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For 6,576 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 London Road
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,493 out of 6576
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6576
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6576
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  1. Wiener-Dog
    Wiener-Dog doesn’t find Solondz going light to deliver an inspirational medley. Instead, he’s created arguably his most caustic film since Happiness.
  2. Weiner
    A riveting excursion into fear and loathing on the campaign trail.
  3. Tallulah
    Yes, the story has the makings of a Lifetime movie; what grounds it are the terrific performances and Heder’s rich direction and screenplay.
  4. Southside with You
    Southside With You uses our affection for the Obamas to add urgency in the otherwise simple script.
  5. Sing Street
    Did you like The Commitments? Did you like We Are the Best!!? Well, Sing Street isn’t as good as either of those two, but it’s still pretty terrific.
  6. Other People
    It’s Shannon who leaves the most lasting impression.... She effortlessly mines the material for all its uncomfortable laughs.
  7. The Dirties
    It may wind up as the year's most significant horror film; it's certainly among the most original.
  8. Operation Avalanche
    The ending doesn’t quite land the gut punch it’s hoping for, but this is more about fun than about exposing deep, nefarious truths. At least, I think it is.
  9. Newtown
    It’s a shocking and compelling piece of work.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Morris from America
    Ultimately, it’s a sweet movie with some good laughs and a phenomenal rap soundtrack, but it fails to rise above the pack.
  11. The Lure
    The Lure’s premise alone will turn heads but once the novelty wears off the question will remain: where’s the story?
  12. The Lovers and the Despot
    It’s one hell of a yarn, which makes The Lovers and the Despot’s strangely soporific style something of a disappointment.
  13. Love & Friendship
    Beckinsale is a hoot to watch as a character with no redeemable qualities, except for her cunning ability to get what she wants. You can’t help but love Lady Susan because of the evident joy she takes in being so duplicitous. Her energy is infectious.
  14. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
    For those looking for a ride through our modern technological world, or indeed a preview of what is to come, this is it.
  15. Little Men
    Sachs’ approach is so humane, and his characters so fully rendered, that an agenda never announces itself; instead, Sachs’ worldview seeps into you. He’s that skilled a film-maker.
  16. Kate Plays Christine
    Greene makes it clear early on that his interests lie less with a news report than with what Werner Herzog dubbed “ecstatic truth”. The dial swerves between “catching something” to “clearly rehearsed” and back again, and all to the betterment of the final project.
  17. The Intervention
    Unfortunately a slack screenplay and lack of focus holds the project back from being anything more than an actors’ showcase.
  18. Frank & Lola
    For a directorial debut, Ross’s film is admirably odd and hard to pin down.
  19. Equity
    Equity takes us inside modern Wall Street in a unique and gripping manner.
  20. Jim: The James Foley Story
    The world needs people like Foley, and this film argues that cameras are every bit as important as firearms in the current struggle. This movie, despite its somewhat simplistic form, acts as a fine tribute to the man, his work and the bravery of others who are called to his field.
  21. Mekong Hotel (2012)
    The ideas here were far more interestingly rehearsed in movies like Tropical Malady and his Palme-winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. A diverting footnote to the main body of work, no more than that.
  22. Indignation
    Unfortunately, on the whole, Schamus’ debut feels too self-serious to fully engage.
  23. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    As the proceedings grow increasingly more far-fetched, the story starts to feel thinner, any semblance of reality increasingly abandoned. What keeps Hunt for the Wilderpeople afloat are the full-blooded characters that populate it.
  24. Goat
    The film is a pointed, astute and unflinching look at unbridled machismo and its consequences.
  25. Dad's Army
    It’s hard to escape the sinking feeling that this is a waste of talent – and that this is a good-natured, well-meaning but pointless kind of Brit-comedy ancestor worship, paying elaborate homage to a TV show that got it right the first time.
  26. Dark Night
    The noble intention to make us dwell on our culture, and perhaps shame its more voyeuristic members, quickly devolves into a cavalcade of tedium.
  27. Complete Unknown
    Unfortunately, with the big reveal having arrived in the first act, the film isn’t much more than an elongated debate that leaves you thinking: so what?
  28. Christine
    In Hall, [Campos] has the perfect actor to convey Chubbuck’s internal struggle in a manner that’s devastating.
  29. Certain Women
    Like Reichardt’s directorial hand, the performances are understated across the board, but deeply felt.
  30. The Birth of a Nation
    Mostly, the film is heavy-handed, with subtlety nowhere to be found.
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