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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. The Longest Week
    Just like the character of Conrad, the movie coasts on confidence without ever proving it has a soul.
  2. Last Days in Vietnam
    This fact-driven doc is eye-opening and at times thrilling. A sequence following a chopper pilot trying to get his family to an American aircraft carrier is like a short film unto itself.
  3. The Congress
    It’s almost painful to watch the immense promise of The Congress, Ari Folman’s spectacularly ambitious experiment, dissipate into nothing.
  4. Kelly & Cal
    This uneven directorial debut from Jen McGowan is notable mostly for a nicely understated turn from Juliette Lewis.
  5. As Above, So Below
    One of the world's top disturbing tourist attractions is now finally getting the spooky film it deserves
  6. Starred Up
    Thematically tough and emotionally rough, Starred Up is the kind of movie you might enter into with some reluctance. But because everyone involved does such an outstanding job, it's also the kind of movie you won't want to see end.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering
    It's riveting stuff, but Merola might have strengthened his argument with a little journalistic balance.
  8. The Damned
    You won't get much back story, and the action is fairly generic. But The Damned still makes for a serviceable horror flick, with better performances than a movie of this caliber usually offers.
  9. The Last of Robin Hood
    Kline sinks his old smoothie teeth into the part of Flynn, but is careful not to draw blood too easily. The man’s pathetic nature, after all, doesn’t spring from his movies. (Flynn worked right up to his death, in 1959.) It’s deeper than that, but also more shallow. Walking that knife’s edge is a trick. Kline finds exactly the right path.
  10. The Calling
    There’s a potentially fascinating series waiting to be mined here, even if it is buried beneath bland visuals and a pedestrian script on the big-screen.
  11. Life of Crime
    Ultimately it’s the cast, more than the crime, that gives this story life.
  12. The Notebook
    Despite the human drama here, we’re kept at a remove by stolid direction and by-the-numbers storytelling.
  13. Jamie Marks Is Dead
    Writer-director Carter Smith got his start as a successful fashion photographer. But you wouldn’t know it from the murky look of this generic thriller.
  14. The November Man
    Even in the lazy days of late August, this movie is hardly worth the price of popcorn.
  15. The Prince
    The Prince isn't just awful, it's depressing.
  16. When the Game Stands Tall
    “Hoosiers” this ain’t. The redemptive final game has some nice plays and bone-crunching sound effects, but no grit. Ultimately, it’s a ho-hum, bromide-filled production undeserving of a victory dance.
  17. Love Is Strange
    After a summer of robots, mutants and explosions, the beautifully honest, grownup Love is Strange is a treat.
  18. Kink
    There’s a surprising lack of provocation to this determinedly positive portrait. As a result, the movie often feels like a full-length ad for a great workplace, which just happens to stash whips and chains in the stationery closet.
  19. 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.
  20. Are You Here
    The compelling Draper’s the creation of “Mad Men” mastermind Matthew Weiner, the writer-director of Are You Here. Which begs the question: how could Weiner make, as his debut comedy, a movie as amateurish and off-putting as this one?
  21. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
    The sequel to one of the most visually striking movies of the last 10 years continues the graphic novel-inspired landscape of its predecessor. But the characters don’t click, and the action feels dull.
  22. 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.
  23. Jersey Shore Massacre
    This is a washout lacking jokes or scares.
  24. If I Stay
    The movie is designed not to explore the experience of illness, or first love, or adolescence, but merely to make us swoon, sigh, and sob.
  25. The One I Love
    To sing the praises of the movie but not give away the revelations is difficult. Let’s just say this: The less you know about what happens in this funny, tasty twisteroo, the better.
  26. The Giver
    The Giver was ahead of its time as a book. But as a movie, it’s too late.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. The Expendables 3
    The Expendables 3 lets down its cast with a film that’s about as thrilling as the arrival of a monthly Social Security check.
  30. Jealousy
    Quiet moments after big decisions are where the power lies in this absorbing French drama.
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