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For 7,559 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.3 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:
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  2. Mixed: 1,250 out of 7559
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7559
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  1. Woman in Gold
    While Mirren unquestioningly rules this roost, one cast member’s late arrival onscreen did get the audience murmuring in recognition. Namely, Lady Grantham herself — Elizabeth McGovern — who appears as a judge during one of the key moments in the legal case. One can assume that the “Downton Abbey” star took the slim part as a favor for her husband, who happens to be the director.
  2. Burn Your Maps
    Likable yet tonally untidy.
  3. Lazareth
    The themes of the film are so resonant that they create an immediate connection with the audience, but producer/star Judd and writer/director Alec Tibaldi address them with sincerity but not much depth. The film is more about mood than insight.
  4. Speer Goes to Hollywood
    This is a fascinating and pertinent tale, but one major aspect of its telling gives me serious pause.
  5. About Alex
    About Alex has the kind of energy that reminds one, even this cynical critic, why writers and directors keep returning to this oft-told tale.
  6. I Will Follow You Into the Dark
    Smart and scary horror films about faith, and loneliness are rare, and for the most part, "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" is pretty exciting.
  7. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    By taking itself so seriously, “Final Reckoning” loses the cheeky ingredient in the recipe. It’s less fun, and that’s truly disappointing for a series that has given us some of the most exhilarating setpieces in action history.
  8. Rocketman
    It is a tried-and-true jukebox musical fantasia, seemingly prepackaged for the Broadway stage, packed with toe-tapping sing-alongs you’ve known and loved for decades.
  9. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    What’s good about this movie is funny, and refreshing, enough to make the dry spots feel more tolerable in retrospect.
  10. Firecrackers
    It’s an all too familiar, almost clichéd tale you’ve heard and seen before, complete with a much-yearned freedom journey to nowhere. But Mozaffari gradually makes this particular doomed excursion her own with a distinct style, even though her plotting choices don’t approach a sense of high-stakes urgency.
  11. Devil's Knot
    There are too many major characters and too many points of emphasis. As elegantly directed as it sometimes is, it feels disjointed, scattered.
  12. H Is for Hawk
    The film’s strengths lie squarely with Foy, whose performance is restrained where it should be and revelatory at some moments you don’t expect.
  13. Destination Unknown
    As the film goes from profound life experience to profound life experience, stuck between gathering information and growing art from its themes, the documentary proves to be more noble than notable.
  14. Vettaiyan
    Vettaiyan may sometimes feel like the worst kind of throwback, but it still manages to coast on its star and his collaborators’ unshakable faith in crowd-pleasing movie logic. The filmmakers don’t miss a formulaic story beat nor do they skimp on what they think their audience will want from Rajinikanth.
  15. Neighbors
    No one holds the screen like Mac and Kelly’s big-eyed darling of a daughter, played by twins Elise and Zoey Vargas.
  16. Wildcat
    Ethan Hawke attempts to breathe new life into the biopic structure with mixed results in “Wildcat.” What is certain is that he’s drawn a rich and multilayered performance from his daughter, Maya Hawke, in the starring role.
  17. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    "Cloudy 2" is undeniably dense with ideas, images, and characters but slight on anything of thematic interest at all.
  18. Adopt a Highway
    The look of buried terror and resentment in Hawke's eyes tells the deeper story. Still, Adopt a Highway wanders ("Ella" is just the first chapter) and the redemption narrative isn't so much heavy-handed as it is super-imposed.
  19. The Big Fake
    The hair-raising narrative content notwithstanding, the movie doesn’t create much emotional traction.
  20. Intent to Destroy
    A well-intentioned documentary that makes the puzzling miscalculation of upstaging the Armenian Genocide with “The Promise.”
  21. Proud Mary
    Proud Mary doesn’t deserve the lack of faith its studio has in it. In fact, it’s almost good, so close to success that its flaws truly become frustrating.
  22. Wish You Were Here
    First-time screenwriter Stiles stumbles a bit in the book-to-movie adaptation. Some elements and characters that work better on the page with the main character narrating are clutter in a screenplay.
  23. Dark Money
    This is an informative film that deals up its facts in a sober, linear fashion. This is salutary in that it avoids sensationalism that might lead to accusations of conspiracy-theory mongering. But it also has the effect of making the film feel a little dry.
  24. Misbehaviour
    An attempt to tell this complicated intersectional story, and it does so with a comedic light-hearted style, sometimes appropriate, but sometimes inadequate to the possibilities inherent in the real-life event.
  25. Return to Silent Hill
    Gans’ sequel delivers more of the same, so it likely won’t impress anyone who doesn’t already enjoy getting lost in the fog.
  26. A Glitch in the Matrix
    A Glitch in the Matrix is so much about conveying its big idea that it misses the smaller parts—it oddly seems limited in its overall mission, documenting this mix of philosophy, sci-fi, and religion without helping us understand its believers.
  27. Ass Backwards
    It's infectious, and the daffy, breezy way they play off each other makes Ass Backwards way more enjoyable than it ought to be.
  28. Hypochondriac
    When a movie doesn’t quite come together, it’s often tempting to say that something essential is missing. I’m not so sure that that’s true of “Hypochondriac,” a rather good psychodrama about repressed childhood trauma that’s also an underwhelming horror movie about mental illness.
  29. Blood Quantum
    I found myself admiring Barnaby’s editing and production skills—“Blood Quantum” looks great—but he’s not quite yet there in directing performances or writing dialogue. Everything here feels a bit too first draft or first take when the characters aren’t fighting off growling zombies.
  30. The Seer and the Unseen
    Nature is the most fascinating element of The Seer and the Unseen, but Dosa is more focused on Ragga and the elves.
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