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For 7,557 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.5 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:
  1. Positive: 4,950 out of 7557
  2. Mixed: 1,249 out of 7557
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7557
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  1. The Long Night
    The Long Night wants to create a sense of encroaching fear and unease in viewers but cannot inspire much of anything other than boredom and apathy.
  2. The Wolf and the Lion
    The wolf and the lion make a great team; the humans and the script do not.
  3. Jackass Forever
    It is equal parts Buster Keaton-Jackie Chan slapstick extravaganza, WWE-styled spectacle, and "geek trick."
  4. Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
    This restless film is hardly content to present a portrait of an icon, instead insisting, with compassion and clear eyes, that icons are all too human too.
  5. The Requin
    Fans of cheap thrills and cheesy B-movies are sure to be frustrated by The Requin, a new shark pic that waits about an hour before introducing major carnivorous fish action. That alone might turn off viewers since The Requin only lasts about 89 minutes, and most of the movie plays out like a soapy two-hander about survivor’s guilt.
  6. Sundown
    Is it a compliment or a slam to say that "Sundown" could be the saddest "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode ever?
  7. Home Team
    Pretend it’s not a “true story” and it’s still a shallow representation of sports, parenthood, and comedy, with almost no laughs.
  8. Brighton 4th
    Georgian filmmaker Levan Koguashvili’s Tribeca prize-winner, “Brighton 4th,” is a tragicomedy that sneaks up on you stealthily before flooring you with an emotional sucker punch in the final reel.
  9. Rifkin's Festival
    Allen’s direction, with Vittorio Storaro lensing, is typically fluid. If you’re at all inclined to view this movie, you’ll find it’s very easy to take in.
  10. Clean
    Again, merely watching Brody engaging in such painstaking work is interesting; the generic bloodbath that ensues, less so.
  11. 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.
  12. After Yang
    So many visions of the future seem distant, but “After Yang” hits home in how it centers connection and experience to which we can all relate. It’s a powerful, moving drama about what it means to be alive.
  13. Compartment No. 6
    An observation that when you’re running away, it doesn’t matter where you’re running to as much as it matters where you’re running from. “Compartment No. 6” has an always energetic sense of place even when it’s keeping to the confined space of its title room. Combined with the committed acting, it makes for a worthwhile journey.
  14. Simple Passion
    While Dosch’s work is ever-changing but always accessible, Polunin never comes close to matching her acting ability, which ultimately leaves “Simple Passion” lacking.
  15. Munich: The Edge of War
    The British WWII drama “Munich - The Edge of War” starts off as a prim spy thriller and ends as an insufferable civics lesson.
  16. The Laureate
    One thing is certain: for all the strain the movie exerts, it never comes close to touching the hem of the writers it purports to depict. And it leaves the mystical and erotic dimensions of their lives and works far outside of its belabored vision.
  17. Redeeming Love
    The biggest problem is that the most touching moments are hammered so hard. "Redeeming Love" could have tried to reach a broader audience but settles for preaching to the choir.
  18. The King's Daughter
    It's a vast understatement to say that Vonda McIntyre's book deserved way better treatment than this.
  19. The Last Thing Mary Saw
    The Last Thing Mary Saw is so effective as a vehicle for performances, atmosphere, and period detail, and so convincing an examination of suffering under the boot-heel of a cult, that one may wish that it added up to more.
  20. Scream
    Luckily, it smartly balances references to the original movies in a way that (mostly) avoids the self-aware smugness that has killed many a “re-quel,” delivering a product that feels consistent with the first four movies but distinct enough to have its own voice.
  21. Shattered
    Unfortunately, the craftsmanship is lacking.
  22. Belle
    It’s a meticulously crafted, albeit not totally original critique of internet culture, bursting with color and melodramatic teen angst.
  23. Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
    With its Indiana Jones-style adventure, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania combines monster powers lost and found (love those innumerable wolf cubs), pure joyous silliness, and surprisingly touching insights into family relationships.
  24. Italian Studies
    Frustrating in its repetitiveness, Leon’s third feature is like a narrative exercise fascinated by both memory and youth. Italian Studies relentlessly experiments with form, but fails to fully congeal.
  25. The Pink Cloud
    The intentionality and editorial eye that make the style of this film so compelling feels sorely lacking from the script, which is at once scattered and repetitive.
  26. Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
    Robinson is matter-of-fact, thoughtful and enormously compelling in illustrating hidden chapters of our shared history.
  27. Borrego
    Borrego, an awkward thriller pasted onto a moody strangers-forging-a-connection drama, doesn't allow itself to be what it so clearly wants to be.
  28. The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs
    The trouble is that while many of these bits and pieces are often fascinating, they never quite pull together into a truly compelling or satisfying narrative.
  29. Superhost
    I wish it was a little more ambitious and had some more meat on its bones regarding internet culture and shared spaces, but it’s undeniably entertaining, which is more than I can say about some of the times I’ve rented homes myself.
  30. An Unquiet Grave
    Unlike a lot of recent indie horror movies, An Unquiet Grave doesn’t feel bogged down by the last few decades’ worth of American horror. It’s a spare, dread-filled mood piece whose just-so dialogue, too-tight close-ups, and deceptively subdued pacing all tease out small, but essential details from both of these elusive central characters.
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