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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Tall Man
    Illustrates the problem of class mobility with a dark, troubling premise that holds a harsh light up to our own assumptions and expectations.
  6. The Bullet Vanishes
    It's a prevailing sense of decency that explains why The Bullet Vanishes is such an effective tonic for summer-movie fatigue.
  7. The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
    Tsui Hark's film is the veteran director's chance to let his imagination run riot in the context of a high-budget, 3D IMAX production.
  8. The Day
    Despite being a nasty and skillful action film, The Day goes off the rails in the final stretch.
  9. The Possession
    Remarkable only in how brazenly it embraces the tired yet proven formula that these modern ghost tales deal in.
  10. The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
    Enduring this brainless kid's film is akin to witnessing the end of the world.
  11. The Ambassador
    Bothing is pointedly outlandish in Mads Brügger's latest, a fact that represents its triumphs and burdens.
  12. Breathing
    Can a film be faulted for being too sympathetic toward its characters, for limning a milieu with extraneous humanism?
  13. Ornette: Made in America (1985)
    Shirley Clarke's portraiture eschews cohesive biography and often spirals off into lyrical dissonance.
  14. For a Good Time, Call...
    While the heart of the movie is the at-times strained relationship between the two leads, it all unfolds rather by the numbers, dictated more by the expected arc of such things than the demands of the characters.
  15. Lawless
    Lawless may be full of half-hearted overtures toward depth and emotional complexity, but the film's prestige sheen is mostly a sham; the real focus here is the irrepressible lure of bad behavior.
  16. The Good Doctor
    The Good Doctor isn't a ponderous bore because Blake isn't a strictly good or bad character: It sucks because he isn't even a compelling character.
  17. The Apparition
    The story is a worthy one, but the film lacks any daring expressive touches that might have made it, at the very least, noteworthy.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Wild Horse, Wild Ride
    If this sounds like the premise of one of those tiresome Discovery Channel docu-tainments, it's because it essentially is, only heavily abbreviated to fit the feature-film format.
  19. Premium Rush
    Proves how invigorating genre filmmaking can be in the hands of a savvy, perpetually inventive director.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Somewhere Between
    For what often feels like an obligatory "Where Are They Now?" DVD extra, the documentary is surprisingly affecting.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Samsara
    Ron Fricke's film is a brightly hued bauble, fit for rapturous contemplation.
  22. Sleepwalk with Me
    The funny thing about the movie isn't its failure-to-launch humor, but the weird mess of life that rushes in despite it.
  23. The Victim
    Not much happens in The Victim, but the events that do manage to transpire consistently support a reading of the film as an older man's fantasy of virility.
  24. Little White Lies
    The specific narrative handicaps throughout are mostly too banal to warrant exegesis, though the choice of vintage pop tunes for dramatic underscoring is particularly grating.
  25. Teddy Bear
    From its title to its closing caress, Mads Matthiesen's film skates perilously close to the cliff's edge of mawkish sentiment.
  26. The Revenant
    Since Bart's bloodlust is never matched in tenor by his righteousness, the story remains rife with unfulfilled moral inquiry.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Neighboring Sounds
    The images, while beautiful, are sentimental, as if Kleber Mendonça Filho is trying to negotiate too much.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Hit and Run
    Far more frustrating than the film's banally conventional plot structure is its characters' lack of depth.
  29. General Education
    Too derivative to be amusing and too earnest to be parodic, it assumes the form of countless other teen comedies minus any wit or drama.
  30. Death by China
    Further confirmation that agitprop documentaries have become wedded to a template that undermines their very arguments.
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