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For 7,777 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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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    • 75 Critic Score
    Mosquita y Mari
    Most of what transpires between the two girls feels as internal as something you only keep to yourself.
  2. E-Team
    There's edifying information in the documentary, but it's tainted by forced dramatic tactics.
  3. Mid90s
    Jonah Hill constantly falls back on providing vague justification for his characters' behaviors, along with spoonfuls of sentiment to let the more dour moments go down easier.
  4. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
    The extreme largesse of Anselm Kiefer's project, his radical certainties and devotion, all call for a more intrusive probing.
  5. The Amazing Spider-Man
    No mutation is necessary to clearly see that Marvel's "reboot" of their signature franchise is an unimaginative remake of Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man.
  6. God Knows Where I Am
    Though the film excels at subjectivity and interiority, it tends to falter in conveying more rudimentary information.
  7. Private Desert
    Aly Muritiba’s film is always telling the viewer that death-ness and trans-ness bear the intimacy of Siamese sisters.
  8. Premium Rush
    Proves how invigorating genre filmmaking can be in the hands of a savvy, perpetually inventive director.
  9. Catfight
    Onur Tukel attempts to connect Ashley and Veronica’s barbarity to the broader callousness of American life, but the satire is too blunt to really stick.
  10. The Convert
    All of the time spent on Thomas Munro’s various campaigns for reconciliation and harmony between two Māori tribes hampers the film, which would have been better served had it expounded on the grander conflicts that it only superficially acknowledges.
  11. Bad Reputation
    The documentary often struggles to extract deeper thoughts from its subject about her wild career as a pioneering rock feminist.
  12. Tommaso
    Abel Ferrara’s film is about that precise feeling of living with an itch unscratched.
  13. Marshall
    Marshall arguably intends for societal 20/20 hindsight to provide the bulk of perspective throughout.
  14. Thirteen Lives
    Avoiding excessively heightened melodrama, Thirteen Lives doesn’t substitute it with much that one couldn’t already find in the copious amount of available coverage of the real-life incident.
  15. We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
    The doc's straightforward and chronological structure is its own worst enemy.
  16. The Survival of Kindness
    An epic adventure in the guise of an arthouse flick, The Survival of Kindness makes up in visual power and moral clarity what it lacks in subtext.
  17. Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
    Director Francis films the scenes that center around the vampire with yellow-brown gels around the frames’ edges, giving the impression that they too are from Dracula’s omniscient view. They give Dracula Has Risen From the Grave a musty, jaundiced sensuality (like finding Great Aunt Mildred’s mothball stank-ridden garter belt hidden in the back of her Victorian closet) that characterizes Hammer’s blending of gothic tradition with modern prurience.
  18. Mothering Sunday
    For all of the film’s somberness, its depiction of an era of rigid class divisions and incalculable loss still comes through the hazy, soft-focus goggles of nostalgia.
  19. Moebius
    A kind of silent opera in which the actors' precise facial emoting and a muscular editing rhythm create a melodrama by turns horrific and hilarious.
  20. Shadow in the Cloud
    Roseanne Liang leverages the absolute implausibility of the film’s later scenes into something brisk and exciting right to the very end.
  21. Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
    What results is a lopsided, put-upon narrative of survival where humans, and not the animals themselves, are the ones to be celebrated.
  22. Cold Fish
    A hybrid of the millionth send-up of the repressed/impotent Japanese patriarch and the "bad buddy comedy" that Barry Levinson held up as exhausted and bankrupt with 2004's "Envy."
  23. The One I Love
    The film gets too caught up in the semi-farcical comings and goings of the two Sophies and Ethans to explore any of the issues it raises about relationships very deeply.
  24. Young Ahmed
    The Dardennes maintain a distance from Ahmed as a way of celebrating their refusal to reduce him to any easy psychological bullet points.
  25. Husbands
    One of Cassavetes’s greatest and most daring films.
  26. Harriet
    Portraying Tubman above all else as a vessel for a higher power ironically only makes her appear less tangible.
  27. The Return
    The Return may render its mythological figures lifelike through flesh and blood, but nowhere inside that viscera lies a beating heart.
  28. Guidance
    The unapologetic lack of political correctness never goes beyond a one-dimensional and tentative provocation.
  29. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
    By the time the demands of big-budget spectacle take over in the final act, a film that initially stands out from the pack in imagining a different perspective of the world ends up looking all too disappointingly like everything else in the current mega-budget cinema landscape.
  30. Blood Father
    The film shrewdly capitalizes on Mel Gibson's off-screen embarrassments and controversies.
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