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For 7,796 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,363 out of 7796
  2. Mixed: 1,498 out of 7796
  3. Negative: 1,935 out of 7796
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  1. Supergirl
    Despite being fairly light on its feet, Craig Gillespie’s bratty, high-flying space western is fatiguingly overfamiliar in a genre that can’t help but keep looking backward for inspiration as it clings to relevance.
  2. Maddie's Secret
    The film at once lampoons a spectatorship culture that drives creators to madness and cherishes the naïvete of everyday people who want to share their passions with people on the internet.
  3. Couture
    Louis Garrel’s magnetism is so astonishing that you feel as if he’s the only one who could withstand Angelina Jolie’s on-screen presence, and that makes it a pity that the two actors share just a couple of scenes.
  4. Bouchra
    The film’s slice-of-life scenes are generationally accurate representations of everyday life, but they aren’t given the narrative or dialectical form to actually say much about that life.
  5. Toy Story 5
    Toy Story 5 leans into the sentimental beats that are familiar to the series, except those moments too often give the film the feel of a PSA aimed at convincing parents to monitor their kids’ screen time.
  6. I Swear
    Its mix of compassion and clarity allows it to avoid the easy sentimentality of similar tales.
  7. Fuze
    The film is much more interested in the logistics of bomb defusal than any of its characters.
  8. Wasteman
    Cal McMau’s Wasteman illustrates why a powerful paradox about prisons makes them such a popular staging ground for psychodramas.
  9. The Death of Robin Hood
    Hugh Jackman’s take on a fabled friend of the poor may empty his veins, but the film might have meant more had he spilled his guts.
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    • 63 Critic Score
    Promised Sky
    This heart-wrenching drama about a makeshift family trying to stay afloat is buoyed by vulnerable performances and some spectacular imagery, even as the script spreads itself thin.
  11. The Furious
    This ambitiously staged brawler understands that narrative simplicity is the core of a truly relentless, propulsive action movie.
  12. Stop! That! Train!
    Stop! That! Train! handles the dumbest things with just the right amount of seriousness, and it’s more than self-aware of its own silliness.
  13. Disclosure Day
    Delivered from the heights of personal and professional validation, the great prophet of Hollywood’s sermonistic latest is akin to a detached, rambling, and academic exercise that treats cinema and humanity as a great and curious jigsaw puzzle.
  14. She's the He
    The film often strikes the right balance between loony satire and heartfelt commentary.
  15. Jinsei
    This brooding, disaffected character study is a singularly odd, messy, and haunting portrait of detachment.
  16. Masters of the Universe
    Masters of the Universe has a beating heart—thoughtfully recontextualizing He-Man as a different presentation of masculinity—and it’s bolstered by a cartoon-perfect representation of the original cartoon’s menagerie of characters and their powers. But the poorly executed, jingling-key cheap elements piled up around that heart are enough to clog it until it explodes.
  17. Backrooms
    Backrooms is undeniable, both as a future load-bearing pillar of the internet-born horror movement that’s now breaking ground and for being built on a concept that feels truly new.
  18. Pressure
    The film functions best when Anthony Maras reflects his protagonist's nature: straightforward, unflashy, and mission-driven.
  19. With Hasan in Gaza
    The film is both a document of a precise historical moment and testament to the continuity of Palestinian memory and struggle.
  20. Tuner
    Daniel Roher’s modern noir has an appealing cleverness and lightness of touch.
  21. The Samurai and the Prisoner
    The Samurai and the Prisoner offers a master class in framing and blocking, with Kurosawa Kiyoshi continually finding new ways to render the story’s self-contained setting as a source of rich visual pleasure.
  22. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
    Mandalorian and Grogu is, basically, four Mandalorian episodes wearing an IMAX trench coat.
  23. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
    This endlessly playful, humorous, and mirthfully gory film is pure Jane Schoenbrun.
  24. The Diary of a Chambermaid
    The influence of Brecht and Godard is plain to see, but any distancing effect is counterbalanced by Radu Jude’s earthy black humor and especially by the main character, who gives the film its strong emotional core.
  25. Manas
    With one foot planted in documentary exposé and the other in coming-of-age drama, the film falls short of satisfying the demands of either genre.
  26. I Love Boosters
    Arrhythmic, unfocused, and forgetting to breathe, this overstuffed film feels like a circus act, a well-dressed elephant on a unicycle juggling a dozen balls. It’s an impressive feat of dexterity, if not grace.
  27. In the Grey
    At some point before the truncated-seeming finale, the film is just chasing its own tail.
  28. LifeHack
    LifeHack is consistently intriguing for the conflicting emotions with which it looks back on its chosen moment in tech and time, characterized by cutthroat scamming and cynicism, as well as empowerment and camaraderie for the young and quick-witted.
  29. Obsession
    Obsession’s big set-piece sequences are as chilling in their effect as they are confident in their execution.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Is God Is
    Featuring larger-than-life characters described with epithets like “monster” and “the rough one,” and blending brutal violence with themes of generational trauma, abuse, and toxic masculinity, the film ponders what one does with the bottomless hate of being wronged.
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