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For 7,768 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 6.2 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 7768
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7768
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7768
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  1. The Rocket
    The particulars of Laos's historical conflicts are sometimes only obliquely confronted, but the torrid past of covered-up wars palpably echoes through the scarred yet majestic landscapes.
  2. The Legend of Hercules
    Given its virtuous subject matter and the relative bloodlessness of its violence, perhaps Renny Harlin means for this film to be a means of atoning for his previous cinematic sins.
  3. Free Ride
    Shana Betz's too-insistent refusal to commit to the melodramatic or to the suspenseful only makes the film seem like empty dramatization.
  4. Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
    Because it actively defies and outright ridicules all notions of aesthetic intent, proper form, and moral propriety, this lazy Z-film pastiche is essentially impervious to standard critical evaluation.
  5. The Truth About Emanuel
    What's missing, in the end, is any provocative or poignant insights into the "truth" about Emanuel; all we get are vague hints.
  6. The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
    The film gradually reveals a lot of unsavory motives, which ultimately deflate the buoyant virtues on which the film had blithely coasted.
  7. If You Build It
    It isn't until the rushed conclusion when director Patrick Creadon shows the possibilities of what the documentary could have been.
  8. The Banshee Chapter
    Director Blair Erickson surely has style to burn, even if he oftentimes betrays his atmospheric shorthand and gets cold feet at the most inopportune moments.
  9. The Great Flood
    Even in comparatively conventional mode, Bill Morrison's work still benefits from the poetic potential of nature's repossession of its own elements.
  10. In Bloom
    The foreclosure of possibilities provided by the use of the long take assists in the indictment of chauvinism and patriarchal brutality that underpin, directly and indirectly, many moments in the film.
  11. Cold Comes the Night
    Tze Chun's film exudes no flair in rehashing the violence and suspense of its predictable noir-thriller material.
  12. G.B.F.
    The film, lensed in appealing candy-striped colors, has so much fun exploding stereotypes and radiates with such infectious comic gusto and genuine good nature, that it would be almost churlish to resist its charms.
  13. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    Several reels' worth of ugly, unshaped footage that wouldn't have been deemed fit for a movie's end-credit outtakes not so long ago.
  14. Open Grave
    Individual moments linger, but Gonzalo López-Gallego's film is merely a rough draft of a thriller.
  15. The Best Offer
    It ascribes to the falsehood that a rarefied milieu inherently infuses a film with intelligence, as if inept execution can be covered up by pretty lensing.
  16. Beyond Outrage
    If Takeshi Kitano does go forward with the rumored third volume, hopefully he'll conceive of some fresh angle on this increasingly dry material.
  17. Raze
    Raze leaves the background particulars about this competition oblique, partly because it adds a layer of ominous mystery, but primarily because it doesn't matter; witnessing women-on-women violence is the thing here, regardless of any narrative context.
  18. Labor Day
    A better film would have had the gumption to maintain the poetic bleakness, rather than steer toward what ultimately feels like safe compromise.
  19. Grudge Match
    It will come as a surprise to none that Grudge Match is so wantonly clichéd that to watch it is to explore the outer perimeters of one's own tolerance for a specific type of feel-good sports film.
  20. 47 Ronin
    This botched vision accepts the warrior's nobility at face value and sees the story merely as a springboard for high-flying action and CGI special effects.
  21. Tim's Vermeer
    It chronicles the quest of a self-described "geek," and there are pleasurable frissons of discovery in the detective work.
  22. All the Light in the Sky
    In Joe Swanberg's disaffected little film, the drama is never explicit, or even fully conscious.
  23. Walking with Dinosaurs
    The strain to make the film both an educational tool and a child-minded entertainment is noticeable throughout.
  24. The New Rijksmuseum
    It most potently strikes the tone of an elegy, pensively observing that beneath the bickering in museum boardrooms lies a massive treasure trove of art history that's being kept from the public's eye.
  25. August: Osage County
    What works about the film can largely be attributed to the original text, which is full of cruel twists and savage blows that Tracy Letts wisely retains for the screen.
  26. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    The film's half-hearted plea for responsibility and ethics in the news, after joyfully rolling around in its corruption for the majority of its runtime, smacks of plain pandering.
  27. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese's keyed-up, irreverent tone frequently fails to distinguish itself from the grunting arias sung by the oily paragons of commerce his film evidently intended to deflate.
  28. Paradise: Hope
    The third and final film in Ulrich Seidl's "Paradise" trilogy navigates a narrow space between tenderness and cruelty.
  29. The Selfish Giant
    The ear for language is paired with an eye for the landscape, and the film finds beauty even in such a seemingly dreary, economically depressed community.
  30. The Past
    Farhadi navigates his complicated narrative thicket with an apparent ease that confirms yet again that he's an amazing talent, but here he isn't able to blend the brushstrokes as he has in prior films.
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