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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. Machete Kills
    All too soon, Machete Kills collapses into a deranged, directionless splatter comedy that exhausts its bag of tricks, many of them recycled from this grindhouse auteur’s 2010 spoof.
  2. Captain Phillips
    Captain Phillips, a movie that insistently closes the distance between us and them, has a vital moral immediacy.
  3. Réquiem NN
    More a medium-length gallery piece than a feature, the movie can look a little rudimentary in presentation... But its subject is eternal.
  4. Grace Unplugged
    Feels like a religious tract more than a movie.
  5. The Last Day of August
    The film benefits from nice performances and nice work by Mr. DiFolco (making his directorial debut), even if the ending is not as psychologically complex as earlier scenes lead us to hope.
  6. Nothing Left to Fear
    The familiar special effects are not the most disappointing element here. It’s the squandering of the talented Ms. Heche, who is given top billing but almost nothing to do.
  7. Five Dances
    A promising, though static, new film that never leaves its taciturn shadows for a single emotionally gripping moment.
  8. Dislecksia: The Movie
    The film’s primary mission is to destigmatize dyslexia, and it achieves that admirably, presenting technical material with a light touch and compassion.
  9. Bridegroom
    What Bridegroom celebrates is not simply gay rights; it’s the human spirit.
  10. Bad Milo!
    What could have been a very funny short film about self-control and befriending your id instead becomes a rambling commentary on father-son dysfunction and the limits of proctology.
  11. Babygirl
    Predictable musical montages fail to deflate an exceptionally subtle script (by Mr. Vallely) and Ms. Ynoa’s astonishingly mature, hard-to-pin-down performance.
  12. Parkland
    Because the film, which affects the style of “United 93,” offers no new insights, theories or important information, you’re left wondering why it was made.
  13. I Used to Be Darker
    Mr. Porterfield might sometimes be too subtle for his own good, but by taking us on a low-key ramble through the ever-shifting feelings of a fractured family, he has woven a dreamy, detached chronicle of dissolution and renewal.
  14. All Is Bright
    A sardonic, smart screwball comedy.
  15. A.C.O.D.
    A.C.O.D., an unfunny comedy about a guy mooning over his parents’ divorce decades later, is so eager to please it’s hard to hate. But it’s sluggish even at 87 minutes, clichéd and gives you nothing of interest to look at other than some familiar faces.
  16. Concussion
    Ms. Passon ultimately seems to skirt some of the larger life questions hinted at along the way.
  17. The Dirties
    Remarkable as much for its insights as for its audacity, The Dirties approaches school violence with a comic veneer that slowly shades into deep darkness.
  18. Linsanity
    Unfortunately, Linsanity, following the conventions of the sports bio genre, ends at its peak, with only a brief nod to these events. Lin raised his game’s possibilities; you just wish that Mr. Leong had raised his.
  19. A Touch of Sin
    A blistering fictionalized tale straight out of China, A Touch of Sin is at once monumental and human scale.
  20. Runner Runner
    It feels like a halfhearted bluff and has the stale smell of yesterday’s after-shave.
  21. Argento's Dracula 3D
    When insects are the best thing in your movie, it’s probably time to retire.
  22. Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde
    The burning question is why Mr. Hyde’s story has never been made into a feature film. You’ve got big sky, a crazy but magnetically confident old coot, a noble but seemingly hopeless quest and a triumphant ending.
  23. Besharam
    Besharam is frequently crude, but it’s also unusually clean in its plotting. And it has a kind of unblushing vitality that is especially strong in the dance numbers, which feature big crowds, lots of color and an old-fashioned Bollywood desire to please.
  24. A.K.A. Doc Pomus
    This static documentary portrait relies on the usual panning over photos and tag-team interviews, but the format, like the radio length of a song, doesn’t get in the way of its subject’s heart.
  25. The Summit
    The film over all is a pulse-pounding success.
  26. A River Changes Course
    This human story is profound enough to stand on its own.
  27. Walter: Lessons from the World's Oldest People
    The documentary is not really about these older people but about this couple.
  28. Vikingdom
    Poor computer-generated effects give the movie an unsettling, two-layered feel.
  29. Gravity
    For all of Mr. Cuarón’s formal wizardry and pictorial grandeur, he is a humanist at heart.
  30. Let the Fire Burn
    Let the Fire Burn relentlessly sustains its tragic momentum.
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