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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Winnie Mandela
    Despite the marquee names and their obvious talent, the film feels like a made-for-TV movie. It’s slight and episodic, with a weirdly scrupulous ambivalence about its subject, whom it seems torn between loving and loathing.
  2. Winter's Tale
    Winter’s Tale is ambitious with its otherworldly ingredients and temporal leaps. It’s not always a success, but the movie has one thing going for it: spot-on casting.
  3. Gung Ho
    Howard entices us into overlooking the film's faults with some genuinely amusing scenes, particularly those featuring Japanese-American Gedde Watanabe as a beleaguered Assan executive who doesn't fit the corporate mold. [14 Mar 1986, p.27]
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  4. Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
    The film is less a look into the Fed’s head than a presentation of its history, going back even farther than its creation in 1913, in response to a series of early 20th-century banking panics.
  5. Concussion
    Concussion suffers from a chilly detachment that feels all too clinical, when all we want, like Abby, is connection.
  6. Herb & Dorothy
    You can't hate the film anymore than you can hate Herb and Dorothy. But this is lazy work.
  7. Enemy
    There’s no doubt that Villeneuve can make a movie; he’s developed a strong cinematic voice. It’s tantalizing to imagine what he could do with a really fine story.
  8. My Lucky Star
    While Zhang is one of China’s greatest international stars, My Lucky Star is utterly provincial. It’s for Chinese viewers, plus those few westerners who revel in Asian hyper-cuteness.
  9. Life of Crime
    Life of Crime feels like a rambling car ride through the countryside with friends. The scenery is great, and the passengers are diverting, but you keep wondering where the driver is headed.
  10. How I Live Now
    Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland,” “State of Play”) does a passable job of evoking post-apocalyptic atmosphere in How I Live Now, although the film suffers from uneven tone — is it a teen romance or wartime adventure? — and, ultimately, a regrettable lack of focus.
  11. Cinderella
    For all its gossamer, gauze, filigree and refinement, Cinderella drags when it should skip as lightly as its title character when she’s late getting home from the ball.
  12. Wedding Palace
    Wedding Palace boasts some neat moments.
  13. In the Heart of the Sea
    It’s a tentative, half-realized tale that ultimately suffers from a significant identity crisis.
  14. In Secret
    If you go in with the right attitude, there’s a fair amount of fun to be had from In Secret, considering it’s a musty French costume drama done in plummy English accents.
  15. Camille Claudel 1915
    Despite its austere beauty, elegant triptych-like structure and faultlessly disciplined performances, Camille Claudel 1915 still raises more questions than it answers.
  16. Enzo Avitabile Music Life
    Enzo Avitabile Music Life succeeds at conveying one-quarter of its title. It is full of beautiful sounds that should delight fans of Avitabile and world music in general. The life portion is a bit trickier, but you get the sense that Avitabile wanted it that way.
  17. The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
    The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers is hampered by a static structure that relies too heavily on a single voice.
  18. Gone Girl
    Gone Girl may get the job done as a dutiful, deliberately paced procedural, but it never quite makes the splash it could have as a thoughtful, timely and thoroughly bracing plunge.
  19. The Stream
    At the end of the day, the movie’s limitations keep its aspirations in check. It’s safe for everyone, but inspirational for only a few.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Chinese Puzzle
    A reasonably diverting tale of pre-middle-aged floundering that can’t stop pointing out how unexpected everything is.
  21. 50 to 1
    Even if you’ve never heard any of this back story — let alone anything about Mine That Bird — the outcome of the film is never seriously in doubt. That leaves filmmaker Jim Wilson in the predicament of having to entertain us by showing how the horse and his handlers get their act together. Unfortunately, 50 to 1 never really does that.
  22. Go for Sisters
    Go For Sisters is worth the time if only to witness the terrific chemistry between Hamilton and Ross, the latter of whom delivers a break-through performance as a woman of uncommon, almost regal, composure, even as she struggles to stay on the righteous path.
  23. The Christmas Candle
    It’s hard to imagine this tale of tradition and miracles leading skeptics to contemplation, much less faith.
  24. Live by Night
    The visual and performative elements are polished enough in Live by Night, but it lacks any sense of urgency.
  25. Commitment
    Having ruled out humor, the movie emphasizes action and melodrama. Director Park Hong-soo, making his feature debut, handles the former with proficiency but little flair.
  26. Night of the Comet
    A cheaply made science-fiction movie that enters the atmosphere without ever igniting.
  27. Cesar Chavez
    It seems like a waste of talent, but worse still, Cesar Chavez squanders an opportunity to revisit a story worth retelling.
  28. Draft Day
    This isn’t a sports movie so much as a procedural about backroom dealings, double-crosses and high-stakes trades.
  29. San Andreas
    The dialogue in San Andreas is lame, its plot both predictable and implausible, and the character development beside the point. Even Dwayne Johnson, that force of cinematic nature and rock-ribbed charisma, doesn’t have enough charm to dig this mess of a movie out of the rubble of cliche it’s buried in.
  30. Nymphomaniac: Volume II
    Even at its most depraved, Joe’s journey, and her confession to Seligman, are still compelling enough to propel Volume II until the story becomes hopelessly over-plotted.
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