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For 9,305 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,161 out of 9305
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9305
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9305
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  1. Rebel Ridge
    It’s tougher than it looks to sidestep revenge movie shortcuts and formulaic payoffs while keeping matters engaging. But Saulnier does it. Off-kilter and fresh, Rebel Ridge may frustrate crude expectations, but its satisfactions are many.
  2. Cartel Land
    When the action focuses on the battle lines in Mexico, the results are nothing short of spectacular.
  3. Heat
    It's a monster of a movie, and it gets unwieldy.
  4. Soul Power
    As the record of a cultural event, Soul Power is a hit-and-miss affair.
  5. Shotgun Stories
    An austere rural landscape, festering hatred, class tensions, terse dialogue - these are common currency in indie movies these days. Shotgun Stories uses them all, but manages to stand out from the crowd.
  6. What's Love Got to Do with It
    What's Love Got to Do With It isn't the best musical biography of all time, but it's an unusually satisfying one, and a tremendous showcase for the splendid Bassett. [11 Jun 1993, p.C1]
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  7. Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
    A loving biographical tribute.
  8. Soul Kitchen
    This new picture is mainly in the spirit of fun, a loose, generally good-natured comedy with screwball overtones.
  9. Hail Satan?
    Hail Satan? is too lacking in conflict (apart from the eternal one) to be a true study of a movement. But it’s a highly entertaining survey.
  10. Zola
    In all ways, it’s unexpected — in its subject, in its treatment of its subject, and in its whole look and feel. It’s an original and interesting movie.
  11. Talk to Me
    Before it becomes entirely too Australian, the well-crafted haunted-hand horror movie Talk to Me perfectly captures the one-upmanship of social-media-fueled youth culture.
  12. Midnight Special
    Midnight Special is a sincere movie, but sometimes sincerity is half the problem.
  13. The Unforeseen
    What's unforeseen in Unforeseen, a superior documentary by Laura Dunn, are the consequences of a certain mind-set about mankind's relationship to the world and, finally, to itself.
  14. Undertow
    This small film's accomplishments are many, but not the least is its ability to take a human story and frame it as a parable, without losing a bit of credibility or irresistible heart.
  15. Bay of Angels
    Great pleasures.
  16. Tickled
    It’s oddly worth seeing.
  17. Brothers
    Imaginative and immensely engrossing film.
  18. The Last Station
    Tells the story of Leo Tolstoy's last year from a refreshing new perspective.
  19. The Guest
    Until it becomes completely demented, The Guest is a perfectly respectable thriller, and even when it stops being respectable — even when it goes off the rails and becomes ridiculous — it’s still entertaining.
  20. Margin Call
    Chandor's writing goes to some darkly interesting places, and there's fun to be found in individual performances.
  21. The Hand of God
    In essence, Sorrentino thought his way up to the middle of The Hand of God and assumed the rest would take care of itself. He started filming too soon. His screenplay needed work.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Listen Up Philip
    Listen Up Philip wants to say something meaningful about human relationships. But like a frustrated writer staring at a blank piece of paper, the words just never appear.
  23. Wonder Woman
    Wonder Woman achieves touching and powerful moments that are unusual for a movie of this kind.
  24. Tito and the Birds
    An appealing Brazilian animated feature, and it’s conveyed in a handsome, expressive style that’s pleasing to watch.
  25. The Hidden Blade
    Deeply affecting, "Blade'' portrays an oddly elegant way of life that will soon be like the era in that other movie, "Gone With the Wind."
  26. (500) Days of Summer
    An irresistible feel-good movie about love gone bad.
  27. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    Totally original yet filled with familiar human frailties, "Everyone" leaps off the screen to become one of those rare movie-going experiences.
  28. Spencer
    It takes one of the most gifted screen actresses of her generation and casts her out to sea with nothing to hold onto but a hideous script that’s all attitude without depth or understanding.
  29. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    A melancholy, well-observed film.
  30. The Revenant
    I might be tempted to vote DiCaprio best actor — or at least to propose a new category be inaugurated, the acting equivalent of the Purple Heart.
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