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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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
    What is shocking is seeing the aggressive and malicious response to the movement.
  2. Blue Caprice
    The key question is whether this procedural—as in, here we watch killers proceed—contributes to any greater understanding. I believe it does.
  3. Mission Park
    The tense prologue of writer-director Bryan Ramirez's Mission Park...evokes a tactile, scary reality utterly betrayed by the following 90-minute string of hackneyed, basic-cable plotting and dialogue.
  4. Dead Before Dawn 3D
    Dead Before Dawn's best jokes are grounded in the warm, believable camaraderie between Casper and his friends, but Mullen is less confident with crowds. The zemon-horde attack scenes are a visual jumble.
  5. Red Obsession
    The doc affords us a look into a world rarely seen by the lumpenproletariat, though we could have done with fewer aerial/time-lapse shots and more history.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    American Milkshake
    The fact that Jolie isn't very likable would be less of a problem if this film were actually funny, but his selfish disregard for those around him only ends up making us feel bad for the people who care about him.
  7. Winnie Mandela
    A story that probably could have been told better as a miniseries, the film's main strength is its performances.
  8. Tio Papi
    Doesn't try to be anything more than a soft-serve pull of treacly pandering.
  9. Touchy Feely
    Worse than the goofy premise, Shelton fails to enliven the incredibly talk-heavy (but subtext-free) inaction with any sort of visual flair.
  10. A Teacher
    When Diana's fixations begin to take over, Fidell seems ill-prepared to steer the film into strictly psychological territory, resulting in a project that loses its fraught sense of control at the same moment as its embattled protagonist.
  11. Salinger
    What the movie gets hilariously, howlingly wrong is the idea that a life like Salinger's—so extraordinary, yet so willfully humdrum—could somehow be captured by the most shopworn of cinematic techniques.
  12. Populaire
    Writer-director Régis Roinsard's feature-length debut is visually sharp, with period design that's eye-catching without being fussy or fetishistic. Too bad there's not much going on beneath the surface.
  13. Riddick
    The only reason to root for Riddick is that his name is on the ticket stub. But he's so dull and the hunters so weird that we're literally cheering for the movie to kill off its personality, one throat slash at a time.
  14. La Maison de la Radio
    La Maison de la Radio is the kind of film that divides its audience into two camps: those happy to observe and those impatient to be told a story.
  15. Hell Baby
    The movie is delightfully crude in places (including an instance of relay puking) and just plain silly-clever in others.
  16. Go Grandriders
    Grandriders mostly, but by no means always, avoids the more cloying or heartwarming aspects of its tale in favor of a frank account of the implications of aging in Taiwan.
  17. Il Futuro
    Scherson, adapting Roberto Bolaño's novel, incorporates surrealistic, hyper-expressive visual techniques, resulting in a film that is excitingly unclassifiable.
  18. Fire in the Blood
    While it's hardly a joy to watch, Fire in the Blood is artful in nearly every frame, perhaps so we don't avert our eyes.
  19. Bounty Killer
    Bounty Killer feels like the adaptation of a video game that doesn't exist.
  20. American Made Movie
    The film's experts and entrepreneurs have a lot to say worth listening to, but little that illuminates any clear path.
  21. Adore
    The disparity between the inherently trashy appeal of the story and the self-serious way it's presented cripples much of the potential for enjoyment. The setup screams pulp, but the film doles out stately drama.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    36 Saints
    The real problem with this film is that its voiceover at the beginning is its only real attempt at storytelling; there is no central character or quest to latch onto. There is only the senseless curse and its slow but sure fulfillment.
  23. Getaway
    The smash-and-crash chase scenes are numbingly dull.
  24. Abigail Harm
    Lee Isaac Chung's modern-day retelling of a Korean fairy tale is an experiment in space, narrative and physical.
  25. Gravity
    Gravity is harrowing and comforting, intimate and glorious, the kind of movie that makes you feel more connected to the world rather than less.
  26. Wampler's Ascent
    From cinematographer Corey Rich's beautifully framed footage, Wampler's wife, Elizabeth, making her directorial debut, has assembled a stirring film that's part documentary, and part promotional tool.
  27. Passion
    Passion is pretty good.
  28. Our Nixon
    In the end, though, Our Nixon is an elusive piece of work. It doesn't add much to our understanding of the man himself, though admittedly, there may not be much more that we want or need to know, anyway.
  29. The Lifeguard
    From concept to execution to tone, writer-director Liz W. Garcia's The Lifeguard is a lifeless misfire.
  30. The Last Christeros
    A war film consumed with waiting.
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