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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. Four Lovers
    This handsome mate-swapping drama never moves beyond the erotic to become incisive about the barriers built into sexual experimentation for committed couples.
  2. Turn Me On, Dammit!
    Nothing here is wrong, but beyond pointing out that sexually charged teenage girls are likely to be misunderstood in an oppressive small town, there's nothing that's especially insightful here either.
  3. Goon
    A second-rate dude comedy in which an untalented knucklehead becomes a star through brute violence.
  4. The Island President
    The film successfully positions its point of view with the developing countries that suffer the most immediate consequences of global warming rather than the developed countries most responsible for climate change and from whose citizenry Jon Shenk's prospective audience is likely to be drawn.
  5. Come on Eileen
    Rarely leaves the realm of the obvious and the literal.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Trouble with Bliss
    Populated with unlikely occurrences and oddball characters, it plays out, to put it most complimentary, like a dull, slower moving "After Hours."
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    An Encounter with Simone Weil
    Ultimately, the film doesn't feel like it ever left Julia Haslett's head, leaving us a little cold.
  8. The Hunger Games
    The Hunger Games is more notable for the holes it doesn't fall into than the great heights it reaches.
  9. Fake It So Real
    Fake It So Real has been made with considerable more polish than other do-it-yourself documentaries such as "Total Badass," but the sensibility is similar.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Losing Control
    The film, in its defense, is far too vacuous to be accused of having any kind of agenda--it just happens to get its politics wrong along with everything else.
  11. All In: The Poker Movie
    The film has a shambling charm that actively disputes an unspoken notion that a documentary must be well-structured in order to effectively land its points.
  12. The Deep Blue Sea
    Its director's romantic sensibilities wed to Terrence Rattigan's 60-year-old play, this period drama is buoyed by Rachel Weisz's poignant embodiment of a bourgeois wife seeking erotic autonomy.
  13. Musical Chairs
    The schmaltzy and benign tale of a ballroom dancer who accepts and transcends her unexpected disability through the power of art and love.
  14. Brake
    Until its pair of ludicrous twist endings, which complicates its message and logistics in ways that make little sense, Gabe Torres's Brake plays like a more simplistic version of Buried tailored specifically to a hawkish right-wing crowd.
  15. 4:44 Last Day on Earth
    It's only natural that Abel Ferrara's vision of the end of the world should take corporeal form as a quasi-autobiographical hangout movie.
  16. The Raid: Redemption
    This mostly no-nonsense, floor-by-floor ass-kicking panorama is admirably humble.
  17. The Wise Kids
    Hovering over the narrative is the fear of the domino effect that change can enact, the dread that one person's "queerness" may perhaps expose everyone else's.
  18. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    For the most part, this is a boys-will-be-boys movie that excuses everything its pair of protags do in the name of some sort of cosmic order.
  19. Casa de mi Padre
    You know a film isn't going to be considered high art when the guy to your left at the press screening is a reporter from Extra and the guy to your right lets out a loud "That's awesome, man" after each scene.
  20. 21 Jump Street
    Like many almost-great comedies, 21 Jump Street is frontloaded with the best go-for-broke gags and lines.
  21. Saviors in the Night
    It's all fairly by the numbers, but in Boeken's presentation, the film isn't without its moments of narrative power.
  22. Delicacy
    Now that Zooey Deschanel has taken a detour into TV land, is Audrey Tautou the most insufferable pixy presence in cinema today?
  23. Natural Selection
    The film works because what it documents is less a transformation and more a return to a former, more natural state for its troubled protagonist.
  24. Seeking Justice
    The film's tossed-off look and clunky editorial construction are still secondary to the sheer silliness of its story.
  25. Reuniting the Rubins
    Yoav Factor can't decide whether he wants to play his broad scenario as an exaggerated farce or as a heartwarming testament to blood ties.
  26. Free Men
    For much of its runtime, the film is simply there, decent for the most part, but at no point immersive.
  27. The FP
    The FP has a one-note joke of a conceit, and when that runs out, it has few actual jokes to fill the humorless void.
  28. Detachment
    Endng in risible bathos, Tony Kaye's urban high school melodrama is all about the cute teacher's crises and the girls who love him.
  29. Gerhard Richter - Painting
    The end results are mixed but nevertheless scintillating and provocative enough to be worth taking seriously.
  30. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    The ill use made of the stars' charms in this initially strained, then egregiously dopey mushfest can likely be credited to market-tested notions of modern popular romance.
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