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For 8,343 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 54% 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 Patriots Day
Lowest review score: 0 Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,334 out of 8343
  2. Mixed: 1,701 out of 8343
  3. Negative: 2,308 out of 8343
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  1. Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
    The story is something of a trap: Both irresistibly poignant and an invitation to wallow.
  2. The Last of the Unjust
    Lanzmann, for his part, begins the interview with a sharp, probing manner; by the end, the filmmaker’s questions and body language are conveying something altogether different.
  3. The Pretty One
    The Pretty One does find a handful of genuinely sweet moments in which Basel and Laurel bond on letting their respective freak flags fly. Like the film itself, Kazan is at her best when she’s not trying so hard to be cute.
  4. The Monuments Men
    Except possibly for a superlative supporting performance by Hugh Bonneville of “Downton Abbey,’’ Clooney’s low-key directorial effort is not quite an Oscar-caliber movie, though it’s got a great cast, a worthy theme and plenty of things to reward adult moviegoers.
  5. Cavemen
    A dismal rom-com for dudes that makes the average beer commercial look nuanced and plot-heavy.
  6. The Outsider
    The cheesy techno-thriller The Outsider is a blaring B-movie that doesn’t have much going for it, but it does have an engaging action hero in its leading man, a snarling Cockney badass named Craig Fairbrass.
  7. Love & Air Sex
    Love is the weak link in this clumsily titled rom-com, which plays a bit like a hipster infomercial for Austin, Texas.
  8. The LEGO Movie
    As cute and energetic as it is, The Lego Movie is more exhausting than fun, too unsure of itself to stick with any story thread for too long. The action scenes are enthusiastic, colorful but uninvolving, like an 8-year-old emptying a bucket of plastic blocks.
  9. The Wait
    The dialogue is so vague, and the plot so minimal, it all feels like a rather pointless exercise.
  10. Peter Brook: The Tightrope
    The way the tightrope works is vague, but what the exercise shows is straightforward and marvelous.
  11. At Middleton
    None of this is particularly innovative, although Garcia and the elder Farmiga develop a nice spark and a gentle humor in their characters’ stolen day together.
  12. Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
    This is a useful primer on what went wrong — and right — in 2008.
  13. Labor Day
    Winslet and Brolin have wonderful chemistry together, and Reitman makes well-worn metaphors like steamy weather and pie making (the film has been embraced by the American Pie Council) seem newly invented.
  14. That Awkward Moment
    That Awkward Moment is a rom-com for dudes that seeks to outdo the ladies by being even more insipid, formulaic and contrived than anything Katherine Heigl has ever done.
  15. Mitt
    A good documentary uses judicious editing to make an important addition to your knowledge of a subject, and Mitt does so in a big way.
  16. Gimme Shelter
    A clunky movie that feels as if it’s underwritten by the Roman Catholic Church.
  17. G.B.F.
    G.B.F., which concludes with a clumsy parody of the prom climax from “Carrie,’’ offers an admirable message of tolerance for teen audiences — too bad it’s been absurdly saddled with an R rating, even though there’s far less innuendo than in “Easy A.’’
  18. Run & Jump
    Will Forte continues his transition into serious actorhood with this indie.
  19. Like Father, Like Son
    Like Father, Like Son has earned its right to reduce a person to a sobbing wreck.
  20. Generation War
    The densely plotted Generation War sweeps past implausibilities and offers the can’t-put-it-down qualities of a superior airport novel; its last third is affecting. But a bold confrontation with the past? Not so much.
  21. Maidentrip
    What the film lacks in plot twists it makes up for in sheer amazement.
  22. The Nut Job
    The Nut Job has an interesting anti-socialist subtext, with the seemingly benevolent raccoon revealing himself as a power-mad dictator. It’s the most political non-Pixar cartoon feature since the very left-leaning “The Ant Bully’’ eight years ago.
  23. Ride Along
    Ride Along tries to be a comic version of “Training Day,” only there’s nothing in it as funny as Denzel razzing Ethan. There’s nothing much funny in it at all.
  24. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Soundly structured, smart and fast, with a plausible central scenario, several gripping moments and well-wrought dialogue.
  25. The Truth About Emanuel
    A film so self-serious that it demands to be remade as a Seth MacFarlane farce, The Truth About Emanuel mixes the ludicrous and the pretentious in a story about mommy issues gone wild.
  26. Cold Comes the Night
    It settles for being a bland and preposterous thriller.
  27. Free Ride
    It’s unspeakably depressing to see Anna Paquin playing the mom (of a teenager!), but the pointlessness and mediocrity of the Paquin-produced Free Ride is even more depressing.
  28. The Rocket
    Long on atmosphere and less sentimental about poverty than “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” the film carries a potent charge of authenticity.
  29. Raze
    Ultimately, though, the lack of story and relentless suffering make Raze appealing for hard-core genre fans only.
  30. Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
    Imagine the French lesbian romance “Blue Is the Warmest Color’’ as a raunchy American exploitation flick with loads of fake gore. That’s a rough idea of the latest from Lloyd Kaufman, the exuberant shockmeister whose Troma Team is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
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