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For 3,665 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Always Be My Maybe
Lowest review score: 0 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,235 out of 3665
  2. Mixed: 991 out of 3665
  3. Negative: 439 out of 3665
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  1. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
    The film’s attempts at comedy and sentimentality are equally unsuccessful, resulting in a movie that feels more like a third-rate “Saved by the Bell” knock-off than a legitimate teen flick.
  2. Blue Jay
    Blue Jay never seems all that interested in breaking new ground, but its success at providing small pleasures – and memorable performances – makes it worth a look.
  3. The Greasy Strangler
    An ugly and frequently hilarious descent into all things repellent, the debut feature from director Jim Hosking plants itself firmly in a world of filth and shock.
  4. Newtown
    Newtown, even coming nearly four years after the shooting, remains devastatingly timely.
  5. Being 17
    Téchiné intuitively favors movement over chatter, and he directs his young actors toward intimate, yearning performances.
  6. Do Not Resist
    It’s not groundbreaking cinema, but Do Not Resist effectively begins (and furthers) this ongoing conversation about the escalating police state, racial profiling, and beyond.
  7. The Birth of a Nation
    The filmmaking has a certain paint-by-numbers frankness that works in some ways, not in others.
  8. The Girl on the Train
    The overall mood created by the crummy, pinched visuals and logic-strained rhythm is of something scanned and discarded, like a tabloid article or a Lifetime movie.
  9. 13th
    It’s a film that hits hard, but it also nails its targets with precision.
  10. Command and Control
    As with most documentaries drawn from books, it feels like you’re getting the Reader’s Digest condensed version, handy for those who have 90 minutes to spare but no substitute for the real thing.
  11. Masterminds
    Masterminds is kinder to its characters than most comedies about the bumbling and under-educated, and that’s Hess’s strength.
  12. Long Way North
    Lovely visuals are key for the success of any animated film, arguably more so even than for live-action movies. But a compelling story is also essential, and that’s where “Long Way North” trips up.
  13. Amanda Knox
    Amanda Knox delivers its own justice by covering all the complexities of its ever-fascinating true crime tale.
  14. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    This adventure should have been spooky and witty and exciting, but instead it’s just dreary and dull. Peculiarity has rarely been this tedious.
  15. The Dressmaker
    The fashions are a highlight, and the story of a seething snake pit of a town is watchable and intermittently amusing, until things take a jarring turn about halfway in.
  16. The Lovers and the Despot
    Cannan and Adam approach the outlandish crime as a puzzlement, all but wondering aloud how two celebrities could be stolen from public life and turned into a dictator’s puppets.
  17. Audrie & Daisy
    This documentary may indeed stir outrage and encourage victims to report such crimes. But it’s still a song we’ve heard before.
  18. Storks
    Storks continually surprises with characters who are more complicated than we might expect in a kid’s animated movie, and a refusal to hit every single pre-programmed plot beat.
  19. The Secret Scripture
    The ending of this movie is monumentally, historically, even catastophically bad. Its big reveal is so mind-numbingly asinine that it nearly retroactively erases any intelligence you may have had before watching this movie. Yes, it’s that agonizing.
  20. Planetarium
    Though its mix of European romanticism, lustrous trappings, and nostalgic movie love can occasionally make Planetarium feel like a galaxy all its own, the effect is more illusory than enveloping.
  21. Frantz
    Frantz too often belabors the obvious and ultimately blunts its own message.
  22. Miss Stevens
    Miss Stevens bears a maturity and genuineness that thankfully feels miles apart from the inspirational assembly line of Hollywood product.
  23. Blair Witch
    Blair Witch does manage to generate occasional moments of tension, particularly when it strays from the first film’s narrative and peeks into some new dark corners.
  24. Hillsong - Let Hope Rise
    Hillsong — Let Hope Rise stands out against that harsh tone of much recent Christian indie cinema by being a winning, friendly, and at times moving film.
  25. Deepwater Horizon
    It’s a thrilling film with impressive set pieces, solid acting and a pulse-pounding climax. Movie-wise, mission mostly accomplished. But to experience Deepwater Horizon and ignore the external circumstances surrounding its creation is a difficult task.
  26. Queen of Katwe
    This humanistic tale, helmed by a masterful filmmaker, offers a potent — and yes, inspirational — story of triumph against huge odds.
  27. Snowden
    For a film that’s so politically risky — Stone hasn’t named names and pointed fingers (at both sides of the aisle, incidentally) in a mainstream movie like this for years — it’s surprisingly safe aesthetically.
  28. The Disappointments Room
    Named as if it knew its destiny, The Disappointments Room brings together those horror movie standbys that just can’t quit each other — a creepy old home and a troubled family — for some truly convoluted, non-scary, and execrable psychological mishegoss surrounding a hidden chamber and the noxious historical shame it holds.
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