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For 7,299 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,355 out of 7299
  2. Mixed: 1,828 out of 7299
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7299
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  1. Velvet Buzzsaw
    Velvet Buzzsaw is ultimately a matter of taste – and mine was to spit it right back out.
  2. Dead Snow
    So Dead Snow fulfills one zombie-movie prerequisite. It's different.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    When You Finish Saving the World
    Perhaps a first-time director can be forgiven, like those teenage puppeteers, for not knowing how to get a message across without wearing it on his sleeve.
  4. Dogville
    If nothing else can be said of Dogville, it's a film that is like nothing else.
  5. Scream VI
    While the film’s ending expects audiences to untie some impossible fan-theory knots, the climax is also packed to the rafters with murder and mayhem and even a little on-the-nose movie-theatre nostalgia, resulting in moments that demand fits of laughter, gasps and, of course, screams.
  6. At Any Price
    What remains “indie” about At Any Price is that this is an unabashed social-message film – one that plays out like a cross between the agribusiness exposé "Food, Inc." and Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman."
  7. The Bourne Legacy
    Bourne fans will find much to enjoy about The Bourne Legacy, even if they are forced to do without the title character.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Elysium
    One of Blomkamp’s most unlikely conceits is a machine – apparently standard-issue in all of Elysium’s made-to-order McMansions – that can heal all injuries and infections at the flick of a switch. He could have used one to fix Elysium’s battered and broken screenplay.
  9. The Lair of the White Worm
    No one can doubt there's a consistency of vision in Russell's work, though at times it seems more the vision of a great set designer than a great film director. [8 Oct 1988]
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  10. Sixteen Candles
    There are individual sequences alternately amusing and touching. [08 May 1984]
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  11. The Machinist
    An hallucinatory mix of the imagined and the real, all revolving around the mystery at the cold heart of the tale.
  12. Biloxi Blues
    Army life sugar-coated in self-serving memoir. [25 Mar 1988]
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  13. The Monster Squad
    Ghostbusters for the pre-teen set, a cartoon of a cartoon. Is there some residual charm? Not much. Are the special effects special? Not too. [19 Aug 1987]
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  14. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
    At times the film seems like a horrifying Nancy Drew story or a more sophisticated Scooby-Doo episode without the dog and with a face full of spiders.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Wolverine
    Whether or not this flies in the unforgiving fan world remains to be seen. But for those less intemperately invested, The Wolverine will come as a welcome and bracing surprise: An almost human-scaled superhero movie about a guy who goes to die in Japan and ends up beating his way back to life.
  16. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
    This is a much more conventional film with fewer pretensions to high art. Violence exploited for mere entertainment is so commonplace it hardly seems worth noting.
  17. The Karate Kid
    Smith’s charisma isn’t always an asset to the movie though. Unlike the unknown Macchio in the original Kid, there’s nothing vulnerable about Smith except for his diminutive size, which is its own problem.
  18. Cube
    With its confined setting and its existential predicament, the picture owes an ostensible debt to the likes of Pinter and Kafka and Pirandello -- you know, Six Characters in Search of an Author, or, failing that, just getting the hell out of this weird place.
  19. Paris Blues
    The movie has a great Duke Ellington score, and director Martin Ritt tries for a Beat sensibility that's not authentic, but is acceptable. [30 Dec 1995]
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  20. Mo' Better Blues
    Once the riffs are over and put into place, Mo' Better Blues is approximately one-third fabulous, one-third boring, and one-third infuriating. [06 Aug 1990]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Past Life
    The narrative is tightly written, fast-paced and delivered with a scorching, emotional intensity by the actors. The timeline – which moves from the dank cellars of wartime Poland, to concert halls in 1970s Berlin and Sephi’s staid music academy in Jerusalem, is smoothly interwoven. Still, the drama seems overwrought at times, even cliché.
  22. Kingsman: The Secret Service
    A lively, dashing and amusing motion picture that smartly spoofs and slyly celebrates the James Bond spy-film franchise.
  23. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
    Underneath this clangy, pounding, speedy, thin, energetic confetti-shower of a movie is a collection of missed opportunities begging to be noticed.
  24. Kevin Hart: What Now?
    I won’t presume to understand what passes for popular taste. But seeing an audience in the tens of thousands lose their mind for Hart’s jokes about hating his family and the hypothetical perils of dating a woman with only one shoulder, I can’t help but feel skeptical.
  25. This Boy's Life
    The process of remembering that drives the book is gone from the film, boiled away until all that's left is the mundane residue of memory - mere incidents strung together as plot.
  26. Saturday Night
    This is a movie that so badly wants to be as cool as its source material that it trips over itself, in backward Chevy Chase style, into something so old-fashioned and dully familiar that no amount of retro sheen can boost its cool bona fides.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Funny People
    Apatow wants to be taken seriously. Funny People is the attempt to raise his game a notch – and it fails.
  28. Absolute Beginners
    Stripped of absolutely everything Absolute Beginners has borrowed from absolutely everything else, the entire film would fit absolutely snugly into a cockroach's shoe. [19 Apr 1986]
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  29. The Light Between Oceans
    What the protagonists do is simply wrong, and their attempts to fix it are first tepid, then unpleasant.
  30. The Portrait of a Lady
    Jane Campion makes a beeline for the repressed sexuality, and loses the nuance. [17 Jan 1997]
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