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For 7,776 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: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. Penguins of Madagascar
    It does well to put more focus on delivering a plethora of jokes, imitations, zippy repartee, and sight gags than its plot's familiar machinations.
  2. The Better Angels
    Even taking into consideration the fact the A.J. Edwards edited To the Wonder, it's hard to recall a film so immensely and reductively in thrall to the work of another director.
  3. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    The narrative doesn't want for ambition, but Marc Webb proves unwilling, or incapable, of making this unwieldy story feel like anything but a deluge of backstory.
  4. Knock Knock
    There's satiric potential here, but Eli Roth's sense of humor abandons him when his hero isn't about to get down with the get down.
  5. Private Romeo
    Private Romeo feels more like a side project from the producers of Glee than some kind of novel queering of Shakespeare's text.
  6. Chagall-Malevich
    When the appeal of the film's whimsy wears off, the fogginess of its historical perspectives comes to the fore.
  7. On a Magical Night
    Christophe Honoré deposits all his chips on the comedic premise at the expense of character study and gravitas.
  8. Beyond Outrage
    If Takeshi Kitano does go forward with the rumored third volume, hopefully he'll conceive of some fresh angle on this increasingly dry material.
  9. Humor Me
    Sam Hoffman respects his characters and evinces curiosity about their lives—and these qualities aren't to be taken for granted. But he isn't willing to disrupt his familiar and tightly structured plot.
  10. The Journey
    Paisley and McGuinness's intellectual back and forth is rendered so compellingly that one wishes the filmmakers didn’t feel a need to resort to a surfeit of momentum-killing plot contrivances.
  11. Hellbound?
    Fitfully engaging, but the documentary turns into a touchy-feely isn't-it-wonderful-we're-all-saved love fest as soon as the universalists begin to dominate the interview segments.
  12. Free Samples
    An angry indie that favors hollow ridicule over credibility.
  13. Renfield
    The film frustratingly shrouds Nicholas Cage’s manic intensity in thick blankets of winking irony.
  14. Free State of Jones
    After its bracing opening, the film begins to indulge the worst impulses of well-meaning liberal cinema.
  15. Sharp Stick
    Sharp Stick shows that Lena Dunham’s preference for solipsistic protagonists with boundary issues has its limitations.
  16. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    If you're wondering where the Jim Carrey of "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Dumb and Dumber" fame went, don't look to Mr. Popper's Penguins for answers.
  17. The Killer Inside Me
    The result isn't drama so much as a waking nightmare of play-acting and predestined doom.
  18. Resistance
    The film functions as a handsomely mounted biopic that tells a little-known story with considerable passion.
  19. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
    One can never fully shake the feeling that the sense of unease the filmmakers rouse, every act of seduction, infiltration, and vengeance they orchestrate, is borrowed.
  20. The Tender Bar
    The film insists so forcefully that J.R. has lived a topsy-turvy, singular life that it abandons a potentially more rewarding approach of foregrounding how relatable many of his moments of self-discovery really are.
  21. Bachelorette
    This nearly pitch-black comedy is better than its tiresome use of '90s pop references, no matter how much they illuminate what the gals bonded over back in the day.
  22. Dog Eat Dog
    Paul Schrader's film scrambles for contemporary relevance and finds only nihilistic hollowness.
  23. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
    The film apes the style that James Wan established with the original Conjuring without establishing any real identity of its own.
  24. Café de Flore
    It's a pretty tired proposition to complain about movies being manipulative, but Café de Flore sets the bar especially low.
  25. Wanderlust
    Wagging a limp dick at a host of up-to-the-minute issues, Wanderlust, manages to feel current, and relatively funny, without ever becoming particularly pointed, resulting in a floppy but satisfactory middlebrow comedy.
  26. Hypnotic
    The film is a pointlessly complicated house of cards that crumbles due to its own hollowness.
  27. The Moment
    Farce and sincerity make more odd bedfellows across Aidan Zamiri’s meta mockumentary about Brat Summer.
  28. Surrogate Valentine
    The relationship between the two leads neither deteriorates nor seriously improves and last-minute romantic developments don't so much as give shape to the narrative as play as perfunctory gestures of closure.
  29. The Pretty One
    The film is a quiet, tender triumph that leaves you feeling as if you've been embraced without you feeling had.
  30. Ejecta
    The cogent character study nestled inside all the bombast remains crafty for its rare commingling of artful storytelling and genre nonsensicality.
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