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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 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. Auto Focus
    This movie is for select tastes. It's not the fusillade of porn that wears you down, but the melancholy of watching an unremarkable man glide down the tubes as if on a water slide.
  2. Dark Horse
    Abe's day-to-day trials may eventually seem like cheap daytime TV, but Gelber and Solondz know how to nail the uncomfortably funny optimism shadowing American desperation.
  3. Wiener-Dog
    There will be movie-goers who enjoy the misery of it all. They may even laugh. I couldn't.
  4. Ever After
    The pleasure of Ever After is that it never takes itself seriously. [31Jul1998, Pg. 47]
    • New York Daily News
  5. The Founder
    The details of how the McDonalds literally invented the fast-food concept are fascinating. The period details feel right. All in all, the film's a slick, good-looking package. But it still feels empty. Where's the message? Where's the meaning? Where's the beef?
  6. The Angels' Share
    The setting and themes are pure Loach, and he’s handled comic scenarios with skill before. But he and his longtime screenwriter, Paul Laverty, have added a lighthearted buoyancy — enhanced by a spirited if obvious soundtrack — that might lead some to call this a feel-good crowd-pleaser.
  7. A Map of the World
    If it's not one of the five best of 1999, it's a personal best for Weaver, and that's pretty good.
  8. By Sidney Lumet
    By Sidney Lumet is less a true documentary and more a long, previously unseen interview given by the director three years before his death in 2011.
  9. Fast Five
    Sure, a lot of the dialogue is dopey, and the eternally stiff leads once again compete for blankest delivery. But Lin distracts us well, packing deftly-shot races, explosions, and getaways into every corner.
  10. OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie
    Clayman, who co-directed with filmmaker friends, is fascinating company.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seven Psychopaths
    Each cast member helps push it along, with standouts including Rockwell, Harrelson and Gabourey Sidibe in a brief but memorable scene. They help make Seven Psychopaths an astute, bloody and bloodshot-eyed addition to a genre it knows it's part of.
  12. Tuck Everlasting
    Carefully walks the fine line between paying homage to a classic and entertaining a modern audience.
  13. Steamboy
    The weak story and bland hero are no match for the increasingly exciting visuals, while the score by Steve Jablonsky should be on exhibit in the Hall of Lead.
  14. Fly Away
    Rickards tries hard in a difficult role and Greg Germann offers nice support as an empathetic neighbor. But like her character, it's Broderick who keeps things from falling apart.
  15. The Cold Lands
    The Cold Lands is aimless and dull, but has a rich tone and upstate authenticity.
  16. The Bling Ring
    Narratively static and morally banal. That may be par for the course, however, when half the movie is spent watching shallow kids try on other people’s clothes.
  17. Dinosaur 13
    Begins as a vibrant and uplifting tale about exploration and discovery, then quickly turns into a soul-crushing lament about bureaucracy and defeat.
  18. The Informant!
    Has two aces going for it: Soderbergh's poking at the maze­like holes in American business and Damon's whirling dervish performance.
  19. The Two Faces of January
    If you wait for the grift, you’ll only be disappointed. There are no jolting twists or shocking reveals. The reward lies mostly in accepting each character on his or her terms.
  20. The BFG
    Fun and likable, occasionally even delightful.
  21. Diggers
    What separates Diggers from its kin - notably the Ed Burns movies - is the testosterone balance of its masculine script and Dieckmann's sensitive direction. Maybe we need more buddy movies by women.
  22. Crash
    Concludes in a shower of ashes, which is fitting because this movie is a billowing bonfire of ugly human behavior. Rarely have there been so many characters in need of timeouts, cold showers or house arrests.
  23. The Danish Girl
    Eddie Redmayne’s enthralling star turn as a transgender pioneer in The Danish Girl affirms his status as an ace cinematic chameleon — a transformer who rivals Optimus Prime. If only the movie wasn’t quite so polite.
  24. Game Night
    A lot of the jokes are surprising, and one gag...pays off terrifically. The two top stars are delightful, and a couple of cameos are nice surprises.
  25. The Woman with the 5 Elephants
    Alas, this learned woman of letters - her expertise became the work of Dostoyevsky, whose major novels Geier nicknames "the five elephants" - is ill served by a trudging approach and dry-as-dust, procedural style.
  26. Don Jon
    I’ll take messy, daring creativity like Gordon-Levitt’s over a formulaic fantasy any day.
  27. The Eye
    It's unabashedly derivative and spooky enough to keep you up at night.
  28. Bend It Like Beckham
    Director and co-writer Gurinder Chadha continues in the vein of her previous movies, "What's Cooking?" and "Bhaji on the Beach," exploring with humor and compassion how cultures adapt in foreign climes.
  29. So Close
    A brilliant example of the genre -- with romantic subplots to boot.
  30. Voices of Iraq
    The latest - and really last-minute - documentary hoping to affect the presidential election is a deceptively partisan view of the Iraq War.
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