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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. Beauty and the Beast
    Christophe Gans’s telling of Beauty and the Beast abounds in impersonal and unsatisfying sumptuousness.
  2. Deepwater Horizon
    The film should have been a cautionary tale, but in Peter Berg's hands, it's a hollow account of the resilience of the human spirit.
  3. The Magnificent Seven
    As passably entertaining as the film is, it never surrenders to the abandon of its action, and as such never feels like it shifts out of first gear.
  4. Belle Épine
    Neither sentimentality nor nostalgia for reckless years gone by can be found in Rebecca Zlotowski's Belle Epine, which makes its tale of teenage rebellion in the face of overwhelming grief fall closer to a sobering character study than a classical youth film.
  5. Bridget Jones's Baby
    The Pinkberry solipsism of this particular franchise all but requires our heroine persist as a lovelorn martyr for her audience’s benefit.
  6. A Family Affair
    Throughout A Family Affair, time is continually collapsed to the point where events separated by many years bleed into one another.
  7. Tanna
    The film blends the Bard with National Geographic, failing to make a case for the inexplicability of their union.
  8. Blair Witch
    It doesn't suggest documentary footage found in the woods so much as a haunted-house version of Hardcore Henry.
  9. Dancer
    It refuses to pass judgment on whether or not Sergei Polunin's success was worth so much sacrifice and heartache.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Silicon Cowboys
    Jason Cohen’s slick aesthetics manage to elevate Silicon Cowboys beyond fellow “info dumps” of this caliber.
  11. Operation Avalanche
    The film attains a chilly existential quality as Matt Johnson's character discerns the weight of his actions.
  12. Miss Stevens
    It provides materials for discussion without directing the viewer toward a particular solution or easy answer.
  13. A Beautiful Now
    Writer-director Daniela Amavia fails to link the lives of her characters to any deeper sense of meaning.
  14. Command and Control
    Robert Kenner's stylistic choices amplify the film's fetishistic fascination with the nuclear weaponry itself.
  15. Mr. Church
    Bruce Beresford's film is remarkable for how it manages to indulge so many offensive and shopworn clichés at once.
  16. Snowden
    The film depicts Edward Snowden's ethical dilemmas in a political vacuum that disregards America's increasingly complex security threats.
  17. The Dressmaker
    The frequent contemptuousness the film displays toward its characters keeps the audience at arm's length.
  18. The Apostate
    The Apostate finds humor in unusual images or situations, few resounding with lasting impact.
  19. Sully
    It presses the case that the complexity of the human condition distracts us from the pure dignity of a noble act.
  20. Peter and the Farm
    Peter and the Farm is a warts-and-all portrait that asserts its subject's sense of purpose even as it seems to slip out of his grasp.
  21. As I Open My Eyes
    Leyla Bouzid successfully dramatizes how young people eroticize peril and risk due to a lack of experience.
  22. Happy Birthday
    It plays like it was written by a bro who just discovered the early films of Quentin Tarantino.
  23. Ithaca
    The film is confused in conception, dreary in execution, and completely lacking in forward momentum.
  24. Other People
    The film is at its sharpest when Chris Kelly hands scenes over to his main character's family and friends.
  25. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
    Jeff Feuerzeig isn't skeptical enough of Laura Albert's explanations and rationalizations.
  26. Transpecos
    Violence in Transpecos is sparse, but the filmmakers use it with a narrative precision that highlights the unforgiving consequences that accompanies every choice in this desolate borderland.
  27. Kicks
    It's less notable for its originality than for how dynamically it blends a few styles that ultimately prove incompatible.
  28. Come What May
    Christian Carion's film shamelessly wrings excitement from the recreation of violent ideological conflict.
  29. The 9th Life of Louis Drax
    Every incident in the film is a time-bidding maneuver, completely and unimaginatively untethered from logic.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Antibirth
    It’s unfortunate that the only part of the film that works does so by taking the wind out of the rest of it.
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