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For 20,324 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,408 out of 20324
  2. Mixed: 8,449 out of 20324
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20324
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  1. Unsullied
    The actors, including Erin Boyes as another captive, try to infuse their characters with depth, and the cinematographer, Scott Winig, lends the proceedings a professional gloss, especially in nighttime scenes. But their efforts cannot lift the story beyond its thin, lurid premise.
  2. I Touched All Your Stuff
    The filmmakers pop their story’s bubble in a confusing finish, but it all ends up feeling like a mystery novel that simply never revealed the key clues.
  3. 7 Chinese Brothers
    Drifting and sweet, 7 Chinese Brothers (like Mr. Byington’s gentle 2009 love story, “Harmony and Me”) leaves a melancholy but hopeful aftertaste.
  4. Zipper
    The script, by Ms. Stephens and Joel Viertel, though lurching at times into overstatement, is enhanced with worthy if fleeting performances from John Cho and Christopher McDonald as Sam’s colleagues. Ray Winstone, as a journalist, effectively melds sleaze and compassion.
  5. The Second Mother
    The Second Mother goes soft toward the end, defusing its conflicts too easily and inconsequentially.
  6. Queen of Earth
    Ms. Waterston, a Modigliani in motion and often in black, easily holds your attention, but it is Ms. Moss, with her intimate expressivity, who annihilates you from first tear to last crushing laugh.
  7. No Escape
    Directed breathlessly by John Erick Dowdle (“As Above/So Below”), the movie is filled with jittery shots from hand-held cameras, and hurtles along at a pace that is especially helpful in racing past the holes in the paper-thin plot.
  8. Searching for Home: Coming Back From War
    There is little new insight, although the film does create an instructive tension between admiring bravery and sacrifice and being appalled by war itself.
  9. The Mend
    Directing his first feature after some shorts, John Magary digs into his characters with fresh eyes and a sly sense of adventure.
  10. She's Funny That Way
    There’s barely a whiz-bang punch line or smoothly executed setup to be found in a movie that longs to be a sparkling bedroom comedy and winds up a tortured, fizz-free farce.
  11. Some Kind Of Beautiful
    One of the worst films to sport the label “romantic comedy.”
  12. The Iron Ministry
    The Iron Ministry is neither boring nor confining, which is just to say that it’s not a long trip through a faraway country. It’s a work of art — vivid and mysterious and full of life.
  13. Learning to Drive
    As this movie, directed by Isabel Coixet, tracks the deepening friendship between people from different cultures and backgrounds, it acquires an unforced metaphorical resonance.
  14. Youth
    The kidnapping and ensuing complications make for a harrowing spectacle of cruelty and bumbling from which the camera doesn’t shrink.
  15. Being Evel
    The movie overreaches when trying to contextualize Knievel as a hero inspiring the country after Vietnam-Watergate disillusionment. He was simply an all-American self-promoter. But Being Evel largely nails his story.
  16. The Boy
    The Boy, despite remarkable performances and gorgeous imagery, does not sufficiently flesh out its subject.
  17. After Words
    Ms. Harden is fine in a role that requires little, but her character is a lazy stereotype that ought to make real librarians wince.
  18. Digging for Fire
    The film has an appealing honesty and an enjoyably low-key comic style.
  19. Sinister 2
    Despite Mr. Ransone’s goofy charm, Sinister 2 can’t claim the same finesse, substituting pedestrian plotting and a more graphic gore for the original’s restraint.
  20. Hitman: Agent 47
    Dumb as dirt and just as generic, Hitman: Agent 47 trades brains for bullets and characters for windup toys.
  21. American Ultra
    If you go, expect a diverting summer action adventure with occasional laughs, not a diverting stoner comedy with occasional action.
  22. Guidance
    Mr. Mills (drawing on his own experiences and doing triple duty as the director and screenwriter) gives a performance of rancid single-mindedness. It’s a fearlessly unsympathetic role that provides plenty of space for train-wreck humor but almost no wiggle room for redemption.
  23. Grandma
    There is much to praise about this sweet, smart comedy of intergenerational conflict and solidarity.... But honestly, the wonder that is Grandma can be summed up in two words: Lily Tomlin.
  24. Slow Learners
    Only a few scenes fail to draw laughs in a movie that’s unexpectedly smart and consistently amusing.
  25. Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
    Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery is a case in which a great documentary topic hasn’t yielded a great documentary.
  26. Brothers ... Blood Against Blood
    Although Brothers is a remake of Gavin O’Connor’s 2011 “Warrior,” its plotting, timeouts for montages and a song or two — Kareena Kapoor appears as a spangly item girl, the sole female in a sea of leering chorus boys — are echt Hindi movie. Even more so is its emotional appeal.
  27. One & Two
    The film tries, unsuccessfully, to walk the same eerie, atmospheric trail as “The Village” by M. Night Shyamalan, or any number of Stephen King works.
  28. Rosenwald
    [A] rich and fascinating biography.
  29. Tango Negro: The African Roots of Tango
    Theories that are worth voicing are apparently worth repeating, and beats that sound catchy are sure to be replayed many times.
  30. Air
    Juicy dilemmas are dangled in front of the audience, then disappointingly yanked away.
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