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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. Kill Your Darlings
    Kill Your Darlings is an undernourished and over-emphatic film.
  2. Enzo Avitabile Music Life
    Demme has crafted yet another superb document of musicians at work, one as much about creation—and the sources of inspiration—as it is about performance. A wonderful film, as in, it's full of wonders.
  3. The Fifth Estate
    The issues at play here are fascinating, but Condon and Singer never let any argument about journalism or the philosophy of free information last longer than a couple ping-ponged lines between master (Assange) and student (Domscheit-Berg).
  4. Capital
    A tacky corporate noir that makes you long for the leanness of Margin Call, or even the clumsy theatrics of Arbitrage.
  5. Camille Claudel 1915
    One of the year's thorniest releases.
  6. Blood Brother
    There are undoubtedly several moving moments in the film, and the kids are gorgeous and heartbreaking, but none of that is strong enough to balance Braat's galling and enabled narcissism, which pervades the film.
  7. Big Ass Spider!
    This is squirmy, hilarious fun.
  8. All Is Lost
    A genuine nail-biter, scrupulously made and fully involving, elemental in its simplicity.
  9. 2 Jacks
    False gravity weighs down 2 Jacks, a father-son drama less interested in exploring familial relations than in tut-tutting the millennials.
  10. 12 Years a Slave
    12 Years a Slave works so hard to be noble, but it doesn't have to: Ejiofor is there to do all the heavy lifting.
  11. I Will Follow You Into the Dark
    The scare tactics are rather ho-hum—suffocation nightmares, disappearing necklaces, loud noises—and the ending is incongruously sentimental. You'll be more frightened walking through a graveyard at dusk.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Romeo & Juliet
    It’s all rote, dashed through, and somewhat detestable.
  15. Cassadaga
    Like the Saw franchise, Cassadaga, directed by Anthony DiBlasi, attempts to leverage the horror genre in the service of inducing epiphanies, but keeps tripping over its confused tangle of genres.
  16. Réquiem NN
    [A] quiet, somber film.
  17. Zero Charisma
    The comic scenes arc into bleakness, and the bleak ones often collapse back into comedy.
  18. Symphony of the Soil
    Despite director Deborah Koons Garcia's mighty effort to create a stimulating and visually engaging product, Symphony plays mostly like a taped lecture.
  19. Sweetwater
    That Sweetwater is so generic doesn't prevent it from being intermittently entertaining.
  20. Snow Queen
    Snow Queen proves both visually cruddy and narratively muddled.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    McConkey
    The documentary neatly lays out all the events leading to March 2009 in the Dolomites, from his early days of struggling to find his place in the world to discovering the extreme sports that would shoot him to fame.
  22. The Institute
    Complaints that there's too little here about how the Jejune Institute was hatched or what it all may have meant matter little in the face of the one great thing The Institute does offer: a record of the mad invention of the game's masterminds.
  23. The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
    Tillman is clumsy in his handling of a few scenes, and considering what these kids are up against—junkie moms, drug-dealing pimp neighbors—the ending might be a little too implausibly upbeat. But Tillman seems to know that we need to go home feeling hope for Mister and Pete, who, it turns out, aren't so easily defeated.
  24. God Loves Uganda
    Kudos to the filmmakers for so adeptly laying out the history of American evangelicals' Ugandan mission, and for noting that HIV infection rates there have gone up since the abstinence-only education started.
  25. Ghost Team One
    Thanks to the shakiest of shaky-cams, you don't know whether to wince or lose your lunch.
  26. Escape from Tomorrow
    While Escape is filled with inspired touches... Moore lacks the off-kilter psychological nuances of Lynch, as well as the go-for-broke storytelling skills and visual élan. It doesn't help that the cast is largely competent at best.
  27. Design Is One
    Good design rests at the intersection of function and beauty. Design Is One, alas, has far too little of the latter.
  28. Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
    If Mulholland made The True Gen half as aesthetically pleasing as it is informative, the film would be remarkable.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    CBGB
    CBGB's biggest problem is that it's taken such electrifying source material and done absolutely zilch with it.
  30. Broadway Idiot
    It contains more praise than insights, and, chopped into several sections, the documentary could easily become a series of featurettes in the "Extras" section of an American Idiot DVD. Yet Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong still commands the screen.
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