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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
    Ronit's remarkable sensitivity makes Gett a tough but essential melodrama.
  2. Seventh Son
    Jeff Bridges's abysmally campy performance may be the worst thing about disposable sword-and-sorcery fantasy Seventh Son, but it's also the only memorable thing.
  3. Jupiter Ascending
    The movie's a fascinating mess, grand and gaudy, often hilarious.
  4. On the Way to School
    The film quietly reveals these four small stories as epically heroic and timeless journeys.
  5. Lovesick
    LeBlanc and Larter carry the day with a spectrum of charm missing from too many entries in this shaky, persistent genre.
  6. Love, Rosie
    The message is more pedestrian than passionate: Life is long, and full of instant messages.
  7. Mad As Hell
    If Napier hadn't shown up with a camera, Uygur would likely have continued filming himself, because his "firebrand" commentary is only ostensibly about politics; it's mostly about projecting the world onto his own ego and making it Cenk Uygur–shaped.
  8. Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
    Josue tries to reclaim his narrative with this intimate, positive portrait, but while Shepard's brave and resourceful parents encourage her, they realized long ago that his death means he no longer belongs solely to them.
  9. The Other Man: F.W. de Klerk and the End of Apartheid
    The film itself is solidly and conventionally crafted. Newsreels and stock footage alternate with fresh interviews with friends and scholars, steadfast supporters and unabashed detractors. The political life it maps out fascinates.
  10. Project Almanac
    Project Almanac could have been fun, but its creators don't seem to know what fun looks like.
  11. The Voices
    The Voices is a perfect film that's hard to watch.
  12. The Loft
    The Loft's boorish leads aren't sensible enough to be worth caring about, making the film's character-driven conclusion feel like a self-defeating cop-out.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Enter the Dangerous Mind
    Despite its pretensions to social awareness — most clearly embodied in Scott Bakula's concerned-caseworker character — the film displays a luridly exploitative attitude toward mental illness.
  14. Call for Help
    Etziony and Hanuka's on-the-fly footage suggests that DIRT's desire to help in Haiti was noble, but that its success in making a difference was minimal at best — thus leaving the film feeling primarily like a critical snapshot of how dysfunctional Western humanitarians often use overseas crises for their own ends.
  15. Ballet 422
    Ballet 422 is more visually sumptuous than most narratives you're likely to see this year, featuring careful compositions that make watching the film an aesthetic experience as much as an intellectual one.
  16. City of Gold
    Gold is merely the conduit for the film's real focus: Like his own reviews, City of Gold is a love letter to L.A.
  17. Above and Beyond
    It will only be criticized — rightfully — for its skirting over the resulting plight of Palestinian refugees, but Grossman is surely capable of making an equally absorbing, entertaining film on that subject.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Suburban Gothic
    Despite the cast's genuine charm, Suburban Gothic's script and characters are too familiar and sophomoric to sustain half its runtime without the gross-out death sequences that define its genre.
  19. Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of
    Show 'Em What You're Made Of convincingly argues that these boy-men have something to say about the fickleness of fate — something they knew more about as young men than any of the cynics who dismissed them for dancing in unison. The hardest part will be convincing people to listen.
  20. Wild Card
    Overstuffed and distractible, this episodic redo feels like a couple episodes of some Showtime series stitched into a feature.
  21. Timbuktu
    The film is consistently visually stunning in a way that's ever more rare, and Sissako's bravura moment of filmmaking is embedded in a scene on a river that seals the Tuareg patriarch's fate.
  22. Supremacy
    [A] dour, dreary drama.
  23. The Devil's Violinist
    Bernard Rose's elegantly staged but tonally flat biopic embraces the myth, even underscoring Paganini's rising fame, scandalous hedonism, and womanizing as an anachronistic form of rock-star fantasy.
  24. My Name Is Hmmm...
    A hodgepodge of artistic gestures grafted onto a traditional narrative, neither fully linear nor experimental.
  25. Hard to Be a God
    Textually, the setting's brutalist conflation between the far future and the distant past makes the film timeless, an elusive fable told with the viscous immediacy of a life on the diseased edge of civilization.
  26. Alien Outpost
    The promise of the multi-screen future-history info-dump that kicks off Alien Outpost isn't enough to mask this military sci-fi indie's repetitive familiarity.
  27. Girlhood
    Raw and insistent, bold and brawling, Girlhood throbs with the global now, illustrating the ways an indifferent society boxes in the people who grow up in project-style boxes.
  28. Black or White
    Occasionally, the film rouses into something thoughtful, even daring.
  29. Amira & Sam
    Writer-director Sean Mullin gives us some of the usual beats, but he and his performers invest them with rare persuasive power.
  30. Mortdecai
    The hard part will be convincing audiences to shake off their Depp fatigue and embrace a film that's daffy, dated, and precisely as intended.
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