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For 16,532 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,702 out of 16532
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16532
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16532
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  1. The Healer
    Perhaps in the unique case of The Healer, it could just be said that although the cause may be noble, the end effect is decidedly less rewarding.
  2. Summer '03
    Summer ’03 bounces between plot lines and themes, shuffling through elements of better films with a lack of focus and little insight into Jamie. It never transcends its teen movie origins to become something more.
  3. Tea with the Dames
    Candid, insightful and unpredictable, Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joan Plowright and Dame Maggie Smith are not only acting legends but also great friends. And a treat to hang out with.
  4. Smallfoot
    Although Smallfoot is formulaic and predictable, what sets it apart is its willingness to dive into the themes of questioning blind faith.
  5. The Last Suit
    The Last Suit is a bumpy ride tonally, but its stubborn heart is in the right place.
  6. Little Women
    This adaptation completely bungles the update.
  7. Maximum Impact
    Maximum Impact is a dopey international thriller that’s fully aware of how dumb it is, This doesn’t make it a good movie, but it does make it easier to sit through.
  8. Free Solo
    Both intimate and expansive, Free Solo is a documentary beautifully calculated to literally take your breath away. And it does.
  9. Bad Reputation
    The movie balances electrifying archival footage with useful contextual cultural analysis.
  10. Call Her Ganda
    Even with its stumbling nature, though, Call Her Ganda is still a valiant effort to fuse inquiry, testimony, heart and protest in dealing with its complex intertwining of facts and issues.
  11. The Old Man & the Gun
    It’s a puckish film with a wistful quality, a gently comic end-of-the-line adventure about doing what you love, the passage of time and the things that might have been.
  12. Hold the Dark
    Its determined ambition and atmospheric skill keeps Saulnier firmly in the category of directors to watch.
  13. Museo
    Museo is a fun, stylish, singular heist flick that’s about so much more than the theft itself.
  14. The Padre
    A heavyweight cast and superb location-shooting carries The Padre, an otherwise meandering crime thriller.
  15. Night School
    For all her improvisational skill and that of her top-billed costar, the much-vaunted Hart-and-Haddish pairing never pays dividends. It feels more like Half-and-Half.
  16. Monsters and Men
    The result, while fragmented by design, is a politically astute, emotionally layered examination of a violent death and its lingering psychic residue.
  17. All About Nina
    Both bleakly humorous and laugh out loud funny, the brilliant All About Nina is a powerful film about the importance of women’s voices, and the change that can come from telling your story.
  18. Cruise
    Screenwriter Robert Siegel’s second directorial outing is better as an exercise in nostalgia than as a film, but it deserves some praise for its faithful recreation of a time and a place.
  19. Bisbee '17
    One of the pleasurable discoveries of this continually surprising movie is that artifice can be the most direct route to the truth.
  20. The Storyteller
    While The Storyteller aspires to be a feature-length Hallmark card, it only manages dollar-store sentimentality in its plot and platitudes.
  21. Science Fair
    This infectious and exuberant film wins you over by focusing on the enthusiasm and enviable good spirits of the smart and engaging young people who compete in “the Olympics of science fairs.”
  22. Painless
    This character-driven thriller gives specificity to small scenes, engaging the audience in each moment.
  23. Jane Fonda in Five Acts
    All in all, Jane Fonda in Five Acts proves a captivating, extremely well-told and crafted, decidedly fitting tribute to a Hollywood legend, fighter and survivor who just might surprise us one day with a “sixth act.”
  24. Assassination Nation
    It’s a chaotic jumble of movie references, cellphone footage, emojis, trigger warnings and edgy teen content. But it’s the fumbled “feminist” commentary that is just embarrassing to watch.
  25. Strange Nature
    The creature effects in Strange Nature are top-notch, but Ojala has trouble making them scary. His plot’s too scattered to build any momentum.
  26. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    Hale County This Morning, This Evening, is a poetic documentary with a gift for making enrapturing imagery out of what sound like ordinary, everyday events.
  27. Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
    While the film seeks to put Antonio’s name on the same level as the boldfaced names he rubbed elbows with, it is a stark, sorrowful reminder of the many artistic geniuses cut down in their prime by AIDS.
  28. The Sisters Brothers
    In the end, Audiard plays to his past strengths as a poet of wounded masculinity; in its most touching moments, The Sisters Brothers is like a hangout movie on horseback.
  29. Quincy
    Even when it’s considering a great man’s flaws, it does so with understanding, taking its cues from Q’s own philosophy: “You only live 26,000 days. I’m going to wear them all out.”
  30. Love, Gilda
    A stirring valentine of a documentary.
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