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Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Lowest review score: 0 Pixels
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,584 out of 5190
  2. Mixed: 1,338 out of 5190
  3. Negative: 268 out of 5190
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  1. Werewolves Within
    What this quaint little “Hot Fuzz” homage lacks in scale, it nearly makes up for with a stacked cast of delightful comic actors who all deliver the goods.
  2. The Forever Purge
    The violence, while pervasive, does not feel gratuitous. Each kill is quick and to the point, and the camera never lingers too long on the flesh-torn wreckage.
  3. Oasis: Supersonic
    It’s a remarkable time capsule, and the whiplash of overnight fame has seldom been captured with such visceral force, but the film is so high on the absurdity of it all that it never relays any palpable sense of what it really feels like to suddenly be given everything you’ve ever wanted.
  4. Miss Juneteenth
    Despite the strong performances and meticulously crafted world they exist inside, the film’s narrative isn’t nearly revelatory enough to match its most winning elements.
  5. Something in the Dirt
    Something in the Dirt functions as a disturbing and acerbically comedic riddle of a movie where finding the answers is a secondary, mostly unfruitful goal. What we are after is understanding the personal voids that push some of us to look for them in the first place.
  6. Godzilla vs. Kong
    In the end, though, it’s all about the battles, and Wingard’s film offers some of the franchise’s best.
  7. Desert Road
    To the extent that the ending works at all, it’s because of Froseth.
  8. Lorne
    Though “Lorne” is prone to some overly relaxed pacing, the film is held tight enough by the grip that Michaels has maintained over his little fiefdom for more than half a century.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Brooklyn
    Brooklyn showcases a number of appealing ingredients, but ultimately lacks an adequate story to prop them up.
  10. 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.
  11. John Candy: I Like Me
    If you already loved John Candy, this doc will make you love him even more. If you were born after his time, it will be a lovely introduction. Still, the way the doc lingers on its unabashed celebration of Candy’s life and work yet rushes through its brief examination of his psyche prevents it from being a total knockout.
  12. Café de Flore
    Cafe de Flore constantly hovers on the brink on some revelation it never quite arrives at.
  13. The Dating Game
    A documentary whose strengths and weaknesses all too perfectly reflect the nature of the crisis at its core — a crisis that stems from a vast confluence of geopolitical issues, but expresses itself through the siloed misery of loneliness and longing.
  14. The Kid Detective
    So, really, what does happen when a kid detective grows up? In Morgan’s hands, something curious, laced with pitch black comedy and a major dose of tragedy, a winking sense of genre, and a stellar performance from Brody.
  15. Shin Godzilla (Godzilla Resurgence)
    If this fun but frequently exasperating new chapter in Godzilla’s never-ending story feels like a major anomaly, its eccentricities are what best allow it to channel the forward-thinking urgency of Honda’s original.
  16. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
    It’s a girl-powered, earnestly feminist superhero movie with big, implausible action sequences and outsized personalities, and while it never quite reaches that potential, it does begin to map out a fresh path to the world-worn arena of superhero narratives. It may not be the promised total emancipation (at least not yet), but it is fantabulous in its own way.
  17. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
    Appel and Yankovic exaggerate, and then completely diverge from, the truth until their imitation of the real story is all that remains.
  18. Meet Monica Velour
    Like the poster, Meet Monica Velour is engaging to a point, but leaves much to be desired.
  19. Playing with Sharks
    Setting the Taylors’ footage in such a quotidian structure is like setting the world’s most beautiful diamond in a ring pulled from a Cracker Jack box
  20. Music
    No matter how outwardly anodyne, nearly every frame is a product of rigorous blocking and choreography, stamping each shot with a kind of Good Filmmaking Seal of Approval that makes the chasm between the film’s deliberateness and opacity all the more vast.
  21. Elton John: Never Too Late
    "Never Too Late” is a competent but largely conventional look at John, which focuses on the most documented part of his life: His astronomical rise in the first half of the 1970s. With
  22. True Mothers
    The film shimmers with beauty and sadness despite its length, and the Japanese director’s background as both a photographer and a documentary filmmaker brings a gossamer naturalism to this realistic tale about a young woman’s regrets over abandoning her child years after the fact.
  23. Bernstein's Wall
    This is a lovely film that will appeal to Bernstein’s most ardent fans, while warmly inviting neophytes into his world.
  24. Lynch/Oz
    Lynch/Oz is less compelling for any of its individual theories or observations than for how it frames movies as permeable membranes that flicker between personal obsession and the collective unconscious.
  25. The Life Ahead
    The Life Ahead is compelling enough to make the by-the-numbers narrative worth telling, if only because with such fine-tuned performances at its center, it deserves to be told.
  26. Köln 75
    Even the most formulaic scenes in the film bop with the zest of history being lived first-hand, as if the script were happily oblivious to its own clichés, and while the filmmaking itself falls well short of creating the chaos that it aspires to celebrate, Fluk at least taps into the fun of telling us about it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Falling Sky
    Rocha and Carneiro might not equal their subjects when it comes to image-making, but their movie does provide a way for these fantasies to, hopefully, outlive those who seek to wipe them out.
  28. Disorder
    Winocour has a talent that cannot be taught, she has a gift for filtering every development through at least one character — especially those moments that other movies would mulch into the stuff of raw spectacle.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Macbeth
    This particular tale of sound and fury signifies more than nothing, but only just.
  30. Florence Foster Jenkins
    That’s where the film truly succeeds: Frears doesn’t treat Florence like a joke, and neither does Streep.
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