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For 20,278 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: 9,380 out of 20278
  2. Mixed: 8,434 out of 20278
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20278
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  1. Last Exit: Space
    The movie gives a stimulating but standard-by-Herzog-standards treatment to a stellar subject.
  2. I Am Here
    As inspiring as his chosen subject is, the director missed an opportunity to use the story to deepen our understanding of our own memories, trauma and forgiveness.
  3. The Exorcism of God
    [A] soulless film.
  4. Fear
    The director, Ivaylo Hristov, is adept at slow-burning suspense and comic misdirection.
  5. Gold
    The movie’s mood is unrelentingly miserable. Its cinematography, by Ross Giardina, is bleached-bone bright; its soundscape features more buzzing flies than music.
  6. Offseason
    Despite a wonderfully eerie atmosphere, this moody examination of guilt and mourning is too generic to scare and too predictable to surprise.
  7. All My Friends Hate Me
    Dancing on the line between funny and menacing, the ingenious script (by Stourton and Tom Palmer) is a tonal tease, a limbo where every joke has a threatening edge and every “Just kidding!” only increases Pete’s unease.
  8. Ultrasound
    There are some promising glints here and there, flashes of mordant wit and obvious ambition. But like too many movies, Ultrasound is better at setting up its story than delivering on its promise, as if the filmmakers were still pitching ideas in the elevator.
  9. Turning Red
    It’s too bad that Turning Red fumbles its storytelling, because at the very least it has fun when it lets its fur fly.
  10. The Adam Project
    Blissfully under two hours, The Adam Project is no modern classic. But it does benefit from an affecting finale that pays special attention to Adam’s strained relationship with his father.
  11. Calendar Girl
    This affectionate portrait is also well grounded. Finley is remembered as a hard worker among other hard workers.
  12. Rock Bottom Riser
    The film is sometimes hard to follow, because the connection between the images and the voice-overs is not always clear. But taken as a whole, Rock Bottom Riser leaves viewers with a strong sense of how native Hawaiians view themselves and their future, and encourages inquiry into how their land might be preserved.
  13. Dear Mr. Brody
    Dear Mr. Brody invites timely thoughts about the wealthy and income disparity.
  14. Great Freedom
    The director Sebastian Meise, who wrote the script with Thomas Reider, tells this story with open feeling and steady, emphatic calm.
  15. Lucy and Desi
    Here is a documentary that invites us to delight in the unexpected pairing of a famed funny lady and a hunky musician — but without analysis or nuance. Better to flip on a few “I Love Lucy” reruns instead.
  16. The Jump
    In its first half-hour, the documentary The Jump brings a bracing immediacy to a 50-year-old Cold War incident.
  17. The Unknown Man of Shandigor (1967)
    This gangly picture isn’t a lost masterpiece, to be clear. But it’s a magnetic curio, a fascinating relic of a vanished strain of European cinema.
  18. Hell is Empty
    Forget about hell, the emptiness these filmmakers must address lies primarily in their predominantly female cast of characters.
  19. The Long Walk
    The reward for waiting for the fog to lift is a movie that presents a unique take on science fiction, one that looks for the ghosts that linger on in a world that has been shaped by technology.
  20. Nightride
    The one-take gimmick — much easier to achieve now thanks to digital cameras —has become common enough that it barely qualifies as novel.
  21. Mother Schmuckers
    The title is bad enough, but it’s all downhill from there in the revolting Belgian farce Mother Schmuckers. I would say words fail me, but they don’t. It’s just that most of them are unprintable.
  22. Asking for It
    Subtle as a sledgehammer and shallow as a saucer, Asking for It is painted in such broad strokes that — with just a smidgen of humor — it would pass for satire.
  23. Huda's Salon
    Where Abu-Assad falters is in turning Huda into a didactic mouthpiece for the very themes that Reem’s tribulations, filmed up-close with a jerky camera, convey effortlessly.
  24. Fresh
    A wickedly funny cannibal romance and dazzling feature debut from the director Mimi Cave.
  25. After Yang
    With eyebrow flicks, tiny physical modulations and shifts in pitch, Farrell movingly turns a shadow into a recognizable person, while also bringing much-needed humor to the movie.
  26. Against the Ice
    It’s perfectly formulaic.
  27. The Batman
    I can’t say I had a good time, but I did end up somewhere I didn’t expect to be: looking forward to the next chapter.
  28. Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming
    The script has plot twists so cuckoo they make soap operas look cowardly.
  29. Careless Crime
    Mokri constructs his film like a control experiment, tweaking each of its variables — time, space, narrative — as if to see what he might catalyze.
  30. The Desperate Hour
    The only thing I want less than a thriller about a school shooting is a thriller whose other main character is the main character’s iPhone.
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