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For 7,789 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 6.2 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: 4,359 out of 7789
  2. Mixed: 1,496 out of 7789
  3. Negative: 1,934 out of 7789
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Secret Disco Revolution
    Jamie Kastner bows fully to hedonism in lieu of all the scholarly theories on disco's lasting impact--a tidy but gutless way of tying together so many disparate arguments by such disparate people.
  2. Spider-Man: Homecoming
    By partially demonstrating what a newer, fresher superhero movie might look like, Homecoming ultimately underlines its own genre-defined limitations.
  3. Dolphin Tale 2
    Writer-director Charles Martin Smith's tin ear for dialogue and contrived symbolism is as unmistakable as his enormous heart.
  4. Hell Baby
    Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon display a freewheelin' sense of invention that should be watched closely, because they have the raw stuff of major comic filmmakers.
  5. The Shine of Day
    As in Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel's 2009 film, La Pivellina, modesty is the key to The Shine of Day, and sometimes to the detriment of audience involvement and focus.
  6. Pawn Shop Chronicles
    Wayne Kramer thankfully refuses to cloak his excessiveness in hedge-betting self-consciousness and the result is a gratifyingly disreputable B-movie blow out.
  7. Still Mine
    As far as films about couples dealing with the female partner losing her mind go, Still Mine is pretty pedestrian.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Terms and Conditions May Apply
    If The Social Network didn't make you want to quit Facebook in 2010, the brave new world outlined here should, despite the fact that your data won't actually be erased.
  9. Child's Pose
    The film thrives on ambiguity, keeping all things blurry outside its main character's focused perspective, its myopia sustained by Luminița Gheorghiu's tough, quietly intense performance.
  10. Filth
    Ultimately, the film is too nihilistic to believe its protagonist can be saved, declaring him a lost soul and satisfied to let him suffer.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
    It threatens to succumb to hero worship, but Jorge Hinojosa wisely subverts Slim's mythos by pulling the curtain back on it in the doc's second half by revealing the man beneath.
  12. SPECTRE
    All of its revisionism centrally incorporates the history of the franchise, and the film both excels and suffers for frequently recalling its forbears.
  13. Our Nixon
    Our Nixon never completely overcomes the disappointment of its recovered video, but it nevertheless offers a compelling portrait of Nixon and those close to him, one that captures how willfully blind they often were to their excesses, and how paranoid they were about apparent threats to them and America as a whole.
  14. Dear Mr. Watterson
    Though it begins by spending far too much time talking up the comic's quality, it gradually finds a groove as an incisive portrait of an insecure industry.
  15. Snowpiercer
    The film preaches resolutely to the choir, and cinephiles in sync with the film's politics may still blanch at how snugly their interests are courted.
  16. Our Children
    It's occasionally too icily removed, but it compensates through its perpetual concern with understanding its characters and their untenable situations.
  17. Una Noche
    Una Noche tugged at my heartstrings, but the film's almost phantasmagoric fixation on sex can feel crass and dehumanizing.
  18. 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
    If you grant the documentary its slanted perspective at the outset, it works well as its own state-of-the-union address.
  19. Herb & Dorothy 50X50
    Dorothy Vogel is less the soft-spoken housewife from the first film than a businesswoman both shrewd and mousy, and her trajectory affords the film its closest semblance to a story.
  20. Birth of the Living Dead
    The film is unavoidably slight, but there's a certain pleasure in watching talented people wax passionate about a common source of inspiration.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Inequality for All
    Robert Reich's message to America, much like director Jacob Kornbluth's uncomplicated film, is so simple and straightforward (you might even say obvious) that, without nitpicking, it can appear flawless.
  22. Escape from Tomorrow
    The film is just a stunt or, more specifically, a calling card, but that might be enough for anyone who's ever wanted to kick Mickey Mouse square in his padded, pious balls.
  23. Ip Man: The Final Fight
    Anthony Wong does a creditable job of conveying Ip Man's reflectiveness through his twilight years, occasionally cutting through the hagiographic nature of the enterprise.
  24. Five Dances
    It's the moments when director Alan Brown stops worrying about clarifying plot and character motivation and lets the performances bring those into being that makes this an authentic project.
  25. Vikingdom
    Intentionally or otherwise, Yusry Abd Halim allows the film, in all its candy-colored visuals and slow-mo-laden action scenes, to revel in its inherent campiness.
  26. Willow Creek
    Bobcat Goldthwait exposes the characteristic male pursuit of power to which females are often made subservient.
  27. The Last Christeros
    The film forsakes most of the underdog sentimentality found in traditional genre treatments of noble sacrifice.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Newlyweeds
    Going neither in the direction of Reefer Madness nor a Cheech and Chong movie, it's both funny and serious, and its depictions of pot-smoking could be read as either promotional or cautionary.
  29. Price of Gold
    While the real-time aesthetic approach sporadically enthralls, it also reveals the narrow worldview that burdens the film.
  30. Enemy
    Jake Gyllenhaal embodies the two roles with real presence, establishing Adam's sniveling wimp and Anthony's striding jerk as two believably discrete sides of the same coin.
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