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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. The Land
    Writer-director Steven Caple Jr.'s social-realist tendencies run up against some unconvincing genre elements.
  2. Argentina
    The film stagnates by restricting camera mobility and focusing more on capturing dimensions of the performances in close-up.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Zero Days
    Director Alex Gibney does this vital material a disservice, giving it an air of deflated pomposity.
  4. Cosmos
    Andrzej Zulawski's film experiment ranks somewhere between captivatingly off the wall and utterly exhausting.
  5. Nocturnal Animals
    Nocturnal Animals gets close to a double-barreled satirical thriller commenting on the historic rift between city and country.
  6. Gleason
    It has an irritating habit of depending on our natural reactions, letting the subject matter do the heavy lifting.
  7. The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
    It resonates as a portrait of artists trying to figure out their own paths toward making valuable contributions to the world.
  8. Phantom Boy
    The filmmakers are thankfully willing to render, with unremitting vigor, how grief can batter the human heart.
  9. The Blackcoat's Daughter
    Oz Perkins exhibits a committed understanding of the cinematic value of silence and of vastly underpopulated compositions.
  10. The Academy of Muses
    It's a shame that the José Luis Guerín film's verbal qualities far outpace its formal attributes.
  11. Viral
    The film slightly reorients our perspective on the familiar tropes of both the teen and apocalyptic genres.
  12. Wicked
    Wicked’s frequent patches of sluggishness are particularly frustrating because so much of the film—especially the songs—is glorious.
  13. Arrival
    The film's searching images counterpoint the hyper-articulate methodology of its characters' sense of imbalance and uncertainty.
  14. Summertime
    Catherine Corsini depicts feminists in lighthearted ways, at once humorously caricatured and sensitively human.
  15. Ouija: Origin of Evil
    The film complements its goose-pimply frights with an unabashedly naked emotional gravitas.
  16. Hooligan Sparrow
    The Nanfu Wang film's noble aims are mirrored in its more frustrating and conventional qualities.
  17. Train to Busan
    When divorced of message-mongering, the film’s scare tactics are among the most distinctive that the zombie canon has ever seen.
  18. Sand Storm
    Elite Zexer weaves an impressively terse narrative of distinctly motivated characters, but the film’s core remains somewhat shapeless due to the routine dramatization.
  19. Long Way North
    Even if Long Way North's narrative makes for a bland frame, there’s no denying the beauty of the picture it holds.
  20. Danny Says
    It ends on a muted whimper of a note that one doesn't expect given that the film's subject is such an immensely entertaining raconteur.
  21. Harry Benson: Shoot First
    While it offers ample opportunity to admire Benson's body of work, it provides few aesthetic delights of its own.
  22. The Commune
    The Thomas Vinterberg film's sentimentality is suspect, laced with an intriguing but vague strain of bitterness.
  23. The Bad Batch
    Ana Lily Amirpour has learned a few lessons from QT about the disreputable joys of blending kitsch and ultraviolence.
  24. Una
    The film gives Una a little more agency, but director Benedict Andrews often invalidates such empowerment.
  25. Strange Weather
    There’s a tough and mysterious film within Strange Weather, though it doesn’t quite escape the strictures of a busy and studiously weird narrative that’s governed by formula screenwriting.
  26. Their Finest
    Intimately focusing on its main character's personal triumphs, its refusing to fall into heavy-handed polemicism.
  27. A Man Called Ove
    It's emotionally manipulative, but its two leads find a core of humanity even in the most calculating plot machinations.
  28. Moonlight
    What tends to right Moonlight, even when Barry Jenkins's filmmaking drifts into indulgence, is the strength of its actors.
  29. Hidden Figures
    The central characters' dogged refusal to cede their places on a team that keeps trying to reject them is a moving display of heroism.
  30. Miss Sloane
    The screenplay's enigmatic nature holds one's interest throughout, even as the film veers into pat moralism.
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