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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. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    The film exists resolutely outside of salience and doggedly within the comfort of escapism.
  2. Black Butterflies
    A reasonably sensitive and occasionally insightful look into the mind and psyche of an impassioned and deeply troubled artist.
  3. The Seventh Fire
    The documentary renders poverty a mysterious entity instead of a curable malady of systemic exclusion.
  4. Beloved Sisters
    It blossoms into a breezily utopian depiction of a ménage á trois whose entirely matter-of-fact presentation sets up an intriguing dissonance with the prim period setting.
  5. Elio
    The film’s best trait is the one that permeates every truly great first-contact story—not just the hope that our first meeting with the strangest of strangers is benevolent, or that the universe is too vast to determine they all wish good or ill on us, but that connecting with humanity still has value.
  6. Mountainhead
    If there’s a moral here, it might be that the only thing worse than a competitive billionaire is a bored one.
  7. Pepe
    As an anguished cry against colonialism, Pepe works best when illustrating the micro ways in which culture is erased by capital interests.
  8. Mission: Impossible III
    Shallow to its core and as propulsive as a runaway locomotive, it's the most blatantly summer movie-ish of the Mission Impossibles. And also, surprisingly, the most viscerally entertaining.
  9. Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
    This is a confident work that smashingly updates the Southern gothic for contemporary generations.
  10. Soylent Green
    The film strikes a poignant chord with its chilling portrayal of a state-sponsored euthanasia program that utilizes movie-watching as a narcotic designed to help the sick and elderly die peacefully.
  11. The Return of the Living Dead
    Suffice to say, this small offering from the horror genre is a hoot to watch, with never a dull moment.
  12. Breathing
    Can a film be faulted for being too sympathetic toward its characters, for limning a milieu with extraneous humanism?
  13. Suspended Time
    Olivier Assayas’s film is a gently smart and warm-spirited look at love as the core term of human existence.
  14. Deadpool 2
    Deadpool 2 muddies the distinction between parodying comic-book-movie conventions and perfunctorily adhering to them.
  15. The Way Back
    The film makes the path to basketball glory and the road to personal redemption seem oddly effortless.
  16. Puzzle
    The film buoyed by Kelly Macdonald, who's a master of understated vulnerability, but she can't steer it out of the doldrums.
  17. I Care a Lot
    Throughout, J Blakeson crafts sharp, curt dialogue that makes a fashion statement out of contempt.
  18. The Infiltrator
    Its clunky incidents of exposition leave us with no real understanding of what anyone is thinking or feeling.
  19. Pitch Perfect
    Jason Moore's film is more or less successful in inverse proportion to the degree that it plays its material by the book.
  20. Mary Poppins Returns
    For all of its slavish devotion to Mary Poppins, the sequel doesn't even seem to recognize its greatest attribute: its star.
  21. The Idol
    The film's clichés ultimately contain both too little conviction and too little complication, their inspirational messages more imagined than real.
  22. The Fairy
    Re-employing the tools of Jacques Tati and Jerry Lewis, this pleasant fable reclaims artful slapstick with a bliss that's hard to deny.
  23. Félix And Meira
    Maxime Giroux's sharp filmmaking instincts aren't always supported by similarly acute dramatic instincts.
  24. You're Next
    Adam Wingard's You're Next brazenly merges the home-invasion thriller with the dysfunctional family dramedy.
  25. The Toxic Avenger
    Pulled awkwardly in so many directions, this Toxic Avenger all but comes apart at the seams.
  26. In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
    The film unfolds at an excessive remove from its subject matter, and it becomes less an incisive thesis about the pope than an occasion for Gianfranco Rosi to flex his stylistic muscles.
  27. Hope Springs
    A decidedly adult drama about love and sex, wherein the comedy is largely incidental.
  28. Distant Constellation
    The film exposes the idea of places as metaphors, mirrors, and symptoms for the people who inhabit them.
  29. The Missouri Breaks
    A beautiful, gleefully weird vanity project that never quite coheres.
  30. Dario Argento Panico
    It’s Argento who consistently makes the most compelling and incisive on-screen presence throughout Simone Scafidi’s documentary.
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