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On average, this publication grades 6.4 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: 4,345 out of 7769
  2. Mixed: 1,491 out of 7769
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7769
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  1. Sand Storm
    Elite Zexer weaves an impressively terse narrative of distinctly motivated characters, but the film’s core remains somewhat shapeless due to the routine dramatization.
  2. Personal Shopper
    The film explores the extent to which Olivier Assayas’s characters have always found, and lost, their identities through the aid of their surroundings.
  3. Closet Monster
    It's when Stephen Dunn dares to inhabit the how and not the what of queerness that Closet Monster feels authentic and deliciously strange.
  4. Elle
    This is a film that isn’t afraid to inhabit the maddening ambivalence of pleasure, recognizing that desire simply doesn’t recognize good manners.
  5. Chronic
    A dour and withholding character study, Michel Franco's film invites more questions than it’s willing to answer.
  6. Goat
    The film's understanding of the brittleness that begets the "traditions" of frat culture is altogether shallow.
  7. Beauty and the Beast
    Christophe Gans’s telling of Beauty and the Beast abounds in impersonal and unsatisfying sumptuousness.
  8. Deepwater Horizon
    The film should have been a cautionary tale, but in Peter Berg's hands, it's a hollow account of the resilience of the human spirit.
  9. The Magnificent Seven
    As passably entertaining as the film is, it never surrenders to the abandon of its action, and as such never feels like it shifts out of first gear.
  10. Belle Épine
    Neither sentimentality nor nostalgia for reckless years gone by can be found in Rebecca Zlotowski's Belle Epine, which makes its tale of teenage rebellion in the face of overwhelming grief fall closer to a sobering character study than a classical youth film.
  11. Bridget Jones's Baby
    The Pinkberry solipsism of this particular franchise all but requires our heroine persist as a lovelorn martyr for her audience’s benefit.
  12. A Family Affair
    Throughout A Family Affair, time is continually collapsed to the point where events separated by many years bleed into one another.
  13. Tanna
    The film blends the Bard with National Geographic, failing to make a case for the inexplicability of their union.
  14. Blair Witch
    It doesn't suggest documentary footage found in the woods so much as a haunted-house version of Hardcore Henry.
  15. Dancer
    It refuses to pass judgment on whether or not Sergei Polunin's success was worth so much sacrifice and heartache.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Silicon Cowboys
    Jason Cohen’s slick aesthetics manage to elevate Silicon Cowboys beyond fellow “info dumps” of this caliber.
  17. Operation Avalanche
    The film attains a chilly existential quality as Matt Johnson's character discerns the weight of his actions.
  18. Miss Stevens
    It provides materials for discussion without directing the viewer toward a particular solution or easy answer.
  19. A Beautiful Now
    Writer-director Daniela Amavia fails to link the lives of her characters to any deeper sense of meaning.
  20. Command and Control
    Robert Kenner's stylistic choices amplify the film's fetishistic fascination with the nuclear weaponry itself.
  21. Mr. Church
    Bruce Beresford's film is remarkable for how it manages to indulge so many offensive and shopworn clichés at once.
  22. Snowden
    The film depicts Edward Snowden's ethical dilemmas in a political vacuum that disregards America's increasingly complex security threats.
  23. The Dressmaker
    The frequent contemptuousness the film displays toward its characters keeps the audience at arm's length.
  24. The Apostate
    The Apostate finds humor in unusual images or situations, few resounding with lasting impact.
  25. Sully
    It presses the case that the complexity of the human condition distracts us from the pure dignity of a noble act.
  26. Peter and the Farm
    Peter and the Farm is a warts-and-all portrait that asserts its subject's sense of purpose even as it seems to slip out of his grasp.
  27. As I Open My Eyes
    Leyla Bouzid successfully dramatizes how young people eroticize peril and risk due to a lack of experience.
  28. Happy Birthday
    It plays like it was written by a bro who just discovered the early films of Quentin Tarantino.
  29. Ithaca
    The film is confused in conception, dreary in execution, and completely lacking in forward momentum.
  30. Other People
    The film is at its sharpest when Chris Kelly hands scenes over to his main character's family and friends.
  31. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
    Jeff Feuerzeig isn't skeptical enough of Laura Albert's explanations and rationalizations.
  32. Transpecos
    Violence in Transpecos is sparse, but the filmmakers use it with a narrative precision that highlights the unforgiving consequences that accompanies every choice in this desolate borderland.
