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For 7,545 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Ghost Elephants
Lowest review score: 0 Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,939 out of 7545
  2. Mixed: 1,248 out of 7545
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7545
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  1. Isle of Dogs
    Isle of Dogs does not have a compelling story, and even worse, it has the most egregious examples of its director’s privilege since “The Darjeeling Limited.” This movie really pissed me off, and the only thing I found soothing while watching it was silently repeating to myself “the dogs are very furry.” Reminding myself of the film’s best asset kept me from walking out.
  2. We Come as Friends
    Viewers are not privileged with a more thoughtful, specific view of the institutionalized problems that Sudanese natives face because Sauper's not interested in making that kind of film.
  3. Concerning Violence
    On both levels of the film, the archival and the textual, there’s much that’s fascinating and worthwhile. What’s regrettable is the refusal to contextualize and explore the ongoing ramifications of what we see and hear.
  4. Strange Darling
    Strange Darling, J.T. Mollner’s self-consciously edgy gotcha of a serial-killer thriller, is so high on its own cleverness that it never stops to think about what it’s actually saying.
  5. The Tribe
    The Tribe would be a hopelessly banal arthouse wallow were it not for its setting: a school for the deaf.
  6. Unrest
    Unrest is an intriguing period piece but a flawed curio that never quite achieves its soul-stirring goals.
  7. Martin Eden
    It’s a slog at over two hours, much of it spent with Marinelli screaming or acting coarse.
  8. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
    Other than that acquisitive movie-mad mindset, it is a pandering, self-flattering mess, featuring unearned catharsis, lazy clichés and characters presented in broad, sometimes-offensive stereotypes.
  9. Mommy
    Willfully over determined and perversely stylized.
  10. Sollers Point
    One can imagine that Sollers Point might be better if its focus expanded to the area's inhabitants, not just Keith.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Dukhtar
    The rampancy of clichés might have been okay were Dukhtar slightly more self-aware.
  12. Hounds of Love
    Sleazy Australian kidnapping drama Hounds of Love will make you wish you were watching a more traditionally nihilistic horror film.
  13. Girl
    Does Girl work as a film? No. It does not.
  14. The Square
    This is not a terribly plot-driven movie; indeed, at two hours and twenty minutes it’s rather a ramble.
  15. Captain Fantastic
    Captain Fantastic treats the situation (and Ben) so uncritically and so sympathetically that there is a total disconnect between what is actually onscreen and what Ross thinks is onscreen.
  16. Alléluia
    Oppressively bleak mood piece Alléluia is a horror film for people who like to be scared by a grim, joyless and thoroughly depressing character study.
  17. Luce
    Luce is the worst kind of provocateur; it tosses out all manner of outrageous ideas and then, like those pathetic dudes on Twitter, it yells out “DEBATE ME!” As soon as you accept the challenge, the film folds like cheap origami. And this film has a lot to toss at you.
  18. Slow West
    From first till last, this tale of a hard-boiled bounty hunter helping a Scottish lad on his quest to find the woman he loves, who’s on the lam in the old West, is a tissue of creaky contrivances and outright absurdities.
  19. Donald Cried
    In the true spirit of this profoundly uninteresting movie, Donald Cried can only shrug through its central notion that men will be sad boys.
  20. Tyrel
    So listless and dry that the only jolt of electricity I experienced was when the screener blew up seven minutes before the end. The half hour I spent fighting with the Magnolia Pictures website was more suspenseful and interesting than anything I saw in their product.
  21. Prevenge
    Lowe's attempts at getting into anti-heroine Ruth's head are largely unsuccessful, though her performance is sometimes effectively hysterical.
  22. Men Go to Battle
    A more accurate title for the low-budget indie Civil War drama would be, “Man (Sing.) Goes to Battle. Eventually. Sort of. For a While. Then Leaves. Other Man Stays Home.” But to avoid that marquee-buster, here’s the concise version: “Mumblecore Civil War.”
  23. Drinking Buddies
    Watching Drinking Buddies is like being the designated driver for a most uninteresting bunch of drinkers.
  24. Double Lover
    While Double Lover is as squeamish as most Cinemax-style wank material about a certain male organ, it’s more than charitable about its female counterpart. One can’t be faulted for expecting greatness from a film that opens with a close-up of a stretched out vagina morphing into an eye.
  25. The Vigil
    What makes The Vigil so frustrating is that it feels like a product and not a reflection of its subject’s identity crisis.
  26. Dark River
    Everything in Dark River feels like it’s designed not with real people in mind but with Serious Independent Cinema in mind. It’s a movie so filled with pregnant pauses and pretentious looks that it never develops an emotional undercurrent at all.
  27. Moffie
    A film with this incendiary of a title needed to have more to say about being LGBT in a hostile environment.
  28. Hallow Road
    Hallow Road is an earnest attempt to make a movie no one has seen before, only to end up with one few will want to watch again.
  29. Happiest Season
    It’s never a good sign when characters in a film promptly declare: we are aware you are watching and we’re here to teach you a thing or two.
  30. BuyBust
    So often bogged down by pseudo-naturalistic long takes and generic cop/robber power dynamics that it makes one wonder what the point of watching such a film is.
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