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For 12,935 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,626 out of 12935
  2. Mixed: 5,141 out of 12935
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 12935
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  1. London Has Fallen
    While not nearly as elaborate, nor as visually sophisticated as the last Mission: Impossible outing or the most recent Bonds, London Has Fallen is actually more plausible at its core, if not in its details, which is partly why it succeeds in laying claim to an audience's attention for the entirety of its swift running time.
  2. Chapman
    Atmospheric visuals and strong performances aren't enough to compensate for this would-be poetic drama's thin plotline.
  3. Ricki and the Flash
    Even with its well-observed moments, the movie’s nonmusical interactions, whether reaching for laughs or poignancy, too often feel flat and forced.
  4. A Short History of Decay
    Although more than a little meandering and self-indulgent, the film is likeable nonetheless thanks to its incisive characterizations and canny capturing of true-life moments.
  5. How We Got Away with It
    Elliptical storytelling is both a strength and a weakness in a visually striking mystery thriller.
  6. The Human Race
    Compensating for its less than convincing special effects with some intriguing plot twists and bracingly nihilistic situations, The Human Race is a reasonably compelling low-budget genre item.
  7. Rigor Mortis
    Rigor Mortis’ strongest suit lies with its cast. The film comes with lavish (and sometimes distractingly so) digital effects, but it’s the old-timers who are instrumental in injecting humanity and life into the film.
  8. Party Girl
    The material doesn’t always feel fresh enough, despite the unique setting and cast of true-to-life characters.
  9. White God
    The premise of this Hungarian/German/Swedish co-production is solid, even if the execution feels a little slack and the running time too long.
  10. The Big Ask
    Though their resolution is a little too neat to be believed, the filmmakers' way with their cast makes this debut a promising one.
  11. 2 Autumns, 3 Winters
    2 Autumns often lets its cute and eccentric stylings get in the way of the story itself, which, once you strip away all the accouterments, feels rather underdeveloped.
  12. Master of the Universe
    Meditative, glossy doc provides some glimpses behind the curtain but isn't terribly enlightening.
  13. Made in America
    Less music-stuffed but more conceptually ambitious than the average music doc.
  14. Small Small Thing
    The doc highlights undeniably important realities; but it doesn't find a narrative that sustains feature treatment.
  15. Frontera
    At once understated and slightly pulpy, the film comes down squarely on the side of compassion. It’s no polemic, but neither is it as character-driven as it aims to be.
  16. The Net
    Steeped in high-tech paranoia, Winkler's film has a nice kinetic energy, effectively portraying the extent to which computers have become an intrinsic part of our lives. The screenplay, however, for which Winkler shares credit with four others, feels like watered-down John Grisham. [24 July 1995]
    • The Hollywood Reporter
  17. The Witches of Eastwick
    Unfortunately, after a terrific, deliciously devious first hour, this sophisticated, comic sex battle soars out of control, blown by its own creative excesses.
  18. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
    Rather than further expanding those seemingly limitless SpongeBob horizons, the live action/CG stuff never satisfyingly jibes with the traditional nautical nonsense down below.
  19. Spare Parts
    The immigration-themed messages of acceptance and encouragement are clearly spelled out, often in heavy-handed fashion, and an overriding blandness mutes the drama. But there’s also something apt in the straightforward telling of the against-the-odds adventure.
  20. About Alex
    There's nothing new under the sun, but About Alex is very, very not new. Luckily, most of its capable cast muster the warmth we require, and Zwick's script offers more humor (however mild the laughs are) than sentimentality.
  21. Premature
    The script, by Beers and Mathew Harawitz, offers a little less invention in this endless-repeat scenario than it might have.
  22. Fanny
    Fanny is definitely a worthy companion to Marius, although it’s also more claustrophobic in terms of staging, confining the action to a handful of interior sequences that feel less like a movie than like filmed theater, albeit of a rather high order.
  23. A Life in Dirty Movies
    A Life in Dirty Movies is still a sweet and illuminating journey into cult cinema history, but it would have been more honest and psychologically rich if it had shown us the money shot.
  24. Underwater Dreams
    Though cheerful and highly polished, the doc's storytelling is less effective than it might've been, a failing balanced by the likability of its lead characters and the scrappy spirit of their project.
  25. Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
    Klinger is clearly aiming at a hardcore of filmmakers and cinema students, but even that niche audience will only glean incomplete insights into the methods and motivations of his subjects.
  26. Drunktown's Finest
    While Freeland's plotting is graceful, there are occasional moments of stiffness in the dialogue itself, brief rough patches her largely neophyte cast can't fix in the delivery.
  27. Found
    Although some of the supporting performances can be a bit choppy, director Schirmer sets an effectively unsettling naturalistic visual tone, bathing all those dark impulses in sunny Indiana daylight.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    14 Blades
    Drawing on the prowess of Donnie Yen, the first 35 minutes of gimmick-free martial arts revives the sinewy action aesthetics of '70s Shaw Brothers classics.
  29. Paper Towns
    In its considered, neatly packaged way, the film occupies a safe and solid middle-class middle ground in teen storyland, between crass gross-out comedies and mawkish romance on one side and edgy, exploratory indie fare on the other.
  30. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
    All of these characters are worth knowing and the acting is excellent all around, but somewhere along the line the narrative arc vanishes and tedium sets in.
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