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On average, this publication grades 7.7 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. Dreams Rewired
    The filmmakers aren't arguing that mass-media tech leads to fascism, but they suggest, with some lightness, that our interconnectedness certainly facilitates it. But Dreams Rewired is no polemic, and it never mocks the past.
  2. The Creation of Meaning
    Rapisarda Casanova's film shows just how much natural splendor dominates the region, here caught at the height of estival glory.
  3. The Emperor's New Clothes
    It can be hard to take someone so pleased with himself seriously, but amid his grandstanding, Brand does offer some solutions to problems many of us rightfully feel are intractable.
  4. The Winding Stream
    The film stands as a reminder of how much it can mean just to listen.
  5. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    Star Wars: The Force Awakens steers the franchise back to its popcorn origins. It's not a Bible; it's a bantamweight blast. And that's just as it should be: a good movie, nothing more.
  6. Anguish
    There's not much to be said about Sonny Mallhi's languid psychological drama — moonlighting as a possession-centered horror film — that hasn't already been said by the title.
  7. Noma: My Perfect Storm
    Deschamps never ventures below the surface of Redzepi's wildly successful experiment, and while the pictures are pretty, no one judges food on appearance alone.
  8. The Hateful Eight
    The film's chatty, ingratiating, and then howlingly mean.
  9. Extraction
    Extraction constantly tries to score a flashy TKO — but never lands a decent body blow.
  10. The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
    Dany's mystery may ultimately go one twist too far. But until then, viewers can easily lose themselves while daydreaming about a French dame in distress with bad luck and an alluring look.
  11. He Never Died
    He Never Died is a Tootsie Pop of a movie. It has the outer shell of Taken...but there's an altogether different treat in the center.
  12. Son of Saul
    Nemes does everything he can to connect the audience to Saul's numbness, shielding us as much as possible from the cacophony of human misery that rings in his ears. The chill seeps in regardless, as it should, and Nemes doesn't try to counter it with more than a tiny, stubborn flicker of hope.
  13. Sisters
    Once the bash really gets going, I was swept up in the chaos and happily clicked off my brain. Screenwriter Paula Pell classes up the dumb stuff with a touch of depth.
  14. The Revenant
    If you can work up interest in such meager material, the film is a chilling, stirring, experiential immersion in what life-and-death drama might actually feel like.
  15. Stinking Heaven
    Never a banal depiction of dysfunctional group dynamics, Stinking Heaven, which was shaped, as in Silver's previous work, largely through improvisation, remains consistently absorbing.
  16. Body
    On the surface a typical exercise in horror-film cliché, Body turns out to be a far more thought-provoking creature, a parable of adulthood and a stinging indictment of white-girl privilege.
  17. Sunday Ball
    Trash talk among competitors and spectators alike is a constant background hum, the informal banter taking the place of traditional talking-head documentary interviews.
  18. Almost There
    After guiding his fate, the filmmakers step back and dispassionately capture a series of frustrated caregivers passing the baton, each nudging Anton toward a new life. This decision makes Almost There a richer, more compassionate portrait.
  19. The Girl in the Book
    Cohn is clearly on the right track toward making the kind of nuanced grown-up dramas that sadly are no longer in vogue.
  20. Dixieland
    Writer-director Hank Bedford delivers some tactile, human details.... But the film is slow and often agonizingly predictable.
  21. Don Verdean
    Rockwell is charmless in a role that seems to be written that way.
  22. American Hero
    The filmmakers blend tones like a child mixing fountain drinks into one unidentifiable flavor.
  23. Boy and the World
    Tension between the city and the country has been a fertile topic for as long as there've been cities, and Alê Abreu's phantasmagoric The Boy and the World explores the eternal conflict in a familiar yet wholly original way.
  24. In the Heart of the Sea
    Howard is great at capturing the timbre of the ship, the creaks and snaps and the whir of the hemp lines, and the sonar clicks of the whales strategizing below. All his sound and fury has a befuddling purpose. His emotional climax is about, well, disaster insurance.
  25. The Big Short
    McKay's bumptious movie awkwardly combines fourth-wall-breaking gimmickry and flaccid indignation with the goofball energy that defines his comedies.
  26. Night Owls
    Charles Hood's Night Owls is a mostly satisfying two-hander that never quite lives up to its full potential.
  27. The Wannabe
    Director Nick Sandow relies on a drab color palette that suits the generally humorless script.
  28. Youth
    Sorrentino, as always, invests his scenarios with a feeling and beauty that transcends the dreary specifics
  29. Krampus
    Krampus, sad to say, is a disappointment. It's alternately funny and intense (don't take the wee ones), but never enough of either to form a cohesive whole.
  30. The Messenger
    The filmmakers, like the songbirds they advocate for, are only messengers, but their message is persuasive and terrifying.
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