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For 20,304 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: 9,394 out of 20304
  2. Mixed: 8,445 out of 20304
  3. Negative: 2,465 out of 20304
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  1. Maidentrip
    Before our eyes, Laura’s lengthening limbs and deepening introspection become the point of a movie that begins with a child and ends with a young woman.
  2. Back in the Day
    There are a lot of odious movies yet to come in 2014, no doubt, but they’ll have to work to beat Back in the Day for awfulness.
  3. Life of a King
    Mr. Gooding’s performance and his complex charisma are fascinating to watch throughout.
  4. The Nut Job
    The Nut Job features muddy-colored and often ugly animation, a plot that feels too stretched out and loaded with details to hold the attention of most children, and more flatulence jokes than anyone deserves.
  5. Ride Along
    The plot twists are easily guessed, and the film goes on for one predicament too long, but there are some good laughs.
  6. Reasonable Doubt
    In lieu of tension, the film is stuffed with crazed musical crescendos, amateurish structural feints and pregnant pauses that cry out for the familiar “chu-CHUNG” of a “Law & Order” scene change.
  7. Big Bad Wolves
    Is there a point? All the filmmakers seem interested in is the ugliness of the main Israeli characters.
  8. Summer in February
    Picturesque seascapes are about the only thing to recommend in Summer in February.
  9. Like Father, Like Son
    Mr. Hirokazu never overly explains his stories through the dialogue, preferring to tease out their meaning visually.
  10. Generation War
    As television drama, Generation War is unquestionably effective. As dramatized history, it is pretty questionable.
  11. When I Saw You
    When I Saw You is a soft-centered child’s-eye view of alienation, toughened by fine acting (Saleh Bakri shines as a fighter drawn to Ghaydaa) and Hélène Louvart’s full-bodied photography.
  12. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    A competently made, moderately diverting variation on a genre standard.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Truth
    Filled with sappy dialogue and screeching strings, Truth is a puerile excavation of secrets and sickness.
  20. The Suspect
    At 137 minutes, the film overstays its welcome with multiple concluding flourishes (and exceeds the sentiment threshold).
  21. 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.
  22. The Truth About Emanuel
    The film never finds its dramatic footing. Nor, sadly, its common sense.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. Free Ride
    Free Ride offers an unsettling vision of a demimonde whose inhabitants live with the reality that there may be no tomorrow.
  29. The Great Flood
    A striking experiment in music and moviemaking.
  30. 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.
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