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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. The Eclipse
    The actors - including Aidan Quinn as Lena's lover - work hard to balance a mood that fluctuates between stillness and stagnancy.
  2. Road to Nowhere
    The biggest flaw is the casting: only Shannyn Sossamon delivers a performance of even modest depth.
  3. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
    An extraordinary morsel of a movie, and yes, you'll want sushi afterward. But it won't taste like Jiro's.
  4. Detention
    It's as if the TV character Dawson directed "Heathers," or another one, Parker Lewis, remade "Scream." Who'd have guessed that would be a can't-lose idea?
  5. Coherence
    Byrkit and his actors successfully build a sense of tension, and then dread, from what appears to be an extremely limited budget. Indeed, the movie was shot primarily in his own living room.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Michael Moore in TrumpLand
    The film is better when Moore is joking about America’s problems, presenting fake Trump ads or offering a parody news broadcast from the day of Trump’s inauguration, but he doesn’t do enough of that in TrumpLand.
  7. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    Every generation deserves its ultimate high school romance, and Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist clearly aims to take the slot currently open. Despite a valiant attempt, though, it doesn't quite make the grade.
  8. Under Fire: Journalists in Combat
    Important and gripping.
  9. Language of a Broken Heart
    Nothing terribly special here, but perfectly played and a spiritual cousin to such early ’90s indies as “Naked in New York” and “Ed’s Next Move.”
  10. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    The result is a film almost too reliant on its players to push it through.
  11. Dressed
    Don't let the generic title fool you: David John Swajeski's documentary tells a story you're unlikely to forget.
  12. The Double
    The Double belongs to a very specific club. If you’re on its wavelength, it’s a dive into quirky, murky fun. But even if you are, this oddball offering is vague and slippery, a calmer brother to “Brazil” or Orson Welles’ Kafka tale “The Trial.”
  13. Snowpiercer
    The film features plenty of elements that seem familiar from previous cinematic dystopian visions — class warfare, decrepit living, a feeling of terminal velocity — yet you can’t help but admire director Bong Joon-ho’s high-wire act.
  14. Cutie and the Boxer
    Watching Ushio Shinohara and his wife Noriko make their art, we’re reminded of how much life is inside even the most abstract of pieces.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One Direction: This Is Us
    The most telling quotes in the new One Direction documentary “This Is Us” don’t come from any member of the band. They come from their parents, who, at various times, carp about their kids’ trajectory from the moment they were put together on “The X Factor” back in 2010.
  16. Daddy's Home
    The world needs great Will Ferrell comedies. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them.
  17. Blind Date
    It's about watching two always-fine actors do a lot with very little.
  18. Bully
    Incredibly enough, it seems many people still believe that bullying is just a matter of "kids being kids." Until that attitude changes, this film should be considered required viewing for every parent, teacher and teenager in America.
  19. Forks Over Knives
    Hey, isn't summer a good time for a salad?
  20. Palo Alto
    Instead of falling into exaggerated exploitation, Coppola always stays true to the essence of adolescence — that sense of waiting, reacting and then waiting some more.
  21. Into the Woods
    Loyal fans of the Sondheim original may feel a bit let down themselves. There’s much to love here. But working with original “Woods” writer and Sondheim collaborator James Lapine, Marshall tones down the crucial dark shading in some places and has trouble with pacing in others.
  22. Sex Positive
    Intermittently compelling biography.
  23. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    Bieber's world - at least as edited for mass consumption - is a refreshingly wholesome universe, where a young superstar is good-natured and grateful, says grace before every meal, and spends all his free time on the tour bus tweeting. He also likes to hug, a lot.
  24. Buck
    Even if we can't live his cowboy life, Buck Brannaman's world is well worth visiting.
  25. The Sleeping Beauty
    Breillat, seemingly inspired as much by C.S. Lewis and Hans Christian Andersen as by original author Charles Perrault, doesn't really make the most of her subversive premise.
