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For 71 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 12% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 87% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 90 Sirât
Lowest review score: 20 Alpha
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 71
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 71
  3. Negative: 2 out of 71
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  1. Eagles of the Republic
    Saleh’s script seems to be beating around the veritable bush for nearly two hours before it slams into violent gear, which effectively snaps the audience into a whiplash, but would have felt more effective had it arrived sooner. A tighter edit would greatly reduce the aimless, meandering quality, especially since multiple scenes regarding the film’s shoot also, by the nature of their falseness, feel flat.
  2. Ballad of a Small Player
    It seems doubtful that Ballad of Small Player will serve as a third straight return to the Academy Awards for Berger. However, it does firmly establish the filmmaker as perhaps the finest purveyor of reliably high gloss pulp. But even as far as low stakes bets go, the film only offers a very modest payout.
  3. DJ Ahmet
    Simple, sweet, and perhaps a bit too disarming, familiar stakes and an ambiguous resolution make DJ Ahmet feel more mundane than it should.
  4. Parallel Tales
    Unfortunately, the end result feels as shockingly out of touch as a principal character’s devotion to a typewriter.
  5. Rosebush Pruning
    If there’s any need to make another film about despicable, beautiful, filthy rich monsters, at least decide what, if anything, might be of interest to say. If families are rose bushes needing pruning, then so are scripts.
  6. Gentle Monster
    Gentle Monster is perhaps a bit two striated in its examination of these two women and their eventual choices.
  7. Sheep in the Box
    Frustratingly limited and unfortunately banal, it’s one of the prolific filmmaker’s most disappointing efforts to date and feels desperately in need of an updated operating system as regards its narrative reach.
  8. Jay Kelly
    Between tidbits of enjoyable banter, Baumbach stages some of the most comically tone-deaf moments of his career.
  9. Yellow Letters
    What’s shocking is how rough hewn the characters and sentiments are in Yellow Letters considering Çatak’s laser sharp focus in The Teachers’ Lounge.
  10. Hedda
    An audience’s mileage for Hedda will depend on how much they enjoy watching what is little more than a parlour game between the pampered upper classes.
  11. Alpha
    Ducournau applies all the tricks of the trade to convince us of greater meaning.
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