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For 16,526 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: 8,699 out of 16526
  2. Mixed: 5,810 out of 16526
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16526
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  1. Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro
    The fact that Child and Shaw share writing and producing credits here almost assures it will be a self-aggrandizing puff piece.
  2. Let the Fire Burn
    It earns its considerable impact by telling an unnerving story and leaving it, in ways both daring and effective, fundamentally unresolved.
  3. Toad Road
    The home-movie vérité style of the early scenes pays dividends when inexplicable occurrences suddenly take us by surprise.
  4. Lost for Words
    The film's colorblindness does not make up for its latent sexism.
  5. The Paw Project
    The Paw Project is robustly persuasive, with Conrad compellingly framing her crusade as a battle between a right-thinking vet and a deep-pocketed industry group that purportedly represents her.
  6. Bridegroom
    Despite the pain, sadness and vast emotional upheaval depicted here, Bridegroom is also a movie filled with hope and passion, dignity and pride, and many stirring pockets of joy.
  7. God Loves Uganda
    [An] incisive and absorbing documentary.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Broadway Idiot
    A fast-paced, thoroughly entertaining if hardly trenchant show biz documentary.
  9. CZ12
    May please non-discriminating fans of its co-writer/director/star (and more) Jackie Chan, but will likely leave most other viewers dazed, confused and eagerly watching the clock.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Birth of the Living Dead
    Enjoyably recounts how, in 1967, Romero and an assortment of Pittsburgh locals shot a micro-budget chiller that would unexpectedly change the face of horror films.
  11. Big Ass Spider!
    The movie has a fan's heart, a sense of loving every goofball moment, but as directed by Mike Mendez it also seems perpetually caught between being a spoof or playing it straight and winds up falling between the cracks rather than rising above.
  12. 2 Jacks
    Inconsistencies cause more confusion than the magic Rose is presumably going for.
  13. I'm in Love with a Church Girl
    Suffers from the same ills as too many movies that preach to the choir: a laborious length, formulaic plot and dialogue and, disappointing for a film that stars a rapper, a stock score. Content aside, Molina's testimony isn't good cinema either.
  14. Paradise
    Though it's built around a kernel of tender feeling, the comedy never transcends its basic contrivance.
  15. 12 Years a Slave
    This is impressive filmmaking, but it is not easy to take in.
  16. All Is Lost
    All Is Lost, which is only Chandor's second film, reveals itself as remarkably skillful, surprisingly insightful and deeply moving. It's a confident work by an artist who knows himself and trusts his audience.
  17. Escape Plan
    Escape Plan is mostly a gray, thudding metal machine of throwback exploitation, but the goateed, goofy Ah-nold is so happy to be in the thick of an old-school bruiser again that he makes it feel like the dumb-fun flashback party it is.
  18. The Fifth Estate
    Whenever The Fifth Estate leaves the involving one-on-one drama between Assange and Domscheit-Berg, you wish it wouldn't.
  19. Carrie
    Peirce has done a remaking rather than a reimagining.
  20. Kill Your Darlings
    Far too conventional underneath all the trappings, you wish it would howl.
  21. Captain Phillips
    The piercingly realistic Captain Phillips will exceed your expectations.
  22. I Used to Be Darker
    It's a story of contained chaos, quietly observed — one that catches fire more in retrospect than in the viewing.
  23. Cassadaga
    Cassadaga tries to scoop up enough tropes to satisfy a wide range of potential fright fans but lacks the cohesion to ever truly be effective.
  24. A.K.A. Doc Pomus
    Expertly put together by editor Amy Linton, AKA Doc Pomus uses its wealth of material to create the sense of a man with a genius for putting undistilled emotion into his songs.
  25. Ghost Team One
    It's frustrating that the filmmakers could only think to enrich the characters of one race by demeaning those of another.
  26. The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
    It is an imperfect film about this imperfect world. But if "Mister & Pete" doesn't make you rethink the social safety net that fails these kids, and so many others like them, book some time with a cardiologist.
  27. Romeo & Juliet
    This is Shakespeare lite, which ultimately makes for Shakespeare slightly trite.
  28. Muscle Shoals
    Director Greg "Freddy" Camalier skillfully, unhurriedly unfurls a wealth of classic music-biz tales as told by a who's who of R&B, soul and rock 'n' roll royalty and various other players and purveyors.
  29. A Touch of Sin
    A Touch of Sin, the powerful if uneven new film by highly regarded Chinese director Jia Zhangke, is a corrosive depiction of the New China.
  30. I Will Follow You Into the Dark
    Muddled by a setup with a religious bent that's never fully explored and an instance of euthanasia that's only tenuously related to the central plot.
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