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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 Nightingale
    The violence of Jennifer Kent’s film doesn’t seem to build upon its themes so much as repeat them.
  2. Death Note
    Whereas the more grounded scenes of Death Note anchor a startlingly bloody fantasy of power run amok, the scenes that fixate on super powers and code-busting seldom manage to rise above the realm of serviceable YA fiction.
  3. Band Aid
    At its most honest, the film wrestles with the reluctance or unwillingness of women to fulfill ostensibly requisite roles.
  4. All This Panic
    There's plenty of life in this honest, impressionistic portrait of a cohort of 21st-century American girls.
  5. God Knows Where I Am
    Though the film excels at subjectivity and interiority, it tends to falter in conveying more rudimentary information.
  6. Folk Hero & Funny Guy
    In the film's best scenes, Jeff Grace displays a delicate understanding of various modes of male fragility.
  7. Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
    This is history that Americans should know, and the filmmaker approach Rumble as an introductory survey course.
  8. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    The characters' emotional vacancy feels like another auteurist tic to which Yorgos Lanthimos is dauntlessly committed.
  9. Lucky
    John Carroll Lynch's Lucky is an impeccably acted yet sentimental film that’s bashful about said sentimentality.
  10. The Post
    No American film since Zodiac has exhibited such a love for the way information travels than The Post, but it's nonetheless steeped in self-congratulation.
  11. Chavela
    The film's hopscotching-in-time structure, informed by specific remembrances of Chavela Vargas's life, is refreshingly unconventional.
  12. The Exception
    David Leveaux's film cannily incorporates elements of spycraft and sheer trash into a familiar formula.
  13. The House of Tomorrow
    The impressionistic tenor of the unabashedly energetic final sequences is so wondrous that you may wish that writer-director Peter Livolsi had utilized it as The House of Tomorrow's guiding principle.
  14. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
    It brims with empathy and righteous outrage at the treatment of trans people, but with only a vague organizational structure, it ultimately feels scattershot, passionately covering a number of important issues without quite unifying them into a coherent whole.
  15. The Hunter's Prayer
    The Hunter’s Prayer packs its brisk 85 minutes with an impressive array of car chases, gun fights, hand-to-hand combat, and foot pursuits, all cut with a precision and an economy that heightens the impact of every hit.
  16. Elián
    It has the decency to recognize that only Elián González has the right to define his sense of truth for himself.
  17. Tully
    In Marlo, Diablo Cody has created her most complicated character to date. Would that her writing displayed similar richness and empathy in painting the film's supporting characters.
  18. Captive State
    The film might have better performed if it consisted of more than a smattering of good but relatively isolated ideas.
  19. Brimstone & Glory
    Through its energy and inherent beauty, Brimstone & Glory hits concurrent notes of peril and bliss, but even at a scant 67 minutes it can seem a bit aimless and scattershot.
  20. Gaslight
    Gaslight is an expertly directed and evenly paced slow burn (and Dame May Whitty is a stitch, though underused, as a nosy neighbor lady), but its lack of a sound moral and psychological center renders it totally transitory and forgettable.
  21. Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
    Adios may deepen our understanding of these musicians and their world, but it never quite stands on its own.
  22. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
    Steve James is clearly positioning the film as a rallying cry, and its weaknesses as art might bolster its strength as reformatory theater.
  23. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here could be considered artsy exploitation, a film whose formal dexterity belies its debts to its chosen, and quite squalid, genre.
  24. Double Lover
    Though Double Lover has a slight oneiric quality from the start, it grows increasingly delirious, the plot threads knotting in convoluted patterns and the overall mood more and more ridiculous.
  25. Wonderstruck
    Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck is a coming-of-age tale as curiosity cabinet, a flowchart of narrative fragments that steadily build to a high-concept finale as ludicrous as it is emotionally audacious.
  26. Lost in Paris
    Lost in Paris abounds in whimsy that, for the most part, isn't irritatingly precious—a feat that's harder to pull off than it appears.
  27. Filmworker
    Tony Zierra interviews Leon Vitali at length, and he’s a commanding camera object with an obvious wellspring of longing and pain.
  28. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
    It's true that the disorientation produced in the collision of Igorrr's frenetic style-mashing and Dumont's unadorned long-take aesthetic ensures that the film feels remarkably distinct from prior cinematic adaptations of Joan of Arc's life, but it's also hard not to wonder how this particular story might have played without the farfetched musical conceit grafted atop it.
  29. The Villainess
    When one finally puts together the pieces of the film’s scattered narrative puzzle, The Villainess doesn’t add up to all that much beyond a slick march toward an act of bloody revenge.
  30. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
    It boasts such confident performances and choreography that it feels as much like a final draft of the 2008 film as a continuation of it.
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