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For 7,964 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. Blue Jean
    It’s an empathetic yet forceful cautionary tale; we should pay heed to its message.
  2. No Hard Feelings
    Ultimately, No Hard Feelings is the story of two people who are afraid of life for different reasons, and how they help each other lose that fear. I’ve heard complaints that it sacrifices filth for feelings. To those folks, I say — you can always watch “Porky’s” instead.
  3. Asteroid City
    If you asked an AI program to create a Wes Anderson movie, you’d get Asteroid City, the latest — and worst — film from the writer-director of “The French Dispatch” (2021) and “Isle of Dogs” (2018).
  4. Extraction 2
    As per sequel rules, everything has to be bigger. But bigger doesn’t always equal better, as Extraction 2 proves.
  5. The Flash
    The action gets increasingly overblown, even by superhero-movie standards. Bad as smash-crash-bash can be, portentous smash-crash-bash is far worse.
  6. Elemental
    With its preachy, dull love story between a boy made of water and a girl on fire, Elemental should have been called “Guess Who’s Coming to Disney.”
  7. Flamin' Hot
    The marriage between its uplifting personal message and its embrace of big business is a rocky one, but Longoria and company hold the union together.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    The result is a formulaic, underwhelming set-up for another era of Transformers movies.
  9. Past Lives
    Song masterfully simplifies things on an emotional level, allowing us to switch back and forth between feelings or simply to meditate on the outcome we wish for, and to understand why it’s OK if we don’t get it.
  10. The Boogeyman
    The Boogeyman becomes an exercise in diminishing returns, though it is not without its pleasures.
  11. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    The more I consider it, the more I realize the best elements of this film make it worth seeing, if only marginally so. There is enough to, dare I say, marvel at while you are beaten senseless with plot.
  12. The Eight Mountains
    The look of the film is so spectacular that I almost want to recommend you see it solely for that reason. It wasn’t enough to save the film for me.
  13. You Hurt My Feelings
    The summer season rarely has room for a nice, adult comedy like You Hurt My Feelings. It is counter-programming of the finest order and one of the year’s best films.
  14. About My Father
    I admire Maniscalco’s decision to make his character the butt of the jokes, literally and figuratively. If only the jokes were funny. He has zero romantic chemistry with Bibb, who appears to be acting in another movie entirely, but he and De Niro make a credible father and son.
  15. The Little Mermaid
    As for The Little Mermaid, it’s one of Disney’s better remakes. But don’t throw away your DVD of the original.
  16. Master Gardener
    Master Gardener is the third film in writer-director Paul Schrader’s redemption trilogy. The series includes 2017′s “First Reformed,” which is good, and 2021′s “The Card Counter,” which is not. Unfortunately, the trilogy ends with its worst entry, an excruciatingly slow white-savior narrative that aims to provoke yet does nothing but bore.
  17. Fast X
    Fast X is watchable, and its car chases are often exciting, but it’s not as satisfying as the best F&F movies (“Fast and Furious 6,” “Furious 7,″ and the extremely ridiculous “F9″). Part of the problem is Dante.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Starling Girl
    To her great credit (and one must also mention the production design by Mollie Wartell, and the low-key but on occasion lush cinematography by Brian Lannin), Parmet here creates an environment that feels lived-in, and portrays it without condescension. And Scanlen’s detailed work keeps the movie emotionally credible.
  19. Book Club: The Next Chapter
    Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Book Club: The Next Chapter was not only watchable but occasionally amusing.
  20. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
    What stands out in Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie is the candor and determination of its subject. Moments with his four adult children and wife are beautifully captured, and Fox pulls no punches in his responses to Guggenheim’s occasionally tough questions. The result is a worthwhile, inspirational, and very watchable documentary.
  21. Carmen
    Admittedly, Carmen is an acquired taste. But if you’re in the mood for something that will stun your senses, I highly recommended it.
  22. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
    Unlike the first two installments, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ultimately feels tethered to the MCU in ways that mute the uniqueness of the series. Unlike its predecessors, its familiar beats feel like a bridge back to the MCU rather than a divergence off the beaten path.
  23. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
    Fremon Craig has made a completely satisfying crowd pleaser full of first-rate performances.
  24. Polite Society
    Polite Society is a tale of smashing the patriarchy through martial arts and a bit of science fiction, featuring gorgeously shot scenes of action, comedy, and outright terror.
  25. Ghosted
    Rom-com turning into bomb-com (there are lots of explosions) is a funny idea. But since neither the rom-com nor the bomb-com is much to speak of, Ghosted isn’t either.
  26. Chevalier
    Though it occasionally pulls its punches, the blows Chevalier does land sting and leave a mark.
  27. Beau Is Afraid
    This is a movie with weapons-grade mommy issues.
  28. Little Richard: I Am Everything
    By the end of this extremely entertaining and informative documentary, the one thing you will come away with is that Little Richard always presented himself the way he wanted us to see him. And, yes, he was indeed as influential as he always said he was.
  29. Mafia Mamma
    While Mafia Mamma fails as a comedy, it succeeds in delivering the graphically violent moments one expects from a movie about the Mafia.
  30. Paint
    Paint is so haphazardly thrown together it’s painful to watch.
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