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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 Wolf of Snow Hollow
    Writer-director Jim Cummings reinvigorates an oft-told tale with personal, thorny preoccupations.
  2. Sansón and Me
    Sansón and Me has a way of frustratingly pulling focus away from its ostensible subject.
  3. A Private Life
    The film’s brisk pace does partly compensate for the essential banality of the central investigation.
  4. The Family Fang
    There's real texture and emotional heft to the central relationship between the siblings, but that's thanks more to the actors than the script.
  5. The Last Duel
    Ridley Scott’s medieval saga insightfully revels in the complexities of its competing storylines.
  6. Abendland
    The documentary discipline can't escape its own inherent intermediateness, or its own penchant for deception.
  7. Rosenwald
    Director Aviva Kempner profile of Julius Rosenwald suggests a 60 Minutes segment stretched to feature length.
  8. Alice Sweet Alice
    Alice, Sweet Alice conflates the angst of adolescent sexual development with the fury of Catholic retribution, suggesting at times an analog version of David Fincher’s Se7en.
  9. Invention
    Courtney Stephens’s film blends fiction and autobiography to fascinating implications.
  10. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
    There is, of course, Gene Wilder as Wonka, the reason most people think they like this movie, and he’s a wonderful actor quite capable of hitting Dahl’s ambivalences (and he has a lovely entrance), but Stuart’s clunky stop-and-start pace and sketchy tone give him nowhere to go.
  11. Juliet, Naked
    The film is loaded with inconsequential detours and questionable and inconsistent character psychology as it stumbles awkwardly to its foregone conclusion.
  12. Jay Kelly
    As Noah Baumbach sells the sappiness in Jay Kelly with the same sincerity of his convictions as in his more acerbic works, the film holds together as a lightweight delight.
  13. PG: Psycho Goreman
    This tongue-in-cheek gorefest gives the impression of an only semi-coherent joke on the audience.
  14. Björk: Biophilia Live
    You can't help but be impressed by how much it represents a natural, even defensive evolutionary step on its creator's part.
  15. Les Cowboys
    Never content to suffice as a mediocre thriller, Les Cowboys is a wellspring of embarrassment for all parties involved.
  16. Haywire
    If anything, Haywire is most closely linked to last year's "Contagion," a kindred effort in style, theme, and value-marring detachment.
  17. Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation
    Throughout, the era-defining yet problem-plagued music festival astounds in large part for all the disasters that didn’t occur.
  18. The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52
    While 52 remains something of a mystery, The Loneliest Whale renders him less of a metaphor.
  19. Fresh
    Fresh is pitched as a kind of genre corrective, except its tone-deaf cheekiness only results in a feeling of dreary regression.
  20. Kink
    More than just a thorough examination of hardcore pornography, Christina Voros's doc is also a sort of chronicle of the filmmaking process.
  21. As You Are
    The outline of Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s As You Are is certainly well-worn, but this coming-of-age film nonetheless stands out for its nuanced sense of detail and the sympathy it extends to its main characters.
  22. Perfect Blue
    Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue is a prescient vision of a modern world defined by media oversaturation and social media validation.
  23. Silent Running
    While the drones are still cuter than Ewoks, Lowell remains a cloying representation of a ‘70s acid freak shoving his save-the-trees mantra down your throat.
  24. Annette
    The musical format proves a natural fit for Leos Carax’s love of the visual fantasies created by the cinema’s most basic means of illusion.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Chappaquiddick
    John Curran creates room for his characters to think and feel and an environment that encourages us to do the same.
  26. A Late Quartet
    A muted soap opera masquerading as erudite ensemble piece, Yaron Zilberman's A Late Quartet jettisons character plausibility in favor of pop psychology and leaden instrument analogies.
  27. Korengal
    The result is an alternately gripping and dully meandering patchwork of these soldiers' stay in the Korengal that pointedly shuns big-picture philosophizing.
  28. A Faithful Man
    It reveals itself as neither committed New Wave subversion nor skillful homage, but rather a weak and uninspired imitation.
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