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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. Indivisible
    Edoardo de Angelis's coming-of-age portrait is poignant when fixated on the intricacies of a complicated sisterhood.
  2. Red Trees
    The banality of Marina Willer’s voiceover only goes to prove the old cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words.
  3. Beast
    The narrative has a gambit that steers Beast into the terrain of a horror film, offsetting the sentimentality of the audience-flattering romance.
  4. Custody
    Custody is concerned with the failure of process to discern human need and perversion, and Xavier Legrand rather ironically follows in the footsteps of bureaucracy by reducing people to statistics.
  5. I, Tonya
    The film’s habit of courting and then insulting the viewer is a conscious nod to the cycles of abuse that mark Tonya Harding’s story, but the filmmakers’ attempts to implicate their audience are I, Tonya's broken shoelace, too pat and glib to be convincing.
  6. The Insult
    Ziad Doueiri's film is well acted and staged with periodic liveliness, but its earnestness grows wearying.
  7. Lean on Pete
    As sharply as it delineates an America of spotty, informal economies, the film avoids articulating most of the people who live and work in these spaces.
  8. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    The action choreography is as brutal as you expect, though the repetition in style from the first two films makes the effect less surprising.
  9. Gilbert
    Gilbert exposes a wealth of unsuspected pain and tenderness beneath Gottfried's often thorny exterior.
  10. Mary and The Witch's Flower
    This is a film about the adolescent pangs to belong that also mines its tale of magic and malevolence for an imaginative allegory about the excesses of scientific inquiry.
  11. Kills on Wheels
    Writer-director Attila Till is content to indulge a complication-free mix of bloodshed and pathos.
  12. Boy Erased
    Good as Lucas Hedges is at acting the tortured teen, Jared is finally too much of a cipher for his story to really hit with the force that it should.
  13. Long Shot
    As it proceeds toward its telegraphed rom-com ending, the film becomes just more empty rhetoric, an ineffectual reiteration.
  14. The Departure
    The Departure presents patterns in suicidal people while according them humanity, which isn’t a small accomplishment.
  15. M.F.A.
    Natalia Leite's ambition and accompanying uncertainty give the film its unruly and resonant energy.
  16. The Ritual
    Eventually, the filmmakers reveal the secrets they'd previously withheld, spoiling the film's sustained mystique.
  17. Liberation Day
    Throughout, the documentary wavers between a sincere investigation of the avant-garde music group Laibach and self-satire.
  18. Ghost Stories
    In setting their play to film, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman decide where we look. Any magician would be jealous of that power. But it puts everything at a remove, trapping you in your own head.
  19. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
    The film is about the idea of Andy Kaufman, about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive.
  20. Princess Cyd
    Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd is distinguished by a dramatic complexity that would seem to run counter to its remarkably even-tempered tone.
  21. Flesh and Blood
    Mark Webber's stripped-down approach renders the messy, unglamorous lives at the film's center with dignity.
  22. 1945
    The fractured rhythm of 1945 and the desolate aesthetic are engrossing, but Ferenc Török's film doesn't linger.
  23. A Prayer Before Dawn
    A Prayer Before Dawn is concerned above all with ensuring that we share its main character's sense of dislocation and entrapment.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Beirut
    Brad Anderson's Beirut doesn't quite make foreign espionage look fun, but it shows how it might appeal to the sort of masochist who's also an adrenaline addict.
  25. Hellraiser
    Barker’s vision cribs equally from the mythos of vampires and zombies, but Hellraiser‘s overriding ridiculousness (and nagging budgetary shortcomings) can’t disguise the fact that the movie is at least unwittingly a product of the AIDS crisis.
  26. The Road Movie
    The film is a doodle, but in its offhanded way, it effectively attests to the resolute nature of the Russian character.
  27. The Strangers: Prey at Night
    Opening with the pulsing synth lines of Kim Wilde's “Kids in America,” Johannes Roberts's film announces itself as a looser, bouncier, more self-consciously frivolous effort than its now decade-old predecessor.
  28. Smallfoot
    There’s something undeniably ballsy about a children’s film that’s so insistent about pushing young viewers to think bigger, to be open to new ideas and question culturally coded notions of good and evil.
  29. Shadowman
    This is a gruesome art-world fairy tale unafraid to face the bitter details of its hero's tumultuous life.
  30. The Goldfinch
    Enough of the individual moments pulled from the rag-and-bone shop of Donna Tartt’s sprawling mystery narrative make an emotional impact that the story’s structural issues fail to register as much at first.
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