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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. As I Lay Dying
    Franco adapted a book that often reads like joyless homework into a film that feels the same way.
  2. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
    Neither disposable nor a long-lost masterpiece, she might not be loved by all the boys, but she's still worth a Friday night date.
  3. Machete Kills
    Kills tops the 2010 original by not giving a mierda about logic or character.
  4. Captain Phillips
    Even if Captain Phillips treads into some ideologically rough waters, there's one thing that's hard to find fault with: Hanks gives a performance that goes from good (through the first 124 minutes) to extraordinary (in the last 10).
  5. Walter: Lessons from the World's Oldest People
    Though the filmmakers undoubtedly had good intentions, their ultimate point—that a long life is the result of moral rectitude—is offensive and imbecilic.
  6. A River Changes Course
    For the most part, the narrative here feels generational, representative, rather than invested in the specific incidents of specific lives.
  7. Vikingdom
    Vikingdom trembles with great dumb joy even before we meet the apparently handcrafted hell-dragon that looks like a set of windup chattering teeth combined with a homecoming float.
  8. A Touch of Sin
    In A Touch of Sin, Jia is attuned to, and saddened by, the violence he sees creeping through his country, caused at least partly by the ever-widening disparity between rich and poor. He ends on a note that's more haunting than hopeful.
  9. The Summit
    The Summit is at its most powerful when the filmmakers simply tell the tale, which gradually develops the unsettling suspense of a horror movie, with K2 cast as the implacable killer.
  10. Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde
    Through photos and family lore, but mostly through Dayton's own eloquence, Mitchell assembles a biographical portrait that's inspiring in the best possible way.
  11. Nothing Left to Fear
    Any sensible person would gun it right out of the theater.
  12. Parkland
    It's in the film's second half that Parkland goes all Tony Romo and fumbles. Instead of becoming truly engrossing, it threatens to descend into unreserved melodrama.
  13. Linsanity
    Linsanity doesn't—and shouldn't—hide its star's religious beliefs. But the doc should have the courage to explore them.
  14. Let the Fire Burn
    There's never enough information.
  15. The Last Day of August
    The film's delivery system sets itself up for failure.
  16. Morning
    It's a mannered, over-the-top approximation of real anguish and hopelessness that's so phony that it's borderline insulting to those who've truly experienced such tragedy.
  17. I Used to Be Darker
    The film exhibits a contemplative quiet and attentiveness to detail that enhances its issues of regret, bitterness, and confusion, many of which are rooted in thorny parent-child relations.
  18. Five Dances
    If only verisimilitude equaled quality. But unfortunately, schmaltzy music and drab melodrama drag down the otherwise graceful moves of Five Dances.
  19. Dislecksia: The Movie
    Dislecksia: The Movie is an exuberantly didactic documentary, and director Harvey Hubbell has done his homework.
  20. The Dirties
    Matthew Johnson's The Dirties explores high school violence from a refreshingly original angle.
  21. Argento's Dracula 3D
    Unfortunately, Argento never acknowledges he's in on the joke, nor is the film quite ridiculous enough for us to coast enjoyably on derision. When it comes to B-movies, sometimes anything less than way too much isn't nearly enough.
  22. Concussion
    Its characters are all too easily determined but never specific—or memorable.
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    Cleaver's Destiny
    [An] underwhelming little film entirely ill-equipped to deal with its serious and important themes.
  24. Bridegroom
    Without forcing the material into facile uplift, Bloodworth-Thomason still edges it into the realm of inspirational, never overplaying the anguish or soft-pedaling the bigotry at the heart of the story.
  25. Bad Milo!
    Bad Milo! meets your expectations right where you left them.
  26. Babygirl
    [A] small, gentle coming-of-age story, exceedingly well-cast.
  27. All Is Bright
    Maudlin and mirthless, it's a film misbegotten enough to almost make one hate Christmas.
  28. A.K.A. Doc Pomus
    Even if you know this history already, A.K.A. Doc Pomus is vital and endearing, a celebration of a great artist, a great character, and the universality of great pop.
  29. A.C.O.D.
    A.C.O.D. ultimately suffers from a rare affliction: an overkill of editing. Whole scenes—especially the farcical finale—peter out just at the simmering point.
  30. The Trials of Muhammad Ali
    The film never lingers too long on any one thing, instead functioning as a survey in which several fascinating cultural moments are vividly evoked, but then left insufficiently probed.
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