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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. Kevin Hart: What Now?
    At times throughout this concert film, Kevin Hart’s brash honesty about himself can feel liberating.
  2. The Handmaiden
    With The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook has made a gigantic leap as an artist, but he retreats to lurid cartoonishness just as he’s earned your trust.
  3. Little Sister
    The film's attempt at political insight and portrayal of social malaise are meant to give it the illusion of depth.
  4. The Accountant
    The film juggles a “follow the money” procedural with corporate espionage thriller, producing two competing tones that never reconcile into one fluid narrative.
  5. Miss Hokusai
    It condenses everyday interactions, memories, and dreams into a potent mix of all the major ingredients of a well-lived life.
  6. Christine
    It largely fails to animate Christine Chubbuck's inner turmoil, focusing instead on broad, blunt externalities.
  7. Jack Goes Home
    The film veers almost at random from ghost story to family drama to erotic thriller to black comedy.
  8. Tower
    Broadly, filmmaker Keith Maitland's treatment of the UT Tower shooting is both taut and humane.
  9. Aquarius
    Aquarius is a critique of a daydream that has the imaginative daring to live that very dream anyway.
  10. Yourself and Yours
    Yourself and Yours‘s commitment to its various extreme ambiguities is a crucial facet of the film’s success.
  11. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
    Unimaginatively directed and indifferently shot, the film never establishes a distinctive voice for itself.
  12. The Son of Joseph
    The insistence of Green’s gaze throughout the film encourages us to look beyond the mechanisms of speech and behavior at the more uncanny movements of the conscience.
  13. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
    The film buzzes with hand-drawn creativity that's precious in both the pop-cultural and material senses.
  14. Phantasm IV: Oblivion
    The freewheeling atmosphere of dread more than make up for the incoherence, but Phantasm IV: Oblivion at times feels like an expensive, 35mm home movie made by some kids in their backyard.
  15. The Great Gilly Hopkins
    Glenn Close's face teems with a flawlessly controlled gravitas that’s completely at odds with the film’s ordinariness.
  16. Theo Who Lived
    Theo Who Lived is fascinating, and Theo Padnos is an exacting storyteller, but the film pushes through one story point to the next, occasionally prizing velocity over texture.
  17. The Girl on the Train
    It forgoes its promise of twisty adult thrills in favor of a grimly deadpan lecture about messy truths and false perceptions.
  18. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
    Throughout his nearly six-hour documentary, Abbas Fahdel is content with showing only the outer surface of people's lives.
  19. Toni Erdmann
    By its end, Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann is a work of laser-guided social critique and a comedy.
  20. London Town
    The film evinces a clear-eyed sense of the limits that a capitalistic society places on its working class.
  21. 37
    There's a fundamental lack of dramatic exigency in writer-director Puk Grasten's storytelling.
  22. Newtown
    Its enervated address of both mental-health treatment and gun laws receives few constructive articulations beyond a single scene.
  23. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan's film gradually comes to its sense of exquisitely calibrated, hardened intimacy.
  24. The Greasy Strangler
    It aims for John Waters-style transgression without evincing half of Waters’s wit and affection for eccentric lifestyles.
  25. Blue Jay
    Mark Duplass and Sarah Paulson have extraordinary chemistry, painting a cumulative portrait of the fragility and rareness of being truly in sync with a partner.
  26. The Birth of a Nation
    Nate Parker strains to control the strange and stirring complications of his subject's visionary apocalypticism.
  27. Being 17
    André Téchiné does justice to the closeness between repulsion and desire, difference and sameness, heterosexuality and homosexuality.
  28. 13th
    As with Selma, filmmaker Ava DuVernay has fashioned a work of pummeling and clear-eyed intelligence.
  29. Masterminds
    Jared Hess's film turns out to be a succession of failed jokes punctuated by a few cathartic laughs.
  30. Julieta
    Pedro Almodóvar’s object-oriented approach ends up blocking off the deeper emotional access that Alice Munro's stories so effortlessly attain.
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