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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. Big Sur
    Not exactly a hagiography, Polish's film isn't a tragedy, either -- it's just an uneventful afternoon spent with a dozing rummy.
  2. Aftermath
    What gives Aftermath its peculiar strain of portent is Pasikowski's consistent suggestion of the futility of bold, desperate attempts to undo a wrong.
  3. The Broken Circle Breakdown
    The Broken Circle Breakdown crashes as frequently as it soars, but the ache at its center feels real.
  4. Boss
    Boss is that rare Bollywood action film whose stars are worthy of the pedestal they're put on.
  5. American Promise
    The film ends on up notes, but its strength is that it's not really a feel-good movie, instead shining a light on both how far we have come in terms of race in America and how very far we still have to go.
  6. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
    By Jackass standards, Bad Grandpa is benign—it’s neither as fun nor as thrilling as watching Knoxville play tetherball with a beehive.
  7. Not Yet Begun to Fight
    It stuns, and what's missing doesn't compare to what it shares.
  8. Bridging the Gap
    Bridging the Gap is gorgeous and weird.
  9. Out Loud
    Out Loud is too clumsily put together to give its subject the weight it needs to feel both grounded and moving.
  10. Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings
    The comedy preaches tolerance... But using hate crimes—even cartoonified ones—as a source of humor is troubling, and the mincing stereotypes on display bring to mind a little kid pointing and shouting, "Homo! Homo!"
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    House in the Alley
    At its best, the film deftly plumbs the gulf between its central couple... At its worst, it paints a Victorian portrait of womanhood... It's shoddily plotted, too.
  12. Toad Road
    Though far from perfect, Toad Road is also the first unique horror film to come along in years.
  13. When I Walk
    It's an often gut-wrenching viewing experience in which the triumphs of the hero are hard won.
  14. The Square
    [A] powerful, exacting depiction of Egypt's struggle for meaningful change.
  15. Spinning Plates
    A love letter to that singular intersection of artistic innovation, cultural legacy, community pride, and family-sustaining (or -straining) commerce known as the restaurant.
  16. I Am Divine
    A worthy documentary tribute to the drag queen icon.
  17. Blue Is the Warmest Color
    Kechiche and his actresses explore the in-between—ecstasy, exploration, the comfort and eventual boredom of domesticity—and the aftermath, the painful shards of feeling we cling to after something has shattered. And they don't mess around when it comes to the ferocity of love, sex, or, God help us, the two combined.
  18. Bastards
    Style can't fully compensate for a tale that, underneath its gorgeous affectations, proves undercooked, especially during a third act that provides duly titillating answers to its initially beguiling mysteries.
  19. Cut to Black
    While Eberle's execution falls short, the scale of his ambition can't help but stir admiration.
  20. Carrie
    Kimberly Peirce changes almost nothing in her rallying remake of Brian De Palma’s classic about a troubled telekinetic teenager. She doesn’t have to.
  21. Haunter
    Has an elegance roughly on par with a Goosebumps novel, refusing to follow its own contradictory rules and barely sustaining a pretense of internal logic.
  22. The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
    This particular rendition of a history often told is little more than propaganda.
  23. Peaches Does Herself
    While it helps to already be a fan, it's imaginative and energetic enough to be entertaining for the uninitiated.
  24. Our Day Will Come
    The exhausting and unrelatable Our Day Will Come escalates to a violent rampage as essentially unpleasant and nonsensical as its characters.
  25. Lost for Words
    Fortunately, there's far more to his slickly directed film than mere virtual tourism.
  26. Torn
    Made for less than $500,000, Torn is proof that a little can go a long way. In fact, the microscale perfectly lends itself to the story's quiet revelations.
  27. Paradise
    There's something to be said for fiction that, in its form, dares to resemble life as it's lived. Our minor failings and chemical imbalances certainly shape our stories. This troubled yet promising debut gets that much right.
  28. I'm in Love with a Church Girl
    It's hard to quibble with Steve Race's film on theological grounds, though in narrative and aesthetic terms, there's something unholy about its mixture of inane clichés, shallow music-video glossiness, and incessant preaching.
  29. The Human Scale
    The Human Scale lacks both the punch needed to appeal to the layperson and the deep wonkiness to gain the attention of true geeks of the built environment.
  30. Hellbenders
    Aided by capable if unnecessary 3D effects, Petty displays a flair for staging violent action, but he's trapped inside a broad comic set-up that doesn't mesh with the story's innate meanness.
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