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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. American Mary
    Writer-director siblings Jen and Sylvia Soska allow their film to turn slack and unfocused after an enticingly lurid, wickedly tense first half.
  2. I Do
    A sweet, sincere, yet ultimately tepid story.
  3. The Kings of Summer
    The filmmakers are a bit like their boys of summer, plowing into new terrain in promising ways but rough around the edges.
  4. Now You See Me
    For all the talent up on the screen — and one can't fault the performances — the movie just doesn't deliver.
  5. Free Samples
    Free Samples is a film about wasting time, and it feels like it. Despite clocking in at 79 minutes, Jay Gammill's comedy drags by no fault of its delightfully sour lead.
  6. Shadow Dancer
    The character mechanics... leave the viewer always feeling a step ahead of the story and its too-late-to-excite twists. As a portrait of violence-riven motherhood, however, Riseborough gives Shadow Dancer most of its grave power.
  7. Free China: The Courage to Believe
    Though his treatment of the subject is often superficial, Perlman makes a clear argument for the broader implications, especially for Western consumers.
  8. After Earth
    The script has no nuance, none. And when Shyamalan moves into the director's chair, the script problems are magnified. Everything is spelled out, underlined in red.
  9. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
    Even if you may not be putting a Pussy Riot song on your next playlist, there is something so of-the-moment and exciting about the group that Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer feels important, if not fully complete.
  10. One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das
    Insights are few in this fan letter of a documentary.
  11. The East
    For the most part, The East is a dizzying cat and mouse game with all sorts of moral implications.
  12. Vampire
    After the quiet, dread-filled punch of the first half-hour — when it seems vampire culture is going to get turned on its head — Iwai's character study mostly descends into a pretentious slog.
  13. We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
    Make no mistake, "We Steal Secrets" is a sprawling, ambitious, major work — a gripping exploration of power, personality, technology and the crushing weight that can come to bear on those who find themselves in its combined path.
  14. Epic
    When the movie should touch the heart, it just misses. When moments should produce gales of laughter, it struggles for a smile. When panic and fear should set the heart racing, it doesn't.
  15. Before Midnight
    The films have only gotten better by letting the relationship marinate. "Midnight's" more disgruntled edge reflects what creeps up on couples as years pass, regrets stack up, kids factor in, real life intervenes.
  16. Fill the Void
    A transfixing, emotionally complex Israeli drama.
  17. The Painting (Le Tableau)
    Laguionie's animation is a lovely jumble of thick lines and saturated pastels...But while the artist-as-deity concept was flattering enough to get The Painting nominated for a 2012 Cesar Award, its big ideas about equality and friendship are flatly 2-D.
  18. A Green Story
    Though it's not that gracefully told and sometimes seems to exist just to plug eco-friendly cleaning supplies, A Green Story holds interest as a gentle, old-fashioned look at achieving the American dream.
  19. Becoming Traviata
    Zeroing in on the art of rehearsal, Becoming Traviata is an exquisitely observed look at performance and the creative process.
  20. Fast & Furious 6
    What really sets "F&F6" apart is the blinding speed with which it shifts between over-the-top action, that speedometer inching toward 800 mph at times, and soap opera emotions that bring everything to a screeching halt. It's enough to give you whiplash … in a good way.
  21. The Hangover Part III
    Chow is actually an apt metaphor for the movie - indescribably irritating and only in it for the money.
  22. 3 Geezers!
    3 Geezers is painful.
  23. The Second Meeting
    This mission, well intended as it may be, proves a no-go from the get-go.
  24. Pieta
    Pieta, which won last year's Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, is disturbing, for sure, but its larger points save it from being a quick and dirty wallow.
  25. 33 Postcards
    The climactic collision of agendas is even more contrived than everything leading to it.
  26. Free the Mind
    There's something healing about simply watching Free the Mind, Danish filmmaker Phie Ambo's gentle, compassionate documentary.
  27. Erased
    Erased is eminently forgettable.
  28. State 194
    With a two-state solution still elusive, "State 194" may feel a bit like yesterday's news — literally and figuratively. But as an aid to better understanding this vital, complex dispute, the film is definitely worth a look.
  29. Augustine
    The film's dark beauty and the quiet intensity of the performances have a discomforting pull.
  30. Java Heat
    The film's anthropological interest in Indonesia is the smartest thing in an otherwise familiar scramble of kidnapped babes, expensive jewelry and millions of bullets.
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