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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. Maggie's Plan
    As a writer and director, Rebecca Miller is at her best when she finds the shared wavelengths of her lead cast's divergent styles.
  2. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies's sheer talent for creating sensuous images conveniently masks how little of this feeling actually emerges from the plot these images illustrate.
  3. Mr. Right
    It has a bouncy sense of lunacy, wearing its derivative junkiness on its sleeve with surprising lightness of authority.
  4. Lolo
    A curiously unsentimental director of romantic comedies, Julie Delpy sees romance for the work that it primarily is.
  5. Rabin, the Last Day
    Its vantage point too loosely assembles an argument by focusing, almost obsessively, on reassembling a tangible timeline of events.
  6. Becoming Bulletproof
    The trust that Bulletproof's filmmakers have in their cast and their talent is humanely and succinctly illustrated throughout.
  7. Deathgasm
    Director Jason Lei Howden has a flair for punchlines that are funny for reasons that are essentially impossible to describe.
  8. 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.
  9. The Idol
    The film's clichés ultimately contain both too little conviction and too little complication, their inspirational messages more imagined than real.
  10. Xenia
    It leaves room for a few flights of fancy where the lack of verisimilitude feels less like screenplay filler and more like unabashed poetic license.
  11. Asthma
    Asthma inevitably becomes another film about a man airing out his traumas and hitting all the requisite marks on his path to healing.
  12. Incredibles 2
    Everything in Incredibles 2 is inexorably driven toward a big final blowout. That sequence is suitably grand and eye-popping, but haven’t we seen all of this before?
  13. Why Him?
    The film is surprisingly amiable, thanks to the commitment of its lead actors and its refusal to condescend to its characters.
  14. Censored Voices
    By negating more conventional, facts-first priorities, Mor Loushy creates an alternative historiography that's more meant to be felt than learned.
  15. Flowers
    Everyone heals, or doesn't heal, on cue, and the initial pathos of the narrative is dulled by the architecture of its through lines.
  16. The Tainted Veil
    The filmmakers refuse to promote a political agenda of their own in order to let the varied convictions of others foster a necessary dialogue.
  17. Collide
    It's difficult to begrudge a film that has the good sense to put so much stock in Ben Kingsley's hammy theatrics.
  18. Sembene!
    The film unfolds as a kind, politically soft offering of what lies beneath both Sembène's films and the man himself.
  19. Out 1: Noli Me Tangere (1971)
    Out 1 is largely a film of conversation, as its prolonged rehearsal vignettes regularly give way to even lengthier scenes of verbal self-analysis.
  20. Allied
    In the film, Robert Zemeckis brings to bear his pop-epic scope in what's otherwise a claustrophobic story.
  21. Moonwalkers
    The whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts, but the various detours coalesce into an amusing wannabe-cult curio.
  22. Bikes vs Cars
    Director Fredrik Gertten's Bikes vs. Cars is passionate but contradictory, a frustrating combination for a documentary that utilizes admittedly interesting data as a pitch to wean our car-crazed world off excessive driving.
  23. Dementia
    The film doesn't quite earn Jones's performance, but it engenders considerable goodwill for allowing him to give it.
  24. The Ones Below
    Even the film's lapses inform it with a free-associative sense of portent, evoking the stupid things we inexplicably do in our most personal nightmares.
  25. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
    The Crimes of Grindelwald gets more comedic and emotional mileage out of Newt’s interactions with his various creatures, particularly the adorable platypus-like one with a nose for gold, than most of its human-centered scenes.
  26. Sully
    It presses the case that the complexity of the human condition distracts us from the pure dignity of a noble act.
  27. Closet Monster
    It's when Stephen Dunn dares to inhabit the how and not the what of queerness that Closet Monster feels authentic and deliciously strange.
  28. Colliding Dreams
    The filmmakers' perspective is firmly aligned with the views of liberal Zionism, as the leftist peace activists are given the most screen time.
  29. Southbound
    Southbound is yet another contemporary horror film that belongs to seemingly every era but its own.
  30. Early Man
    The clash between prehistoric pastoralism and technological progress at the center of the film is laden with potential for biting comedy, but Nick Park flattens the conflict into a series of slobs-versus-snobs clichés.
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