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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. Spring
    It bridges the cautionary elements of a horror film with the wish-fulfilling platitudes of a touristy romance.
  2. She's Lost Control
    Anja Marquardt feels the need to puff up her film with relatively artificial conflict that generally comes off as sops to screenwriting conventions.
  3. La Sapienza
    The mannered direction is at its most effective when it inspires an enhanced sensitivity to the import of every gesture, visual or verbal.
  4. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
    It settles firmly into the perspective of a lost soul who finds solace in the swaddling security of fantasy.
  5. 3 Hearts
    Throughout, Benoît Jacquot never loses sight of the primordial compulsions that drive feelings and expressions of great love and beauty.
  6. Run All Night
    This time around, in spotlighting Liam Neeson's fatigued charisma, Jaume Collet-Serra's formidable filmmaking chops have plateaued.
  7. Cinderella
    The filmmakers cut the film to emphasize the story's familiar plot points, rather than highlight any instances of personal visual artistry.
  8. The Wrecking Crew
    Overall, the documentary comes off as a solipsistic, uncritical look at an incredible moment in the history of American music.
  9. Like Sunday, Like Rain
    Frank Whaley never gives these characters a humanizing moment outside of their default personalities, which turns them into cartoon impressions of the worst of each class.
  10. Seymour: An Introduction
    Ethan Hawke's concentration on Seymour Bernstein isn't a betrayal of his own ego massaging, but rather an attempt to have a genuine soul-bearing conversation.
  11. It Follows
    Though visionary, David Robert Mitchell's film abounds in undigested ideas and dubious sexual politics.
  12. Of Horses and Men
    On one hand, the film is surely a celebration of a land's distinct creatures and the people who live among them, but on the other, it's a culture's biting auto-critique.
  13. The Lovers
    A shamelessly derivative and preposterous would-be blockbuster that goofily fashions itself as a sweeping romance, time-travel sci-fi tale, and gallant period piece all at once.
  14. The Cobbler
    Thomas McCarthy evinces no interest in the people who come into Max's store and wind up as fodder for his increasingly violent and self-absorbed escapades. Not a shred.
  15. Cymbeline
    The source material, which is convoluted even by Shakespeare's narratively dexterous standards, is admittedly a tough nut for a filmmaker to crack.
  16. Unfinished Business
    The whole point of Vince Vaughn's cinematic existence is that he's a paragon for reformed chauvinism. He's an irrepressible but highly tamable id. Not so here.
  17. The Mafia Only Kills in Summer
    Individual politicians, detectives, and mafiosi come and go so quickly that the audience doesn't have enough time to become emotionally invested in their lives and deaths.
  18. Chappie
    The film's exasperating atonality washes out any legitimate idea about identity, education, nature versus nurture, or artificial intelligence that Neill Blomkamp hoped to evince.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Faults
    The film obliquely addresses its narrative mysteries through the conversational cracks of two people in enforced proximity.
  20. Tracers
    The lusterless camerawork keys itself almost empathetically to the drab reality of the film's spaces, settled and unsettled alike, but it can't enliven the hackneyed plot.
  21. Merchants of Doubt
    An issues documentary that scores its points through a seductive combination of clearly stated arguments and pithy humor.
  22. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    Like its predecessor, the film is a charming example of what great actors can do with mediocre material.
  23. Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
    For all the thematic emphasis the script ultimately places on the allegedly thick bonds among these men, it's surprising how often they communicate solely through exposition.
  24. A Year in Champagne
    The premise amounts to numerous raised glasses and classical music cues, but little of this schmoozing strikes a notable chord beyond the démodé back-patting engaged throughout.
  25. October Gale
    The film begins as a moodily introspective drama about grief before implausibly morphing into a stale thriller.
  26. The Lesson
    The film ultimately understands poverty as a profound and often irreversible desolation of terra firma.
  27. Focus
    The film turns out to instead be a strained trumpeting of the return of the proverbial king of the box office.
  28. The Lazarus Effect
    David Gelb doesn't evince so much as a single compositional sleight of hand, merely delighting in turning lights on and off and watching Zoe appear in random places.
  29. Farewell to Hollywood
    It suggests that a disease isn't a product of one single person's body, but the eruption of an entire family history of unarticulated desire.
  30. Bluebird
    Unable to reconcile plot with poetry, Bluebird is knitted-together by its sense of place and lived-in performances, yet unraveled by anemic false melodrama and overbearing music.
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