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For 7,786 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: 4,357 out of 7786
  2. Mixed: 1,495 out of 7786
  3. Negative: 1,934 out of 7786
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  1. As I Open My Eyes
    Leyla Bouzid successfully dramatizes how young people eroticize peril and risk due to a lack of experience.
  2. Happy Birthday
    It plays like it was written by a bro who just discovered the early films of Quentin Tarantino.
  3. Ithaca
    The film is confused in conception, dreary in execution, and completely lacking in forward momentum.
  4. Other People
    The film is at its sharpest when Chris Kelly hands scenes over to his main character's family and friends.
  5. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
    Jeff Feuerzeig isn't skeptical enough of Laura Albert's explanations and rationalizations.
  6. 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.
  7. Kicks
    It's less notable for its originality than for how dynamically it blends a few styles that ultimately prove incompatible.
  8. Come What May
    Christian Carion's film shamelessly wrings excitement from the recreation of violent ideological conflict.
  9. 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Game of Aces
    The characters' motivations are dictated less by the dynamics of their personalities and more by the needs of the screenplay.
  12. The Light Between Oceans
    Derek Cianfrance's film is a beautifully sustained study in adult themes of emotional crisis.
  13. White Girl
    It's an entertaining and unapologetic tale of female risk-taking, filled with clever camerawork, but the characters remain shallow.
  14. Morgan
    The film's makers lose trust in the intellectual heft of their material and chose to prioritize empty sensation instead.
  15. Skiptrace
    The film's bloated action-comedy machinery prevents any real chemistry from forming between Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville.
  16. Kickboxer: Vengeance
    It relies less on in-camera stunts than editing that renders vague gibberish of the altercations.
  17. Cameraperson
    Cameraperson is certainly a collection of memorable images, but it's more so Johnson's facility with narrative, on a micro and macro level, that impresses.
  18. Max Rose
    The film occasionally and promisingly suggests an obsessive and free-associative paean to regret.
  19. Yoga Hosers
    Any of the film's attempts at moralizing are subsumed by Kevin Smith’s obsession with taking aim at his critics.
  20. The Academy of Muses
    It's a shame that the José Luis Guerín film's verbal qualities far outpace its formal attributes.
  21. The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
    It insists that it's in moments of small talk, between life's larger events, that one finds vitality.
  22. The Hollars
    The film's ruefully honest tone is periodically drowned out by the blare of stagey coincidences.
  23. Happy Hour
    Hamaguchi arranges most sequences around a handful of static, roomy medium shots that subtly suggest emotional dynamics through camera and actor positioning.
  24. I Am Not a Serial Killer
    The film comes unsettlingly close to being an apologia for the kind of violence that stems from adolescent disaffection.
  25. The Intervention
    Clea DuVall crafts an entire film out of aborted attempts at a revelation that feel completely anodyne.
  26. Fatima
    The film appears to have been devised to pander to the presumptions of Western, liberal viewers.
  27. Hands of Stone
    The Panamanian-born Roberto Duran's story has all the makings of a fascinating film, but Hands of Stone isn't it.
  28. Southside with You
    The film may not announce itself as hagiography, but it’s hero-worshipful to its core.
  29. Complete Unknown
    Underneath the impersonal formal beauty and good acting is a familiar moral about self-imposed limitations.
  30. In Order of Disappearance
    The film has been executed with a sense of formally stylish and thematically symmetric panache.
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