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For 7,293 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: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Close to Home
    The film is much more subversive for treading back and forth between the political and the personal, the Arab and the Israeli points of view.
  2. Redacted
    Love it, hate it, but be sure to watch it, because this odd and disturbing picture is as different as the war it reflects, and that difference is vast enough to seem profound.
  3. Greed
    Greed’s antihero is known as “Rich" to his intimates and his surname earns him the moniker “greedy McCreadie.” It’s not subtle stuff but then, investigative journalism, censure, documentary exposés, and empathy haven’t worked so far to cure our rapacious fast-fashion appetite – so why not a movie?
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Crash Reel
    The hook of The Crash Reel is that it’s about the rivalry between two famous American snowboarders, but in reality, Lucy Walker’s slickly produced documentary is about one man’s ongoing battle with himself – on and off the slopes.
  5. Seven Veils
    The most remarkable element is surely the way Egoyan has seamlessly integrated footage from previous COC productions, that he shot himself at the time, into his new film to give it the breadth of a genuine stage performance.
  6. The Settlers
    After 107 well-packed minutes, Dotan’s film (which curiously fails to mention current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) arrives at a pessimistic outlook. A settlement on the settlements is nowhere in sight.
  7. Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
    It is a rare song that deserves its own book, but Hallelujah is one of them. The story is a doozy.
  8. The Accountant 2
    The easy back-and-forth chemistry between Affleck and Bernthal as they paint the town blood-red provides certain dividends.
  9. Everybody Wants Some!!
    It’s hard to imagine another filmmaker who could invest the lives of straight, middle-class, norm-y, aggressively bro-y, immaculately groomed college sports jocks with a sense of vital anarchy and resounding humanity.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Negotiator
    From the film's bravura opening scene to its cute but bloody conclusion, The Negotiator plays out as tautly as any crowd-pleasing action flick since Die Hard,which it emulates with shameless glee.
  11. Inside Hana's Suitcase
    What always feels genuine, movingly so, are the faces of the school children caught up in their account of the unforgotten past.
  12. The Double
    The film’s bleakness is almost satirical. It’s "Brazil" drained of the daydreams.
  13. Why We Fight
    The strength of this documentary lies in its balance, or at least the careful appearance of balance.
  14. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    The freestyle approach is an apt fit with the freestyle, spontaneous comedy, as both the playful director and affable star capture moments on the fly.
  15. Learning to Drive
    [A] soulful, fluently told, low-key comedy.
  16. The Return of the Living Dead
    The Return of the Living Dead, a parody of George A. Romero's unforgettably frightening Night of the Living Dead, is not for everybody, but it's one of the funniest films of its kind ever made. [16 Aug 1985]
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  17. Dear White People
    The pitch on Dear White People is that it’s “Do the Right Thing for the Obama generation,” which is both an oversell and a disservice to Justin Simien’s witty satire about race relations on a fictional Ivy League campus.
  18. Intolerable Cruelty
    Mostly, it's a Coen brothers movie so slick, so careful in rationing its darkly perverse and personal elements, that it seems suspiciously sweet. Intolerable Cruelty feels like the Coens' peculiar new way of being cynical, by pretending they're not.
  19. The Devil's Drivers
    Although the most dramatic events in the film tend to happen off screen, both men endure jail time, devastation of their property and familial heartbreak for participating in such a high-risk, high-reward career.
  20. Mysterious Skin
    Unlike Todd Solondz's "Happiness," Mysterious Skin is not an abuse movie that seeks to offend or upset.
  21. Tsotsi
    The result is the kind of feel-bad/feel-good movie that brazenly manipulates our response and leaves us grateful for it -- so relentlessly dark is the premise that, by the end, we just need to believe in the prospect of light.
  22. Sing 2
    Given the number of songs worked into the script, there’s a music video quality to the film. If you’re looking for some lighthearted distraction from the worries of the world right now, however, give Sing 2 a shot.
  23. Raising Victor Vargas
    A grownup departure from the teen-romance norm -- it speaks nothing about passion and volumes about trust.
  24. Shame
    This is an affecting picture that leaves the viewer as wrung out as the protagonist. No doubt you'll be seduced but, in the end, you may also feel abandoned.
  25. Side Effects
    But it’s Rooney who commands the most attention. As she already proved in David Fincher’s "The Social Network" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," she has an oddly fascinating screen presence, suggesting both vulnerability and inscrutable levels of calculation. Few actors or actresses can make inexpressiveness look so smart.
  26. Terminator Genisys
    What’s remarkable is that this fifth Terminator is worthwhile precisely because of its franchise cash-in excessiveness. It’s at once an eminently satisfying actioner, jackknifing tractor-trailers and vertiginous helicopter chases and all, as it is a passably thought-provoking comment on memory – headily engaging with the very nostalgia it intends to evoke.
  27. Wonderstruck
    Haynes and Selznick do get a bit too, well, wonderstruck by their own project, which blinds them to one central narrative pivot that is more annoying than awe-inspiring.
  28. Miss Hokusai
    The film is as much about Hokusai as it is about the titular protagonist, and so she defers to her father here as she apparently did in real life.
  29. Quitting
    Quitting begins to seem intriguing in concept. Now comes the best news: It's just as compelling in execution.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Theory of Everything
    Even if you were never the sort who cared what goes on behind others’ closed doors, the Hawkings’ drama is catnip. And if you’ll excuse the pun, you could say it was only a matter of time before Hollywood came calling.
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