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For 16,520 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: 8,697 out of 16520
  2. Mixed: 5,806 out of 16520
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16520
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  1. In the Tall Grass
    Despite the handsome Craig Wrobleski cinematography, and despite a typically fine performance by Patrick Wilson as the lost kid’s dad — slowly going mad in the bush — “In the Tall Grass” runs too long and repeats itself too much to be as gripping as its source material.
  2. Wrinkles the Clown
    This movie’s a reminder that even abstract concepts can have a dark, persuasive power.
  3. Cuck
    At its best, Cuck emphasizes those moments when Ronnie is reachable: when he’s treated like an ordinary person and tries his best to respond in kind.
  4. Semper Fi
    The movie’s most memorable material is also more grounded.
  5. The Parts You Lose
    This story of a lonely kid in need of a father figure seems stubbornly small, given the creators involved. It’s a premise in search of a plot.
  6. Harpoon
    Some of the stylistic fillips feel excessive, and at the end of the day, this is just a tawdry, gory B-picture, with little to say about human behavior. But it’s often funny and generally suspenseful — a fine afternoon on the water, all things considered.
  7. Memory: The Origins of Alien
    A rich and diverting piece of film scholarship.
  8. Midnight Traveler
    It is the gift of Midnight Traveler to allow us to feel this family’s fate in the pit of our stomachs. If the plight of refugees has ever seemed abstract, this film makes sure you know how real it is.
  9. Scared of Revolution
    While Scared of Revolution offers intimacy with Umar, it is otherwise unmoored from the important cultural history it could have been.
  10. Lucy in the Sky
    Unfortunately, it’s an anticlimactic conclusion at best, full of tacked-on thriller shenanigans that, once they’ve petered out, make you wonder exactly why this story drew the filmmakers’ attention to begin with. The answer to that, happily, can be found in Portman’s every glimmer of nuance.
  11. Game Day
    With its deeply creaky gender and racial themes, this strained film evokes something unearthed from several decades ago, if not before.
  12. Pain and Glory
    A surprise in all ways except its surpassing quality, Pain and Glory reveals master Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar forging dazzling new paths while being completely himself.
  13. Low Tide
    Despite the inherent familiarity, the quietly observed Low Tide, graced by a mournful, undulating score by composers Brooke Blair and Will Blair, nevertheless packs a genuine depth.
  14. Genèse (Genesis)
    Genèse concludes as a sober reminder that the young always feel intensely, but that the years between the crush that shines and the ardor that confounds are short ones, indeed.
  15. Dilili in Paris
    The flatly visualized characters and tinny, stiff English-language voice performances are busts, often creating the paradoxical vibe of a cartoon with an uncanny-valley problem, as if you were watching the rough specs for an animatronic theme-park installation.
  16. Collisions
    A timely, undeniably compassionate but ultimately underwhelming production reflecting on a profoundly American issue.
  17. The Golden Glove
    Dassler’s personification of the real-life infamous and misogynistic character — his walk, his speech patterns — consistently startles.
  18. Dolemite Is My Name
    Murphy is back, and both his old gifts and some new ones are on engaging display in the rowdy, raunchy, inescapably funny Dolemite Is My Name, a gleefully profane biopic and a passion project the star has been nurturing for years.
  19. The Pretenders
    James Franco’s Pretenders begs the question: is this a film about bohemian artists or a parody of a film about bohemian artists? Because if we’re supposed to take this laughably trite and sexist claptrap seriously, one has to laugh.
  20. Bliss
    Madison’s work aside, this picture isn’t all that exciting. It’s 80 tedious minutes of shouting, swearing, nudity and gore, cut together with the deftness of a chainsaw.
  21. 10 Minutes Gone
    10 Minutes Gone is clumsy and cliché-ridden, and populated by two accomplished action stars who look like they just want to get through this job as quickly as possible.
  22. The Curse of Buckout Road
    Director Matthew Currie Holmes (who also cowrote the script) has a hard time controlling this movie’s tone, which ranges from tongue-in-cheek to deadly serious, with some well-meaning but poorly executed attempts to examine the racial component of the old Buckout Road tales.
  23. Sister Aimee
    The filmmakers sometimes fail to follow through on the more interesting parts of their story, but a novel approach to the material mostly compensates for the drier stretches.
  24. In the Shadow of the Moon
    This is an appealingly polished thriller, with something modest but profound to say about how selfish choices can ripple across decades.
  25. First Love
    To watch it is to feel Miike’s industriousness and partake of his pleasure: The cinema is his first love and likely also his last.
  26. Judy
    The triumph of this performance is that Zellweger is not so much presenting a Garland we’ve never known as portraying the one we’ve read about with the kind of nuance and depth that insures hearts go out to her, as they always have.
  27. The Lake Vampire
    Overwrought but nonetheless thoughtfully creepy, The Lake Vampire emerges as a new and formidable calling card for genre cinema in Venezuela and for Zitelmann as a creator.
  28. Chasing Einstein
    [A] brainy, niche, often arcane documentary.
  29. The Laundromat
    The movie is both a lesson and a diversion, a movie that seeks to educate by means of trickery and misdirection. It is thus best approached as a kind of cinematic shell game, in which the focus of the story keeps shifting and the full scope of the corruption on display remains just out of view.
  30. Ága
    A small gem of focused filmmaking, Ága tells a minimal story so beautifully it holds us completely.
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