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For 7,558 reviews, this publication has graded:
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Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Ghost Elephants
Lowest review score: 0 Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
Score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 1,250 out of 7558
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7558
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  1. Bullet Train Explosion
    With Bullet Train Explosion, you get a straight-down-the-line crowdpleaser, replete with duty-bound authority figures in well-pressed uniforms, anxious and often self-absorbed passengers, Macgyver-like problem-solving, seat-of-your-pants close calls, that sort of thing. There are no real surprises here, just what you’d want from this sort of cheeseball entertainment.
  2. Scales
    While some elements of the story don’t work as well as the visual playground Ameen sets up for her characters, Scales is still an impressive feature debut.
  3. A Fistful of Fingers
    Start to finish, the movie is delightfully dorky, irreverent and scrappy, the exact kind of project a young filmmaker would make if they just wanted to make fellow nerds laugh and were pretty good at doing so.
  4. Prime Minister
    In many ways, the documentary is as unprecedented as Ardern’s career.
  5. The Alpinist
    Ultimately, Mortimer and Rosen’s film succeeds most as a sincere, wonderstruck tribute to a fellow climber. And if glorifying a sport as lethal as alpinism itself runs a kind of risk, there’s no denying the heart-in-mouth thrill of watching Leclerc in the zone, following an impossible dream and, on his own terms, touching the sublime.
  6. Girls Trip
    Girls Trip is the ladies-on-the-loose comedy that everyone needs right now, even if they don’t know it yet.
  7. Scoop
    There's a propulsive force to every scene in "Scoop," with Sam propelling us forward as she stalks across lobbies and down hallways in her thigh-high boots.
  8. The Magic Flute
    The movie does not live up to the eternally enchanting music, but it serves as an enjoyable delivery system for experiencing it again, which is magic enough.
  9. The Happy Prince
    This is Everett's first film as a director, and there are times when it shows. But what he brings to the table - as a director, writer, and actor - is his intuitive "take" on Oscar Wilde and the performance alone makes this riveting and revelatory viewing.
  10. Supernova
    It’s a movie that finds most of its power through silence—the proud and yet pained look Tucci gives to Firth during that speech will stick with me for a long time.
  11. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
    A film like Linklater's brings you inside the consciousness of a person whose perceptions of the world are simultaneously constrained and curious, and open to new experiences.
  12. Fantasy Life
    The top-to-bottom cast of proudly eccentric actors, including Holland Taylor, Jessica Harper, Zosia Mamet, and Bob Balaban (as Dianne’s father), ensures that every scene has moments of truth, and the filmmaker’s empathy pushes the movie over the finish line.
  13. LifeHack
    It may feel like damning with faint praise, but “LifeHack” is easily one of the more tolerable screenlife thrillers of recent vintage.
  14. All Mistakes Buried
    It's executed with such passion that it holds together better than you might expect.
  15. We Are the Giant
    The film commendably gives us vivid and memorable people whose personal stories strikingly illuminate their peoples’ struggles.
  16. Running with Beto
    An intimate, thorough look at a candidate on the rise and on the go.
  17. The Voyeurs
    The Voyeurs craves to be the most salacious, outrageous non-pornographic movie you stream this weekend, and that itself is enticing. But it becomes a nice bonus that while giving you some gratuitous page-turning thrills, Mohan also juggles art, sex, and death, and dares to go more than skin-deep.
  18. William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
    At the ripe age of ninety, Shatner remains as alive as ever—his eyes wild with curiosity and humor, his honeyed voice barely worn down by years of voiceover and soliloquy. But he remains deeply aware of his own numbered days, which makes “You Can Call Me Bill” feel like something of a self-administered cinematic eulogy.
  19. Last Looks
    Last Looks works best in its twisted often-incoherent plot, where no character is generic. Everyone has a secret. No one is on the level. Surfaces lie.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Forbidden Fruits
    It captures so well the insanity of the contradictions we–particularly women–have to live into daily.
  21. Open Windows
    Open Windows goes from crazy to Crazy to CRAZY, but maintains enough energy and cultural currency to keep the entertainment value high.
  22. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    With each on-screen chapter, the poor girl from District 12 continues to fulfill her destiny as an inspiration and a rebel fighter. She is but one female, but she's the perfect antidote to the surplus of male superheroes out there.
  23. Climax
    Watching all of those clips drove home how dance cinematography like this is mostly — and sadly — a lost art.
  24. Drunk Bus
    It becomes something heartfelt yet funny—a truly hard balance to strike—but Drunk Bus pulls through for our enjoyment.
  25. Dark Star: HR Giger's World
    It's also genuinely warm and involving because of the participation of everyone from Carmen Vega, Giger's widow, to Sandra Berretta, Giger's former assistant and self-described "life partner." The film is, in that sense, an effective memorial, one filmed after Giger himself admitted that he had said all he wanted to say in his art.
  26. Introducing, Selma Blair
    It’s impossible to watch Introducing, Selma Blair and not feel deeply moved.
  27. Closed Curtain
    If the dominant mood of "This Is Not a Film" was defiant, the main feeling here is melancholic. In implicitly confessing to suicidal impulses (as his mentor Abbas Kiarostami did in "Taste of Cherry"), Panahi shows how low his confinement has brought him.
  28. Intrigo: Death of an Author
    This film tells us that the gulf between what we want to know and what we can know may never be illuminated.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Decorado
    Though the surrealism and playfulness of the short film have been streamlined for a narrative feature, “Decorado” still feels like a fully fleshed-out, focused work in its own right.
  30. Lovesong
    Director and co-writer So Yong Kim achieves a delicate, naturalistic tone both visually (many scenic outdoor settings involving rain, bodies of water or both) and melodically (a mostly soothing heart-fluttery soundtrack) that is underlined by handheld camera close-ups.
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