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For 7,549 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.2 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: 4,943 out of 7549
  2. Mixed: 1,248 out of 7549
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7549
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  1. Life
    Life struck me as several cuts above “meh” but never made me jump out of my seat.
  2. A Woman, a Part
    A Woman, a Part mixes passion and ambivalence to create a work with ambiguities that seem earned, and lived in.
  3. Saban's Power Rangers
    Loud, trashy, sweet and weird, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers reboot Power Rangers is not merely an ideal film for rambunctious and undemanding 12-year olds, it actually sees the world through their eyes.
  4. Mean Dreams
    As for Paxton, he enters the story with an edge, establishing the authority and revealing sensitivity of a single father with a powerful job. It’s not a career-topping role by any means but it is a reminder of how the late actor could take on a role with sincerity and breathe some type of life into it.
  5. After the Storm
    After the Storm is one of our best filmmaker’s best films.
  6. Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
    This reasonably engaging picture is being pushed as a kind of diversity-prioritizing indie comedy as opposed to the YA film it really is, for reasons not entirely clear to me.
  7. The Devil's Candy
    I found myself captivated by The Devil's Candy because of how well Embry conveys his character's angst-y struggle to understand himself.
  8. Song to Song
    The first Malick film I’ve watched where the dots never came together to form a legible image.
  9. Frantz
    While it is far from Ozon’s worst movie, it is perhaps the first one he's made that feels like it could be the work of any other director.
  10. The Belko Experiment
    The characters could have embodied traits of typical office drones and managers, turning the film into a savage black comedy. But those elements aren't developed beyond a point, making the movie's only selling point its excessive gore and violence.
  11. T2 Trainspotting
    If you long for the gritty charms of mid-‘90s indie cinema in general and “Trainspotting” specifically, T2 Trainspotting gives you exactly that. And by “exactly,” we really do mean “exactly.”
  12. Beauty and the Beast
    This “Beauty” presents a far more inclusive view of the world. One that is awash with a sense of hope and connection that we desperately need right now. If you desire an entertaining escape from reality right about now, be my guest.
  13. Suntan
    While Suntan is more than just a tale about an older man becoming involved with a younger woman, it's unfortunately not as profound when it later claims to be a statement on the movie you think you're watching.
  14. This Beautiful Fantastic
    This Beautiful Fantastic is not meant to be realistic. It's supposed to be a fairy tale. That's fine, but it's a very low-stakes fairy tale, wrapped in a strained garden metaphor.
  15. My Scientology Movie
    This Louis Theroux-starring film belongs to the Michael Moore school of docu-making, in which much hinges on the personal viewpoint and observational wit of the on-camera investigator.
  16. The Ottoman Lieutenant
    Upon taking in the gorgeousness — and it is really something; the production design of this movie, by Luca Tranchino, is exceptional (as is Daniel Aranyó’s cinematography, which shines when he’s shooting in the natural world) —Lillie observes, “It’s like being inside God’s thoughts.”
  17. The Other Half
    A somber and derivative relationship drama.
  18. The Sense of an Ending
    Not to sound derisive, but there’s definitely a target audience here. What they’ll get will be mildly satisfying: a film that’s well-acted but tastefully restrained to a fault, with gentle humor about aging and a central mystery that isn’t all that engaging.
  19. Burning Sands
    Burning Sands, Gerald McMurray's feature filmmaking debut, is one of the fresher entries, thanks mainly to its setting: a historically black fraternity on a historically black campus like Howard, the university where the co-writer and director got his degree.
  20. Brimstone
    Well, if there’s one positive thing to say about Brimstone, it’s that it doesn’t lack for lunatic ambition.
  21. Cries from Syria
    It should be required viewing for everyone in a position of power worldwide, especially those who would choose to enable genocide and stigmatize those who flee it.
  22. Personal Shopper
    They (Assayas/Stewart) have managed to out-do themselves with a work as mysterious, moving and haunting as anything that has materialized in a movie theater in a while.
  23. Raw
    It may not sound like it on the surface, but Raw is absolutely a celebration of female power — of realizing who you are, what you want and how to go after it, albeit with brutally bloody results.
  24. Rangoon
    Indian melodrama Rangoon somehow manages to be emotionally resonant despite being overstuffed. This is no small feat given how many different genres, tones, and characters this film juggles.
  25. Uncertain
    It’s a fantastic piece of observational filmmaking about a small town on the edge of Texas and three of the men who live there.
  26. Kong: Skull Island
    The monsters are brilliantly designed and skillfully animated (except for a few shots where Kong looks a tad cartoony), and the army of visual and sound effects artists convince you that that these CGI titans live and breathe and weigh hundreds of tons.
  27. The Settlers
    Whatever its limitations, though, The Settlers provides a vivid primer on a situation that looks inherently tragic.
  28. The Human Surge
    Though the picture is admirable on a conceptual level, its execution is incoherent, interminable and a colossal strain on the eyes.
  29. Headshot
    Blood-soaked Indonesian martial arts flick Headshot is for anyone who liked "The Bourne Identity," but wished it were way more violent.
  30. The Institute
    The film looks like a rushed production that a few friends got together and made over a weekend. Performances range from tolerable to horrendous, and the script needed at least another rewrite to figure out what it was trying to say, and, preferably, buff out a ridiculous twist ending that would make M. Night Shyamalan go “nah.”
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