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For 7,558 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Ghost Elephants
Lowest review score: 0 Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
Score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 1,250 out of 7558
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7558
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  1. Paradise: Faith
    Crazy, violent and shocking events go down in Paradise: Faith — events that will startle the devout and non-believers alike — but Austrian director Ulrich Seidl depicts them all with same sort of monotone detachment he uses in the film's more mundane moments.
  2. Ocean's 8
    Slickly paced and radiating sexy glamour, “Ocean’s 8” moves with the swagger of a supermodel prancing down the runway.
  3. As They Made Us
    As They Made Us is clearly a personal debut effort for Bialik, but she shows enough confidence behind the camera to make you curious about whatever other stories she has to tell.
  4. Dead for A Dollar
    This story is bound to lead to several showdowns at once, and the action climax is beautifully orchestrated by Hill: it’s suspenseful, jarring, and never descends to formal cheating of narrative cheapness to give the audience what it wants and deserves.
  5. Respect
    Whether it’s in a nightgown or in the full, glorious regalia Aretha Franklin adorned in her concert appearances, Hudson performs with the same tireless intensity Re was known for throughout her career. It’s a damn good performance and this is a damn entertaining movie.
  6. Sunlight Jr.
    If Sunlight Jr. does anything, it is to shine a light on the fact that the American dream is a dormant notion for far too many.
  7. The Mystery of D.B. Cooper
    By turning this narrative into a search for an identification that seems increasingly unlikely to ever happen, Dower loses focus, and we become just as lost as the hundreds of people convinced they know what happened to D.B. Cooper.
  8. Speer Goes to Hollywood
    This is a fascinating and pertinent tale, but one major aspect of its telling gives me serious pause.
  9. Nymphomaniac: Volume II
    I wonder how people will feel about the final moment of the film. I thought it was great, albeit extremely cynical.
  10. A Taste of Hunger
    The passion for the food, the dream, and each other that fueled the beginning of the story is less vibrant when the details are revealed.
  11. El Angel
    Although the film’s premise is based on a true story, Luis Ortega’s El Angel is not a faithful biopic. Somehow, the facts are darker than their fictional counterparts.
  12. Fast & Furious 6
    Fast 6 is solid entertainment, but it might have been great if it recognized that a human touch is a rare thing, and when you have it, there's no need to keep clenching it into a fist.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Lilting
    Lilting suffers from a lack of plausibility in its central situation and elsewhere.
  14. Muppets Most Wanted
    The most significant and bizarre problem with Muppets Most Wanted is a lack of a protagonist.
  15. Exposed
    A documentary that manages to be jaw-droppingly provocative and genuinely endearing — sometimes at alternating points, and by the end kind of all at once.
  16. Onward
    The pacing is so jarring that the emotional payoff doesn’t develop as intended. And the overall irony, of course, is that this is a movie about the need for magic that could have used a little more of the stuff itself. But if it makes you think of your mom and dad fondly, even for a moment, well at least that’s something.
  17. This Is Me…Now: A Love Story
    Regardless of its technical faults, there is bravery here as Lopez opens up her old wounds for all to see, sharing her biggest mistakes, her deepest scars, and the work she put in to heal herself first, before she could be ready for the love story that she grew up so desperately wishing for.
  18. Port Authority
    The main goal of Port Authority is the simple but unfortunately necessary message that “hey, trans people are people, too!” It’s too bad this film isn’t really about them.
  19. The Rehearsal
    The problem is that the relatively brief running time (less than two hours) works at cross-purposes with the movie's laid back characterizations and populated cast.
  20. Abominable
    It sometimes feels Scrooge-like to come down on a sweet and simple film like this one, but kids can get bored too. And they will here.
  21. Hamlet
    The film has atmosphere and energy as well as a specific point of view.
  22. Hunter Hunter
    I like cheap exploitation as much as the next guy, but not when it tries to disguise itself with transparently insincere humanist indie trappings.
  23. Buffaloed
    With a screenplay by Brian Sacca, who grew up in the Buffalo area, Buffaloed is a showcase for the mega-talented Deutch, who tosses herself into the role like a maniacal fidget-spinner, all flash and charm.
  24. The Oak Room
    Back and forth The Oak Room goes, without ever building the tension it ostensibly seeks. Instead, it meanders from tale to tale, and the writing isn’t sharp or specific enough to sustain this kind of complex framework.
  25. Elton John: Never Too Late
    Elton John: Never Too Late is an affecting movie that the musician's fans will likely appreciate, but it's the equivalent of those official oil portraits that the more intelligent and self-aware royals used to commission.
  26. The Front Runner
    Reitman gets the superficial details of the era right: the pay phones, the big sweaters, the constant indoor smoking. But he’s missing both key insight and satirical bite in his depiction of this pivotal point in American history. Privacy is about to become a thing of the past. In The Front Runner, it dies with a whimper.
  27. Nuremberg
    Altogether, it’s a solid film of kind that used to be more common: an earnest, unpretentious Oscar Movie that wants to be seen by everyone, and consequently doesn’t try to be too complex or arty.
  28. Slice
    It’s always a thrill to think you’re seeing one movie, only to find out that someone is working overtime to offer you a second, different one, and that’s what Vesely does when treating ghosts as an impassioned metaphor for gentrification, and refocusing his monster mash around what makes a true ally.
  29. White Rabbit
    Even if White Rabbit feels like the ultimate acting reel, it’s albeit for a talent you immediately start to root for.
  30. Monolith
    Some of our heroine’s choices as the film raises the stakes feel a bit unbelievable, but that can be forgiven given the single-setting, single-performer restrictions of the piece. In the end, the goal was clearly to trap us in the increasingly fractured mind of a single person who increasingly believes what is beyond believable. Mission accomplished.
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