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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Trials of Muhammad Ali
    Bill Siegel has made more of a Ken Burns-esque history book--that is, a medium more dry and factual--than a film.
  2. Devil's Pass
    As Renny Harlin's career progresses, it seems more and more that his early gems were merely happy accidents.
  3. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
    The movie blasts by for a while as an odd and busy slice of highly watchable garbage.
  4. Old Cats
    Walks a fine line between empathetic treatment of its characters and voyeuristic freakshow gazing.
  5. Paranoia
    Robert Luketic's supposedly down-and-dirty corporate espionage thriller undercuts itself at nearly every turn by shunning any potential relevancy.
  6. The Frozen Ground
    Taste and good intentions are only going to get one so far with a script this tone deaf and direction this ugly and monotonous.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Savannah
    The film is impossible to take seriously as a commemoration of Moultrie's life or Allen's prolific status because of its plethora of contrivances.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Student
    If Santiago Mitre doesn't transcend the issues of the writer's film with quite the grace of A Separation, he nonetheless manages to make good use of a fine cast.
  9. Paradise: Faith
    A shallow film that leaves us knowing exactly what we're seeing, and able to predict what the characters will say to each other in the mostly uninspired and overtly familiar dialogue.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sparrows Dance
    Writer-director Noah Buschel interestingly mirrors the monotony of his main character's routine in his claustrophobic aesthetic.
  11. Thérèse
    Claude Miller's swan song not only shares its main character's name but also her tempered disposition.
  12. Short Term 12
    There's tremendous dramatic value to the aching and sometimes devastating scenes that home in on these kids' private torments.
  13. Kick-Ass 2
    The film doubles down on the love-hate relationship with ultra-violence that typified its predecessor, but A History of Violence this is not.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    This Is Martin Bonner
    At its best, with its quiet, ominous pace in the early going and its economical distribution of information throughout, the film is reminiscent of Todd Haynes's Safe.
  15. The Grandmaster
    The film, more likely to invite comparisons to the writings of Marcel Proust than the previous Ip Man films, is a gorgeous folly that never entirely emerges from its creator's head.
  16. Jobs
    Steered by a lead actor and director, Joshua Michael Stern, who are both way out of their respective leagues, Jobs is excruciating, failing to entertain and all but pissing on its subject's grave.
  17. Ain't Them Bodies Saints
    The film's highly calculated beauty suffocates rather than elevates the story's emotional underpinnings.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The World's End
    An ordinary drama embellished and in some sense infringed on by genre elements rather than the other way around.
  19. The Happy Sad
    Ken Urban, adapting his own play, fumbles at injections of urban, and decidedly not urbane, levity, in addition to telegraphing entire subplots.
  20. You Will Be My Son
    For all of the director's willingness to explore his characters' unexpected depths, he's still hamstrung by his perpetually tasteful cinema-of-quality aesthetic.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Spark: A Burning Man Story
    The doc doesn't take the time to examine why Burning Man inspires such a level of fanaticism, overshadowing human interest with a gluttony of B roll.
  22. Lee Daniels' The Butler
    With the film, Lee Daniels quietly pushes his talent for hashing out visceral, violent emotions into unexpected dramatic terrain.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kid-Thing
    Its main character's moral predicament with a woman inside a pit becomes a muddle of confused symbolism and trite psychoanalysis.
  24. Jug Face
    Chad Crawford Kinkle impressively imbues this supernatural world of backwoods mysticism with a plausible milieu while still staying committed to the film's own brewing insanity.
  25. We're the Millers
    Though the cast partially eschews the family-friendly timidity that the film defers to in the end, this would-be wild thing remains little more than a rowdy endorsement of the status quo.
  26. Planes
    The film feels second-rate in every sense, from the quality of its animation to its C-list voice cast.
  27. Blood
    Themes of family ties, obsession, and morality, so dramatically realized in Conviction, are gracelessly and shapelessly strewn together here.
  28. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    I'll tell you what's insane: the probability that folks will go easy on this dreck because it's aimed at younger viewers, who are being distressingly trained to expect little from their art.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride
    Amy Nicholson's documentary feels warm and fuzzy about its subject, but at the same time depersonalized.
  30. The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
    It ever so subtly zeros in on the extreme particularities of a remote place to find something universal, or at the very least easily comprehensible about despair.
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