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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. State 194
    The best part of State 194 is its domesticity, its low-key approach to a conflict that has been widely sensationalized in the media.
  2. Student
    Psychological violence is constantly present and reflected in the film's physical violence, which is typically suggested rather than seen.
  3. Peaches Does Herself
    While it helps to already be a fan, it's imaginative and energetic enough to be entertaining for the uninitiated.
  4. Llyn Foulkes One Man Band
    While his obsessiveness seems neurotic, and watching this film is not always comfortable, it also seems to be all part of the process.
  5. K2: Siren of the Himalayas
    Its considered use of ice and snow-covered vistas against the expanse of blue sky offers great beauty while capturing something of what pulls the adventurous to try to reach the world's second highest peak.
  6. Kung Fu Elliot
    Documentary character study Kung Fu Elliot starts off as a cringe-humor portrait of a delusional would-be action star, but gradually transforms into a thoughtful examination of its title character's naïveté.
  7. Farewell to Hollywood
    [A] bizarre and wonderful doc that's pitched like a home movie but crafted with fine, poignant sensibilities.
  8. Brand: A Second Coming
    Though it includes parts of a live comedy performance, the film is a documentary with an attention span about as long as its subject's.
  9. Love at First Fight
    Rejuvenating the romantic comedy through its unusual premise — in which training for an elite army unit releases a flood of pheromones — Cailley's film is also buoyed by its enormously appealing leads, Kévin Azaïs and Adèle Haenel.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Station to Station
    Director Doug Aitken's trick of turning 62 one-minute clips into a single feature turns out to be less a shattering of narrative than a segmentation.
  11. Karski & the Lords of Humanity
    In their abstraction, a number of striking animated sequences prove more effective in conveying these horrors than the talking-head segments that contextualize them.
  12. A Good American
    The movie is slow, quiet, and infuriating, as Binney and his small group are undermined by Gen. Michael Hayden's NSA and inept private contractors.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Padmaavat
    The finished work itself is actually a stellar achievement, its raucous meta-narrative more than worthy of a spot in Bhansali’s visually splendid canon.
  14. Bubble
    The three stars are all perfectly naturalistic, but their roles are too bloodless and their patter too dry.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ATL
    It's entertainment with ambition, but I can't front though; the soundtrack is pretty fly too.
  16. Youth in Revolt
    Winded and weary from its long journey to a bigger screen, the three-books-in-one has been squeezed into a 90-minute Cliff's Notes version starring Michael Cera as Every Role Michael Cera's Ever Had.
  17. Mayhem
    I’m sure the movie was made for Yeun (who also serves as executive producer) to finally have a chance to prove he has leading-man chops — and Hollywood should start giving him movie-star, action-hero gigs, like, yesterday.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Art & Copy
    Yet however stirring these vintage campaigns and their graying creators may be for ad junkies and nostalgists, Pray fails at analysis: His film is simply a tribute.
  19. Stander
    Kind of a bore.
  20. Stinking Heaven
    Never a banal depiction of dysfunctional group dynamics, Stinking Heaven, which was shaped, as in Silver's previous work, largely through improvisation, remains consistently absorbing.
  21. Julia
    Tilda Swinton doesn't merely act the title role in French director Erick Zonca's Julia--she devours it, spits it back up, dances giddily upon it, twirls it in the air.
  22. After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United
    The resulting portrait is a cautionary rejoinder to typical sports-movie uplift, elucidating how athletics remain a dangerously precarious foundation upon which to construct lasting peace.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Farmageddon
    A lesser effort in the burgeoning canon, it's still effective in its goals: illuminating how denigrated and dangerous our food supply is.
  24. 11/8/16
    This minute-by-minute rundown is priceless history, alive with the anxious textures of American life right then, a film that in twenty years will reward attentive viewing. It’s also, for many of us alive in the now, probably too much too soon, the tearing open of wounds that only are just starting to scab over.
  25. Severance
    When Smith's Grand Guignol tableaux are strung together, they lack any forward momentum. Some take inspired comic flight. The rest crash to the ground and, like so much else in Severance, go splat.
  26. The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
    Burns's job as director is differentiating and spotlighting everyone in this large ensemble, a storytelling challenge to which he responds with a brisk pace and an eye for revealing moments. The film recalls his 1995 debut, "The Brothers McMullen," grounded in Irish family traditions and comedic chemistry among performers.
  27. Sugar Town
    Neither as lively nor as tough as the original, and compared to the hardcore punk of "Border Radio," the score for Sugar Town sounds like Muzak.
  28. Happy, Texas
    Sputters to a dead halt right out of the gate. One labored scenario follows another.
  29. The Young Karl Marx
    There’s something dazzling in the audacity of applying the most conventional and conservative techniques to the portrayal of radical thinkers and thoughts. That frisson keeps the movie interesting without quite jolting it to life.
  30. V for Vendetta
    Absorbing even in its incoherence,V for Vendetta manages to make an old popular mythology new. Impossible not to break into a grin: It's the thought that counts.
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