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For 7,776 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: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. The East
    It showcases the evolving interests and talents of Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, but expands them and channels them into a more traditional thriller framework.
  2. In a Violent Nature
    Think of Chris Nash’s film as Béla Tarr doing an unholy doc-fiction hybrid about Crystal Lake.
  3. Black Mass
    Like any crime saga without a more potent thematic hook, the film's relentlessly insular script dwells on themes of loyalty and fraternity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Wave
    It sketches an imperiled family worth caring about, but any goodwill is soon weathered by wave after wave of contrivance following the initial town-leveling event.
  5. Fire in the Blood
    It produces a collection of one-dimensional facts strung together with an utmost respect for chronology and documentary-making's most stale conventions.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Name Is Nobody
    Part elegy for the Old West, part in-jokey celebration of the spaghetti western’s popular ascendance over classical Hollywood models, My Name Is Nobody plays like a deeply schizoid production, albeit an amiable enough one that manages several brilliant passages.
  7. The Hateful Eight
    The premise of the film is simple, but it's a simplicity that can only attract complications, as simple plans are apt to do, in an atmosphere of foreboding and the macabre.
  8. If You Don't, I Will
    The actors play off one another beautifully, but the film bottoms out just as it's getting warmed up.
  9. The Blackcoat's Daughter
    Oz Perkins exhibits a committed understanding of the cinematic value of silence and of vastly underpopulated compositions.
  10. Barbara
    In Barbara, the process of filmmaking is shown to be a nesting series of shells that allow one to be simultaneously freed and lost.
  11. Deerskin
    In Deerskin, Quentin Dupieux mines the absurdism that is his signature with newfound forcefulness.
  12. The Sterile Cuckoo
    Alan J. Pakula’s directorial debut takes a done-to-death story template and revitalizes it with intelligence, maturity, and tenderness.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Murder by Decree
    It’s a heady brew of highly improbable extraction that would go on to inspire Alan Moore’s graphic novel From Hell.
  14. Harvest
    The film is a handsomely mounted production in which much of the filth feels stage-managed.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Stranger Eyes
    Lee Kang-sheng’s performance is the emotional and physical lodestone of a film about the fraught ambiguities of seeing through a one-way mirror.
  16. Homeroom
    Despite the film’s narrow scope, it’s hard to not be impressed by the political and civic engagement of its teen subjects.
  17. Una Noche
    Una Noche tugged at my heartstrings, but the film's almost phantasmagoric fixation on sex can feel crass and dehumanizing.
  18. Spring Blossom
    Throughout her directorial debut, Suzanne Lindon paints a concise and truthful portrait of her protagonist’s feelings of estrangement.
  19. Queen and Country
    The film lacks an ability to construct significant instances of character drama as symbolic of larger concerns pertaining to nationalist dilemmas.
  20. The Howling
    From the very first scene, The Howling plays around with the notion of vulnerability as a role-playing exercise, a pseudo-sex game.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    Throughout, internal conflict becomes external, and the passions and irrationalities of human emotion are condensed into explanatory dialogue.
  22. Chuck
    Like its protagonist, Philippe Falardeau's film gets lost in a haze of incidental cacophony.
  23. Chavela
    The film's hopscotching-in-time structure, informed by specific remembrances of Chavela Vargas's life, is refreshingly unconventional.
  24. The Childhood of a Leader
    Brady Corbet reaches for a dreary self-importance akin to Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon.
  25. Alice in Wonderland
    This lack of force-fed moralizing, coupled with its diffuse plot and hazily psychedelic imagery, makes it hardly surprising that the film’s revival came about when it developed a cult following.
  26. Why Don't You Play in Hell?
    Refusing to mourn anything, displaying a Futurist-style disdain for the past, Sion Sono imagines a world in which static adherence to old ideas leads directly to doom.
  27. Richard Jewell
    Ironically, Clint Eastwood is as condescending of Jewell as the bureaucrats he despises.
  28. The Night House
    The film upends the clichés that practically define the ghost story in surprising and intriguing ways.
  29. American Animals
    As he showed in "The Imposter," writer-director Bart Layton knows how to spin a compelling yarn.
  30. Meet the Fokkens
    Few recent studies of commercialized sex have been character profiles, so Rob Schröder and Gabrielle Provaas's documentary is an unusual and welcome polemic.
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