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For 7,772 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 6.4 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: 4,346 out of 7772
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7772
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7772
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  1. Tears of Gaza
    There's no coddling the audience in Vibeke Løkkeberg's verité heave of disgust as the full consequences on the Palestinian people of Operation Cast Lead are made sickeningly clear.
  2. Radio Unnameable
    While crediting free-form radio pioneer Bob Fass with changing the culture of broadcasting, this documentary remains clear-eyed about the decline of community radio and the New Left.
  3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    A risible, somewhat revolting piece of pop martyrdom, made for and isolated to the damaged middle class.
  4. How to Survive a Plague
    Presents a cast of characters who must continue fighting, for what's at stake is the very real, very imminent threat of their own deaths.
  5. About Cherry
    The lack of plausible conflict mars the movie's highly commendable depiction of San Francisco as a the new porn capital.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Snowman's Land
    A tonal hodgepodge ever at odds with itself, Tomasz Thomson's unctuous, tongue-in-cheek debut is far too self-satisfied with its jokes for any to really be funny.
  7. Resident Evil: Retribution
    At this point in the franchise, Anderson is content to alight the saga on a perpetual rewind loop, ever-ending, ever-rebooting, all subsidized by his nonpareil compositional sense.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Mark Lombardi: Death-Defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy
    Feels like one of those thin, audio-visual supplements on an artist that you casually view as you browse a gallery show.
  9. Step Up To The Plate
    Paul Lacoste's almost purely observational approach allows him to come about as close to documenting the process of creation as anyone ever has.
  10. Liberal Arts
    Liberal Arts provides a peek into what makes Josh Radnor tick, and what he cares about outside his mainstream-targeted sitcom.
  11. Francine
    In a character study of an ex-con who gives her heart and mind to animals rather than people, Melissa Leo's risky performance is ultimately framed with a disappointing, distanced pity.
  12. I'm Carolyn Parker
    What keeps the documentary from lapsing entirely into a generic human-interest story superficially peppered with local color is, oddly enough, the slowness with which Parker's goals are achieved.
  13. 10 Years
    If nothing else, 10 Years is hip to the fleeting, fundamental joys of revisiting one's youth.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Master
    The Master is Paul Thomas Anderson with the edges sanded off, the best bits shorn down to nubs.
  15. Arbitrage
    If the film covers well-tread territory (a morally bankrupt player trying to prolong his own influence), it does so with pinpoint control of mood and theme.
  16. The Words
    The film folds narratives on top of narratives in a vain attempt to mask the fact that there's nothing to read between its graceless lines.
  17. Hello I Must Be Going
    Thanks to Melanie Lynskey's performance, the movie feels like a believably worked-out, sympathetically presented study in thirtysomething uncertainty.
  18. Serving Up Richard
    After a promising entrapment scene that offers some casually eerie narrative details, the film collapses, lurching awkwardly between a variety of tones and intentions.
  19. 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.
  20. The Inbetweeners Movie
    Oh, the hilarious awkwardness of placing privileged white kids in a place where they don't belong.
  21. [REC] 3: Genesis
    If a fourth entry wasn't already in the works, [Rec] 3: Genesis could have easily represented the nail in the franchise's coffin.
  22. Toys in the Attic
    Jirí Barta's film is a disturbing through-the-looking-glass reflection of traditional fairy tales.
  23. Keep the Lights On
    More than just a relationship drama of striking specificity, this is a naked confession about addiction.
  24. Las Acacias
    This lovely film is ultimately an articulation of something at once simple and universal: the discontent of traveling through life with sad resignation.
  25. Detropia
    Seems to be looking for answers, but the ones it finds are too close to the surface to be satisfying.
  26. Girl Model
    The documentary makes you wonder about every beautiful woman who's ever stared out from a publication, poster, or billboard, looking sophisticated and self-assured.
  27. The Eye of the Storm
    This adaptation of a prize-winning Australian novel is a stodgy slog save for some sporadic moments of blunt force supplied by Judy Davis and Charlotte Rampling.
  28. Beauty Is Embarrassing
    Neil Berkeley's documentary is as puckish as its subject, so steeped in artist Wayne White's creative juices that it makes you want to go straight home and start making things.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    The Cold Light of Day
    Relates more or less the same story as Spy Kids, though in this case the kid is in his late 20s and the spy stuff is much less believable or robust.
  30. For Ellen
    So Yong Kim's direction remains ruminative, even poetic, in its pacing, its sense of place, and its approach to intimacy, but this is her most unsuitable script.
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