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For 7,291 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. In the Blood
    It’s overlong, overplotted and crowded with a cast of “hey-it’s-that-guy!” C-listers (Luis Guzman, Danny Trejo), but the closed-quarters combat crackles with bone-shattering believability. And that’s really all that matters.
  2. Murderball
    Reportedly, after seeing the film, rapper Eminen is anxious to play a wheelchair athlete in a coming movie.
  3. Transpecos
    The song playing sombrely over the tail credits is Afraid of Everyone, which is a hell of a way to die, but an even worse way to live. There is no cheer to Transpecos.
  4. The Whistleblower
    There is also a parallel subplot following the fate of two Ukrainian girls caught in the sex-slave ring Kathy targets. This storyline isn't dramatically satisfying, but it does provide context and ensures the victims in this story are not portrayed simply as faces in the dark.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Raid 2
    Gareth Evans’s sequel to his surprise 2011 hit takes the original’s basic formula – lots of people pounding on each other in close quarters – and simply stretches it over a much longer running time.
  6. The Time That Remains
    Living in a part of the world where politics, and the pursuit of politics by warring means, are the rule, director Elia Suleiman is the exception.
  7. Payback
    Payback is nothing if not brave. It's a documentary attempt to give concrete shape to an abstract discussion, using the medium of film to transplant a nuanced thesis – on the concept of debt – from its natural home on the printed page.
  8. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
    So for now, I’m going to go lay down, chuckle at the film’s inventive ridiculousness and try not to think too hard about anything at all. It’s what Hobbs and Shaw would want.
  9. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    For such a mush-ball teen movie, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants carries a welcome amount of grown-up emotional truth.
  10. Kusama - Infinity
    The film will make highly informative viewing both for those who get it – and for those who don’t.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
    It’s naive to blame the current cancerous state of American politics on a single carcinogen, but don’t let that stop you from pointing fingers at Roger Ailes.
  12. The Last House on the Left
    Horror fans anticipating grisly laughs are in for a jolt. Because the new Last House, though terrifying, is never, ever fun.
  13. Toy Story 4
    Still, once the end credits rolled – including superfluous “bonus” scenes wrapping up various narrative threads – I couldn’t help but empathize with that talking spork. Freedom, sweet freedom! For now.
  14. Tel Aviv on Fire
    Nashef is a sombre Roberto Benigni in his role as a sincere bumbler, defusing situational bombs with hummus-based subterfuge and desperate diplomacy. This satire in Hebrew and Arabic is an answer in an allegorical and comical way, about a mad circumstance and a man in the middle of it. A tense and painful backdrop, sure, but there’s no stick up Zoabi’s butt, just an olive branch.
  15. Meeting the Beatles in India
    As pleasant and sincere as his film is, it’s a touch too timid. We never hear about Lennon writing Yer Blues at camp happy: “Yes, I’m lonely, wanna die.” Saltzman balances his own story with the Beatles scenery successfully, but he left some drama on the table.
  16. Kicks
    As the young hero at the centre of the tale, Guillory displays astonishing depth and heart. To summarize: Run, don’t walk.
  17. Flushed Away
    This is a sewer blessedly free of actual sewage, which makes Flushed Away more kid-friendly than, say, the average "South Park" episode.
  18. Gimme Danger
    Spry, entertaining documentary.
  19. Love Is Strange
    Throughout, Sachs is quietly observational – the film’s emotional power coming from its rich but unshowy performances.
  20. Richard Jewell
    Hauser is just as skilled and invested an actor as any of the more critically certified players alongside him here, including Sam Rockwell as Jewell’s anti-authoritarian lawyer and Kathy Bates as Jewell’s overprotective mother.
  21. American Wedding
    Speaking personally, I wouldn't voluntarily go to this flick. But for those with a greater gross-out threshold, it's a better film than anyone should normally expect in this genre.
  22. The Class
    The Class is simultaneously old school and new, familiar in its themes but unique in design and, at its best, riveting in execution.
  23. A Bug's Life
    In a movie about an ant colony, perhaps it's futile to complain about a superfluity of characters. Yet this need to cover every permutation of cuteness is one major drawback to the cast of A Bug's Life.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Chico & Rita
    This sexy, pulpy, very grown-up film is not your usual best animated feature material.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Star Maps
    The film -- written as well as directed by Arteta -- has plenty of raw energy, a strikingly fresh Latino viewpoint and successfully contrasting moods of dark humour, high drama and deep despair. What it lacks in finesse, Star Maps more than makes up for in gutsy creativity. [29 Aug 1997, p.D4]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Cabin in the Woods
    Cabin is a meta-horror-comedy mash-up that, at least for two-thirds of its running time, holds together smartly.
  27. Tag
    A film that is touching in a clumsy, boyish way that adults will understand and may even applaud.
  28. Birthday Girl
    Rare is the movie that arrives without fanfare -- that sneaks between the cracks, pops up relatively unheralded on the big screen, and takes the viewer by delighted surprise. Well, check the moon for blue because Birthday Girl is just such a picture.
  29. All Day and a Night
    All Day and a Night offers renewed hope for Wright acolytes, all while reaffirming a new star in Sanders.
  30. Shrek Forever After
    Letting Shrek get grumpy again has freshly animated this cartoon series.
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