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For 7,788 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 7788
  2. Mixed: 1,495 out of 7788
  3. Negative: 1,934 out of 7788
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  1. You're Next
    Adam Wingard's You're Next brazenly merges the home-invasion thriller with the dysfunctional family dramedy.
  2. The Toxic Avenger
    Pulled awkwardly in so many directions, this Toxic Avenger all but comes apart at the seams.
  3. 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.
  4. Hope Springs
    A decidedly adult drama about love and sex, wherein the comedy is largely incidental.
  5. Distant Constellation
    The film exposes the idea of places as metaphors, mirrors, and symptoms for the people who inhabit them.
  6. The Missouri Breaks
    A beautiful, gleefully weird vanity project that never quite coheres.
  7. Dario Argento Panico
    It’s Argento who consistently makes the most compelling and incisive on-screen presence throughout Simone Scafidi’s documentary.
  8. Miss Stevens
    It provides materials for discussion without directing the viewer toward a particular solution or easy answer.
  9. The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants
    If the film’s breathless pacing and rapid-fire jokes run out of steam just a tad as SpongeBob’s stay in the underworld extends, Search for SquarePants is still charming, spirited, and ludicrous enough to prove that it’s not quite time to tell this series to walk the plank.
  10. Prince
    It revives hope for a pop-art cinema that's capable of treating characters like actual human beings rather than pawns on a chess board.
  11. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
    Rogue One is less the fetish object that The Force Awakens is because it at least has the ambitions to create its own character dynamics and plot routes rather than coast on existing ones.
  12. Summer of 85
    François Ozon’s paean to nostalgia wraps tragedy and obsession in a whimsical bow.
  13. A United Kingdom
    The Amma Asante film's broade sociopolitical overview is balanced by the intimate attention paid to the leads.
  14. A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
    The film’s early scenes turn the stuff of paying bills and managing kids into manna for an unsettlingly intimate domestic thriller.
  15. Last Night in Soho
    In the end, Edgar Wright isn’t particularly interested in taking aim at all that is dark in the zealotry that shapes a culture.
  16. White Girl
    It's an entertaining and unapologetic tale of female risk-taking, filled with clever camerawork, but the characters remain shallow.
  17. The Love We Make
    The Love We Make is mostly about placing viewers in an icon's shoes as he makes a rehabilitative gesture toward a city with which he's grown considerable roots.
  18. Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
    Director Laura Archibald's approach is fatally safe, often turning poets into self-congratulatory windbags.
  19. Camille Claudel 1915
    Juliette Binoche's face, as we know, can tell a million stories in a simple and brief rearrangement of her facial muscles.
  20. The Royal Road
    The cumulative effect is altogether perplexing, as it's difficult to tell if Olson's trying to upend clichés or settle for them.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Spinning Plates
    Spinning Plates may inadvertently be one of the year's best films about class differences in America.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
    While it may not pack the rollicking drama of his first feature, Street Fight, Marshall Curry's timely If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front likewise chronicles the personal tale behind political headlines.
  23. Bless Me, Ultima
    The film's interest in social themes remains background fodder within a far more generic good-versus-evil narrative.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Philip Roth: Unmasked
    In spite of the film's exhaustive chronology, those who deduce from its title that they're in for an unveiling, or an unraveling, of a major literary figure may come out empty-handed.
  25. Paddington In Peru
    While it’s never didactic or heavy-handed about its messaging, Paddington in Peru also offers an idea of Britishness that’s multifaceted and modern.
  26. Staying Vertical
    The film changes gears whenever one is lulled into believing that it has finally settled into a recognizable narrative pattern.
  27. Birth of the Living Dead
    The film is unavoidably slight, but there's a certain pleasure in watching talented people wax passionate about a common source of inspiration.
  28. Girl on the Third Floor
    The film is loud and obvious about declaring its themes, as if to distract from their ultimate shallowness.
  29. Ismael's Ghosts
    Arnaud Desplechin’s latest simultaneously collapses and expands his entire body of work, reflexively revealing its many layers, like a pop-up book.
  30. Stars at Noon
    In Claire Denis’s film, sex is the great equalizer, or at least the act that allows people to defer taking a firm moral or ethical stance.
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