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For 6,379 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,479 out of 6379
  2. Mixed: 3,425 out of 6379
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6379
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  1. The Broken Tower
    The Broken Tower feels unique as a young man’s tribute to an adventuresome, doomed soul.
  2. Grand Piano
    This is hardly a symphony of terror, but it’s still a solidly composed exercise in suspense.
  3. Edge of Darkness
    There’s no room for such soul-searching uncertainty with Gibson. After a few rapidly ticked-off minutes of gloom, the mission is clear: Get the sons of bitches, and make ’em pay.
  4. Kites
    Cribbing from countless Tinseltown efforts, this music-video-cum-perfume-ad is awash in excessively melodramatic flashbacks, car chases and references to the domestic illegal-immigration debate.
  5. The Wizard of the Kremlin
    The performances are solid, with an excellent Jude Law all inscrutable psychopathy as a younger Vladimir Putin and Alicia Vikander the perfect embodiment of an amoral post-Soviet arrivista, and the chilly world-building works well enough, but there’s a missing ingredient – actual Russians.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shut Up and Play the Hits
    It's a tricky thing to pull off in a movie-equal parts talk and rock-but in a way, this mix of cerebral and kinetic is just what LCD strove for over the course of its ten-year life.
  7. God Help the Girl
    The whole phantasmagorical enterprise is so sweetly confident that it just about gets away with its entirely casual approach to believability.
  8. Elemental
    The sheer ambition is still there, but the storytelling rigour – Lasseter’s great forte – is again missing in Elemental, the studio’s latest big-screen offering.
  9. I Origins
    Persuasive sci-fi tech talk, soulful romance and an earnest stab at metaphysics combine in director Mike Cahill's polished second feature.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Get on the Bus
    Though Lee's deft expertise keeps things pacy and (mostly) plausible, the material can't avoid a certain predictability and, in the end, a preachy sentimentality.
  11. The Lovely Bones
    It’s a movie that tips toward overkill--even Ronan’s voice is amplified into a weird whisper. More quiet would have helped.
  12. Predators
    The odor of musty, late-’80s nostalgia may still hover around this already threadbare brand, but you simply don’t see movies that leave both the curious and the fans who truly care this viscerally satisfied anymore.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wish You Were Here
    With greater faith in its material, the movie could have dispensed with its time jumps and saved the reveals for when they matter most.
  14. Win Win
    No matter how predictable his arc is, writer-director Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent) never loses sight of the difficulties of cashflow and making one's weekly nut. You'll want to give his movie-and his secret weapon, the lovably neurotic Bobby Cannavale, as a recent divorcé hoping to co-coach the team-a pass for sweetness.
  15. They Came Together
    Here, though, everyone involved seems above the rom-com conventions they’re satirizing, so anxious to get to each punch line that they let the connective tissue languish. You howl often but quickly forget why.
  16. Wicked: For Good
    Ultimately, though, there’s not enough story to fuel a three-hour musical stretched across nearly five hours. What once was brisk and bright becomes a bit of a slog. Fans will be obsessified; everyone else, ossified.
  17. Frontera
    Ed Harris is a performer made for Westerns, and he’s perfectly utilized in debuting director Michael Berry’s middling if still very watchable modern-day oater as Roy.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Baby Done
    Baby Done offers a typically Kiwi spin on the we’re-having-a-baby genre, powered by the awkward-girl charms of standup star (and Edinburgh Comedy Award winner) Rose Matafeo.
  19. CODA
    There aren’t too many surprises in the journey – especially if you’ve seen La Famille Bélier, the 2014 French film that Coda reworks – but writer-director Siân Heder’s deep affection for the Rossi clan is infectious.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Sword and the Sorcerer
    Editor Marshall Harvey stitches the messy pieces together with considerable panache.
  21. Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
    Documentarian Mark N. Hopkins gives us a mature look at the bracing yet very human personalities attracted to crisis.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Getaway
    It's a treat to see the double-barrelled menace of Woods and Madsen together at last.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Step Up Revolution
    A troupe of guerrilla performers led by hunky Ryan Guzman stage synchronized routines on Miami's escalators and restaurant tables.
  24. Wetlands
    Dank with the effluvia of a proudly unhygienic, sex-obsessed German teen, this frenetic adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s notorious 2008 best-seller is a standing dare to anyone who thinks the movies have gotten too tame.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    High Tech, Low Life
    An engaging study of the disparate characters who are drawn to speak out when the authorities crack the whip.
  26. Get the Gringo
    There’s no escaping the fact that this is a nasty, vicious little film – the climax is startlingly unpleasant. But with its sharp dialogue, beautifully streamlined story and fistful of surprises, the Mel haters are going to have to find another brickbat for now.
  27. City of Life and Death
    The movie skips along episodically; it's not quite as sharp as a war narrative needs to be, even if its nightmarish psychology feels spot-on.
  28. Louder Than a Bomb
    The kids pick up the filmmakers' lyrical slack more often than not, but this ode to the power of verse could really use a redraft.
  29. The Peanuts Movie
    Unlike recent, sharp-witted examples like The Lego Movie and Paddington, there’s zero interest in mocking or freshening up the material—think what Wes Anderson might have done with this—thus dooming the movie to nostalgic types only. It trudges along like that black, jagged stripe on our hero’s yellow polo: up and down, scene by scene.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pirates
    It's fun intermittently, but a bit of a stretch at two hours, and Matthau's Cockney accent is about as convincing as the rubber sharks. Perhaps the key to understanding what it's about lies in considering Polanski's displacement: of Polish extraction, exiled in Paris, faced with arrest should he return to the US. The only flag he could comfortably wrap himself in was the Jolly Roger.
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