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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. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    Though its lugubrious and plodding narrative spins its wheels ahead of someone coming along to fill T’Challa’s shoes, Wakanda Forever does stand out for its depictions of grief.
  2. Chevalier
    Chevalier doesn’t match the revolutionary spirit of Joseph Bologne’s life, but there’s still a lot of enjoyment to be taken from seeing a towering figure, long forgotten by history, returned to his rightful place at center stage.
  3. Desert Hearts
    It advocates risk and consciousness as the only means to overcome the cold, repressive hand of so-called normative thought.
  4. Legend of the Mountain (1979)
    Every pan and snap zoom and dissolve is exact, every whorl of smoke and wind-thrown swath of leaves pulled from a dream and placed methodically before our eyes.
  5. The Peanuts Movie
    Failure hovers over the film as much as it did in Schulz's comic strip, infusing even its most ebullient set pieces and designs with a sense of melancholy.
  6. Convento
    Convento is an unusual experimental film that conjures the free-floating aura of a dream, only without the stylized, hyper-symbolic imagery that we generally associate with films attempting to convey dream states.
  7. The Creeping Garden
    It's something unique for both a genre exercise and a documentary: a science-fiction film that doesn't contain an ounce of fiction.
  8. Sometimes Always Never
    The film unites its seemingly disparate strands of somber drama and deadpan comedy into a surprisingly cohesive whole.
  9. The Girl with All the Gifts
    The film wants to have its flesh and eat it too, but even more damning is how little meat is on its bones to begin with.
  10. The Way I See It
    The final product feels like it would have been most appropriate as a video presentation for the Democratic National Convention.
  11. Hipsters
    An over-the-top Russian musical about hipsters set in 1950s Moscow, where getting a non-pastel-colored tie is a mafia-mediated operation and a saxophone is considered a concealed weapon? Yes, please.
  12. Meanwhile on Earth
    The overbearing plot of the film sadly obscures the humanity of its characters.
  13. No Man of God
    As an exploration of the misogyny that drove Bundy’s crimes, Amber Sealey’s film mostly falls short of its potential.
  14. Nancy
    There's vanity in its boutique art-film brand of hopelessness, which derives from a fetishizing of "keeping it real."
  15. Outrage
    It's a brilliant reversal that, while seemingly far less inspired than most of the director's efforts, leaves us with a film that's just as iconoclastic.
  16. R
    If the trajectory of R foreshadows tragedy early and often (what prison film doesn't?), the filmmakers manage to infuse quiet moments of reflection and panic into each man's traumatic experience.
  17. Fathom
    Throughout, there are moments when you may feel as if Drew Xantholoulos could push harder on the film’s philosophical implications.
  18. The Final Year
    For liberals, The Final Year might become a kind of metaphorical marriage video that’s watched by divorcees who yearn of that initial hint of paradise.
  19. Price Check
    The script is teeming with informed jargon about the business of supermarket pricing, and with actors like Posey as its vessel, the dialogue rings with an unlikely blend of fascination and farce.
  20. Wild Canaries
    Lawrence Michael Levine's film occupies a sweet spot between the self-aware and taut.
  21. Sublet
    Eytan Fox’s film is a low-key observance of two men finding the beauty in each other’s mysteries and contradictions.
  22. Seasons
    Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud's Seasons is a nature documentary that reveals itself as a story of tragic usurpation.
  23. Love Life
    Because we’re tasked with inferring so much about the characters, especially their pasts, so much of the film’s romance is unconvincing.
  24. When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism
    At once a microcosmic expression of frustration and another of auto-critique, When Evening Falls devilishly recalls and riffs on seemingly shapeless conversations between its very small ensemble of characters without succumbing to soporific navel-gazing.
  25. 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.
  26. Smile 2
    Parker Finn, like his entity, is interested in getting his bony fingers into those sticky tender parts we’d rather hide away, slurping our pain like ambrosia and confronting us with the fact that more often than not, the enemy staring back is you.
  27. Oxygen
    At its best, Oxygen successfully approximates the feel of an escape room.
  28. ChaO
    The narrative is nonsense, but it’s at least an arch and sweet kind of nonsense as it jumps through its fairy-tale hoops on the way to the next splash of artful color and manically doodled creativity.
  29. Barbershop: The Next Cut
    A pop sonata of stand-up comedy routines layered with, if not vitality, then at least honest energy.
  30. The Book of Life
    Jorge R. Gutierrez subsumes the film's darker themes in a relentlessly busy farrago of predictable kids'-movie tropes and annoying attempts at hipness.
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