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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. Free Fire
    Ben Wheatley's film reduces the modus operandi of the action movie down to its starkest elements.
  2. A Quiet Passion
    A Quiet Passion's accomplishment is in fleshing out the stark context behind Emily Dickinson's ethereal words.
  3. The Fate of the Furious
    The film finally tips the franchise over from modestly thoughtful stupidity into tedious, loud inanity.
  4. Born in China
    The film is neatly organized around not only the changing of the seasons, but a Disney-branded "circle of life" ethos.
  5. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    Writer-director Joseph Cedar charts Norman's rise-and-fall arc with the attention to detail of a procedural.
  6. Little Boxes
    The film's default mode is to lazily skewer suburbanites as cartoonishly privileged yuppies.
  7. Mimosas
    Mimosas confounds its surface narrative with intimations of more layered meanings to come through a jockeying of story threads.
  8. Heal the Living
    The film allows the sorrows of losing a life and the joys of saving it to remain congruent.
  9. Glory
    The film's rough-hewn naturalism belies an exquisite sense of pace and a sneaky breed of gallows humor.
  10. Going in Style
    No one in Going in Style seems to really know what the hell they’re doing or why. And even though that goes double for the filmmakers, at least no one succumbs to taking any of it seriously.
  11. Gifted
    The grace notes are crowded out by the screenplay’s plot machinations and emotional manipulations.
  12. Queen of the Desert
    Throughout Queen of the Desert's narrative, there's no sense of danger, of texture, or even of a rudimentary idea of what's truly driving Gertrude Bell.
  13. All These Sleepless Nights
    Director Michal Marczak's film finds a unique vitality in its densely constructed environment.
  14. Aftermath
    The film evokes nothing more strongly than a live-action adaptation of a Crate and Barrel catalog.
  15. i hate myself :)
    Few documentarians give themselves to their work as literally as Joanna Arnow.
  16. Your Name.
    Even at its most outrageously bizarre, Your Name is bound together by a passionately romantic core.
  17. Win It All
    There's an artisanal scruffiness to Win It All that testifies to Joe Swanberg’s quiet fluidity as a filmmaker.
  18. The Transfiguration
    The film is at its strongest when navigating the story's uneasy relationship to its genre.
  19. Their Finest
    Intimately focusing on its main character's personal triumphs, its refusing to fall into heavy-handed polemicism.
  20. The Ticket
    The Ticket abandons the potentially complex web of drama it initially sets up and moves toward a limp, shallow critique of superficiality itself.
  21. Smurfs: The Lost Village
    It's content to be the sort of film parents can throw on an iPad to ensure 90 minutes' worth of relative peace and quiet away from their antic children.
  22. SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock
    Throughout, the content and tenor of certain stories told by Mick Rock ambitiously inform the film’s style.
  23. Salt and Fire
    Salt and Fire is a doodle, suggesting an assemblage of ecological riffs and fantasias that Werner Herzog may have entertained while making Into the Inferno.
  24. Mine
    The film has absolutely no interest in the dilemmas or after-effects of war and occupation.
  25. Colossal
    When the film's whirligig plotline goes off-rail in the heady final act, Oscar and Gloria's origin story bends over backward to justify a magical-realist conceit that was more fun without explanation.
  26. The Assignment
    Walter Hill and Michelle Rodriguez seem to share Frank’s confusion over the precise difference between cosmetic and biological reality.
  27. Ghost in the Shell
    The primary pleasure of the film resides in its awareness of the impossibilities of unity, whether physical or cultural, within a rapidly transforming global milieu.
  28. Life
    Life, an incredibly square and familiar studio product, baits and switches on two disappointing propositions, moving swiftly from something expectedly cliché to something dismayingly derivative.
  29. The Boss Baby
    Every Republican regime gets the ludicrous devious-baby saga it deserves.
  30. Carrie Pilby
    The film is essentially an exercise in forcing a female genius back into her proper place of dependence on both the father figure and the Prince Charming.
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