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For 20,280 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. True History of the Kelly Gang
    Grant and Kurzel’s conceptions of the characters are so one-dimensional they seem to defeat the movie’s talented cast.
  2. Circus of Books
    The remembrances are the movie’s heart — not a family secret, but a community’s pride.
  3. The Willoughbys
    Though it tends to feel disjointed as a whole, The Willoughbys thrives when it embraces its grim plot and lets mischief reign.
  4. Why Don't You Just Die!
    Sokolov’s debut feature is a clever, bloody as hell, often hilarious virtuoso exercise in excruciating harm-doing among mendacious people.
  5. The Quarry
    The film plays as if it’s been smothered under a pile of rocks.
  6. Abe
    This is a maudlin and predictable film, with oversimplified, kid-friendly takes on complex political issues. It’s also a surprisingly joyless production, lacking the stylistic and emotional flair to deliver even on the cheesy, feel-good promise of the setup.
  7. Endings, Beginnings
    The writing might be a tangle of limp clichés, but the actors — especially Woodley and the terrific Wendie Malick as Daphne’s mother — sweat to sell every line.
  8. Bad Therapy
    Bad Therapy is the cinematic equivalent of lukewarm water.
  9. Selah and The Spades
    Selah and the Spades shimmers with youthful promise, both in front of the camera and behind it.
  10. A White, White Day
    The result is an emotionally wringing film, equally effective in the narrative and tone-poem departments.
  11. Children of Paradise (1945)
    M. Carne has created a frequently captivating film which has moments of great beauty in it and some performances of exquisite note.
  12. Butt Boy
    Maybe it’s the hell we’re all living through right now, but Tyler Cornack’s orificial fantasy struck me as a hilariously bawdy, intermittently inspired act of vivacious vulgarity.
  13. Trolls World Tour
    While the genre-bridging premise affords the film more variety and verve than its sugary predecessor, the movie, directed by Walt Dohrn, still gives you the sensation of being barricaded in a karaoke lounge where all the attendees have snorted Sweet Tarts.
  14. LA Originals
    Way too much of LA Originals has that overly chummy vibe, but the shambling, yearbook quality of the film is also its reason for being.
  15. The Main Event
    The Main Event is a light comedy that takes the joys of a real WWE match — the escapism, the performance — and gives them a kid-centric spin. Karas balances the movie’s clowning with a human story, while showing empathy for childhood growing pains.
  16. Love Wedding Repeat
    Craig’s comic delivery belabors gags that should run light on their feet. Rather than serving up a variety of zingers, the movie settles for one joke per character, repeated endlessly. . . . Instead, the best bits of comedy come from physical slapstick.
  17. Tigertail
    Spanning more than half a century, Tigertail goes back and forth in time, tracing the events that allowed Pin-Jui to achieve his American dream yet made him so aloof to his loved ones. It does this to mixed results.
  18. Same Boat
    While Glanz is the only cast member who gets within swinging distance of charisma, Roberti’s chops as a romantic lead are lacking.
  19. Stray Dolls
    Despite its sense of dead-end desperation, Stray Dolls is made worthwhile by the richness of Shane Sigler’s nighttime cinematography and the consistent empathy of its tone. Sinha, herself a first-generation immigrant, isn’t about to judge anyone for reaching.
  20. The Uprising
    Turning the Arab Spring into an invented revolution even as it presents specific incidents from an actual one, The Uprising demands an active viewer. Throughout, there are multiple things to consider.
  21. Sea Fever
    It’s all very resonant stuff, performed by an earnest and committed cast. But Sea Fever speeds through these turns of plot as if to check them off a list, with characters dropping dead before they’ve had a chance to earn our sympathy.
  22. Lazy Susan
    The proceedings, which also include Susan falling hard for a smarmy “Jumpoline” proprietor played by Jim Rash, are professionally executed. Yet the movie’s pace seems glacial. It’s as if the filmmakers tossed a bunch of fish into a barrel and didn’t bother to shoot them.
  23. Almost Love
    The aimless characters in Almost Love like to talk through their feelings, their aspirations, their disappointments, but there is little substance in their epiphanies, and the comedy is too low key to make up for its absence.
  24. Clover
    It’s chock-full of gore and expletive-laden banter, but lacks the key ingredients to make it worthy of its influences: original ideas and a strong script.
  25. Slay the Dragon
    Slay the Dragon is not short on outrage, and just because some of this material is not new doesn’t mean it’s not worth repeating.
  26. Coffee & Kareem
    The buddy cop movie genre is by all means worth interrogating as conversations around institutional racism and police brutality continue. But this film’s jabs are dull and sophomoric.
  27. The Other Lamb
    Existing outside of time and place, The Other Lamb is a gorgeous revenge fable with an excess of atmosphere and zero subtlety — a mallet wrapped in gauze and girlish laughter.
  28. Uncorked
    While the characters interact against the backdrop of varying degrees of racism and socioeconomic stressors, they are not defined by them. In other words, they are ordinary but no less noteworthy.
  29. Banana Split
    Is Banana Split an empty indulgence or a comfortingly familiar confection? Probably both.
  30. Tape
    Tape, in short, is a terrible movie about appalling behavior.
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