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For 12,922 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: 6,619 out of 12922
  2. Mixed: 5,136 out of 12922
  3. Negative: 1,167 out of 12922
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  1. Tank 432
    As lumbering and slow-moving as the vehicle in which most of its action takes place, Nick Gillespie’s horror thriller makes the familiar mistake of confusing obscurity with tension.
  2. Run the Tide
    Rajiv Shah’s screenplay fails to flesh out its characters and situations in compelling fashion, leaving the actors struggling to bring depth to the sketchy scenario and Mehta’s uninspired direction.
  3. Kill Ratio
    Producers may have envisioned a Die Hard-like cat-and-mouse game between their protagonists and the heavily armed goon squad. But even using the more appropriate Olympus Has Fallen as a benchmark, Kill Ratio is a snooze.
  4. Stevie D
    The high concept outshines the execution; it’s easy to see how a significantly slimmed-down and sharpened version of the overlong feature might have been a small-time contender.
  5. Pocket Listing
    Director Conor Allyn’s idea of enhancing a fight scene is employing such stale devices as freeze frames and split screens.
  6. Pet
    The film is engrossing, thanks to the director’s skill at delivering sustained tension, and the excellent performances.
  7. The C Word
    The film is as vibrant as it is personal and urgent.
  8. Sky on Fire
    There are some thrilling sequences, to be sure, but the whole is definitely less than the sum of its parts.
  9. Slash
    Though his stories suggest a pansexual curiosity, Neil himself seems only mildly engaged, and sluggish direction keeps both scenes with the nerd's dream girl and the jailbait-courting man from generating much heat.
  10. All We Had
    Despite its frustratingly wandering narrative, All We Had does manage to pull you in, thanks largely to its moving depiction of the mother-daughter bond at its center.
  11. Abattoir
    While Bousman's climax is a not terribly original effects-laden haunted house, the house's builder, and his motives, have enough of their own flavor to please a hardened horror fan.
  12. SiREN
    The screenplay finds ways to make this more involving than the average flee-the-monster storyline and, by the genre's standards, direction and performances rate reasonably well.
  13. Old Stone
    Defying its somewhat generic-sounding title, Johnny Ma's gripping criminal thriller Old Stone deploys powerful performances and eerie imagery.
  14. Beyond the Gates
    Supernatural shenanigans and amateur sleuthing add up to mild-mannered entertainment in Jackson Stewart’s affectionately quirky directorial debut.
  15. Office Christmas Party
    It’s a frenetic grab bag of strained shtick, however expertly delivered by ace comic performers.
  16. Burn Country
    Rains, who was given an acting award by the Tribeca jury, brings such a sense of purpose to the part that the movie never goes slack.
  17. Incarnate
    Incarnate, much like its central character at key moments, barely seems to have a pulse.
  18. Best and Most Beautiful Things
    Proves alternately inspiring and depressing even while skirting uncomfortably close to voyeurism.
  19. Bobby Sands: 66 Days
    While the doc uses reenactment and plentiful period news footage to chart how Sands withered away, and to capture the mixture of respect and grief his determination to die produced in supporters, the film is always about more than Sands.
  20. Anonymous
    The movie struggles to generate the slightest tension around the question of who’s playing whom, but the real question is, Why bother?
  21. Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)
    Compared to other thrillers that treat webcams as a structural gimmick or visualize social media in ways that look corny even by the time credits roll, Videophilia casts a singular spell.
  22. Sleight
    Dillard’s auspicious shift to features reveals an imaginative young filmmaker prepared to take manageable risks in pursuit of his personal vision.
  23. Lost and Beautiful
    Although clearly intended to be brimming with symbolical meanings, Lost and Beautiful — which at least is visually striking, thanks to being shot on expired 16mm film stock — never finds sufficient cinematic poetry in its dreamlike storytelling infused with neo-realistic elements.
  24. On the Map
    Compelling enough to anticipate the inevitable Hollywood dramatization of the story, On the Map will prove fascinating even to non-sports buffs.
  25. I Am Bolt
    I Am Bolt presents a dynamic, consistently engaging portrait of the mediagenic track star, and even if it’s sometimes too laudatory, there are also many moments of heartfelt sentiment throughout the film.
  26. The Pickle Recipe
    Ethnic comedies have their limitations, and a sharper script would have helped this one to stand out from the pack. Nevertheless, audiences in a forgiving mood will enjoy the byplay among an appealing bunch of desperate characters.
  27. Notes on Blindness
    Notes on Blindness is more than sufficient to prove that sightlessness, however unwelcome, is a richer experience than we may assume.
  28. Seasons
    The overall feeling is a lot less special than their ground-breaking work that flew with birds and swam with deep-sea creatures.
  29. Mifune: The Last Samurai
    The subject is a rich one, but the film simply isn’t incisive enough.
  30. Fences
    Denzel Washington and Viola Davis know their parts here backward and forward, and they, along with the rest of the fine cast, bat a thousand, hitting both the humorous and serious notes. But with this comes a sense that all the conflicts, jokes and meanings are being smacked right on the nose in vivid close-ups, with nothing left to suggestion, implication and interpretation.
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