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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. Bel Borba Aqui
    There's no pointing toward something other than the work itself, no poetic digression, no suggestion of a conceptual dimensionality to the work being produced.
  2. Wuthering Heights
    In whittling down Emily Brontë's romance to its most earthly aspects, Andrea Arnold stylizes herself into an unavoidable corner.
  3. Life of Pi
    The second act shifts the film from a lazy and comfy litany of introductions to a riveting fantasia of pure cinema, wherein Lee paints an oft-wordless picture of nature's harshness and grace, the perfect arena for Pi to have a Christ-like coming of age.
  4. Frankenweenie
    Tim Burton's sense of playfulness feels forced throughout, and as the film progresses, any humor or inventiveness takes a backseat to tumultuous set pieces that reference Frankenstein.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    V/H/S
    An anthology of found-footage horror shorts that exudes, sometimes extraordinarily, a neophyte's sense of courage and cluelessness.
  6. Dear Mandela
    A devout political documentary that insists that community, dignity, and solidarity are sustaining, but not the baseline by which one should settle.
  7. BearCity 2: The Proposal
    Doug Langway's film is often too cheesy to, well, bear.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Solomon Kane
    The fight choreography has a gracefulness bordering on elegance, and so it's a shame that these standalone thrills aren't better integrated into the film as a fully formed narrative whole.
  9. Won't Back Down
    One of its strengths is a knowledge of when to unfurl information, particularly for the strongest emotional effect.
  10. The Waiting Room
    Documents emotionally charged interactions between patients and hospital staff without any signs that the subjects are being made to feel self-conscious or that they're behavior is being affected.
  11. Looper
    As in the very best Anthony Mann and John Ford westerns, Looper at once understands the visual power of violence and is deeply critical of it.
  12. Vulgaria
    Pang Ho-cheung can't help but humanize Vulgaria's characters, which is a kiss of death for what's meant to be a farce of escalating obscenity.
  13. The Other Dream Team
    Made with considerable reverence, but it doesn't quite manage to tow a tricky tonal line that's required when working with such sensitive and complicated material.
  14. Pitch Perfect
    Jason Moore's film is more or less successful in inverse proportion to the degree that it plays its material by the book.
  15. Tales of the Night
    Michel Ocelot's recent cartoons cleverly advance Lotte Reiniger's prototypical stop-motion technique into the digital age.
  16. Headshot
    This "Buddhist film noir," as writer-director Pen-ek Ratanaruang calls it, is surprisingly slow-moving and soulful for a film full of double-crosses and cold-blooded killing.
  17. Bringing Up Bobby
    Just an extended dramatization of the 1980s anti-drug PSA that memorably cautioned "I learned it by watching you!"
  18. Hotel Transylvania
    Yet another instance of a decent, potentially thorny premise bogged down in a mess of treacly sentiment and tedious moralizing.
  19. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
    The film captures Vreeland's perhaps unwitting philosophical integrity just as much as it drowns us in the exuberance of her work.
  20. House at the End of the Street
    The film is essentially toothless, but it never stoops to humorless torture-porn theatrics.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Uncle Rafael
    The Americans are clichéd and vapid, and seeing them get knocked around and told to wake up can be validating if you know people as obnoxious and spoiled as them.
  22. The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best
    The film has, at its source, a pool of affectations that so often constitute, or plague, American indie films--and, perhaps, American culture more generally.
  23. Trouble with the Curve
    Clint Eastwood makes his infamous chair speech look like chapter one of a season of self-parody.
  24. Dredd
    The story places a premium on delivering its disreputable sex-and-violence goods with a minimum of fuss or pretension.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Doctored
    Bobby Sheehan doesn't just squander his objectivity, he drowns it out with bleating strings.
  26. End of Watch
    End of Watch is pure frat-boy fantasy, the video game to Southland's great American novel.
  27. Three Stars
    As a sampler course of what it means to court the Michelin honor, Three Stars is enjoyable, but it's simply a collision of details that never entirely converge into a meaningful whole.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Switch
    Switch is possibly the driest and most balanced documentary on the current energy crisis.
  29. They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain
    The images and interviews Robert H. Lieberman and his crew have managed to capture are eye-opening enough to justify the dangerous effort.
  30. Knuckleball!
    This chronicle of two athletes throwing baseball's funkiest, least respected pitch is given depth by their stranger-than-fiction underdog status and camaraderie with mentors who've had the same struggles.
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