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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. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
    In this unhurried full version, Benson allows grief to transform his characters, with few guarantees and plenty of regrets.
  2. Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
    The film is playful throughout... Unfortunately, the shoddy treatment of the film's sole LGBT character and a tendency to use people in wheelchairs as punchlines mar this otherwise delightful gruesome confection.
  3. Catch Hell
    Catch Hell suffers from both a drowsy start and a dragging ending.
  4. The Canal
    Piers McGrail's nuanced, moody cinematography brings out the best in writer-director Ivan Kavanagh's over-mannered but effectively creepy ghost story.
  5. Dracula Untold
    Too much of the last hour is a muddle of unconvincing, hard-to-read nighttime action scenes.
  6. Autómata
    Automata has moments of tremendous visual and storytelling elegance which are punctuated with ham-fisted characterization and thunderingly terrible acting.
  7. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
    While it has its moments, Miguel Arteta's comedy relies too much on gender-shaming and emasculation jokes.
  8. The Innocents
    Clayton's filmmaking, mustering frisson by both candle and blazing daylight, could serve as an object lesson in its genre.
  9. Waiting for August
    What's perhaps most moving in Waiting for August, a quiet film of weight and joy, is its sense of desperate normalcy.
  10. For Those in Peril
    The film's finale is wild and daring and so perfectly executed that it marks Wright as one of the film year's most audacious new voices.
  11. The Culture High
    It’s strongly anti-prohibition, and the film’s structure favors that bias.
  12. Harmontown
    Berkeley includes some of the writer's unpleasant moments on the tour. But what Harmon wants, as any Community fan knows, is real connection with other human beings.
  13. Left Behind
    Perhaps Cage flipped a coin before Armstrong called “Action!” and decided to play this role straight. Alas, he has robbed the irony-attuned audiences of their only reason to go.
  14. The Blue Room
    Co-writer/director/proudly nude star Amalric cuts everything to the quick: Most shots have the feel of still photos, the camera firmly planted, and the movie always hustles us to the next, back and forward in time, the effect part Resnais and part staccato Kodak slideshow.
  15. The Supreme Price
    Lipper does an excellent job of using her film as a vehicle for the voices and concerns of Nigerians, and especially of Nigerian women, who are traditionally expected to stay at home while men operate in the public sphere. But Lipper does not limit her camera to political struggles.
  16. The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
    Rather than the currency itself, the film's most compelling subject ends up being the separatist psychology of its self-regarding fanatics.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nas: Time Is Illmatic
    Time Is Illmatic goes remarkably deep.
  18. Men, Women & Children
    In 2014, Men, Women & Children feels like a sermon. It's obvious and mundane, "Chopsticks" pounded on the piano.
  19. The Liberator
    Bolivar is eye-rollingly romanticized as a wonderful lover and an even better fighter in Alberto Arvelo's lushly produced, dully reverential The Liberator.
  20. The Hero of Color City
    Frank Gladstone's animated kids' movie The Hero of Color City is a perfectly pleasant pastiche of other movies, the most obvious antecedent being the Toy Story films.
  21. Stephen King’s A Good Marriage
    It's serviceable.
  22. Drive Hard
    If you’re not expecting too much, Drive Hard is mindlessly entertaining, but it lacks that spark of madness that might have made it truly fun. At least Cusack is able to shed some of his usual overseriousness.
  23. The Decent One
    Most of the documents that Lapa quotes from are, as presented, unrevealing — even offensive.
  24. Copenhagen
    [An] exquisitely beautiful feature debut.
  25. Breakup Buddies
    Chinese comedian Huang Bo justifies his status as a record-breaking mega-star in Breakup Buddies, a tone-deaf buddy comedy that's like 10 by way of Due Date.
  26. Last Hijack
    The filmmakers have gotten extraordinary access to Mohamed and ravaged Somalia... But it's disappointing that they did not capture more scenes of Mohamed's wife and her family, who in the end are the ones who make the most momentous decision.
  27. Pride
    Pride hits some bumpy patches when it switches gears between comedy and gentle pathos, which it does often. But its spirit is bold enough to power through the rough spots. It’s easy to find fault with Pride, but it’s not so easy to resist it.
  28. My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rainbow Rocks
    Like much of the anime that influences its source series, the picture is continuity-heavy and not particularly accessible to newcomers, but for the faithful, Rainbow Rocks does, in fact, rock.
    • 1 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Not Cool
    Not Cool is a cautionary tale of how being able to make videos that go viral does not necessarily make someone a filmmaker.
  30. This Ain't No Mouse Music
    Strachwitz's enthusiasm — "This ain't no mouse music!" he's given to shouting — and a brace of choice anecdotes prove compelling on their own.
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