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On average, this publication grades 4.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Lowest review score: 0 Pixels
Score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 1,334 out of 5179
  3. Negative: 266 out of 5179
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  1. The Secret Life of Pets 2
    The sequel remains charming, beautifully animated, and often incredibly funny, but there’s a sense that writer Brian Lynch realized Max’s story needed a lot more padding this time around.
  2. Family Romance, LLC
    While the movie’s rough production values and meandering plot never quite gel, Family Romance, LLC is a fascinating convergence of filmmaker and subject, providing the rare opportunity for Herzog to bury his observations in the material at hand.
  3. Brightburn
    The film’s bent towards revisionist superhero history is certainly compelling, but stuck in the confines of the horror genre, it flames out far more than it flies.
  4. Aladdin
    Smith puts on such an outsized performance that it’s easy for him to overshadow its smaller joys — and when Genie is suddenly silenced in a limp third act, the entire film suffers.
  5. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
    Tarantino’s desire to salute the creative thrill of storytelling is an inviting, welcome presence in American cinema, and his ninth feature suggests he really ought to work more often. But all the vivid callbacks to antiquated TV westerns and the forgotten characters in their orbit fall short of coalescing into much more than that.
  6. The Whistlers
    The Whistlers goes down easy and dissipates soon after the credits roll, but with a murky plot in which the heist in question is often beside the point, the accomplishment of the movie lies within what it says about that agreeable flow.
  7. Young Ahmed
    The Dardennes have been the reigning kings of social realism for years, and tell these sort of morality fables on autopilot, but they’re such precise storytellers that even a minor work like “Young Ahmed” manages to deliver tense showdowns riddled with real-world connotations.
  8. The Wild Goose Lake
    The musicality of Diao’s cinema has never been more symphonic, but it comes at the expense of his ability to properly conduct this script.
  9. Diego Maradona
    You couldn’t ask for a better match between filmmaker and subject.
  10. Les Misérables
    The scalding final sequence of Ly’s film is powerful enough to obliterate the occasionally clumsy path by which it gets there.
  11. The Climb
    This sharp two-hander veers from caustic to sweet with acrobatic filmmaking to spare.
  12. The Lighthouse
    It’s a stunning showcase for Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe to unleash their wildest extremes, by positioning them at the center of a two-hander about a descent into madness in the middle of nowhere. It’s the best movie about bad roommates ever made.
  13. Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation
    While Goodman and Ephron’s film abides by a “peace & love 101” approach that might prove tiresome for people who already know about Wavy Gravy or the inclement weather that threatened to rain out an entire movement, this lucid and entertaining look back in time gradually twists that broadness into its greatest strength.
  14. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Razor-sharp and shatteringly romantic ... as perfect a film as any to have premiered this year.
  15. A Hidden Life
    A Hidden Life is a lucid and profoundly defiant portrait of faith in crisis.
  16. Port Authority
    It’s not the most polished endeavor ... However, Bloom gives Wye such a dynamic screen presence that she often transcends the boundaries of the material.
  17. First Love
    Frequently sublime ... a piece of work so feral and full of life that you’d never guess it was (at least) the 90th feature its director has made in the last 30 years.
  18. Pain and Glory
    The filmmaker’s best and most personal movie in years.
  19. Beanpole
    Beanpole is slow to thaw, and its emotional impact is dulled by a structure that delays the story’s full power until the final moments, but there’s a resonant beauty to how these women seize control over their themselves.
  20. Sorry We Missed You
    Sorry to Miss You doesn’t break new ground for the filmmaker, but it radiates a timeliness that suggests an old-fashioned Ken Loach lament matters more than ever.
  21. Bacurau
    At once both more forceful and more inscrutable than Filho’s previous work, Bacurau plunges deeper into midnight territory as its core ideas take hold, its ghosts become literal, and its heroes take up arms.
  22. Rocketman
    Rather than revealing much about the man behind the music, Rocketman seems more content to hover inside of it, exploring his unique synthesis of blues, rock, and every other relevant genre as a natural extension of his personality.
  23. Atlantics
    Diop’s first feature doesn’t always fit together from a narrative perspective, but it musters such an absorbing vision of an alienated seaside life that not everything needs to add up for the atmosphere to take hold.
  24. El Chicano
    El Chicano feels less like a cut-rate version of a comic book movie than it does an insanely over-budgeted pitch video.
  25. The Wandering Earth
    Perhaps no other movie has better illustrated the golden rule of CGI: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
  26. Bull
    Director Annie Silverstein doesn’t elevate these conventions to new heights, but understands their potential well enough to craft an absorbing window into marginalized lives.
  27. Deerskin
    It’s hard to shake the feeling that Dupieux’s outré premise would have worked better as a short, as the unusual narrative struggles to make the scenario palatable even at the bare minimum for a feature-length treatment.
  28. The Sun Is Also a Star
    While great direction isn’t the worst problem to have, the fact that the writing and acting couldn’t quite live up to their gorgeous surroundings hollows the experience of watching it.
  29. The Dead Don't Die
    If Jarmusch’s latest often feels as though it lacks a pulse, this star-studded parable is held together by one consistent truth: When Hell is full, the dead will walk the Earth. And when the Earth is fucked, the living will do whatever they can to sleepwalk through the nightmare.
  30. Trial by Fire
    Trial by Fire is completely reignited by the scenes between Dern and O’Connell, who form a compelling bond through a thick sheet of plexiglass. More than just an acting masterclass, the probing, delicate conversations between their characters build towards a harrowing tap dance between hope and surrender.
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