being a mildly pleasant, passingly amusing light entertainment isn't exactly saving the world, yet the film crosses its wires to blow up even that modest assignment.
  15. Reset
    An unpleasant exercise in self-indulgence
  16. The Pardon
    Except for a reliably flavorful turn by John Hawkes, compelling in a few key scenes as Henry's accomplice, The Pardon remains stubbornly uninvolving.
  17. Shooting the Warwicks
    The movie can't do much to address the inherent flaws in the premise.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tap World
    Tap World, also takes viewers around the world, and that, plus some flat out terrific performances, make this a surprisingly lovely little film.
  19. Two Step
    Giving flair to the inevitable and imbuing those stakes with emotional heft are key to this type of patiently nasty, slow-boil noir. That Johnson understands this makes his feature debut a particularly confident and enjoyable one.
  20. Sneakerheadz
    The film is more lifestyle puff piece than journalism.
  21. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    A rare gem of a movie.
  22. The Gift
    Although the film builds an effective sense of dread and contains its share of unnerving visuals and well-timed scares, it proves far more psychological thrill ride than shockfest.
  23. Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
    The audience's response to The Prophet is likely to be determined by their feelings for the original book rather than the eclectic, imaginative visuals.
  24. Dark Places
    In writer-director Gilles Paquet-Brenner's hands, it's a convoluted, airless procedural that generates practically no suspense and little that's thematically resonant about lost souls and poisoned memories.
  25. Assassination
    The director nimbly orchestrates to entertaining effect this mass game of cat-and-mouse populated by paid and unpaid assassins, double agents and even the proverbial twins separated at birth.
  26. The Runner
    The plodding film goes awfully heavy on script exposition and all too light on character depth, leaving Cage and company — including a smartly cast Peter Fonda as his been-there, done-that alcoholic dad — to come up with their own complexity.
  27. Cop Car
    There's no denying Watts' skill at a certain kind of desolate cat and mouse, but it's in the service of what is ultimately a somewhat heartless exercise.
  28. Ricki and the Flash
    Ricki and the Flash is a sour movie masquerading as something more cheerful. In that attempted deception the film is both helped and hindered by an indispensable performance by star Meryl Streep.
  29. Fantastic Four
    If Fantastic Four is pleasantly different in its introductory segment, once those super powers kick in, the whole film goes into a more standard gear.
  30. Shaun the Sheep Movie
    Playful, absurd and endearingly inventive, this unstoppably amusing feature reminds us why Britain's Aardman Animations is a mainstay of the current cartooning golden age.
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