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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. Black Rock
    [Aselton's] disregard for her male characters causes Black Rock to spiral into dudette "Deliverance."
  2. Frances Ha
    Effortless and effervescent, Frances Ha is a small miracle of a movie, honest and funny with an aim that's true.
  3. Valentino's Ghost
    It's a provocative, absorbing — and at times dicey — study.
  4. Deceptive Practices: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
    This documentary provides an elegant, enthralling peek behind the curtain and into the you-won't-trust-your-eyes world of this celebrated contemporary conjurer.
  5. Stories We Tell
    An invigorating powerhouse of a personal documentary, adventurous and absolutely fascinating.
  6. The English Teacher
    The English Teacher is a tragedy masquerading as a comedy and doing a disservice to both.
  7. What Maisie Knew
    This is a beautifully rendered film.
  8. Star Trek Into Darkness
    So many things are done right that even with the bombast, "Into Darkness" is the best of this summer's biggies thus far. It's a great deal of brash fun.
  9. Leviathan
    Though it's a decidedly arty piece, Leviathan, named after the biblical sea creature, also lacks much in the way of traditional beauty or splendor. However, the immersive shots of those swooping and circling sea gulls are quite something.
  10. The Typewriter (In the 21st Century)
    The death of the typewriter has been greatly exaggerated, at least according to the fun, compact love letter of a documentary The Typewriter (in the 21st Century).
  11. White Frog
    Like getting a half-dozen undercooked after-school specials at once, Quentin Lee's White Frog serves up a medley of messages and themes while generating no discernible dramatic heft.
  12. Desperate Acts of Magic
    While the plot is a non-starter, the margins of Gold and co-director Tammy Caplan's debut feature are scattered with other real-life magicians who make quarters vanish every time our attention does the same.
  13. How Sweet It Is
    Piscopo...isn't just too good for this film, he's too good to be giving it this much effort.
  14. No One Lives
    No One Lives is a cheap horror prank that's ultimately not clever or accomplished enough to sustain its eccentricities, and they are very bloody eccentricities indeed.
  15. The Source Family
    Baker's transformation from "spiritual father" to megalomaniac follows a familiar path of brainwashing and hedonism.
  16. Aftershock
    Lopez is a middling ringmaster of doom at best. But there's so little context to the litany of ugliness — some played for laughs, some meant to shock — that it's hard to discern where the entertainment value lies in any of this.
  17. Assault on Wall Street
    It's not the worst idea for a revenge fantasy, but Jim's payback is so lacking in logic and reality, not to mention tension, that it proves more laughable than cathartic.
  18. And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
    With the nimble Greenwood and a kinder, gentler-than-usual Posey in charge, "And Now" proves a thoroughly engaging lark.
  19. Venus and Serena
    This is a story as involving as you'd imagine it would be.
  20. Sightseers
    It is the almost accidental way Tina and Chris go about going bad that provides Sightseers with its twisted humor and its unexpected charm.
  21. Peeples
    An infectious, warm comedy of family and communication and a promising debut as writer-director for Chism. These Peeples are people one should be happy to meet.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Great Gatsby
    The director has steadfastly proclaimed his passion for the novel, but the film he's made of it too often plays as no more than an excuse to display his frantic, frenetic personal style.
  23. Paradise: Love
    The film is, perhaps, intended as a deadpan burlesque of race and class and beauty ideals...but it plays more as a boorish, overextended punch line.
  24. Paris-Manhattan
    The conceit grows more strained, its Talmudic potential unrealized, while the comedy never rises above bleh.
  25. Midnight's Children
    A flavorless feast, with the movie's few mystical leaps clunkily handled.
  26. Greetings from Tim Buckley
    With many languid scenes and little narrative momentum, Algrant may have been aiming for a more ethereal father-son heartbreaker. But all that comes across is twee hipster romanticism.
  27. Generation Um...
    Neither the film, nor the film within the film, hold our attention. Bummer, Keanu.
  28. The Iceman
    The great failing of The Iceman is not in giving us a monster, but in not making us care.
  29. Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
    [It's] too bad Cindy Kleine, the documentary's producer-director-narrator — and Gregory's wife — didn't better organize this rangy survey of the eclectic actor, theater director, artist and raconteur.
  30. Kiss of the Damned
    The confident, female-driven sensuality of Kiss of the Damned anchors this handsome nonsense.
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