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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. Postman Pat: The Movie
    Sure, there are lapses in logic. But nice messaging, some zippy dance moves and a great use of the classic tune "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" end this charming, adult-friendly tale on a high note.
  2. They Came Together
    A feature-length lampoon needs more than rubbery performances, so-so silliness and the constant thrum of meta humor to make it a consistently amusing variation on a theme.
  3. Redemption Trail
    Sjogren's promising set-up, designed to unfold with understatement, ends up feeling remote and repressed when Sjogren miscalculates by burying her characters' emotions too far down.
  4. A Coffee In Berlin
    In spite of its insufferably whimsical tendencies — exemplified by its original title, "Oh Boy" — the film may have turned out to be a deeply profound modern postscript about fascism. This isn't that far-fetched a reading at all.
  5. La Bare
    If La Bare had snarky voice-over narration, it could be a segment on "The Colbert Report."
  6. Citizen Koch
    Citizen Koch is pure advocacy doc: brisk and clear-eyed, to be sure, but not likely to surprise headline-savvy moviegoers or angered progressives.
  7. Bound by Flesh
    [An] absorbing, well-crafted documentary.
  8. Chaplin of the Mountains
    At its best, the film seems as dreary a travelogue as that Nia Vardalos vehicle "My Life in Ruins." At its worst, Chaplin of the Mountains feels like an overambitious film-school thesis with superfluous political and philosophical posturing.
  9. One Candle, Two Candles...
    One Candle, Two Candles proves worthwhile at least as a cultural curio.
  10. Yves Saint Laurent
    A stylish, serviceable recounting of Saint Laurent's life from the late 1950s through the '70s. But watchable as it may be, this drama lacks intimacy and urgency.
  11. The Last Sentence
    Measured and beautifully modulated, the 82-year-old director has the kind of sureness and fluidity that is easy to underestimate. But it's difficult not to be impressed by the results.
  12. Think Like a Man Too
    Mostly, the movie swings wildly between mania when Hart is on-screen and relative serenity when he's not. It gives the film a multiple-personality feel that does not work in its favor.
  13. Third Person
    In blurring the lines between truth and fiction as well as right and wrong, Third Person maddens far more than it intrigues. Indeed, more curious than anything about the movie itself is how such an artistic stumble happened.
  14. Jersey Boys
    Eastwood, as always, has simply done things his own way, and the result is a leisurely old-school entertainment with a bit more edge than you may be expecting.
  15. The Moment
    The Moment is a psychological thriller more muddled than the mind and the maze it is caught up in.
  16. American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
    A documentary that's admirably frank about the difficulties of insightfully portraying such a widely lauded — and subtly cagey and habitually self-effacing — figure.
  17. No Tears for the Dead
    The film's many violent action scenes are quite well, er, executed. But there's a far more emotional and profound story here to be told, one that becomes largely eclipsed by the mayhem.
  18. Hellion
    One just wishes the scaffolding of indie tropes around Paul and the better parts of Hellion weren't so shaky.
  19. The Amazing Catfish
    Grainily shot but radiating life, The Amazing Catfish is an enormously affecting portrait of a family in crisis that dares to hope.
  20. Borgman
    For all its emotional roller-coastering and wild intrigue, the film's purpose — as well as its title character — feels more symbolic than specific. Still, this well-shot and -designed picture is a mostly compelling, intrepid ride.
  21. Coherence
    The performances... are solid, and the conceit is alluringly mind-bending without ever seeming off-puttingly brainy.
  22. Miss Lovely
    Miss Lovely does exude an air of authenticity... But much of the film remains underdeveloped.
  23. The Only Real Game
    A stirring ode to cultural bridge-building.
  24. The Signal
    Eubank's fizzy mix of self-conscious, set-piece image-making and small-scale human detail is admirable.
  25. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    What DeBlois has deepened in No. 2, is the film's emotional core. Though there are moments when the tension goes slack, the cast steps up to keep things afloat.
  26. Policeman
    Lapid's filmmaking skill helps keep us involved, as does Policeman's philosophical underpinnings.
  27. Ivory Tower
    This film throws an enormous amount of information at us both in terms of original interviews and archival footage from more than 100 sources, but it's too sophisticated to suggest that any one-size-fits-all solution is lurking just over the horizon.
  28. Before You Know It
    While often affecting and absorbing, the film proves intellectually and contextually light. This is especially true given a leisurely running time that could have easily accommodated more dimensional probing.
  29. The Sacrament
    The first half is a cautiously dread-inducing tour de force as the suspicious interlopers parse the shiny, happy members for signs of a darker version of paradise... The second half, however, when all hell breaks loose a little too quickly, is the disappointment.
  30. The World Famous Kid Detective
    This flatly shot picture remains cramped by its homespun roots.
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