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For 7,772 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Footnotes
    The ending cheapens its main character and weakens the film's firm commitment to the importance of workplace organizing.
  2. False Confessions
    The film is a trim farce with no blood flowing under its skin, as it’s all construction, setup, and payoff.
  3. Chasing Coral
    What makes it play as more than just another activist doc is its focus on the power of images as a way to inspire change.
  4. Bronx Gothic
    By design, the film is intensely preachy. And this preachiness serves a therapeutic purpose, offering jolting possibilities for empathy.
  5. Blind
    At one point, the film makes a bold but foolish move by getting in the ring with Tolstoy, analogizing itself to Anna Karenina in a self-seriously laughable attempt to pass its schmaltzy and contrived romance narrative off for something significantly grander.
  6. Spider-Man: Homecoming
    By partially demonstrating what a newer, fresher superhero movie might look like, Homecoming ultimately underlines its own genre-defined limitations.
  7. Endless Poetry
    Endless Poetry eventually, like young Alejandro, opens itself up to the world in all of its beauty and complexities.
  8. The Confessions
    Director Roberto Andò takes the form of a classical whodunit and bludgeons it with naïve indignation and sanctimony.
  9. Santoalla
    Andrew Becker and Daniel Mehrer get close to their subjects only to retreat when things get truly dangerous.
  10. City of Ghosts
    The director’s apparently frank and intimate relationships with the RBSS’s heroic journalists help sustain City of Ghosts‘s undeniable urgency, which culminates in a final image of appropriate, irresolvable anguish.
  11. Austin Found
    The conspicuous means by which Will Raee stacks the deck against Leanne, the real victim of this story, is matched only by a moral grandstanding that seeks to condemn rather than understand the character’s decisions.
  12. A Ghost Story
    An empty exercise in imitative long-take aestheticism, A Ghost Story fills its distractingly round-cornered frame with endless repetitions on a visual gag.
  13. The House
    The House's limp comedic pieces are only sporadically enlivened by a game cast.
  14. The Little Hours
    For all its hip ludicrousness, The Little Hours has a point: to almost earnestly riff on how atheism has taken hold of 21st-century America, by rooting our nation’s moors in a time of great austerity, sexism, classism, and persecution.
  15. Despicable Me 3
    If all this wackiness is only occasionally laugh-out-loud funny—the ‘80s references feel particularly played out—it’s nonetheless executed with good-natured breeziness.
  16. The Ornithologist
    The film revels in a hushed and lucid expressionist naturalism that’s reminiscent of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.
  17. The Reagan Show
    The documentary is an insightful portrait of the former American president and the world that he shaped.
  18. Pop Aye
    It too quickly opts out of its Scenes from a Marriage-like potential for what amounts to an augmented take on The Straight Story.
  19. 13 Minutes
    Aside from further vilifying the Nazis, the film's ideological endgame remains a bit too slippery.
  20. Okja
    In Okja, a transporting protest fantasy becomes another shrill dust-up in the waging of the culture wars.
  21. War for the Planet of the Apes
    The psychological wars that have made the prequels simmer with tightly wound tensions are given their most cutting treatment yet.
  22. Baby Driver
    Baby Driver literalizes Edgar Wright’s fascination with people’s emotional overreliance on pop culture as a cover for arrested development.
  23. The Beguiled
    The Beguiled serves as proof that what goes for naturalism in Sofia Coppola’s dominion still verges on being decorative to the point of self-parody.
  24. In Transit
    The film's thematic organization suggests the cinematic equivalent of a short-story collection, with haunting tangents and stray notes of poetry.
  25. Transformers: The Last Knight
    The sensory overload of Michael Bay's hyperkinetic cinema is such that it eradicates any actual sense of place.
  26. The Big Sick
    The film is always at least gut-rumbling and keeps its humor in situations that are morose and awkward.
  27. My Journey Through French Cinema
    Bertrand Tavernier's exquisite documentary consistently avoids mere hagiography by looking to the films themselves.
  28. Paulina
    It's unsettling and disconcerting in its complex examination of the gray area that lies between the morals we conceptually hold and the actions we’re willing to perform to affirm those beliefs in the world.
  29. The Bad Batch
    Ana Lily Amirpour has learned a few lessons from QT about the disreputable joys of blending kitsch and ultraviolence.
  30. All Eyez on Me
    The tension between verisimilitude and economy of storytelling dictates everything in All Eyez on Me.
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