  26. Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
    A colorful account of the life and art of the recently retired Drew Struzan, whose amazing poster work from the 1970s onward still delights cineastes and casual observers.
  27. Watchmen
    The most pleasant surprise in the movie adaptation of "Watchmen" is the pop-art fusion set off by placing superheroes in a "real" world. The film's biggest challenge – and accomplishment – was making that plausible.
  28. The DUFF
    Fortunately, the cast — featuring Allison Janney as Bianca’s scattered mom and Ken Jeong as her sympathetic mentor — is savvy and silly. Really, though, most of the credit goes to Whitman, who stands in, and stands up, for the DUFF in all of us.
  29. Enemy
    It never comes to much more than an atmospheric head-scratcher.
  30. Just Wright
    The chemistry between the leads is more cozy than sexy, but the biggest issue is Latifah's noticeable - and admirable - discomfort with the rom-com clichés found throughout Michael Elliot's screenplay.
  31. 30 Minutes or Less
    A darkly comic underachiever that manages to charm almost in spite of itself, Ruben Fleischer's 30 Minutes or Less is probably best watched as it was made: without much evident effort. In other words, wait until it hits DVD, order a pizza and Netflix it.
  32. The Trip to Italy
    Coogan and Brydon make terrific companions for us partially because, at least as they appear onscreen, they’re so amusingly incompatible themselves.
  33. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    He (Fincher) gives in to its mimicry of an Agatha Christie parlor game. Only instead of Miss Marple, the old-gal crime-solver with piercing blue eyes, we get Lisbeth Salander, pierced goth-girl investigator with raccoon eyes.
  34. Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?
    This hard-working film may not be a balm, but it can help.
  35. Blood
    While hardly reinventing the wheel, Blood works best as a tone poem, with unspoken passages detailing a hard life.
  36. Delivery Man
    Most important, he’s got Vaughn, whose mix of silliness and sincerity is an ideal anchor for the broad premise. Vaughn is one of those actors who tends to autopilot his way through too many mediocre projects. When he goes all in, though, it’s impossible to resist his charm.
  37. Public Enemies
    You see the spark of 'this is cool!,' but you don't sense a purpose. The underconceived Public Enemies suffers from that lack of drive, though Johnny Depp is so urgent and charismatic as John Dillinger, he provides enough firepower to make the film legit.
  38. Home
    More mournful than alarmist, Arthus-Bertrand's film goes beyond global warming to look at life out of balance, through a lens darkly.
  39. Last Night
    Knightley and Canet make a far more compelling pair. As they wander through the city after hours, doing nothing more than talking, they generate the kind of romantic heat that's all too rare onscreen.
  40. Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
    Culminating in a high-scoring, exciting game, "Gunnin'" scores.
  41. Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
    Though Bowser uses old footage when possible, the absence of his subject -- who died tragically in 1976 -- is keenly felt.
  42. Troubadours
    So maybe this movie should serve as his introduction to a larger series, in which each artist gets the individual portrait Neville so clearly wants them all to have.
  43. Non-Stop
    The best twist is how Neeson’s growly presence makes a bumpy ride enjoyable.
  44. The Wolfman
    If you're going to pick the werewolf as your favorite monster, there's a lot to appreciate in the shaggy, imperfect but still fun new version of The Wolf Man.
  45. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
    Director Stefano Sollima, who cut his teeth on Italian TV mob dramas, is good at building suspense. He fills the screen with striking images, too -- night-vision raids, heat-signature tracking, eye-in-the-sky surveillance.
  46. Fresh Dressed
    Early on, the doc is lively, with witty animation. As the music and the fashion trickle up, both getting more polished and produced, the film also settles down. It’s still interesting, just not as much fun.
  47. Samsara
    Oddly, there isn't as much originality as you'd expect from a global search for meaning.
