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For 16,520 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 2.3 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: 8,697 out of 16520
  2. Mixed: 5,806 out of 16520
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16520
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  1. Spiral Farm
    Writer-director Alec Tibaldi pays more attention to the setting than the story; but the heroine and her surroundings are so artfully sketched that a thin plot isn’t a major liability.
  2. The Disappearance of My Mother
    The film reveals its truest self as a cinematic act of negotiation, acceptance and farewell between mother and son.
  3. The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
    The movie feels disjointed and made up of parts that Dolan couldn’t bring together as it shuffles between three story strands.
  4. Midnight Family
    What’s indelible in this visceral chronicle is that more than profiting from human suffering, the Ochoas fill the gaps of economic inequality while doing good without reservation.
  5. Rabid
    An uneven but often energizing remake of David Cronenberg’s 1977 cult classic.
  6. The Great War
    Although writer-director Steven Luke’s reach often exceeds his grasp, he’s managed to present a meaningful, largely involving, if decidedly small-scale and fictionalized story about race, courage and comradeship.
  7. Jumanji: The Next Level
    It’s not bad for an hour’s entertainment; too bad it runs for two.
  8. Seberg
    Stewart is enough of a force to give Seberg’s darkest moments their due, but it’s too little, too late for the superficial soup that is the movie that bears her name.
  9. Cunningham
    Cunningham makes good on its stated goal of doing justice to the man’s spirit of inventiveness.
  10. Bombshell
    It is as harrowing as it is triumphant in its depiction of the way it all came to pass.
  11. 6 Underground
    After a strong start the movie steadily declines, one set piece after another, and there are many moments where the mind wanders and then asks: “Is this still going on?”
  12. 63 Up
    While some individuals are inevitably more compelling than others, as a whole the entire series, and 63 Up in particular, is completely enveloping as it draws us into the latest happenings of these people we’ve followed for so long.
  13. Broken Dreams
    Although vital and intriguing, the film could have been more seamlessly assembled.
  14. A New Christmas
    Travis Hodgkins’ script strives to inspire, but it’s trite even for a drama about the magic of Christmas. Unfortunately, A New Christmas receives little help from either the amateur acting or first-time director Daniel Tenenbaum’s hand.
  15. I See You
    It’s rare to see a horror film so devoted to intricate plot mechanics and so concerned with driving to a satisfying payoff.
  16. After Class
    We’ve seen many versions of this kind of story before, but there’s something so spot-on and involving about the film, written and directed by Daniel Schechter — and performed with such a lived-in rhythm by its talented cast — that it proves surprisingly refreshing.
  17. Temblores
    A penetrating, mournful portrait of sexual identity in contemporary Guatemala City.
  18. Trauma Center
    The limited location here appears to have been strictly a cost-saving measure, not an opportunity to get creative.
  19. The Mandela Effect
    For the most part this movie is a tightly constructed and sensitively rendered conversation-starter, comparing grief and loss to the sensation of faulty memories. It takes a strange and fascinating meme, and makes it personal.
  20. Grand Isle
    This is a rare case when a cheap B-movie isn’t improved by Cage-style clowning.
  21. Daniel Isn't Real
    In supporting roles of varying importance, Masterson, Sasha Lane and Hannah Marks do enough to suggest the film would have been better off giving them more. But Daniel Isn’t Real remains a two-man show, and Robbins and Schwarzenegger are an odd couple worth believing in.
  22. The Aeronauts
    The virtues of The Aeronauts are real but they are almost exclusively visual. Despite the hard work of acclaimed actors in what sounds on paper like a strong story, the drama presented is determinedly earth-bound.
  23. Colewell
    As Colewell sinks in, it reveals itself as the cinematic equivalent of a deep exhale after having attained peace within.
  24. Code 8
    The ideas outpace the action in a movie that’s clearly been made with passion and intelligence, but without the kind of zip that this kind of story demands.
  25. Varda by Agnès
    Varda’s playful tour of her life’s work in the movies is nothing less than an opportunity to get to know one of cinema’s greatest treasures.
  26. Most Likely to Succeed
    The film effectively illustrates how the words “Most Likely to Succeed,” written under a yearbook photo can serve as both a cheering vote of confidence and an awfully daunting expectation.
  27. Knives and Skin
    Awash in Christopher Rejano’s neon-hued cinematography and punctuated by Nick Zinner’s eerie synth soundscapes, Reeder’s meandering tale is a fever dream of ideas.
  28. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    It’s the rare movie that can take something as ancient as myth and use it to break your heart anew.
  29. The Wolf Hour
    Watts is plenty convincing as someone well past the brink of a psychotic break, but The Wolf Hour takes too long to get properly cranked up. This movie is mostly just mood-setting, with much more going on in the background than the foreground.
  30. A Million Little Pieces
    Nothing on screen is as electrifying or surprising as it was on the page, as semi-fictionally enhanced as the writing was.
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