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For 11,163 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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 11163
  2. Mixed: 4,554 out of 11163
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11163
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  1. Pig Death Machine
    Too madcap or not self-serious enough to be called transgressive, Moritsugu's degenerate romp splits the tonal difference between Nick Zedd and John Waters.
  2. The United States of Autism
    The United States of Autism is an example of a well-meaning documentary that may do more harm than good.
  3. Skinwalker Ranch
    Fixed cameras lend themselves well to dimly lit effects and shrewd obfuscation, and McGinn proves a fine hand at stock-horror misdirection.
  4. Abandoned Mine
    Haunted houses come in many shapes and sizes, and the title location in Abandoned Mine is the only fresh coat of paint this one gets.
  5. Dead Before Dawn 3D
    Dead Before Dawn's best jokes are grounded in the warm, believable camaraderie between Casper and his friends, but Mullen is less confident with crowds. The zemon-horde attack scenes are a visual jumble.
  6. TV Man: The Search for the Last Independent Dealer
    [Kosareff] backburners what's most fascinating (stories of former titans of the industry; segments discussing how shifting social mores impacted said industry, the key roles of women in the factories) and squanders a chance to discuss the larger implications.
  7. Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro
    A vanity project riding the waves of a socio-political moment, Two confirms just as many stereotypes as it attempts to dismantle.
  8. Hawking
    Finnigan wisely seizes on the gentle strength and charisma of Hawking's first wife, Jane Wilde. She imprints on the film as fully as her former husband.
  9. Naked As We Came
    Naked plays like a gay-themed August: Osage County without all the histrionics.
  10. Unacceptable Levels
    Unacceptable Levels wants to scare the biosolids out of you, and it can, but that doesn't mean it's a success.
  11. I Spit on Your Grave 2
    The film ultimately plays less as female empowerment than it does a narrative in which the comeuppance doled out is likely to be received as a digestif for those in the audience who got off on the gendered violence in the first place.
  12. The Paw Project
    The story of veterinarian Jennifer Conrad's crusade to outlaw declawing of cats is eye-opening and sometimes charming.
  13. The Time Is... Now
    Rife with hasty generalizations, tautologies, and false choices, the movie is also tricked out with plenty of visual kitsch.
  14. We Came Home
    This is a boutique production that suffers a bad case of POV syndrome, sloppily following the blueprint of what documentaries about families and important issues are supposed be.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Cleaver's Destiny
    [An] underwhelming little film entirely ill-equipped to deal with its serious and important themes.
  16. Babygirl
    [A] small, gentle coming-of-age story, exceedingly well-cast.
  17. Snow Queen
    Snow Queen proves both visually cruddy and narratively muddled.
  18. Silent City
    Roothooft, for her part, gives one of the more nuanced and vulnerable performances in recent memory; she maximizes nearly every scene's potential without overplaying a single one.
  19. Réquiem NN
    [A] quiet, somber film.
  20. DSKNECTD
    It's an over-the-top cautionary doc less convincing than the weight-loss ads on Facebook.
  21. Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird
    In this entertaining documentary, the coolest kids in town sing the praises of cartoonist Gahan Wilson, whose work is a brilliant fusion of the personal and the political.
  22. Cut to Black
    While Eberle's execution falls short, the scale of his ambition can't help but stir admiration.
  23. Out Loud
    Out Loud is too clumsily put together to give its subject the weight it needs to feel both grounded and moving.
  24. Bridging the Gap
    Bridging the Gap is gorgeous and weird.
  25. Behind the Blue Veil
    What we're presented with is a scattering of scenes amid an overpowering backdrop of geopolitical and anthropological explanation, and nothing resembling drama.
  26. Fighting for Freedom
    None of these TV-movie trappings does Freedom's topical subject any favors, but they do confirm that those most passionate about something often require some sort of creative filter when making art about it.
  27. The Impaler
    The cell phone reception in Dracula's castle is pretty bad, but it can't be as frustrating as trying to fathom the plot of this woefully muddled horror film.
  28. The legend of Sarila
    A vibrant color scheme and the deliciously evil cackle of Christopher Plummer elevate this kid-friendly animated adventure from Canada.
  29. Tough as Iron
    Far better as a family drama than as a gangster picture, the film's muddled attempt at marrying the two distracts from its emotional center.
  30. Sake-Bomb
    A dismal road trip saga.
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