  33. Kicks
    It's less notable for its originality than for how dynamically it blends a few styles that ultimately prove incompatible.
  34. Come What May
    Christian Carion's film shamelessly wrings excitement from the recreation of violent ideological conflict.
  35. The 9th Life of Louis Drax
    Every incident in the film is a time-bidding maneuver, completely and unimaginatively untethered from logic.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Antibirth
    It’s unfortunate that the only part of the film that works does so by taking the wind out of the rest of it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Game of Aces
    The characters' motivations are dictated less by the dynamics of their personalities and more by the needs of the screenplay.
  38. The Light Between Oceans
    Derek Cianfrance's film is a beautifully sustained study in adult themes of emotional crisis.
  39. White Girl
    It's an entertaining and unapologetic tale of female risk-taking, filled with clever camerawork, but the characters remain shallow.
  40. Morgan
    The film's makers lose trust in the intellectual heft of their material and chose to prioritize empty sensation instead.
  41. Skiptrace
    The film's bloated action-comedy machinery prevents any real chemistry from forming between Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville.
  42. Kickboxer: Vengeance
    It relies less on in-camera stunts than editing that renders vague gibberish of the altercations.
  43. Cameraperson
    Cameraperson is certainly a collection of memorable images, but it's more so Johnson's facility with narrative, on a micro and macro level, that impresses.
  44. Max Rose
    The film occasionally and promisingly suggests an obsessive and free-associative paean to regret.
  45. Yoga Hosers
    Any of the film's attempts at moralizing are subsumed by Kevin Smith’s obsession with taking aim at his critics.
  46. The Academy of Muses
    It's a shame that the José Luis Guerín film's verbal qualities far outpace its formal attributes.
  47. The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
    It insists that it's in moments of small talk, between life's larger events, that one finds vitality.
  48. The Hollars
    The film's ruefully honest tone is periodically drowned out by the blare of stagey coincidences.
  49. Happy Hour
    Hamaguchi arranges most sequences around a handful of static, roomy medium shots that subtly suggest emotional dynamics through camera and actor positioning.
  50. I Am Not a Serial Killer
    The film comes unsettlingly close to being an apologia for the kind of violence that stems from adolescent disaffection.
  51. The Intervention
    Clea DuVall crafts an entire film out of aborted attempts at a revelation that feel completely anodyne.
  52. Fatima
    The film appears to have been devised to pander to the presumptions of Western, liberal viewers.
  53. Hands of Stone
    The Panamanian-born Roberto Duran's story has all the makings of a fascinating film, but Hands of Stone isn't it.
  54. Southside with You
    The film may not announce itself as hagiography, but it’s hero-worshipful to its core.
  55. Complete Unknown
    Underneath the impersonal formal beauty and good acting is a familiar moral about self-imposed limitations.
  56. In Order of Disappearance
    The film has been executed with a sense of formally stylish and thematically symmetric panache.
  57. Don't Breathe
    The film's sustainment of its corkscrew tension is so elegant and methodical as to feel dance-like.
  58. Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
    The film is, at least, a marvelously enticing advertisement for the upcoming Final Fantasy XV video game.
  59. A Tale of Love and Darkness
    The film mostly succeeds in capturing the nuances of an event that continues to arouse passionate debate to this day.
  60. Ben-Hur
    Ben-Hur director Timur Bekmambetov offers nothing new to the cinematic lexicon of the chariot race.
  61. War Dogs
    The film is unrepentantly cynical when it comes to the global business of warmongering, but proves unsurprisingly earnest when it comes to the lure of the American dream.
  62. 13 Assassins
    Beginning with a series of traps before escalating into sword-to-sword skirmishes, Miike's centerpiece boasts sharp momentum and nasty muscularity.
  63. The Sea of Trees
    There's little here to suggest that the film is anything more than a hastily cobbled-together studio star vehicle.
  64. Kate Plays Christine
    It movingly posits acting as a metaphor for the search for connection, through visceral texture rather than platitude.
  65. Morris from America
    Chad Hartigan's film is especially perceptive about the effect of external influence on personal development.
  66. The People vs. Fritz Bauer
    Lars Kraume's tinkering with the historical record would be more welcome were he also shifting away from the standard biopic template.
  67. Spa Night
    It recombines elements of the emigrant saga and the coming-of-age story into a searching, fresh-faced portrait.
