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For 7,777 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: 4,351 out of 7777
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7777
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7777
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  1. The Road Movie
    The film is a doodle, but in its offhanded way, it effectively attests to the resolute nature of the Russian character.
  2. Rolling Thunder
    Essentially a liberal vigilante film that’s rife with all the contradictions that description implies, Rolling Thunder has a pared, weirdly principled grace that still packs a punch.
  3. The Gospel of Eureka
    The documentary is uniquely attuned to the fickle whims of history, politics, and biographical circumstance.
  4. Dead Ringer
    The film, meekly directed far across the soundstage by former actor Paul Henreid, is a potboiler filled with oh-so-convenient plot twists and purely incidental characterizations.
  5. Perpetrator
    Perpetrator cycles through characters and settings at a considerable clip, never stopping long enough to flesh them out beyond an outline.
  6. Pieces of a Woman
    When the film’s actors are given space to etch their characters’ feelings, they turn in strikingly naturalistic performances.
  7. The Sky Is Everywhere
    Throughout, Josephine Decker effortlessly keys her intimate and eccentric style to her main character’s complicated inner turmoil.
  8. Carlito's Way
    Though the story in Carlito’s Way is treated in a fatalistic sense, the moment-to-moment, frame-to-frame experience is anything but rigid and stodgy from over-determination. It sings, dances, punches, slinks, embeds. It moves like the luxurious tracking shots that punctuate the film.
  9. Byzantium
    Forlorn depictions of love and death may dignify Neil Jordan's film, but narrative withholding ultimately drives a stake into its unmistakable heart.
  10. Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont's formalism is presently charged with a spark of simultaneously controlled and spontaneous mystery.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    White Noise
    The film rarely articulates the book's ideas with any real sense of the outside world without resorting to the easy exaggerations that Don DeLillo peddled in the name of satire, which, while maybe fresh back in 1985, ring completely hollow today.
  12. Pelican Dreams
    The film is spare, empathic, and deeply introspective, and its imagery, such as a pelican fascinated by its own reflection, is so sublime in its kookiness as to be worthy of Werner Herzog.
  13. Roofman
    The real Jeffrey Manchester may in fact have been polite, but Derek Cianfrance’s film doesn’t convince you that it needed to be as well.
  14. Wish Me Away
    The film is ultimately too concerned with courting the singer's fans to deliver anything more than a theatrical release of a very special episode of VH1's Behind the Music.
  15. Maelstrom
    Maelström earns its haunting, unpredictable ending, never exaggerating Evian’s moral dilemma. Still, without non-stop techno or the existential overtones of a Kieślowski morality tale, Maelström is just another Winter Sleepers.
  16. Littlerock
    Confronting the concept of alienness in a California desert town, this modest tapestry finds equivalent dignity in history-conscious travelers and natives weighed down by roots or inertia.
  17. The Snowtown Murders
    Whatever one ends up thinking about The Snowtown Murders, it's difficult to deny that it's a deeply impressive work.
  18. Sidewalk Stories
    Charles Lane’s 1989 indie Sidewalk Stories doesn’t just hark back to The Kid; it formally revives the Chaplin classic in the street theater of Dinkins-era Greenwich Village.
  19. Dumb Money
    The film’s status as a corporate entertainment product (among the film’s producers is the Winklevoss twins) also presents an internal discord in and of itself, particularly with the script incessantly preaching financial equality for all.
  20. The Good Dinosaur
    The main character is a collection of insecurities that have been calculatedly assembled so as to teach children the usual lessons about bravery, loyalty, and self-sufficiency.
  21. The Border
    The Border is marvelously detailed. The script, by Deric Washburn, Walon Green, David Freeman, is peppered with lively obscenities and slights that communicate the debauched cynicism of this world.
  22. Skinamarink
    Skinamarink is confidently made, and certain upside-down images are especially creepy, but its spell is broken by its sheer, ungodly slowness, which springs from a paucity of ideas.
  23. Breaking
    Abi Damaris Corbin’s quiet and unobtrusive style helps 892 build tension primarily from character instead of incident.
  24. The Revolutionary Optimists
    The filmmakers display a genuine reverence for their subjects, evident even in the intimate but never intrusive photography.
  25. Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
    There are no new explanations here, just a better packaged version of what Anno already delivered, which makes You Are (Not) Alone very attractive but fundamentally pointless.
  26. Pavarotti
    Throughout, the too-brief depictions of Luciano Pavarotti’s flaws are conspicuously shrouded in a veil of hagiography.
  27. Master
    Mariama Diallo’s film never seems to fully buy into its horror trappings and ends up treating its characters as avatars for multiple grievances.
  28. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    A once-precious franchise's weakest installment, which forgets these adventures' magic was never conjured by bells and whistles.
  29. Another Earth
    The hanging specter of a phantom planet puts a lot of pressure on Another Earth, a resolutely small parable of grief that often feels menaced by its big-idea concept.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Let the Bullets Fly
    Let the Bullets Fly is an intentionally overheated and very funny comedy about how the best-laid plans tend to fall apart in spectacular fashion.
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