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For 7,775 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: 4,349 out of 7775
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7775
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7775
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  1. The Phenom
    Noah Buschel shows that formula can be repurposed to serve empathetic ends without losing its self-actualizing appeal.
  2. Three
    The film shows how much Johnnie To still experiments with his form, especially as he continues to transition to digital cinema.
  3. Land and Shade
    The landscape seems to push the characters away at the same time that it anchors them into place, suggesting that elsewhere is a promise that only dreams can keep.
  4. Central Intelligence
    It's a pity that no one else involved in the making of the film had Dwayne Johnson's sly intuition.
  5. Finding Dory
    Finding Dory follows its predecessor in being broadly concerned with comforting notions of home and family.
  6. Cosmos
    Andrzej Zulawski's film experiment ranks somewhere between captivatingly off the wall and utterly exhausting.
  7. My Love, Don't Cross That River
    Jin Mo-young fetishizes his subjects' wholly modest behaviors as cute manifestations of a pure form of human interaction.
  8. Clown
    Jon Watts does nothing with the scarily funny notion of a respectable professional who suddenly refuses to shuck a party costume.
  9. Argentina
    The film stagnates by restricting camera mobility and focusing more on capturing dimensions of the performances in close-up.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)
    Eva Husson's controversy-courting debut is neither as lewdly subversive or as raucously debauched as its provocative title.
  11. Tickled
    There's no sustained effort to answer the first question any editor or J-school instructor worth his or her salt would ask: So what?
  12. Genius
    It makes a convincing argument for viewing Thomas Wolfe's work as a product of the excess and exuberance of the 1920s.
  13. Diary of a Chambermaid
    The lack of ambiguity reflects Benoît Jacquot's treatment of the text, which is devoid of either formal obsessiveness or a contemporary hook.
  14. The Conjuring 2
    The Conjuring 2 is a model of heightened tension and uneasy release, but the tropes propelling these night terrors grow stale pretty quickly.
  15. Now You See Me 2
    The sheer amount of people and incident indifferently presented throughout this film suggests only an obligation to quota-filling.
  16. Call Her Applebroog
    It implies that not even the concentrated self-scrutiny required to make art like Ida Applebroog's is enough to make sense of ourselves to ourselves.
  17. From Afar
    The film renders visible a very complicated, and awfully repressed, truth not only about gay desire, but desire in general.
  18. 'Til Madness Do Us Part
    Wang Bing intends to give back to the inmates the opportunity for individual expression that society has robbed them of.
  19. 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.
  20. Puerto Ricans in Paris
    The film simply limps to predetermined truths that hypocritically advocate the maintenance of placid family values.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    King Jack
    Harsh punishments are dished out in a way that jolts the material away from coming-of-age cliché.
  22. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
    Its openly mercenary ethos initially scan as a bracing lack of pretense in a market crammed to the gills with insidious faux-sentimentality, but its overstuffed relentlessness proves almost equally tedious.
  23. De Palma
    Like Hitchcock, De Palma reveals himself to be guided by an unusual mixture of intuition and intellectualization.
  24. The Neon Demon
    The simmering insinuations of Nicolas Winding Refn's film eventually flower into full-on exploitation.
  25. Me Before You
    It punks its impressionable audience into believing a lie, then punishes them for their foolishness.
  26. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    The film's lampooning of a business built on pure surface extends to its riotous original songs.
  27. Honeyglue
    It's more interested in borrowing terminal cancer as a narrative shorthand for intensity than investigating it as a lived experience.
  28. The Witness
    The film presents Kitty Genovese's identity as an afterthought, turning her living days and nights into incidental details.
  29. Warcraft
    Watching this bloated mélange of derivative fantasy tropes unfold is akin to being forced to follow the efforts of a particularly ham-fisted gamer, with the viewer being jerked back and forth across countless busy CGI landscapes by a plot that's utterly predictable when it isn't confusing.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Approaching the Unknown
    The film fails to lay down the character foundation that might have elevated the third-act histrionics.
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