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For 7,545 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
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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: 4,939 out of 7545
  2. Mixed: 1,248 out of 7545
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7545
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  1. Goodnight Mommy
    An intelligently staged and executed creepfest that takes one of the most universally compelling of notions — the unbreakable bond that exists between a mother and her children — and approaches it in such a formally and narratively bleak manner that it makes the works of fellow countryman Michael Haneke seeming almost benign by comparison.
  2. The Visit
    A film so purely entertaining that you almost forget how scary it is. With all its terror, The Visit is an extremely funny film.
  3. Coming Home
    What this film may lack in terms of visual flamboyance, it more than makes up for in telling its simple and direct story with a raw, emotional power that doesn't need lavish spectacle in order to get its point across.
  4. Welcome to Leith
    It's easy to make a documentary about hateful people. It's harder to focus on the impact of hateful people on those around them.
  5. Time Out of Mind
    Time out of Mind seems to have been undertaken for no other reason than that the filmmakers and actors believed in the truth of the material. How many American movies can you say that about?
  6. Rosenwald
    Wholly engaging from its first frame to its last, Rosenwald stands as an exemplary testament to the change that can occur when wealth, power and influence are utilized for the good of humanity.
  7. Break Point
    A family-tennis drama with a plot that could be described as "conflict-lite." All problems are telegraphed from the get-go, giving the film's opening scenes that weird vibe where characters spout exposition at one another.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dragon Blade
    There are alliances and betrayals aplenty, but writer/director Daniel Lee seems more concerned with establishing and maintaining an epic look and feel than in providing cohesion to the narrative.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Sinner in Mecca
    It is a well-intentioned film that buries its affectionate heart in disjointed, unnecessary, forced banter.
  10. Bloodsucking Bastards
    Bloodsucking Bastards doesn’t quite hit all of the marks it needed to in order to wholeheartedly recommend, but it is often surprisingly clever and funnier than most horror-comedies of the last two decades.
  11. Contracted: Phase II
    Beyond some effectively icky make-up effects, Contracted: Phase II sells nothing that viewers absolutely must buy.
  12. Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine
    Gibney made his film without the cooperation of Jobs’ wife and their children or Apple, and thus his account doesn’t have either the authorized angle or wealth of insider-ish detail of Walter Isaacson’s capacious biography.
  13. Before We Go
    In fact, very little here is special, despite the individual charms of Evans and co-star Alice Eve.
  14. Dirty Weekend
    A decent idea for a low-budget movie that never gets past the idea stage, and after a brief while, you may start to question whether it should have been a movie at all, much less a 90-minute one.
  15. The Transporter Refueled
    To be honest, this storyline is not noticeably stupider in theory than any of the other "Transporter" films.
  16. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
    The film avoids hagiography, and in doing so, brings out the undeniable humanity of its subjects.
  17. War Room
    It may not be as brazenly offensive as “God’s Not Dead” or as spectacularly inept as “Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas,” but it’s still awful, offering all the forced humor and superficial substance of a half-baked homily.
  18. A Walk in the Woods
    These guys still know how to not just hold our attention but grab it, even if their current film needs them more than they need it.
  19. 7 Chinese Brothers
    This is is the kind of movie that makes you appreciate Schwarztman's unique brand of screen energy, if you didn't already.
  20. Zipper
    Headey is coolly fierce and shares some powerful moments with both Wilson and Winstone as the reporter who threatens to expose this juicy sex scandal. But these scattered pieces don’t create a complete and convincing picture.
  21. Turbo Kid
    The film is, in that sense, the ultimate fan film since it monotonously aggregates previously existing scifi/fantasy tropes. Rejoice, Gen X viewers, for now you can uncritically enjoy your childhood's junk food culture just because you're looking at the past through the rose-colored lenses of the future.
  22. The Second Mother
    A domestic comedy-drama that starts off from a fairly pat premise but builds strength over the course of its careful, empathetic, and crafty unpeeling of its characters.
  23. Z for Zachariah
    Worse, Z for Zachariah is ultimately too dramatically slight and brief for its ambitions, despite its sometimes labored myth-making script and visuals.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    I Touched All Your Stuff
    I Touched All Your Stuff is an attempt to make us feel that sting of disappointment. In a way, it's effective. The movie is disappointing.
  25. We Are Your Friends
    While I might actually go out and buy the soundtrack album, the last thing I’m gonna say about the movie is friends shouldn’t let friends pay money to see We Are Your Friends.
  26. Queen of Earth
    Queen of Earth is terrifying because it is so emotionally unmoored—Catherine is a character with little reason to care about anything or anyone, and Perry and Moss convey the danger of that brilliantly.
  27. No Escape
    Films don't get much dreggier than No Escape, a dreadful and creepily exploitative would-be thriller, low-grade trash that it is too silly and stupid to be as offensive as it frequently comes close to being throughout.
  28. The Mend
    When Magary’s dialogue gets a bit too theatrical and self-conscious in the final act, you notice just because of how strong it’s been for the previous 80 minutes.
  29. The Curse of Downers Grove
    Alternately idiotic and boring horror thriller.
  30. Being Evel
    The movie is certainly colorful — this is a guy who, when he had it made, lived VERY large, even if he continued on what seemed like a quest to break every bone in his body multiple times. And it tells, as it keeps reminding us, a very American story. For all that, though, it doesn’t illuminate the guy’s character beyond what’s obvious.
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