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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. Boris Without Béatrice
    This is a laborious film that dulls the human drama at its core. Rather than pulling you into the protagonist's gradual acquaintance with his unfamiliar conscience, it shuts you out, leaving you bored and indifferent.
  2. Thank You for Playing
    By turns touching, funny and sometimes strangely existential, David Osit and Malika Zouhali-Worrall’s documentary, destined for broadcast on public television’s POV program next year, succeeds in telling a highly personal story in a surprisingly relatable manner.
  3. The Birth of Saké
    Making good use of his camera-department experience on Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations and elsewhere, Shirai seeks out the visual appeal of both the brewery's operation.
  4. A Space Program
    A resourceful dreamer needn't be alienated from fields of endeavor usually requiring years of training or unthinkable wealth. Imagination, seriousness and a small set of shop tools are sufficient.
  5. The Program
    It's so preoccupied with hammering home the point that Armstrong was a liar and a cheat, it can't risk giving him any credit for having charisma to spare, or at least enough cunning to know how to manipulate our current fantasies about heroic sportsmen.
  6. Pee-wee's Big Holiday
    Big Holiday’s episodic road-trip script is a good fit for the film’s sketch-based humor.
  7. Too Late
    With its overt nods to movies, nonlinear structure and purple-tinged dialogue, the self-conscious artifice of Hauck’s first feature can be suffocating. This narrative puzzle should be more fun than it is.
  8. Sausage Party
    Foodstuffs, metaphysics and a heap of raunchy action add up to something surprisingly hilarious.
  9. Miracles from Heaven
    The inspirational memoir Miracles From Heaven transfers to the big screen as a wholesome, crowd-pleasing drama, one whose subject is faith and gratitude. The tone is frequently more searching than self-satisfied, and the harrowing medical crisis that drives the family story gives it the nonreligious urgency to preach beyond the choir.
  10. Desierto
    If the story is meant to represent a microcosm of the immigration problem, it’s woefully reductive. If it’s meant to be first and foremost an action thriller, it does have a few nice moves to offer.
  11. Men Go to Battle
    Minimalist in terms of action and scope but attentive to the texture of what is onscreen.
  12. One More Time
    Walken is the main attraction here; though the film identifies more with the wayward daughter, played by Amber Heard, it doesn't make her nearly as interesting as his name-dropping, spotlight-hogging entertainer.
  13. Keanu
    This may not be adequate compensation for the end of their series, which gave them so many more opportunities to try on new personalities and take one-gag ideas for a spin. But it will delight the show's fans while winning over others unlucky enough never to have seen it.
  14. The Young Messiah
    The Young Messiah is just, like, barely competent enough that the faith-based target audience won't feel entirely cheated.
  15. The Idol
    The director and his regular editor Eyas Salman notch up the tension by beautiful degrees as Mohammed overcomes each obstacle with ingenuity, charm and, hokey but true, sheer singing skill.
  16. Everybody Wants Some!!
    It's as honest and clear-eyed about the past as its predecessor, another in a filmography of unpredictable gems. It may be most like Dazed in that the public could take a while to appreciate it for what it is.
  17. Rise of the Legend
    While Chow and Taiwanese star Eddie Peng aren’t going to make anyone forget Tsui Hark and Jet Li’s defining Once Upon a Time in China, or for that matter Jackie Chan’s earlier spin on Wong in Drunken Master, they do a frequently thrilling job with a familiar story.
  18. The Automatic Hate
    Lerner alternates between well-observed character detail and clunky mystery-solving developments.
  19. Everything Is Copy
    Beautifully captures the distinctive wit of its subject.
  20. Backgammon
    Pegging most of its hopes on two actors who hardly maintain the taut chemistry its long two-hander section requires, the pic plays like the feature debut it is, an uncertain drama full of attitude it can't back up with action.
  21. Boom Bust Boom
    A tough sell theatrically despite its merits, the film will rely on Jones' name to reach viewers via home-video outlets.
  22. Me Him Her
    The second half groans under too many dumb contrivances, even if the dumbest — a sword fight at a publicity event — leads to a credit-sequence gag that earns more laughs than anything in the film.
  23. Creative Control
    More stylishly compelling and seamlessly produced than it is imaginative.
  24. Hyena Road
    Geopolitical speculation aside, Gross makes a persuasive case for the bravery and sacrifice of Canadian troops serving during the Afghanistan conflict.
  25. 10 Cloverfield Lane
    The final third shifts into high-adrenaline action mode with some thrilling set pieces as Michelle faces unexpected new threats, making the paradoxical conclusion satisfying on multiple levels as it delivers on the thriller setup while introducing surprising new developments.
  26. The Meddler
    For all its relatability, the movie is safe and sitcomishly amusing rather than sharply funny, hitting the same genial notes over and over instead of building real comic momentum.
  27. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    For a film that takes great pride in its heroine's nonconformism, pretty much everything in Allegiant feels conventional.
  28. Road Games
    Some of the surprises in store play better than others.
  29. Ava's Possessions
    Galland's film plays more like a cable-ready mystery than a cult film in the making, offering just enough chuckles to stay afloat.
  30. Right Now, Wrong Then
    Taken separately, these two medium-length works would be diverting but also rather minor Hong, with their typical dry humor and observations about life and love. But taken as a single, 120-minute work, the small differences in the dialogue and attitudes of parts one and two reveal nothing less than the humanity, inner life and subconscious decision-making processes of the characters, turning the whole into one of Hong’s strongest features to date.
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