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On average, this publication grades 7.6 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. Alan Partridge
    An often funny workplace hostage comedy that doesn't demand prior knowledge of the character.
  2. 10 Rules for Sleeping Around
    The whole film is pretty enraging, hideously acted apart from the main quartet, and ends up viewing like a particularly racy Lifetime Original.
  3. The Unknown Known
    Rumsfeld's impenetrability makes him fascinating, but only to a point.
  4. Dom Hemingway
    If only Shepard's movie lived up to his leading man. It's merely a frame for a character portrait, with Shepard's camera screwing our eyes to Law's performance and pasting in supporting actors and situations for no larger purpose than to see his reaction to them.
  5. Sabotage
    This is the disreputable, even disgusting diversion the Expendables pictures should've been.
  6. Noah
    Noah is here not to set the record straight, but to set it on its head. This isn't a lavish work of mad genius, it's a movie designed to be a lavish work of mad genius, and there's a difference.
  7. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    The script is solid, and the fight scenes are excellent.
  8. Blood Ties
    Though it takes a long while for the many moving parts to click into place, the final minutes redeem not only a few characters but also Blood Ties itself -- not enough to make up for prior transgressions, perhaps, but enough to leave a favorable last impression.
  9. Boys of Abu Ghraib
    Too by-the-numbers for the emotional impact to resonate as long as it could and should have.
  10. Locker 13
    Locker 13 brings the hurt, and not in a good way.
  11. Jews of Egypt
    [Ramsis] achieves many poignant moments, especially when his subjects express that they have never felt at home anywhere outside Egypt.
  12. Blumenthal
    Fisher's filmmaking, aside from a couple scenes between Ethan and his best friend (Alexander Cendese) that are nicely composed in long-take two-shots, is too consistently flat to make the material spark.
  13. Hide Your Smiling Faces
    Carbone minimizes dialogue and focuses instead on gestural specificity; he makes a useful inventory of boys-will-be-boys behavior — wrestling in fields, poking at scars or dead critters, shutting down on parents — and stages it in tellingly muted vignettes within the ample copses of rural New Jersey.
  14. Refuge
    Even at its well-meaning best, Refuge is listless.
  15. The Raid 2
    The raw ingredients of Raid 2 are superb. But the overall effect is gluttonous and queasy.
  16. Mistaken for Strangers
    Mistaken for Strangers doesn't reveal anything about Tom but his own insecurity.
  17. Go Down Death
    Schimberg, in this debut, demonstrates rare assuredness in shooting and staging scenes, coaxing unexpected but true-feeling flourishes from his cast of mostly amateurs blessed with extraordinary faces.
  18. Finding Vivian Maier
    Because her tale is so fascinating, movie-making formula is all that's needed.
  19. Cesar Chavez
    The careless diminishment of every other character that isn't Chávez — including wife Helen, played by an utterly wasted America Ferrera in a grape-sized role — might be worth overlooking if the film provided any insights into its subject.
  20. Breathe In
    Drake Doremus's Breathe In is a star-crossed romance where your enjoyment level will depend on your tolerance for what feels an awful lot like potential statutory rape.
  21. Divergent
    It'd be easier to root for lead Tris's (Shailene Woodley, the go-to girl for drab roles with grit) quest to escape her Abnegation roots and those ghastly gray skirts to prove herself a worthy Dauntless if director Burger felt committed to the concept.
  22. The French Minister
    Mannered and often very funny.
  23. Stay
    The film's quiet demeanor, exacerbated by wide shots of lonely, sprawling bogs, sometimes comes off as dull rather than reflective. Still, it does capture the maddening silence of waiting for an absent lover to make contact.
  24. Nothing Without You
    There isn't the faintest glimmer of lived experience to be found here, not the briefest flash of truth.
  25. Brothers Hypnotic
    We see Phil's sons honoring him while going their own ways in a years-long effort to find the right pitch.
  26. Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
    Even at its most on-the-nose, Big Joy serves the greater good of introducing viewers to its subject, whose voice rings clear throughout.
  27. Awakened
    This needlessly incoherent thriller treats its convoluted nonsense with grave seriousness. It's mawkish, maudlin, and tongue-tied — countless scenes end with characters excusing themselves to go to bed, and you may want to join them.
  28. Anita
    Too much of the movie feels like notes toward a portrait rather than the portrait itself, and Mock's failure to nail down the Thomas case drains the power from the victory-lap scenes of Hill addressing adoring crowds.
  29. American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
    This film is one of our best documents of the civil rights era, but it is also a portrait of someone with a singular perspective, a big mind, and a joyous aptitude for conversation.
  30. Rob the Mob
    The stickups, while plenty funny... lack any sense of dread or danger. And while De Felitta has a knack for slaphappy eroticism — with the feisty Arianda on board, the sex scenes have genuine heat — he also resorts too often to sappy lyricism.
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