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For 7,769 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 6.5 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: 4,345 out of 7769
  2. Mixed: 1,491 out of 7769
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7769
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  1. The Yes Men Are Revolting
    The Yes Men show that while reality might get lost in this struggle, the truth does occasionally emerge from the chaos.
  2. The Wolfpack
    Crystal Moselle aims her cinematic arrow at the hearts of the same choir that Andrew Jarecki's stunted aesthetics preach to.
  3. Set Fire to the Stars
    At least it doesn't make the biopic mistake of attempting to check off every moment of a man's life over the course of a few hours' worth of running time.
  4. Madame Bovary
    Sophie Barthes neglects to thoroughly conceive of Emma's plight, instead making only sporadic gestures to it.
  5. Live From New York!
    Formally, it relies on a bevy of spectacularly funny clips and a plethora of talking heads, most of which fall back on plaudits rather than sage insights.
  6. Insidious: Chapter 3
    In lieu of advancing a view of the dead's dominion that doesn't abide by the law of "just becauses," Chapter 3 is often content to wink at the ways the first two films spooked audiences.
  7. Entourage
    If ever there was a movie equivalent of dad bod, Entourage is it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Testament of Youth
    The film's inferno of horrors are undoubtedly visceral, but psychologically implosive rather than entrails-exploding.
  9. Wild Horses
    Robert Duvall's evident admiration for his wife are typical of this film, in which so much seems touchingly sincere but clumsily expressed.
  10. Police Story: Lockdown
    The film's subtitle is apropos, as this is a decidedly locked-down and lead-footed talk-o-rama.
  11. Survivor
    This is the kind of filmmaking that gets touted as "workmanlike" when it's really straight-laced to the point of tepidness.
  12. Spy
    It's the sustained, full-bodied mania of Melissa McCarthy's performance that anchors the film's many winning blind-alley gags.
  13. Hungry Hearts
    Throughout, Saverio Costanzo hypocritically drapes his scenes in a cloak of faux-empathy.
  14. Charlie's Country
    It finally offers little more than a moderately engaging slice of contemporary aboriginal life that mostly fails to dig beneath the surface of this underrepresented world.
  15. Love & Mercy
    Bill Pohlad seems never to have met a metaphor he couldn't bludgeon into its most rudimentary and literal interpretation.
  16. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    It confirms the Roy Andersson universe as one of near-fossilized similitude, in which any effort or movement is disruptive, revealing new cracks in the set illusion of order.
  17. Dawn Patrol
    The opposite of enlightenment, the film hides its anxieties behind a mélange of third-rate grit and playful xenophobia.
  18. The Nightmare
    As in Rodney Ascher's previous film, Room 237, the subject of obsession is complemented by a despairing attempt to process it, corral it, and somehow conquer it.
  19. Uncertain Terms
    Appropriately, the images in the film, the most fluidly beautiful and resonant of Nathan Silver's career thus far, suggest flashes of memory relived from the vantage point of the future.
  20. Aloha
    After a while, the film's sing-a-song-for-the-world vibe, so buoyantly optimistic at first, becomes grating and smug.
  21. San Andreas
    In Brad Peyton's San Andreas, the biggest earthquake in recorded history is less natural disaster than divorce negotiation process.
  22. Sunset Edge
    Writer-director Daniel Peddle's anthropological concerns never really wed themselves to a sturdy narrative bedrock.
  23. Gemma Bovery
    The film dabbles in the French romantic-comedy tradition and simultaneously spoofs it, committing to neither.
  24. Unfreedom
    The film's troubled aesthetics are exacerbated by a screenplay that contains the trappings of amateur toil, including dialogue that harps on innocuous moments and trifling exposition.
  25. Results
    Andrew Bujalski seizes upon physical training as a resonant metaphor for the work and risk that are inherent in cultivating significant interpersonal connections.
  26. Welcome to this House
    If the documentary isn't quite dynamic in its revelations, it's considerably more so in its challengingly essayistic presentation.
  27. Guidelines
    It effectively implies that the subjects' troublemaking is the stuff of transience, a phase before they're ushered into the realm of adult responsibility.
  28. Barely Lethal
    The film settles into a time-honored groove of so many forgettable juvenile comedies before it.
  29. Poltergeist
    It's the cinematic equivalent of a pat on the back accompanied by a slap in the face.
  30. Tomorrowland
    In Brad Bird's film, the way forward is backward, on a path that stumbles into misplaced nostalgia and dicey humanism.
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