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For 7,557 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
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  2. Mixed: 1,249 out of 7557
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7557
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  1. The Luckiest Man in America
    The Luckiest Man in America is good follow-up viewing for “Quiz Show,” a drama about the 1950s quiz show scandals that prompted congressional investigations and led to reforms in the television industry. It’s also an example of how to make a low-budget movie that immerses you in a long-gone world and the minds of people who lived in it, while maintaining a tight geographical focus on a small number of characters.
  2. The DUFF
    Quickly and convincingly, it becomes its own funny and fast-paced phenomenon with its own modern-day charm.
  3. The Archies
    The Archies celebrates its protagonists’ character-defining youth by letting them be cute, doofy, and mostly self-absorbed.
  4. Mr. Jones
    Holland’s film manages to get under one’s skin on the whole, remaining a compelling watch throughout in spite of its rambling feel.
  5. The Secret Garden
    This recent The Secret Garden both respects and admires children’s imagination as its young characters discover their own way to grapple with loss, isolation, and loneliness.
  6. Our Time Machine
    Our Time Machine leaves you wanting a whole lot more, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
  7. Black Phone 2
    It’s a tick too long and has a section that’s far too expository for a film that’s at its best when it leans into surreal nightmare logic, but this weird movie works its fear factor in unexpected, creative ways.
  8. I Am Chris Farley
    Captures why Chris Farley mattered, even if it does sometimes gloss over a few of the reasons our friend is no longer with us.
  9. Bombshell
    It’s all weighty, serious material with huge stakes — emotionally, culturally and financially. But Roach, working from a script by Charles Randolph, finds a tricky balance of portraying these events with a sprightly tone while crafting a steadily building tension. Bombshell is both light on its feet and a punch in the gut.
  10. Blitz
    The film is not just a glossy period piece; it’s an emotional story about human resilience, one that’s sadly still too familiar almost a century later.
  11. Ouija
    In the current economy, Monopoly makes a more appropriate board game upon which to base a horror movie, but for what it is, Ouija is better than expected.
  12. Claire in Motion
    Betsy Brandt gives a compelling performance as the title character whose spirit is slowly breaking, a woman of the arts faced with a painful and personal manifestation of ambiguity.
  13. We Broke Up
    Although the relationship at the heart of We Broke Up may be messy and complicated, Rosenberg ties all of the story’s elements together into a neat, bittersweet package.
  14. Alienoid
    The sheer too-much-ness of Alienoid could have easily been wearying, given its many tangents and supporting characters. Thankfully, writer/director Choi Dong-hoon confirms his hitmaker reputation by balancing over-inflated set pieces with disarming screwball comedy and delightful character actor performances.
  15. The Wailing
    South Korean horror-mystery hybrid The Wailing crosses that line several times, but somehow remains effectively atmospheric.
  16. What Happened, Miss Simone?
    What Happened features some of the best concert footage and musical performances in recent music doc memory, even if it never quite answers the question in its title.
  17. Kiss of the Spider Woman
    Condon’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is a reminder of what a great on-screen musical looks and feels like.
  18. Red Rocket
    Despite its missteps, this is Baker's best-directed film, judged purely in terms of how economically he sets up and pays off each mile marker in the story, often getting in and out of a scene with two or three elegantly choreographed but unpretentious shots.
  19. Eno
    The film works most of the time, largely because its subject is such interesting — and warm — company.
  20. Ouija: Origin of Evil
    This is one overstuffed horror movie recipe, with a dash of “The Exorcist” and a spritz of “Ghost” among its tasty ingredients.
  21. R100
    R100 is, consequently, a comedy that tries to alienate you by suggesting that escapism is futile, all things inevitably devolve, and nothing inherently means anything.
  22. Breaking
    Breaking is a tragedy that only opens like a thriller. From the beginning, Breaking is about justice.
  23. Farewell to Hollywood
    Documentary films often find their value in taking us to places that are challenging, even painful. Farewell to Hollywood offers the rewarding difficulties of that type of filmmaking, along with additional challenges that stem from questions about its own ethics.
  24. This Is Not a War Story
    A film that is a somewhat uneven journey, though one that proves to be ultimately rewarding in the end.
  25. Being the Ricardos
    It is with a zippy touch and a number of questionable directorial choices—Sorkin is still a much better writer than director—as well as an immersive, pressure-cooker structure that is never less than enthralling, that Sorkin implants his aforesaid signature style into Being the Ricardos.
  26. National Anthem
    The theme is present in every frame. Gilford's affection for the characters is clear. I'm happy to have met them, to have been welcomed into their world for a short time.
  27. Brooklyn 45
    Ghosts and spirits appear, and weird things are indeed summoned, but Brooklyn 45 is really a meditation on grief and the unfinished business of war as experienced by a group who struggle with adjusting to peacetime.
  28. El Tiempo Perdido
    Listening to these people grapple with Proust’s work and relate it to their own individual lifetimes of experience is often fascinating.
  29. Iris
    Al Maysles, a great fixture in the New York film scene and an influence on several generations of documentary filmmakers, was a keen, understanding observer of human nature and behavior from the 1950s up until his death last month at age 88. Iris and another recently completed film, “In Transit,” will stand as testaments to his unique talents and contributions to the documentary form.
  30. Time to Choose
    The main reason that Time to Choose feels different and has value is that it actually offer solutions and hope.
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