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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. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    A competently made, moderately diverting variation on a genre standard.
  2. The Legend of Hercules
    This movie, with its relatively modest running time and not-quite-household-name cast, is no more ridiculous than, let’s say, the “Thor” movies, and a lot less pretentious.
  3. Hamlet
    While Mr. Ramsay accomplishes some kind of a trick in streamlining the play, his trimming of corners feels more like a taking away of the center.
  4. Loves Her Gun
    Adopting an appealingly low-key approach to a high-stakes subject, this gently observant drama from Geoff Marslett takes its sweet time introducing the girl to the gun, but when it does, we’re all but guaranteed to care.
  5. Divorce Corp
    The tone ranges from wounded to disgusted, but a movie positing this deep a rot in the system needs to be more measured and better made to take hold.
  6. Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
    Mr. Kaufman’s talent can be debated, but his love for his job is stamped on every garish, oozy frame.
  7. If You Build It
    The movie’s biggest weakness comes with its tendency to film people telling us what’s going on rather than having us observe.
  8. Truth
    Filled with sappy dialogue and screeching strings, Truth is a puerile excavation of secrets and sickness.
  9. The Suspect
    At 137 minutes, the film overstays its welcome with multiple concluding flourishes (and exceeds the sentiment threshold).
  10. Chander Pahar (Mountains Of The Moon)
    One reason Chander Pahar seems so plodding is that Mr. Mukherjee has a habit of telling us what he doesn’t know how to show.
  11. The Truth About Emanuel
    The film never finds its dramatic footing. Nor, sadly, its common sense.
  12. The Rocket
    What gives this movie its sting is that, despite Mr. Mordaunt’s insistent attempts at uplift, death hovers over this story at every single moment.
  13. Raze
    If you can stand to watch this movie — a big if — there is food for thought here about the subjugation and exploitation of women, the limits of psychological and physical endurance, and more.
  14. Dumbbells
    The movie is so incoherent that its screenplay, by Mr. Drolet and Mr. Richards, might as well have been scrawled between takes as it was being filmed.
  15. In Bloom
    The two lead performances — Lika Babluani as Eka and Mariam Bokeria as Natia — are direct and unaffected, but also enigmatic in the way that nonprofessional screen acting can be in the hands of a sensitive director.
  16. Cold Comes the Night
    The cash, the clichés — it’s hard not to be impatient with a movie as openly lazy as Cold Comes the Night, which is redeemed only by its performances.
  17. Free Ride
    Free Ride offers an unsettling vision of a demimonde whose inhabitants live with the reality that there may be no tomorrow.
  18. The Great Flood
    A striking experiment in music and moviemaking.
  19. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    The changes — goodbye, white suburbia; hello, gritty diversity — recharge the batteries somewhat. But there’s no escaping that the found-footage phenomenon has gone from fresh and original to just plain annoying.
  20. In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter
    If the film at times seems only a tender profile of a quiet and quirky individual, it is also a meditation of a private life at its end.
  21. Beyond Outrage
    The strategy and strategizing of Beyond Outrage still feel like overkill (if you’ll pardon the expression).
  22. The Best Offer
    Mr. Rush can’t fly far on Mr. Tornatore’s dialogue and workmanlike plotting, and Sylvia Hoeks, as Claire, doesn’t bring a corresponding energy.
  23. Justin Bieber's Believe
    Another piece of propaganda for the Bieber proletariat.
  24. August: Osage County
    August: Osage County falls into an uncanny valley between melodrama and camp, failing to achieve either heights of operatic feeling or flights of knowing parody. The jokes are too labored, too serious.
  25. Lone Survivor
    It is a modest, competent, effective movie, concerned above all with doing the job of explaining how the job was done.
  26. 47 Ronin
    47 Ronin can’t entirely paper over the void at its center, traceable partly to the shadowboxing of computer-aided filmmaking or studio tinkering.
  27. The Wolf of Wall Street
    This movie may tire you out with its hammering, swaggering excess, but it is never less than wide-awake.
  28. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    Though it is a celebration of modesty, there is also quite a lot of vanity in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
  29. The Invisible Woman
    You may become impatient with the leisurely pace of The Invisible Woman and its occasional narrative vagueness, but its open spaces leave room for some of the strongest acting of any contemporary film.
  30. Grudge Match
    [An] overlong, drab, not-so-funny sports comedy.
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