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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 7.5 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. Tank 432
    A last-minute flurry of action and a final plot twist aren't enough to redeem this busy but tedious thriller.
  2. Seasons
    The movie starts in an ice age, as I've said, so you can guess where it's all heading, but what you'll remember from it is the vision of a plump ol' bear snoozing in a tree in the rain.
  3. Lion
    Commercial filmmaking still fumbles interiority and moral complexity. So it’s fortunate for the filmmakers that Brierley's book also is thick with the kinds of things that crowdpleasers ace.
  4. Mifune: The Last Samurai
    Okazaki gets close to, but never sheds enough light on, Mifune's elusive personality.
  5. Baden Baden
    Lang is uncommonly assured for a first-time director, capturing her scenes in fluid master takes, rarely cutting from one character to the next, letting things unfold at the pace of in-the-moment human feeling.
  6. Always Shine
    Always Shine is a potent psychological thriller, all right. But it's also a powerful statement on the very industry that produced it.
  7. Miss Sloane
    Miss Sloane, with all its Capitol Hill gloss, sometimes feels too much like a primetime political television drama.
  8. Evolution
    Clinical in the extreme, Evolution aims for open-endedness, but the film, unlike its pint-size protagonists, remains impenetrable.
  9. Bad Santa 2
    God bless Kathy Bates, because she scalds with the darkest, mindfuckiest burns as the ultimate Mommy Dearest. And this script is in dire need of her.
  10. Moana
    It’s funny, joyful, and sweet, and yet down below, running beneath everything, is a sad counter-narrative about how the world always throws obstacles in your way, and how you could just turn your back and retreat.
  11. Allied
    Allied doesn’t deliver any particularly shocking twists or turns; the real surprise here is how much a well-told, well-acted tale can still resonate.
  12. Notes on Blindness
    By having their actors lip-sync along to Hull and his family's own voices, the staged re-creations that so often pad nonfiction films here achieve a peculiar formalist beauty.
  13. Uncle Howard
    A bit disjointed but also vibrant and loving.
  14. The Illinois Parables
    Stratman often juxtaposes static, serene landscape footage with an increasingly agitated soundtrack, arriving at an odd consonance amid so much dissonance.
  15. Ne Me Quitte Pas
    Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden's documentary Ne Me Quitte Pas is a grimly funny deep dive into sustained alcoholism with a classical three-act structure.
  16. Magnus
    Ree makes things easy for people who don't play chess, deftly pacing Carlsen's triumphs and failures and milking the suspense as "the Mozart of chess" employs his intuition to win, in an age when many players depend on computers to hone their skills.
  17. Life on the Line
    The country songs that play over the credits offer more arresting detail about life on the line than the film manages in 100 minutes.
  18. I Am Not Madame Bovary
    It's like an odd storybook you'd find in the attic and have trouble putting down — the more quixotic Lian's journey becomes, the more you want her to see it through to the bitter end.
  19. Blood on the Mountain
    As consistently depressing as this movie is, it thankfully shows you that before you dismiss the denizens of an entire region as poor white trash, you should listen to their story.
  20. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
    Sondheim, Prince, and Furth discuss their creative processes and why they think the show failed. These stories make up the bulk of this film, which is sure to satisfy theater wonks, Sondheim fans, curious moviegoers and lovers of Broadway. All others need not apply.
  21. Ali and Nino
    It's all very tasteful, if not terribly exciting.
  22. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    In 120 frames a second, both Alwyn and Stewart came off as hopelessly stilted; at 24 frames, they breathe with life. But lose the flicker, and you lose the spell.
  23. Nocturnal Animals
    Ford has given us a surprisingly candid peek into the creative process, into the strange little hurts — perceived or real, toxic or justified — that make up the soul of an artist. No, we may not like what we find in there. But I’m not sure he does, either.
  24. Disturbing the Peace
    Directors Stephen Apkon and Andrew Young reverse the usual act of border-crossing, and they do not differentiate between Arabic and Hebrew, allowing their subjects to switch between the two and subtitling both in English, signaling that the film is a space for listening, for trying to understand.
  25. The Love Witch
    Anna Biller's ripe, vibrant The Love Witch is an act of reclamation — and love.
  26. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    Fantastic Beasts is often lovely to look at, at times even stirring, but there's very little to hold on to, story- or character-wise.
  27. Manchester by the Sea
    A poignant, surprisingly hilarious depiction of death, grieving, and small-town life.
  28. The Edge of Seventeen
    The scenes that work just make me ache for more of them, signaling that if Craig finds her groove, she’ll be a force to reckon with.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Uncle Kent 2
    Uncle Kent 2 is an even more rambling ball of nonsense than the original, which at least had its feet planted in reality.
  30. Come and Find Me
    Most like-minded films spend approximately twenty minutes on the same material covered by the entirety of Come and Find Me — a fact that leaves this mystery from writer/director Zack Whedon (brother of Joss) feeling insufferably drawn out.
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