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For 7,772 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: 4,346 out of 7772
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7772
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7772
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  1. Downsizing
    Alexander Payne's defenders might call his often acidic touch Swiftian, though it comes off more toothlessly noncommittal.
  2. Molly's Game
    There's a blank space at the core of Molly's Game that the protagonist cannot fill, unable as she is to represent anything beyond her esoteric narrative of unorthodox self-actualization.
  3. EX LIBRIS: The New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman is a portraitist of ideals, of the insidious inspirations and nightmares that enable and undermine them, and, implicitly, of the political waves that have yet to balance this duality of first-world life.
  4. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker spends much of The Florida Project charging in vigorously nimble fashion up and down the stairs of the Magic Castle, in and out of its rooms, investing the minutia of the down-and-out lives within this little ecosystem with a bittersweet energy and significance.
  5. Nobody's Watching
    Julia Solomonoff's film ripples with a palpable sense of the sheer distance between the down and out actor at its center and his goals.
  6. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    In between raids, in between the meetings with ACT UP members and those who hold the keys to their possible survival, BPM is at its most intimate when observing the exchange of war stories.
  7. It
    It cashes in on trendy retroism instead of utilizing the perspective of, to borrow from Joni Mitchell, seeing clowns from both sides now.
  8. School Life
    School Life is unfortunately committed to keeping its subjects, especially Headfort’s students, at arm’s length.
  9. Rebel in the Rye
    The whole affair suggests dramatic Tetris, and it leeches the artist and his process of any mystery.
  10. Trophy
    It goes a long way toward complicating our moral assumptions about trophy hunting, as well as a host of other wildlife issues, including conservation, poaching, rhino farms, and the proper balance between man and nature.
  11. Spettacolo
    Though some of Spettacolo's tension is superficial, the stuff of any let’s-put-on-a-show narrative, its latent anxieties are myriad and profoundly resonant.
  12. Rememory
    The film successfully argues that it’s through sensory details that we access the deeper aspects of our lives.
  13. The Limehouse Golem
    Initially colorful, the script’s lurid and overripe dialogue eventually grinds the film to a halt.
  14. The Good Catholic
    Despite The Good Catholic‘s interesting macro approach compared to other films of its ilk, it’s far less successful on a micro level.
  15. Strong Island
    Yance Ford’s film builds into an emotionally, intellectually, and aesthetically complex work of essay and memoir.
  16. The Teacher
    There's a Tarkovskian layer of social despair in the web of corruption joining the child and the adult, the bedroom and the nation.
  17. Dolores
    Peter Bratt's documentary sharply trumpets Dolores Huerta's life and centrality in the turbulent history of social justice since the '60s.
  18. Viceroy's House
    The only thing that offsets the film's self-negating revisionism are the scenes involving Gillian Anderson vicereine.
  19. The Layover
    William H. Macy's The Layover was clearly conceived and written by men who have no interest in approaching female friendships with any degree of complexity, curiosity, or respect.
  20. Unlocked
    With its dull mixture of indifferently staged exposition and action, it suggests a primitive side-scrolling video game.
  21. I Do... Until I Don't
    It’s hard to tell who’s being lampooned and who’s being treated with sincerity at any given point.
  22. Goon: Last of the Enforcers
    Jay Baruchel's Goon: Last of the Enforcers faces an uphill climb that's inherent to retreads, as it's almost impossible for the film to honor its predecessor without lapsing into contrived and preordained formula.
  23. Temple
    The film is only in the business of supplying the sort of fear that hinges entirely on the shock of the exotic.
  24. Kill Me Please
    Anita Rocha da Silveira’s slasher-film plot is simply a tease, as there are no scares here, and the filmmaker’s attempt at genre hybridization never coheres conceptually.
  25. Jesús
    Fernando Guzzoni's Jesus is at its best when it steers clear of pat moralizing and simply yokes its moody sense of atmosphere to the aimlessness of the story’s young characters.
  26. Polina
    Even its sensitive and gorgeous choreographies can't fully offer respite from the hollow narrative.
  27. Bushwick
    Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott's Bushwick is a genre film with a refreshing sense of political infrastructure.
  28. Death Note
    Whereas the more grounded scenes of Death Note anchor a startlingly bloody fantasy of power run amok, the scenes that fixate on super powers and code-busting seldom manage to rise above the realm of serviceable YA fiction.
  29. Leap!
    The film’s careful attention to detail in the animation is continuously undermined by a formulaic plot and anxious pandering to contemporary sensibilities.
  30. Whitney: Can I Be Me
    It's no surprise that Nick Broomfield finds little use for the moments of unabashed triumphalism in Houston's life, as he's doggedly fixated on the humiliating swan dive.
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