  48. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    Dilutes the idea some by giving every four-legged hero a story arc. And there's not enough of the first movie's super-erudite monkeys. Yet the sitcom-style silliness is still there, and it's nice to see that the old "grin or frown as you wave a hand across your face" joke still has cross-generational, and cross-species, appeal.
  49. Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
    Though we see the same man throughout the bumpy tour captured here -- always calm, steady, faithful -- it's bound to prove an enlightening portrait for those who know him only as the guy who once worked with Peter Gabriel.
  50. Daydream Nation
    Writer-director Michael Goldbach fills the story with too many distractions, but Dennings, known for "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist," is feline and fun.
  51. Entourage
    Entourage plays like a solid, if slightly too long, episode. But even given the bloat, the cast’s easy camaraderie and a “play it as it lays” atmosphere wins you over.
  52. Cars 2
    This savvy and sensitive company has unapologetically made a movie for (very) young moviegoers.
  53. The Act of Killing
    Can’t-look-away stuff, though it’s tough to believe your eyes and ears.
  54. Hidden Figures
    Hidden Figures is an earnest movie, but not a very exciting one. The screenplay feels as engineered as a Gemini rocket launch, with every scene and line carefully calculated.
  55. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    As fans of "Freaks and Geeks" know, Segel is a master in the art of humiliation, and it's been a long time since we've seen anyone debase himself so thoroughly for our amusement.
  56. Brave
    Gorgeously animated and featuring a tapestry of real-looking wonders, Brave is certainly a thing of beauty. But its emotional layers don't yield the same depth.
  57. The Killer Inside Me
    Affleck is playing someone split down the middle, but we're stuck seeing only one side of him.
  58. The Better Angels
    If you succumb to The Better Angels, the effect is like falling into a gorgeous photograph, but that also means the narrative in this arthouse film is oblique and sketchy.
  59. Expedition to the End of the World
    There’s an introspective quality here, and the gorgeous vistas tilt toward melancholy rather than educational. All on board are curiously resigned to mankind’s death by environment, and take the long view that another life form will one day take our place.
  60. A Jihad for Love
    We never learn why most of his subjects remain loyal to a faith that so explicitly rejects them.
  61. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
    The script is merely serviceable and too reminiscent of similar fantasy tales. But kids will instantly relate to the gentle Soren, while watching wide-eyed as he faces each challenge.
  62. Passing Strange
    The beginning is awkwardly earnest, but the play matures considerably while retaining its youthful energy and enthusiasm
  63. Spring Breakers
    So often not in his element — his turn in “Oz the Great and Powerful” is evidence of that — Franco is in freako mode here, and walks a line between spaced-out caricature and just plain Out There.
  64. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
    This absorbing film isn't an apology or an explanation, but it nonetheless holds plenty of answers - including an amusing dissection of that infamously wiry hair-bear 'fro from the man who wore it.
  65. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
    Despite their efforts to address most sides of this complex story, each new interview leaves us wanting to know even more. Of course, that's the sign of a compelling film - but in this case, not an altogether satisfying one.
  66. Howl
    A movie with no clear narrative. It pushes boundaries and feels like one man's fever dream. But all those traits would certainly make Allen Ginsberg happy.
  67. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    By the end, Holdridge has captured the bittersweet complexities of romance with a wisdom that proves surprisingly seductive.
  68. Mars Needs Moms
    While not every family film can plant a flag here, the happily offbeat Mars Needs Moms turns out to be a charming, subversive, minor addition to the club.
  69. A Better Life
    Feels more earnest than real. Still, its sincerity is admirable, and often touching.
  70. For a Good Time, Call...
    The most adorably filthy movie you may ever see.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Croods
    The Croods are not meant to be beauties — they are, after all, a family of Neanderthals. But is the animation meant to be ugly, too?
  72. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    The whole movie is about piecing together broken parts. It may not always come together, but what it makes, if you look at it the right way, is endearing.
  73. Nine
    The magic simply isn't there.
  74. Land Ho!
    The lack of narrative fireworks is, oddly, the movie’s big gimmick.
