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For 7,779 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,353 out of 7779
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7779
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7779
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  1. How to Train Your Dragon
    As heartwarming as this story remains at its core, it’s hard to shake that you already know how it will play out.
  2. Big Miracle
    Any goodwill it boasts is terminally suppressed, buried beneath a layer of bullshit as thick as blubber.
  3. Buried Prayers
    Steven Meyer's documentary treads a middle ground between illumination and cheap waterworks.
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      • Posted Feb 11, 2012
  4. A Birder's Guide to Everything
    The film exhibits strong character interplay and resides in an unconventional milieu, in effect turning rote material into something that feels decidedly eccentric.
  5. The Tower
    As the psychology of the characters hardly connects with their distinctive milieu, the film merely suggests a conventional family drama littered with empty pot-shots at governmental authority.
  6. Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
    A consummate sampler platter of the bounty of state-of-the-art animation currently available as alternatives established major-studio house styles.
  7. Braven
    Lin Oeding’s action thriller thrives on both the beauty of its natural, snowbound surroundings and the brutal instincts of man.
  8. This Is Our Land
    Throughout the film, Lucas Belvaux sidelines the emotional textures that might complicate all his sermonizing.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Year of Spectacular Men
    The film collapses on the crutch of hackneyed narration and constant music cues that formally undermine the ripe banter between Madelyn Deutch and her male co-stars.
  10. The Moneychanger
    It’s apparent that Veiroj disdains no one so much as Humberto, but the film makes vanishingly little of the man’s undoubtedly twisted psyche.
  11. We Bury the Dead
    There’s a thoughtful zombie tale with its own distinctive personality lurking somewhere within We Bury the Dead, but it’s overridden by the film’s more generic elements, and that identity ultimately gets lost among the horde.
  12. Grand Piano
    Eugenio Mira thrills in watching his main character attempt to worm his way out of a most unusual hostage situation, synching his indulgences of style to the pianist's wily physical maneuvering.
  13. Copshop
    With its pulpy thrills, hyperbolic dialogue, charismatic scumbags, and a score heavy in electronic effects and percussion, the film effortlessly coasts on a gnarly old-school vibe.
  14. The Boxtrolls
    The flippancy toward the story's thematic concerns and character construction suggests that the film, like the boxtrolls' myriad gadgets and inventions, was largely built from used parts.
  15. Roadie
    A slice of slight character-driven conventionality in which directorial sensitivity and drama rooted in tense conversations and intermittent blow-ups prove incapable of imparting depth to a tale that plays like a series of simplistic stock gestures.
  16. Aniara
    The filmmakers are interested in world building only as a pretext for maintaining a tone of non-contemplative ennui.
  17. He Named Me Malala
    The effect of the film's animated sequences is to distance the viewer from real-life horrors--another misguided attempt at turning recent history into instant myth.
  18. Land
    The film’s overtly non-specific title is surely meant to suggest some kind of pared-down elementality, but, in the end, it mostly just reflects the story’s lack of definable character.
  19. La Cage aux Folles
    Though its politics are still quite progressive, La Cage aux Folles is ultimately a work of classicism, crafted with precision and efficiently paced.
  20. The Kentucky Fried Movie
    Uneven and amateurish, with a sense of vulgarity that’s now dated enough to seem downright Victorian, The Kentucky Fried Movie proves the maxim, “comedy is in the eye of the beholder.”
  21. The People vs. Fritz Bauer
    Lars Kraume's tinkering with the historical record would be more welcome were he also shifting away from the standard biopic template.
  22. Enemy
    Jake Gyllenhaal embodies the two roles with real presence, establishing Adam's sniveling wimp and Anthony's striding jerk as two believably discrete sides of the same coin.
  23. The Hero
    Sam Elliott’s calmly affecting performance is overwhelmed by a doggedly conventional screenplay that often plays like end-of-life wish-fulfillment fantasy.
  24. Sólo con tu pareja
    This sexy, often funny comedy about AIDS is missing one important thing: a crucial sense of danger.
  25. Funny Face
    Tim Sutton is a deft cartographer of how environments can shape its inhabitants.
  26. Unpregnant
    Its few nutty ideas demonstrate how little distance Unpregnant manages to put between itself and a standard high-school comedy.
  27. This One's for the Ladies
    There’s a surprising sense of communal exchange between the male strippers and their fans in Gene Graham’s documentary.
  28. Song Sung Blue
    Song Sung Blue is content to pendulum-swing from triumph to tragedy and back again with all the self-control of a drunk driver.
  29. Dreams
    The film exposes the incontestable American art of getting more with blunt obviousness.
  30. Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
    Robertson’s sense of having witnessed friends and collaborators get washed away by bitterness and addiction was more fulsomely evoked by The Last Waltz.
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