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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. Locke
    No less impressive than the narrative mastery here, however, is the technical execution of this bold minimalist experiment.
  2. How I Live Now
    What starts as potentially interesting apocalyptic speculative fiction devolves into dreary sub-Hunger Games survivalism and banal teen romance.
  3. Child of God
    Dramatically, Child of God is hit or miss; some scenes are ferociously captivating while others are given clumsy handling, almost to the point of indifference.
  4. The Armstrong Lie
    A quite absorbing but never riveting or revelatory overview of Armstrong’s career and testy personality.
  5. Abuse of Weakness
    Like in all of the director’s work, psychologically reductive readings of the characters are absent, though intriguing performances give audiences a way into the material.
  6. Miss Violence
    What’s most disturbing about the film is indeed its placid, almost non-descript surface -- also echoed in the production design and camerawork -- and the knowledge that unspeakable things are happening offscreen and behind closed doors.
  7. Sacro GRA
    Gianfranco Rosi (Below Sea Level, El Sicario: Room 164) brings humor and sensitivity to his filming of the strange denizens who live and work around the Grande Raccordo Anulare, Rome’s huge ring road.
  8. Under the Skin
    More pictorially arresting than intellectually coherent.
  9. The Zero Theorem
    It doesn’t really add up to much, beyond a timely reminder that it would be better for everyone to stop uploading and downloading and just unplug and be human.
  10. Are You Here
    This tonal mess rarely puts a foot right as comedy and makes only marginal improvements when it turns poignant toward the end.
  11. We Are the Best!
    Funny and frank in its observations, the film is a delightful snapshot of female friendship at that age, from the giddy highs to the melancholy funks, from the sustaining bonds to the jealousies and stinging betrayals.
  12. Stray Dogs
    The director’s austere minimalism has always been suspended between the mesmerizing and the distancing, and in his latest feature, the concentration on elliptical observation, mood and texture signals an almost complete rejection of narrative.
  13. Life of Crime
    Daniel Schechter's Life of Crime starts promisingly and ends with a smile but underwhelms in between.
  14. Parkland
    Engrossing, quietly revelatory, and often profoundly moving as it retells a story we only thought we knew.
  15. Palo Alto
    The best feature film directed by someone named Coppola in a number of years.
  16. Night Moves
    After a terrific first hour that crescendos in an extended sequence of quiet yet potent white-knuckle suspense, the film loses some traction in the more challengingly paced second half. But it remains an engrossing reflection on radical violence and its fallout.
  17. Moebius
    What undermines Moebius is how Kim has let high concepts and philosophical subtexts run amok without anchoring them to a substantial narrative
  18. Joe
    Where it really works is in Cage's bone-deep characterization of a man at war with himself.
  19. The Invisible Woman
    A career high point for Ralph Fiennes as both an actor and director, this unfussy and emotionally penetrating work also provides lead actress Felicity Jones with the prime role in which she abundantly fulfills the promise suggested in some of her earlier small films.
  20. The Fifth Estate
    The most compelling thing here by far is the film's vision of Assange, by all accounts a man of enormous self-regard and slippery ethics. Benedict Cumberbatch has the character in hand from the start.
  21. Fading Gigolo
    Fading Gigolo features enough strange narrative turns and modest laughs, not to mention a substantial role for Woody Allen as a very unlikely pimp, to provide a measure of curiosity value.
  22. Stranger by the Lake
    Stranger by the Lake invites you into its alluring and peaceful world, only to gradually uncover the darkness beneath it.
  23. What If
    Hitting all the rom-com notes with wit and some charm, it'll be a crowd-pleaser.
  24. Enemy
    More than a thriller, this adaptation of Jose Saramago’s novel The Double is an absurdist-existential mood piece – and a very dark mood it is.
  25. Dom Hemingway
    Richard Shepard’s film is far from dull, but it just doesn’t feel like the real thing, more like an artificial construct inspired by pumped-up crime favorites from a couple of decades ago.
  26. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
    Intense and engaging performances from Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy bring the well-written screenplay to life.
  27. Dallas Buyers Club
    What distinguishes Borten and Wallack’s screenplay is its refusal to sentimentalize by providing humbling epiphanies to set Ron on the right path and endow him with empathy.
  28. Begin Again
    The film’s quiet pleasures creep up on you.
  29. A Strange Brand of Happy
    A Strange Brand of Happy is being billed as a “faith-friendly romantic comedy,” but its overall ineptness has the inadvertent impact of making you lose faith in romantic comedies altogether.
  30. Lost in Thailand
    While the exact secret to the film’s high-grossing recipe remains a bit of a mystery, it probably has to do with the good-humored chemistry between the unlikely partners, pushing the limits of censorship in the sexual-innuendo department, and a well-written off-the-wall script that makes audiences laugh out loud.
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