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For 7,788 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 7788
  2. Mixed: 1,495 out of 7788
  3. Negative: 1,934 out of 7788
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  1. The Breakfast Club
    The quintessential Brat Pack vehicle, hampered by Hughes’s willingness to pigeonhole his protagonists in exactly the same manner as they accuse Vernon of doing, The Breakfast Club is hopelessly tethered to its era in ways that the same year’s other major high school-themed blockbuster, Back to the Future, isn’t.
  2. The Trip to Spain
    The premise of Michael Winterbottom's series has devolved from moderately diverting to actively stifling.
  3. Borgman
    An art-house con destined to make viewers who've ever used the term "mindfuck" as praise rack their brains trying to come up with alternate readings for a film that invites many but convincingly offers none.
  4. What Keeps You Alive
    If Hannah Emily Anderson's performance was as fully imagined as Brittany Allen's, then What Keeps You Alive might have attained the emotional dimensions of a robust psychodrama.
  5. The Tenth Man
    As films about dopey dudes finding love go, The Tenth Man is too modest for its own good.
  6. Mister Universo
    The film eventually replaces the captivating smallness of everyday life with an inconsequential drama.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Ipcress File
    In the end, The Ipcress File abandons its more low-key, nuts-and-bolts depiction of spycraft, and as such morphs from the pure antithesis of a 007 romp into something far closer to a self-serious send-up.
  8. The Phenom
    Noah Buschel shows that formula can be repurposed to serve empathetic ends without losing its self-actualizing appeal.
  9. Cop Car
    The narrative derives much of its tension from the unsentimental ambivalence Jon Watts displays toward the story's two pre-teen boys.
  10. Werewolves Within
    The film becomes unexpectedly, effectively violent just when you’ve written it off as a glorified SNL sketch.
  11. The Lost Arcade
    The film's images have a loose, rough, textured liveliness that honors the spirit of Chinatown Fair.
  12. Avengers: Age of Ultron
    The film struggles against the rigid formula that typifies the Marvel universe, but only does so up to a point.
  13. Captain America: The First Avenger
    Tommy Lee Jones provides wisecracking levity as Rogers's commanding officer, Hayley Atwell supplies the aforementioned buxom chest and accompanying tough-girl grit as Rogers's British love interest, and Johnson directs with flair, his set pieces defined by both muscularity and clarity.
  14. Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
    It occasionally succumbs to the pitfalls of the mock-thriller kitsch it slyly dismantles, but it's made up for in a wry and experimental visual style that satirically paints a vibrant crime fantasia.
  15. Brian and Charles
    The original Brian and Charles short focused entirely on its titular characters, and it’s clear that was for the best.
  16. Missing
    Humor for the sake of humor is a worthwhile pursuit, but Missing’s final act is more unintentionally funny than intentionally funny.
  17. Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
    It reduces its historical moment to a series of vignettes and voiceovers, each evincing a curiously tone-deaf sentimentality.
  18. 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Genius on Hold
    Though overstuffed, his film eschews pop-doc conventions by opting for in-depth analysis over superficiality.
  20. The Life Ahead
    With its tough-minded characters from divergent cultures finding a common bond despite their differences, the film doesn’t deliver much in the way of surprises, but it turns out to be a starker and more honest piece of work than it might initially seem.
  21. When Boys Leave Home
    Its bizarre melding of moral-panic melodrama with the filmmaker’s signature wrong-man theme is fascinating.
  22. Last Hurrah for Chivalry
    Not yet a master, Woo here nonetheless demonstrates far more than mere potential as he starts to lay the foundations for his breakout successes.
  23. Peterloo
    Peterloo so simply recounts the details of its subject matter that its culminating horror unsettlingly feels like little more than a cathartic inevitability.
  24. White Hunter Black Heart
    White Hunter, Black Heart finds Eastwood reaching a peak in the fields of both film direction and acting.
  25. Yossi
    The film is at its finest as a catalogue of Yossi's unspoken ache, less so when it begins to flirt with the clichés of the love story.
  26. Alan Partridge
    Director Declan Lowney's film operates from a conceit that affords only minor opportunities for true hilarity.
  27. Clara's Ghost
    Bridey Elliott avoids the smug pitfalls of narratives concerned with privileged people drinking themselves into a stupor.
  28. Desert of Namibia
    The film is so welded to its main character’s perspective that it, too, shies away from understanding, tragic and frustrating in equal measure.
  29. Devotion
    This unfocused, awkwardly paced film never quite gets off the ground and, as a result, will do little to change perceptions of the Korean War as the “forgotten war.”
  30. Dark Horse
    Yesterday, Solondz blocking the screen meant something, even if it was just his own petulance. Today, a blurred sign only signifies his capitulation to peer pressure.
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