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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 7.7 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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    • 40 Critic Score
    Soaked in Bleach
    The problem is, when facing down Love's and Cobain's outsize, junked-up personalities, Grant seems a total naïf.
  2. The Wolfpack
    The Wolfpack is more like a diorama of the Angulos' unusual childhood than an explanatory documentary.
  3. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
    It’s so carefully designed to feel laid-back that its breeziness comes off like a calculation; its emotional pull is sometimes irresistible, which may make you want to resist it all the more. But the movie has flashes of wit and originality and feeling.
  4. Patch Town
    These grating characters frequently burst into songs that are not only ill-fitting, but also — as with every other aspect of this indie — awful.
  5. An Open Secret
    Berg might have proven that there's a circle of powerful creeps, but not that the blame for this goes straight to the top.
  6. Dawn Patrol
    The developments keep getting more outrageous from there, with the psychologies of the characters becoming increasingly bizarre.
  7. Charlie's Country
    Whether laughing, crying, mumbling to himself, or projecting a valiant stoicism, Gulpilil — beneath a white beard and a blanket of shaggy hair — commands the screen in close-ups liable to run for minutes at a time.
  8. Insidious: Chapter 3
    Tepid ghost story Insidious: Chapter 3 tries and fails to emphasize character-driven drama over cheap, jump-scare-intensive thrills.
  9. Every Last Child
    This film is a wakeup call in the best sense: urgent, clear, understated.
    • 1 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    United Passions
    As propaganda, United Passions is as subtle as an anvil to the temple. As drama, it’s not merely ham-fisted, but pork-shouldered, bacon-wristed, and sausage-elbowed.
  11. Doomsdays
    Doomsdays is winsome because it embraces its narcissistic subjects without asking viewers to forget that they've just befriended a couple of selfish dillholes.
  12. Seeds of Time
    Fowler's work is bureaucratic, institutional, Western-focused. Which shouldn't matter, because it's good work, but as a story of salvation it feels too familiar.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wild Horses
    Despite the hogtied narrative momentum, Duvall has crafted a lifelike portrait of rural Texas life.
  14. We Are Still Here
    Early scenes overplay the shock of these phantasms, but just as you expect Geoghegan to crank up the effects, the film mixes in some subtler scares.
  15. Survivor
    The overarching sense is of a thriller awkwardly stitched together in the editing room, and still failing to fix its many flaws.
  16. Testament of Youth
    Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), simultaneously poignant and powerful as Vera Brittain, the writer who fought her way into Oxford then chucked that to go to the front as a nurse, gives another indelible performance.
  17. The Nightmare
    Ascher sometimes indulges in jump scares, and there's one unconvincing burst of gore. At first, these horror techniques seemed to me a mistake, but his subjects themselves continually link their experiences to movies they've seen, especially Communion and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
  18. Hungry Hearts
    Hungry Hearts owes much to early Polanski (especially Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby), but Costanzo prizes ambiguity over tension.
  19. Freedom
    Using a slavery narrative to advance an unrelated agenda is pretty tasteless, bordering on offensive.
  20. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    Some critics find Andersson's latest redundant, arguing that its sketches lack the freshness of those in Songs From the Second Floor. I found it the fullest flowering yet of his approach, with Andersson orchestrating his finest dada — and even risking tenderness and horror.
  21. Love & Mercy
    The beauty, and the horror, of Bill Pohlad's exhilarating and inventive Love & Mercy...is the sense it gives us of the world passing through Brian Wilson's ears.
  22. Spy
    It's a comedy of exasperation where, for once, the joke isn't on McCarthy, but on everyone who can't see her skills.
  23. Entourage
    It may be not much more than a heavily branded romp through a Hollywood fantasyland, but it’s got a pulse. It’s easy fun. No one ever died from reading People magazine.
  24. Aloha
    Cameron Crowe writes movies like he's calling us in eighth grade with his heart on fire.
  25. John's of 12th Street
    A mere hour long, the movie could stand to be more discerning with its material.
  26. Sunset Edge
    The way the two story lines come together, involving paintball guns and morphsuits, is more mundane and less spooky than the tone up to that point suggests, but the point of Sunset Edge isn't really the surface narrative.
  27. Uncertain Terms
    The film is brisk, brief, well acted, smartly crafted, and shrewdly judged.
  28. San Andreas
    San Andreas can't wait for the carnage. The problem is, it's too chicken to ask us to comprehend it. It's all big, distant, unfathomable wreckage -- all shattering skyscrapers and rippling cityscapes -- with no sense of the human cost.
  29. Unfreedom
    Though it starts off as a cautiously optimistic conversion narrative, the pseudo-progressive, banned-in-India LGBT drama Unfreedom quickly devolves into an absurdly pessimistic provocation.
  30. The True Cost
    Even if, like me, you agree with the points that it's fumbling toward, The True Cost will likely read as dopey and insulting.
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