  75. When Comedy Went to School
    Think you know all about comedy? This thorough, funny and thoroughly funny chronicle of the Catskills Mountains resorts — that is, the Borscht belt — will still teach you a thing or two.
  76. Son of Rambow
    Luckily, Son of Rambow, a comedy that's part kid-buddy flick, part valentine to filmmaking - and full of heart - has both.
  77. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
    Does its best to include as much fan fodder as it does kiddie fare with the distinct personalities of the four Turtles — "Mikey," "Leo," "Raph" and "Donnie" — faithful enough to previous incarnations that both should be happier with the sequel over its predecessor.
  78. The People vs. George Lucas
    Nonetheless, if you're a Force completist, this is as crucial as a bootleg of 1978's "Star Wars Holiday Special." Which, by the way, was awesome.
  79. Leap Year
    A far cry from 2010's shallow rom-com of the same name, this Leap Year is a haunting portrait of loneliness in its starkest state.
  80. Jersey Boys
    As the most comfortable performer among this inexperienced cast, Walken brings a crucial maturity. In contrast, Young seems to have been hired primarily for his uncanny falsetto.
  81. Next Day Air
    He may be a first-time feature ­director, but music video master Benny Boom clearly knows how to pull a midlevel movie ­together.
  82. Behind the Burly Q
    The real stars of this film are the same ones who stole every show -- women who once boasted names like Tempest Storm, Candy Cotton and Lady Midnight. Their stories are alternately tragic and inspiring, and often very funny.
  83. The Final Member
    A phallocentric documentary could easily be nothing but snickers and mockery, but the directors offer a work filled with warmth, humor and humanism.
  84. Bridesmaids
    If this sounds like a typical date movie, worry not. It's very much an Apatow production-though the crasser additions, like his already-notorious food poisoning scene, feel painfully forced.
  85. The Pleasures of Being Out of Step
    This mellow chronicle of Nat Hentoff is like a tour through New York’s past.
  86. Europa Report
    Finally, a found-footage thriller that merits, and expands on, this irrationally popular format.
  87. Colombiana
    Zoe Saldana makes being an action hero look so easy in Colombiana, you have to wonder why more actresses don't try it.
  88. Annihilation
    Your mileage may vary — along with patience. Despite all the talk of the Shimmer, Annihilation sputters.
  89. Black Dynamite
    Just like the movies it parodies, this one feels over long before it's actually done.
  90. The Raid: Redemption
    The special effects here are wiry martial artists grunting their way through fight after fight. It's exhausting but exhilarating.
  91. Fading Gigolo
    For all its shortcomings, “Gigolo” knows when to turn on the charm.
  92. The Extra Man
    Kline has a ball, while Dano turns in a pitch-perfect performance. He never mocks his character's desires, or undersells his fears.
  93. Wonderful World
    As a misanthropic guy in a dead-end job, Matthew Broderick is more engaging than when he has to be perky.
  94. Make Your Move
    It’s cheesy fun for sure, but fun nonetheless.
  95. Murder Capital of the World
    Charlie Minn seems intent on educating the world about the crisis of violence occurring in Mexico. While his new film feels too much like a retread of "8 Murders a Day," which he released last year, it's still urgent enough to warrant a view.
  96. To Be Takei
    Director Jennifer Kroot’s good-natured biography is so appealing that even non-Trekkies may be convinced we needed a full-length documentary about the man who was Sulu.
  97. The Finest Hours
    Despite some great effects, and one good performance, it never quite gets underway.
  98. The Runner
    The Runner, while painfully low-budget and a little patchy, is an interesting look at how sausage is made.
  99. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    It's hard to ignore the fact that very little in the movie feels true - no one clicks as a couple, and there are carefully contrived coincidences around every corner.
  100. Justice League
    There are enough positives that Justice League shouldn't be dismissed as Flash over substance. It’s just that with the rich history of these iconic heroes on the printed page, the film should have felt more… super.
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