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For 7,767 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: 4,344 out of 7767
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7767
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7767
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  1. The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
    Enduring this brainless kid's film is akin to witnessing the end of the world.
  2. The Ambassador
    Bothing is pointedly outlandish in Mads Brügger's latest, a fact that represents its triumphs and burdens.
  3. Breathing
    Can a film be faulted for being too sympathetic toward its characters, for limning a milieu with extraneous humanism?
  4. Ornette: Made in America (1985)
    Shirley Clarke's portraiture eschews cohesive biography and often spirals off into lyrical dissonance.
  5. For a Good Time, Call...
    While the heart of the movie is the at-times strained relationship between the two leads, it all unfolds rather by the numbers, dictated more by the expected arc of such things than the demands of the characters.
  6. Lawless
    Lawless may be full of half-hearted overtures toward depth and emotional complexity, but the film's prestige sheen is mostly a sham; the real focus here is the irrepressible lure of bad behavior.
  7. The Good Doctor
    The Good Doctor isn't a ponderous bore because Blake isn't a strictly good or bad character: It sucks because he isn't even a compelling character.
  8. The Apparition
    The story is a worthy one, but the film lacks any daring expressive touches that might have made it, at the very least, noteworthy.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Wild Horse, Wild Ride
    If this sounds like the premise of one of those tiresome Discovery Channel docu-tainments, it's because it essentially is, only heavily abbreviated to fit the feature-film format.
  10. Premium Rush
    Proves how invigorating genre filmmaking can be in the hands of a savvy, perpetually inventive director.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Somewhere Between
    For what often feels like an obligatory "Where Are They Now?" DVD extra, the documentary is surprisingly affecting.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Samsara
    Ron Fricke's film is a brightly hued bauble, fit for rapturous contemplation.
  13. Sleepwalk with Me
    The funny thing about the movie isn't its failure-to-launch humor, but the weird mess of life that rushes in despite it.
  14. The Victim
    Not much happens in The Victim, but the events that do manage to transpire consistently support a reading of the film as an older man's fantasy of virility.
  15. Little White Lies
    The specific narrative handicaps throughout are mostly too banal to warrant exegesis, though the choice of vintage pop tunes for dramatic underscoring is particularly grating.
  16. Teddy Bear
    From its title to its closing caress, Mads Matthiesen's film skates perilously close to the cliff's edge of mawkish sentiment.
  17. The Revenant
    Since Bart's bloodlust is never matched in tenor by his righteousness, the story remains rife with unfulfilled moral inquiry.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Neighboring Sounds
    The images, while beautiful, are sentimental, as if Kleber Mendonça Filho is trying to negotiate too much.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Hit and Run
    Far more frustrating than the film's banally conventional plot structure is its characters' lack of depth.
  20. General Education
    Too derivative to be amusing and too earnest to be parodic, it assumes the form of countless other teen comedies minus any wit or drama.
  21. Death by China
    Further confirmation that agitprop documentaries have become wedded to a template that undermines their very arguments.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Painted Skin: The Resurrection
    A vaporous, watered-down frappe of a fantasy epic.
  23. Sparkle
    Whitney Houston's death is just about the only thing that gives the film real, albeit mostly unintentional, life.
  24. The Awakening
    The film takes pains to ensure that the story feel like laborious toil rather than a trip through the dark side of the ethereal.
  25. Robot and Frank
    Christopher D. Ford's film is nothing more than a Lifetime movie dolled up in cheap Philip K. Dick drag.
  26. Beloved
    Ultimately crammed at a frustrating juncture between period-piece froth and seriously conceived drama, never tipping its hand toward either.
  27. True Wolf
    The documentary veers between repetitive and didactic pronouncements of a call to inaction and more affectionately told stories about Koani's life as an "ambassador wolf" on the elementary school circuit.
  28. Little Birds
    A film of precious, romanticized misery and squalor.
  29. Why Stop Now
    Shifting between wacky situation comedy and somber familial drama, Why Stop Now? isn't invested enough in either mode to convincingly pull off its genre-hopping ambitions.
  30. Side by Side
    A serviceable primer on the digital-celluloid divide in commercial cinema, if a bit unwieldy in scope and in danger of being made obsolete by the next version of the RED camera.
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