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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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  1. The One I Love
    The film gets too caught up in the semi-farcical comings and goings of the two Sophies and Ethans to explore any of the issues it raises about relationships very deeply.
  2. X-Men: Apocalypse
    The issue with X-Men: Apocalypse is that Bryan Singer suggests so many possible directions to go in and still chooses the least interesting one.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Paths of Glory
    Paths of Glory may be first-rate humanity, but it’s also second-rate art.
  4. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
    It’s a film of familiar pleasures, but like Harold Faltermeyer’s still infectiously enjoyable synth-pop theme, they do remain highly pleasurable.
  5. Ricki and the Flash
    Director Jonathan Demme grasps the well of feeling of Diablo Cody's script and eventually harnesses it in his own image.
  6. Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
    The unbalanced appraisal of Vidal's life and work in Nicholas Wrathall's documentary diminishes the effect of the writer's engaging dissension of American political policy.
  7. Wild
    Director Jean-Marc Vallée has created a film out of Cheryl Strayed's beloved 2012 memoir that never quite matches the blunt audacity of its simple title.
  8. Point Break
    In its philosophical and criminal investigations (largely imported from Kathryn Bigelow's original), the film moves in dozens of illogical directions, but not without achieving a patina of earnest credibility.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Point Break
    In terms of Hollywood history, Bigelow's film is the perfect document of its time.
  10. Girlhood
    Girlhood is so keyed to the minutiae of its teenage protagonists' lives, it's as if the film can't stop itself from behaving like they do.
  11. Mommy
    When Xavier Dolan's tremendous empathy for the abandoned, medicated, and economically stressed is given full visual flight, it's easy to get lost in the rush.
  12. Jimmy's Hall
    Ken Loach's staging is so calm and sober that it turns his story into an expertly photographed yet weirdly remote rebellion tale.
  13. Bird People
    Pascale Ferran's film isn't daring enough to fully embrace the narrative fragmentation that it sporadically assumes.
  14. In the Name of My Daughter
    This adaptation is to concerned with narrative fidelity and formal objectivity to pierce the veil of power dynamics that largely comprises the film's concerns.
  15. Sausage Party
    Though the filmmakers may not believe in a higher power, they still maintain a faith in raunchiness as an id-blasting form of liberation from rigid norms, spiritual, sexual, or otherwise.
  16. Dormant Beauty
    The film puts too many elements into play, which means it ends up darting hopelessly between a series of underdeveloped storylines.
  17. Ivory Tower
    The documentary is more interested in covering all its bases than making sure it fully has its foot on each base.
  18. Jimi: All Is by My Side
    Opting for scenes that tend to be fragmented, flawed snippets from a much bigger story, the film exudes a bizarre confidence in not trying to encapsulate the singer's whole life in 120 minutes.
  19. Life's a Breeze
    A rigidly predetermined film that runs on the fumes of hackneyed plot points, squandering at nearly every turn a humanistic study of a family's struggle to maintain a tenable bond with one another.
  20. Frontera
    By turns abrasive and stately, sermonic and impartial, plot-heavy and meandering, often within seconds of each other.
  21. Witching and Bitching
    Álex de la Iglesia has a real flair for wild action sequences that remain exhilaratingly coherent and sensical.
  22. The Amazing Catfish
    The familiar premise is done with enough intelligence and heartfelt conviction that it rises above its potentially cliché trappings.
  23. Honeymoon
    It waffles between dramatizing youthful self-absorption and succumbing to it, and this tonal instability comes to effectively mirror the domestic discord that's revealed to be its real subject.
  24. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
    Its dedication to the transgressive power of frivolity remains the franchise's greatest weapon.
  25. Joy
    David O. Russell proposes that there may be no real barrier between the caustic worldview he wears and the sense of childlike wonder he sells.
  26. Straight Outta Compton
    It's most towering accomplishment are its set pieces, which manage to be brash, exhilarating, and even occasionally moving.
  27. The Good Lie
    This is a Hollywood-delivered chronicle of the immigrant experience that earns its justification through good will and tact.
  28. Bridge of Spies
    The film has a streamlined efficiency, but it feels like the work of a master who wants to please rather than probe.
  29. Me and You
    Not even Bernardo Bertolucci's choice of a lead actor with visible facial acne scars, in a welcome gesture toward authenticity, is enough to overcome the gaping hole of psychological nuance at the center of the film.
  30. Cannibal
    It keeps us at a remove that becomes telling of the filmmaker's reticence to explore whatever feelings of isolation and yearning may inform his main character's grisly compulsion.
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