  68. Ixcanul
    The film's structure, however stifling, is filled with gorgeous imagery and nuanced symbolism.
  69. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
    It routinely alternating between episodes that contrast exhilaration with exploitation and damnation.
  70. Imperium
    It demonstrates both the fatal proximity and deceptive distance that can exist between the words and deeds of extremists.
  71. Kampai! For the Love of Sake
    Mirai Konishi's documentary inevitably reveals itself to be an elaborate infomercial for Westerners.
  72. Kubo and the Two Strings
    It offers a powerful metaphor for the manner in which we carry the memories of our departed inside ourselves.
  73. Florence Foster Jenkins
    The film champions coddling people like Florence Foster Jenkins and treats critical thinking as the enemy.
  74. Sausage Party
    Though the filmmakers may not believe in a higher power, they still maintain a faith in raunchiness as an id-blasting form of liberation from rigid norms, spiritual, sexual, or otherwise.
  75. Blood Father
    The film shrewdly capitalizes on Mel Gibson's off-screen embarrassments and controversies.
  76. Hell or High Water
    As with Sicario, the broad strokes of the film's Southwestern stereotypes gradually sharpen into focus as the story pivots to a look at the systemic forces that shape the characters.
  77. Abortion: Stories Women Tell
    Tracy Droz Tragos's documentary examines its titular subject with a compassionate eye for regional detail.
  78. The Model
    The film unapologetically warns us at every turn that fashion is nothing but a business, fueled by naiveté and rape.
  79. The Lost Arcade
    The film's images have a loose, rough, textured liveliness that honors the spirit of Chinatown Fair.
  80. Joshy
    The film feels most real, even at its most absurd, when focused on the idea of closure as a kind of fantasy.
  81. Anthropoid
    Director Sean Ellis's film offers a potent examination of the moral rectitude of resistance.
  82. Disorder
    Alice Winocour's film begins as a vivid portrait of a man warily eyeing the tumult of his homecoming.
  83. Edge of Winter
    One comes to resent the film for how it thrills to the possibility of a father hurting his children.
  84. Amateur Night
    The film is peppered with interesting true-life details, but these are overwhelmed by frantic comedic sequences.
  85. Suicide Squad
    Like the recruited criminals themselves, the film longs to be bad, yet its forced by outside pressures to follow narrow, preset rules.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Neither Heaven Nor Earth
    While he may indulge in the occasional programmatic jump scare, writer-director Clément Cogitore ultimately heaves his debut feature closer to the realm of psychological terror, understanding that there's nothing more frightening or darker than the human mind.
  87. Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
    The documentary is just more of what we've come to expect from director Richard Linklater's expanded fanverse.
  88. Will You Dance with Me?
    Derek Jarman's footage speaks to the freedoms afforded by the combination of a darkened dance floor and like-minded people.
  89. The Tenth Man
    As films about dopey dudes finding love go, The Tenth Man is too modest for its own good.
  90. Front Cover
    The very few instances where stereotypes are challenged are forced and didactically delivered.
  91. Five Nights in Maine
    Maris Curran never reconciles the film's impulse to interiority with its weakness for hothouse melodrama.
  92. Little Men
    Director Ira Sachs transforms the smallest blip on life's radar, a childhood friendship, into a momentous occasion.
  93. Don't Blink - Robert Frank
    Like the work it illuminates, the doc feels formally impeccable yet utterly unstaged, a vivid distillation of a distinct and precious life.
  94. Bad Moms
    The end-credits sequence shows up the rest of the film as the broad and incoherent live-action cartoon that it is.
  95. Pete's Dragon
    It abandons its subtlety en route to becoming a moralistic screed about the preservation of the nuclear family.
  96. Ants on a Shrimp
    It offers lively and layered images that reveal the chefs both as individuals and components of a larger social organism.
  97. Jason Bourne
    One of the more admirable traits of the original Bourne trilogy is how little pleasure it takes in its violence, but Jason Bourne revels in its vicious action sequences.
  98. Nerve
    By merely transposing its generic high school clique drama onto an augmented reality platform, Nerve sacrifices most of its novelty, but the filmmakers demonstrate a marginal interest in how this mediated environment warps the perspectives of its characters.
  99. Homo Sapiens
    A real yet illusory world is evoked so seamlessly that it also feels just one step away from pure cinematic fiction.
  100. Into the Forest
    Essentially a post-apocalyptic telenovela, it sanitizes the concept of sisterhood, and even womanhood.
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