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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. Broken City
    Allen Hughes may suggest an air of pretty menace, but he does little to make the sequence work as a legible genre scene.
  2. Our School
    The filmmakers spend vastly more time chronicling bigoted remarks from Romanians about gypsy life than they do actual gypsy life, so a minor crisis of perspective hangs over Our School.
  3. Mama
    The premise isn't even worthy of executive producer Guillermo del Toro, who will apparently lend his name to any film as long as it fulfills its quota of moths and vulvic openings.
  4. The Last Stand
    One of its most refreshing aspects is its acceptance of both western and action-film conventions on their own terms, refusing to regard itself as operating outside of or superior to the genre.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hors Satan (Outside Satan)
    Bruno Dumont's employment of his bucolic French backdrop here attends to Hors Satan's muddying spiritual ambiguity.
  6. LUV
    As a film that largely works as a subdued twist on the familiar drama about crime and family, LUV needed more intimacy and focus.
  7. Southwest (Sudoeste)
    The inscrutability of the plot, intriguing at first, is ultimately impenetrable.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    A Haunted House
    If you're wondering why A Haunted House exists alongside the upcoming Scary Movie 5 rather than instead of it, you may already have given the subject more thought than Marlon Wayans had hoped.
  9. Welcome to the Machine
    The focus on Weider's fatherly duties and modest personal insights is what provides the film with its moral grounding.
  10. Fairhaven
    The film plays coy with its quintessential indie-dramedy setup, eschewing narrative and tension in favor of convivial character interplay and master shots of wintry landscapes.
  11. Let My People Go!
    Without a consistent stylistic playfulness to match the histrionic scenarios, the action often feels just plain silly.
  12. Struck by Lightning
    A class-five pity party so unbearably condescending and unconvincing that it might just make you run out and buy an "I'm With Mitt" t-shirt, it makes an inadvertent but hugely compelling pro-bullying argument.
  13. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
    The film speeds ahead with almost gleeful disinterest in dealing with the narrative challenges it sets up before resolving them in the most perfunctory ways imaginable.
  14. Gangster Squad
    Ruben Fleischer's film is a perfect example of Hollywood hypocrisy, something to be ignored diligently.
  15. The Baytown Outlaws
    This schlocky piece of ultra violence plays like a pop-culture pastiche without a stable thematic foundation.
  16. $ellebrity
    Comes off as little more than a feature-length trashing of colleagues who director and celebrity photographer Kevin Mazur feels are giving his profession a bad name.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    High Tech, Low Life
    As far as its subject matter goes, the documentary only scratches the surfaces, only reaffirming the simple idea that Internet censorship in China is prevalent and unfair.
  18. My Best Enemy
    This twist-heavy World War II drama would play as an absurdist comedy if the director wasn't so dead set on excluding just about any trace of humor from his self-serious project.
  19. Clandestine Childhood
    Benjamín Ávila structures the film as a series of precious moments, remembrances of a difficult year when the politics of patria and family got in the way of his puppy love.
  20. Texas Chainsaw 3D
    There's no deliberate Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2-style comedy to the film, just dim-witted gruesomeness retrofitted with gimmicky contemporary trappings.
  21. Storage 24
    More chilling than the horror of the alien's close-quarters assault is the rank misogyny that more than offensively underscores the Melrose Place-grade human drama.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (Une bouteille à la mer)
    The film obviously can't resolve the conflict between Palestine and Israel, but the resolution to the story's arc feels nonetheless forced and misplaced.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    My Brooklyn
    A thoughtful piece of documentary journalism that synecdochically uses the controversial redevelopment of the Fulton Street Mall to talk about the process of gentrification.
  24. 56 Up
    The series is both a testimonial to the vagaries of chance and an endlessly cyclical study into the implications of being studied.
  25. A Dark Truth
    A Dark Truth is one of those unfortunate projects whose component parts are immediately at odds with one another.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Allegiance
    Michael Connors does a fine job of not passing judgment on his characters, yet his depiction of his main character's dilemma is about the only thing he handles correctly.
  27. Parental Guidance
    Andy Fickman's comedy offers a confused and flat portrayal of generational differences.
  28. Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
    The movie is something of a compositional nightmare, worlds away, one might say, from the artistry so associated with Cirque.
  29. Jack Reacher
    The film is as incompetent, manipulative, safe, and disposable as any number of nickel-and-dime actioners, but goes to great, unconvincing lengths to insist it's different.
  30. West of Memphis
    By taking a disturbing and sometimes conflicted look at the prejudices that led to the West Memphis Three's imprisonment, it asks murky questions about how people could get something so wrong for so long.
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