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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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    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Assault
    The Assault raises many more questions than it answers, and its overall objective is puzzling and remains shrouded in political agenda.
  2. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
    In the race to achieve unadulterated fourth-wall breakage, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is the new pack leader.
  3. Good Deeds
    Simultaneously both archetypal Tyler Perry and another step in the direction of nuance and thoughtfulness for the filmmaker.
  4. Gone
    Nearly a year has passed since the release of Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, and Amanda Seyfried is still crying wolf.
  5. Wanderlust
    Wagging a limp dick at a host of up-to-the-minute issues, Wanderlust, manages to feel current, and relatively funny, without ever becoming particularly pointed, resulting in a floppy but satisfactory middlebrow comedy.
  6. Act of Valor
    A movie whose cinematic ineptitude is matched only by its ideological rottenness, Act of Valor features a cast of real-life active-duty Navy SEALS in order to grant the project's us-versus-them geopolitical worldview a sham moral authority.
  7. How to Start a Revolution
    Much of this content, which involves complex social movements in Burma, Iran, and elsewhere, is necessarily abridged, but it's often done so to the point of incoherence, making Gene Sharp's connection to what we're seeing seem contrived.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Tomorrow, When the War Began
    It's one thing to defer to archetypes, but Tomorrow is so full of stock types and clichés it makes "The Breakfast Club" look like "Nashville."
  9. The Fairy
    Re-employing the tools of Jacques Tati and Jerry Lewis, this pleasant fable reclaims artful slapstick with a bliss that's hard to deny.
  10. Jess and Moss
    A strange and intoxicating indie constructed as a series of vignettes that capture two children grappling with the overlap of trauma and nostalgia.
  11. Neon Flesh
    With no slick moves and no brains backing its skuzzy narrative, Neon Flesh is just a proudly tacky film about unconscionably tawdry people.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
    To question where things went wrong feels somehow strange, as the project seems to have been ill-conceived from the very start.
  13. The Forgiveness of Blood
    The film wisely avoids giving its material a large-scale epic quality it can't sustain, but it also results in a project that lacks the complexity to register as more than a handsome little sketch.
  14. Cirkus Columbia
    Its lightheartedness and overtly traditional narrative structure become a smart strategy for crafting what is ultimately a very nuanced political critique of capital.
  15. On the Ice
    The moral dilemmas in On the Ice ultimately fail to resonate, Qalli's concluding plea for his flawed humanity coming off as strangely hollow.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Bullhead
    What Bullhead ultimately lacks isn't balls but insight and empathy.
  17. The Lady
    The goings-on can rarely be called truly compelling, even if they're almost always generally pleasant.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Forgotten Space
    If you think of Wall Street as capitalism's symbolic headquarters, filmmakers Allan Sekula and Noël Burch more or less show us in The Forgotten Space how the sea is capitalism's global trading floor writ large.
  19. Putin's Kiss
    Fails to dig too deep into the politics or inner workings of the new right-wing youth movement it profiles, remaining content with simplistic conclusions about pro-Putin thuggery.
  20. Michael
    A (relatively) tasteful and restrained approach to potentially lurid subject matter isn't necessarily any better than one that gives in freely to what might be seen as a filmmaker's baser impulses.
  21. The Secret World of Arrietty
    Offers exactly what its title promises, unveiling this secret milieu through thoroughly meticulous animation.
  22. This Means War
    This Means War seems so concerned with being the best product, it doesn't even know how to be good trash.
  23. Thin Ice
    The icy fatalism of film noir is turned to slush by Thin Ice, a crime saga that reduces its chosen genre to a series of atonal, old-hat clichés.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Hell and Back Again
    Unlike most war documentaries, which tend to only skim the surface of its gun-toting subjects' lives, photojournalist Danfung Dennis's Hell and Back Again isn't content to merely capture warriors in combat.
  25. Bombay Beach
    Rather than bringing out the symbolic inner lives of the characters, these sequences seem like the intrusion of an aggressive authorial personality on a film whose subject-as well as the fact of Har'el's outsider status-demands that the filmmaker simply sit back and observe.
  26. Mammuth
    The movie's deathblow is the casting of poet-artist Miss Ming as Mammuth's affectless niece, whose twee verse and sculpture make Miranda July seem like a bearer of gravitas.
  27. The Swell Season
    Ultimately, though, they never cohere into something more than a moderately engaging for-fans-only tour diary.
  28. Buried Prayers
    Steven Meyer's documentary treads a middle ground between illumination and cheap waterworks.
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Feb 11, 2012
  29. Laredoans Speak: Voices on Immigration
    Laredoans Speak is bad in a special kind of way that inspires the obviously piteous description of "well-intentioned."
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Feb 11, 2012
  30. A Warrior's Heart
    A Warrior's Heart is so inept at developing itself as a film that it hands in all of its devices to the soundtrack itself and becomes a music video.
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Feb 11, 2012
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