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For 7,775 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: 4,349 out of 7775
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7775
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7775
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  1. Gold
    The film finds no treasure of gleaming originality in its energetically told but crushingly clichéd anti-capitalist parable.
  2. The Salesman
    Asghar Farhadi's film yields a tonal and emotional friction that's simultaneously tragic, transcendent, and comic.
  3. Donald Cried
    Finding the drama and humor in everyday situations like these isn't easy, but Avedisian makes it look as natural as swinging on a vine.
  4. xXx: Return of Xander Cage
    Quibbles dissipate in the face of the giddiness of the action, which builds to such a relentless head that even the serious stakes of the film’s motivation give way to a largely pleasant vibe.
  5. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo
    Very few films accept the contradicting velocities of gay desire, and present them in such blunt yet graceful fashion, the way Paris 05:59 does.
  6. Split
    Split is personal and outlandish, with questionable themes, riveting plotting, somber storytelling, and elegant construction.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    We Are the Flesh
    The film establishes a hypnotic rhythm through razor-stropped editing and a reverberant sound design that later scenes will disrupt with alarming impunity.
  8. Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
    Cohen here is ever the model of grace and dignity around his peers, if not exactly entirely at peace with himself.
  9. Starless Dreams
    Mehrdad Oskouei avoids sentimentalizing the girls or tritely lamenting their stolen innocence.
  10. Strike a Pose
    The filmmakers and performers show great maturity in refusing to settle scores or spill secrets.
  11. The Red Turtle
    A pointed simplicity governs Michael Dudok de Wit's The Red Turtle, one that’s traditional of many survival tales.
  12. Detour
    The effect of the film becomes not unlike watching a puzzle solve itself without demanding either the audience’s emotional or intellectual investment.
  13. Antarctica: Ice and Sky
    The documentary advances its cause through an intimately diaristic depiction of hard work done well.
  14. The Bye Bye Man
    Stacy Title’s film ends up succeeding most deftly as an advertisement for on-campus housing.
  15. Monster Trucks
    The film cartoonishly admonishing Big Oil while hypocritically fetishizing the gas-guzzling appetite of a cute and cuddly machine-creature hybrid.
  16. Live by Night
    There's nothing at the center of Live by Night, no foundation of drama to ground the convoluted mash-up of so many genre tropes.
  17. 100 Streets
    Throughout the film's three interconnected stories, Jim O'Hanlon favors the blunt, maudlin manipulations of Crash.
  18. The Crash
    The film may be too preposterous to take seriously, but at least writer-director Aram Rappaport trains his sights on the right enemies.
  19. Claire in Motion
    Throughout, writer-directors Lisa Robinson and Annie J. Howell's film buckles under the weight of its symbolism.
  20. Ma
    Celia Rowlson-Hall's Ma has had its subtext dragged kicking and screaming to the surface.
  21. Alone in Berlin
    The film attempts a tone of tragic understatement that registers instead as flat, plodding, and underfelt.
  22. Railroad Tigers
    Despite its energetic, intricately climax, Railroad Tigers is at its most entertaining when merely observing Chan’s smaller movements.
  23. Master
    The film is seemingly terrified of boring us, offering one elaborate montage of catch and release (or of survey and flee) after another.
  24. Arsenal
    It's a misnomer to label the climax of Steven C. Miller's patently sick Arsenal an actual climax.
  25. Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
    The film is a debater with some interesting points to make but no overall argument to contain them.
  26. The Ardennes
    It predictably lurches toward acts of extreme violence with little interest other than the instant titillation such moments afford.
  27. Passengers
    Monogamy, Passengers seems to suggest, is tantamount to existing in a world where nothing else matters outside of the bond you and your partner share.
  28. A Monster Calls
    A Monster Calls is both governed and straitjacketed by director J.A. Bayona’s competent impersonality.
  29. The Bad Kids
    Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's documentary raises important questions about the limits of pedagogy.
  30. Assassin's Creed
    The film ends up with both blurry action that often looks digitally faked and a fractious plot that’s stuck over-explaining itself.
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