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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. Coyote Lake
    The setting and the characters are fairly unique. But they’re put to fairly mundane use, in service of a blah coming-of-age tale.
  2. 15 Minutes of War
    This movie is a broadly sketched but illuminating depiction of what happens when powerful nations grow weary of sorting through the subtleties of geopolitics and start letting heavily armed secret agents handle diplomacy.
  3. The Operative
    The movie hits all the right plot points but never connects them to a story with any kind of momentum or tension.
  4. Is That You?
    Sánchez really has something difficult but necessary to say here, about how sometimes an oppressive patriarchy endures because the people who benefit from it — even if just marginally — won’t let it stay dead.
  5. A Score to Settle
    Without Cage, there’d be almost no reason to see the by-the-numbers revenge thriller A Score to Settle. With him, the movie isn’t just watchable, it’s occasionally riveting.
  6. Union
    Apparently, at least 400 women fought as men during the Civil War, but the perplexing Union is not the exploration they deserve.
  7. Them That Follow
    A film as atmospheric as its title, Them That Follow is an ambitious and impressive independent production, where the creation of mood and place is so convincing it enables us to buy into a richly melodramatic plot about a taboo romance.
  8. A Faithful Man
    A tart, seriocomic morsel of desire and doubt.
  9. Tel Aviv on Fire
    Genial mirth and the nightmarish gloom of the Middle East do not sound like natural companions, but the droll and delightful Tel Aviv on Fire has made the impossible possible.
  10. Exit
    Vertigo-inducing set pieces help shape Korean disaster movie Exit and its distinctive threat into a simplistically digestible and ultimately predictable big-budget outing with a slight edge.
  11. Jirga
    A remarkable truthfulness shepherds Benjamin Gilmour’s tightly written and conscientiously produced drama Jirga as it renders an image of Afghanistan not as a ravaged battleground but as an arrestingly rich land.
  12. American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel
    For anyone interested in politics, religion, American culture or the ever-overlapping space they occupy, this documentary has the potential to move hearts and minds.
  13. Cassandro, the Exotico!
    “Cassandro,” which recalls the grabbed verve of a ‘60s-era verité snapshot, charts the reluctant dimming of this extravagant icon with affectionate energy and lasting poignance.
  14. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
    It’s like a “Fast & Furious” movie that’s been deconstructed and reassembled as a gleefully demented live-action cartoon.
  15. Luce
    Luce has a lot on its mind, and its desire to provoke and disturb is far from unwelcome. But in attempting to think outside the box, the movie may unwittingly trap itself inside one, too.
  16. Teacher
    Adam Dick makes a solid feature writing-directing debut with “Teacher,” a tense and propulsive thriller with several vital, provocatively rendered thoughts on its seething mind.
  17. The Ground Beneath My Feet
    Kreutzer, who wrote the screenplay, proves especially adept, in conjunction with editor Ulrike Kofler, at the natural suspense of pinging between Lola’s professional and personal lives, and where the vulnerabilities in one bleed into the other. It’s a steady tension that’s greatly enhanced by Kreutzer’s spatially conscious visual style.
  18. The Red Sea Diving Resort
    Interesting and timely, The Red Sea Diving Resort highlights the plight of refugees and casts those helping them in a heroic light, but it doesn’t quite deliver dramatically.
  19. Be Happy! (the musical)
    Repetitive lyrics, nonsensical camera angles and incomprehensible edits will leave viewers feeling anything but positive.
  20. Wish Man
    It’s a largely mechanical, on-the-nose, vaguely faith-oriented retelling of Shankwitz’s fraught life and the singular string of episodes that led the Arizona motorcycle cop to his true calling.
  21. Mike Wallace Is Here
    What results is a portrait of Wallace in effect in dialogue with himself, a presentation that puts viewers on edge a bit the way the man himself interacted with the world.
  22. Honeyland
    [A] lovely, heartrending movie.
  23. The Son
    Schindel succeeds at creating unnerving ambiguity aided by an ear-piercing score.
  24. See You Soon
    The whole film is a bizarre exercise in fantasy-building on a budget, from the computer-generated sets to the over-long, predictable story.
  25. Girls with Balls
    This is a deranged nightmare of wildness, as full of laughs as it is arterial sprays. It won’t be everyone’s cup of thé, but its joyously vulgar title probably deters those likely detractors anyway.
  26. Boi
    Its stylish features overpower its many attempts at philosophical depth.
  27. At War
    At War has plenty of cinematic energy for a movie devoted primarily to people shouting at, but mostly past, each other.
  28. Skin
    Bryon’s real experience is certainly incredible, but Nattiv’s in-your-face approach to every scene — literally so, since the frame is rarely anything but a sloppy, unimaginative close-up — strips this character study of believability, or any nuance or gathering power.
  29. Astronaut
    A sluggish drama about aging and holding onto your dreams.
  30. The Mountain
    You’ve probably figured out by now that “The Mountain” isn’t for everybody, but for the art-house faithful who like their critiques of American soullessness made with a humming austerity, this one’s a painstakingly designed (courtesy Jacqueline Abrahams) and visually transfixing beaut, even when it succumbs to its own zombified vibe toward the end.
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