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For 11,162 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 7.6 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. The Missing Picture
    The Missing Picture is so immediate, so vital, it practically breathes. Not all memoirs need to exist. But the gentle urgency of Panh's story is right there in the filmmaking. This is a story that had to be told. Even in its stillness, it moves.
  2. McCanick
    [A] numbingly inert series of dirty-cop clichés that abruptly builds to an ephemerally poignant climax.
  3. Maladies
    The social construction of illness is certainly a worthy topic, but Carter situates his characters far from any semblance of a plot and even further from his heart.
  4. Just a Sigh
    Just a Sigh's day-long liaison sustains interest largely for the appeal of Devos and Byrne, its accomplished leads — they share what is known in the rom-com lexicon as "chemistry," and this quality invigorates their time together, in bed and out.
  5. Cheap Thrills
    Katz stages the contests with infectious energy... Too bad the last half hour feels like Katz is rubbing our face in the several turds he shows us, reminding us that people are awful. Of course they are. What else do you have to tell us?
  6. A Birder's Guide to Everything
    While it doesn't quite encompass everything, the film's still a bit too busy for its own good.
  7. Jodorowsky's Dune
    At least we have this gem, the rare tease of what could have been that actually proves satisfying enough on its own.
  8. It Felt Like Love
    It Felt Like Love is brilliantly, brutally tactile.
  9. Nymphomaniac: Volume I
    If the off-kilter pleasures of Volume I is von Trier enticing us to watch the rest, consider me seduced.
  10. Muppets Most Wanted
    The story matters only in that it creates opportunities for heaps of ridiculousness, and writer-director James Bobin (who also directed The Muppets), along with co-writer Nicholas Stoller, mines them skillfully and breezily.
  11. Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club
    As ever, he has the last laugh. This is How Stella Got Her Groove Back, for the Pop-Tart crowd, a wish-fulfillment weepie that not only narrowly clears Perry's low bar, thanks mostly to McLendon-Covey and Brown, but has already sold the TV sitcom rights to Oprah.
  12. Tiger & Bunny: The Rising
    Tiger & Bunny: The Rising indulges in homosexual stereotypes that would have been regressive in the 1980s, let alone in a spin-off of a 2011 television series, and it's a damn shame.
  13. Junk
    The film is frequently amusing but indulges too often in flights of fancy.
  14. Xingu
    The white saviors are flat, 2D manifestations of virtue... And the film's Indians? They aren't characters at all.
  15. Sparks
    This comic noir is best when it's more comic, in both senses of the word.
  16. U Want Me 2 Kill Him?
    A compelling but ultimately unsatisfying film.
  17. Teenage
    The old footage — newsreels, scraps of home movies — is entrancing, and even those familiar details eventually accrete with the fresh ones into something grand and stirring, especially near the conclusion.
  18. Southern Baptist Sissies
    Southern Baptist Sissies might have benefited from some judicious editing.
  19. Shirin in Love
    There's very little to distinguish this from every other characterless rom-com with a demographically marketable hook.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Right Kind of Wrong
    Jeremiah Chechick's The Right Kind of Wrong has more wrong than right and plays like an ode to testicle jokes.
  21. Patrick: Evil Awakens
    It's a techno-thriller of brain-dead proportions.
  22. On My Way
    Its realism is patient and inclusive.
  23. Himizu
    Intermittently refreshing yet thoroughly unpleasant.
  24. Guilty of Romance
    Mostly, Guilty of Romance seems content allowing characters to verbally abuse each other before eventually reaching the inevitable conclusion that life is a burden and all love is illusory.
  25. Exposed
    Like burlesque itself, Exposed is at its best when it shows rather than tells.
  26. Ernest & Célestine
    Ernest & Celestine -- a contender for this year's best animated film Oscar -- is pure delight.
  27. The Den
    The Den's commitment to its presentational conceit leads to a number of implausible scenarios, but what's more disheartening is the gore-fest it turns into once the curtain is thrown back on the mystery propelling both Elizabeth and the narrative.
  28. Dark House
    Dark House is one nutty horror movie, but what's crazier still is how well it works — until it doesn't.
  29. The Cold Lands
    In the thoughtful and touching coming-of-age tale The Cold Lands, writer-director Tom Gilroy examines self-reliance as a philosophy and way of life.
  30. Big Men
    This film, a great one, demands a follow-up.
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