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For 4,544 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,927 out of 4544
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4544
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4544
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  1. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    This teeming film sometimes bursts at the seams, but it’s abound with an exuberant energy that honors Dickens without embalming him in the literary past. It’s irresistible.
  2. Lingua Franca
    The expression here is one of shared humanity regardless of background, gender identity, race or creed. The common language being used here is cinema.
  3. The Silencing
    Even in these pandemic times, when we all hunger for escapism, this long journey to a lame ending hardly fills the bill.
  4. Project Power
    Whatever this eye-popping head trip lacks in plausibility, it makes up for in flash and a sense of a world spinning off its axis.
  5. Unhinged
    Even marking on a B-movie curve, Unhinged is running on empty.
  6. The 24th
    The 24th has its share of unevenness. It also has the blessing, and the curse, of necessity. It’s a story that has to be retold.
  7. The One and Only Ivan
    The film is torn between a tough-minded plea for animal rights and edge-free, PG family entertainment. But its advocacy of kindness to man and animal is indisputable.
  8. Tesla
    A striking film that frustratingly never coheres but still holds you in thrall.
  9. Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
    Though Yeon can still deliver memorable frights, like the car horn that literally does wake the dead, he can’t decide what kind of movie to make. So he does a genre mashup, tops it with a sappy ending, and hopes for the best. The result is decidedly uneven.
  10. Sputnik
    You’ve seen this before. Think of it as a potent dose of sci-fi/horror Methadone to keep the withdrawals at bay.
  11. Boys State
    Forget who wins or loses, Boys State is about that promise of change in the air. And it’s exhilarating.
  12. Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
    Mostly, it’s a testament to a storied legacy that may be gone, but deserves never to be forgotten.
  13. Made in Italy
    The mutual grief and abiding love felt by the Irish actor, 68, and his son, 25, cuts close to home and brings the film a touching honesty it otherwise sorely lacks.
  14. La Llorona
    La Llorona is the kind of tale of mystery and imagination that prefers to get under your skin rather than shock your central nervous system, which only makes its near-suffocating feeling of foreboding more potent.
  15. I Used to Go Here
    Rey deserves credit for comic observations that sting.
  16. Waiting for the Barbarians
    The desert outpost, mostly shot in Morocco by the gifted cinematographer Chris Menges (a two-time Oscar winner for his camera work on The Killing Fields and The Mission), becomes a powerful symbol of human decency trying to hold out under the brutal siege of alleged law and order. It’s thuddingly obvious who the real barbarians are.
  17. Howard
    Blunt honesty and rare introspection sets Howard apart from the usual cut-and-paste trips down memory lane.
  18. An American Pickle
    Still, a movie that even glancingly grapples with questions of ethnic and spiritual identity, past and present, is hardly hack work. It’ll do in a pickle.
  19. The Fight
    The Fight may be cursed with a generic name. But it’s a 100-percent accurate one.
  20. She Dies Tomorrow
    It feels both timeless in its ability to channel a universal fear of mortality and if it has arrived, regrettably, right on time.
  21. Summerland
    A sweet, soft-centered pastoral drama that’s never as tough-minded as you want it to be. Thankfully, in her feature debut as a filmmaker, playwright Jessica Swale shows a genuine flair with actors.
  22. The Go-Go's
    The doc’s goal: Don’t think of the Go-Go’s as a bit of Reagan-era nostalgia, the musical equivalent of a Rubik’s cube. Think of them as a first-tier, kick-ass rock group, period, full stop, the end. Mission accomplished.
  23. Amulet
    The movie’s ambitions exceed its grasp, and it’s hard not to wonder if the ideas here might not have been better served in a shorter, tighter format.
  24. Radioactive
    Never mind the curveballs that Radioactive throws audiences on its defiantly unconventional journey into a defiantly unconventional life. Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie has been done proud.
  25. The Rental
    What elevates The Rental is the dynamite acting from the four leads.
  26. We Are Freestyle Love Supreme
    As an introduction to who these guys are, the bond they share and the legacy they contributed to, it’s a better-than-decent primer. You simply wish it didn’t feel like one long, stop-and-start mic check.
  27. The Painted Bird
    Extending its litany of horrors to nearly three hours, the film is certainly an endurance test. Yet its potent presentation, notably Vladimir Smutny’s striking monochromatic cinematography, gives the film the raw impact of a documentary.
  28. Greyhound
    The trouble does not emerge from the movie’s noble intentions, but from the stodgy manner in which they play out.
  29. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    So call Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets a documentary, or a docufiction, or an ecstatic-truth improvisation — just don’t let it miss last call.
  30. Relic
    Relic marks an auspicious debut for Japanese-Australian director Natalie Erika James, who wants her slow-building thriller to seep into your bones rather than pound you with cheap scares.
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