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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. John Wick
    Reeves is wonderful here, a marvel of physicality and stern determination — he moves with the grace of an old-school swashbuckler.
  2. Scream at the Devil
    Stachura turns everything up to 11 almost from the outset, and all escalation from there feels overwrought.
  3. Rhymes for Young Ghouls
    Carefully lit and designed, with a moody and muted color palette, the film effectively conveys the feel of Aila's hardscrabble existence. But the horrific behavior of Popper, who does little other than threaten, beat, and try to rape Indians, becomes problematic.
  4. Pelican Dreams
    The most effective part of Irving's film is how deftly she captures the pelicans' clear anxieties, curiosities, and joys.
  5. White Bird in a Blizzard
    If the results are occasionally broad and schematic, the actors (Woodley especially) are anything but, and Araki has an absolute field day adorning his kitschy, 1950s-ish view of suburban Los Angeles with a string of showoffy colors.
  6. Stonehearst Asylum
    With Stonehearst Asylum, director Brad Anderson doles out a vintage Halloween treat — a straightforward Poe adaptation of the sort that Vincent Price used to star in — and gives it a freshness and complexity that make it a delight.
  7. Revenge of the Green Dragons
    Green Dragons wants to be spaghetti with marinara, but it's closer to egg noodles and ketchup.
  8. Low Down
    There are too many notes that, while not false, are neither satisfactorily resolved nor left interestingly unresolved.
  9. Lakay
    There's an off-putting self-absorption in [Tirf's] self-examination-slash-ode-to-Haiti, and it weakens the whole project.
  10. The Heart Machine
    An exemplary mystery, a paranoid thriller rooted in contemporary technology but not crafted to denounce it.
  11. Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
    Valedictory and elegiac, Keach's film captures a performer who only truly seems to inhabit himself during the performances.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Fuller Life
    Two things are clear in this documentary. The first is that Samuel Fuller was brilliant, optimistic, talented -- an auteur in every right -- and well deserving of all the praise and admiration he inspired. The second is that this is a product of a first-time director, not quite experienced enough to take full advantage of the medium or know how to bring every element together.
  13. Force Majeure
    Force Majeure represents what is perhaps Östlund's most sophisticated thought experiment yet, at once provocative and wise. It is a penetrating study of that most ludicrous of social pretenses — masculinity, toxic and ubiquitous.
  14. Exists
    Against all good sense, Exists plays its material straight, possibly proving itself the year's most laughably derivative and dreary film.
  15. Citizenfour
    Poitras shows us history as it happens, scenes of such intimate momentousness that the movie's a must-see piece of work even if, in its totality, it's underwhelming as argument or cinema.
  16. 1,000 Times Good Night
    Poppe's closeness to the material ensures a level of passion, but he still fails to create a truly specific dynamic for Rebecca and Marcus's family, settling instead for a catch-all representation of the difficulties of maintaining a healthy home life while working in a dangerous profession.
  17. 23 Blast
    Dylan Baker's film bests larger-budgeted fare like When the Game Stands Tall thanks to ace acting, a humble spirit, and all-around sturdy craftsmanship.
  18. Laggies
    Even though Laggies is clearly well-intentioned — and the anxieties it tussles with are completely believable — the film is awkward in ways that are sometimes charming and sometimes off-putting.
  19. E-Team
    The emphasis on the team's daring amid mass chaos seems a bit off: This threatens to become yet another film about white Americans and Europeans telling the stories of Third World people. But the rest of the film does much to redeem that dubious trope.
  20. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
    The original story was called "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter," but Takahata's title puts the focus where it belongs.
  21. Listen Up Philip
    The vainglorious pas de deux between Philip and Zimmerman is entertaining for a while, though the novelty gradually wears off.
  22. Life Inside Out
    Strong, understated performances from Baird and O'Connell bring real intimacy to their characters' sometimes-strained mother-son dynamic.
  23. Imagine I'm Beautiful
    Imagine I'm Beautiful is a thematically ambitious character study trapped inside the limiting strictures of a crazy-roommate thriller.
  24. A Requiem for Syrian Refugees
    Urgent, deeply painful yet lovely in its aesthetics.
  25. Relationship Status: It's Complicated
    In the end, Relationship Status is wan when it tries to be scandalous.
  26. Algorithms
    [A] slow-moving yet soulful documentary.
  27. Young Ones
    Young Ones is an old-fashioned, worthwhile curio down to the closing credits.
  28. Watchers of the Sky
    Accomplishes the nearly impossible trick of updating viewers on the prevalence of genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries without rubbing our noses in our failure to stop it.
  29. Summer of Blood
    Any 30 minutes of Summer of Blood might have me in hysterics. But the sputtering torrent of Eric's yakking proves wearying over 90: Dude's built for speed-dating.
  30. Stations of the Elevated
    A 45-minute proto-hip-hop bliss-out, a masterpiece of train- and tag-spotting dedicated to memorializing the extravagant graffiti on its era's MTA trains and how those trains rumbled across Brooklyn and the Bronx, bearing not just exhausted New Yorkers but gifted artists' urgent personal expression.
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