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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. Venus and Serena
    Opting for inspiration over insight, Venus and Serena is a starry-eyed pop documentary that cannot transcend its scattershot, for-fans-only filmmaking.
  2. Tucker & Dale vs Evil
    Flip-flopping traditional genre dynamics in a manner more cute than uproarious, Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil charts the Three's Company-style shenanigans that ensue when two West Virginia bumpkins cross paths with a group of camping college kids.
  3. The French Minister
    With its broad performances, rapid-fire pacing, and rampant visual and verbal gags, Bernard Tavernier's first out-and-out comedy doesn't try too hard to hide its graphic-novel origins.
  4. A Skin So Soft
    The pleasure of Denis Côté's film radiates not so much from its storytelling as it does from the meditative force of its formal construction. Read our review.
  5. Francine
    In a character study of an ex-con who gives her heart and mind to animals rather than people, Melissa Leo's risky performance is ultimately framed with a disappointing, distanced pity.
  6. Saving Mr. Banks
    A tale of memory and redemption that does little to linger in the mind and even less to decry P.L. Travers's claim that Disney turns everything it touches into schmaltz.
  7. Beauty and the Beast
    Bill Condon's Beauty and the Beast actually delivers a remarkably optimistic balm to a festering, existential wound.
  8. Ivory Tower
    The documentary is more interested in covering all its bases than making sure it fully has its foot on each base.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
    The documentary is a work of careful consideration, moral weighing, and deliberateness of craft.
  10. Sin
    Andrei Konchalovsky’s film is fascinated with the creation of great art in the midst of socio-political turmoil.
  11. X-Men: First Class
    Despite his apparent comfort with F/X-heavy projects, the obligations of duty to the brand are too much for Matthew Vaughn's strange, singular voice, which rarely has the chance to shape the film unmolested by a curiously bland script.
  12. The Confirmation
    The premise is undermined by the film's occasionally dubious ethics and its tendency to soft-pedal the dangerous situations it sets up.
  13. Dancer
    It refuses to pass judgment on whether or not Sergei Polunin's success was worth so much sacrifice and heartache.
  14. Buck and the Preacher
    For all of Buck and the Preacher’s serious attempts to function as a revisionist western by centering Blacks in the narrative and examining the critical role they played on the frontier, it’s also a wildly entertaining film.
  15. Honeymoon
    It waffles between dramatizing youthful self-absorption and succumbing to it, and this tonal instability comes to effectively mirror the domestic discord that's revealed to be its real subject.
  16. Deathgasm
    Director Jason Lei Howden has a flair for punchlines that are funny for reasons that are essentially impossible to describe.
  17. 1001 Grams
    In the end, Bent Hamer's view of current international relations comes to down to a treacly rendition of "Kumbaya."
  18. Alien: Covenant
    The only saving grace of the film's mostly recycled horrors is how they deepen Michael Fassbender's android David.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sunset
    László Nemes’s follow-up to Son of Saul simply feels like two films awkwardly affixed to one another.
  20. Metro Manila
    Sean Ellis doesn't so much understand Filipino society as merely sees it as grist for standard genre fare, perhaps hoping that the foreign setting will somehow automatically make the clichés feel fresh.
  21. Bull
    Director Annie Silverstein tries to enrich the tropes of her class-conscious buddy scenario by canceling them out.
  22. Monsters University
    Unfortunate proof that the animation studio previously known for its brains is now resting a little too heavily on its nominal brawn.
  23. Deadpool
    The whiplash contrasts between snideness and sincerity is deeply rooted in the main character's psychology.
  24. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
    If the SpongeBob franchise has finally gone on the run, it seems like it’s left the audience that matters most in the dust.
  25. The Courier
    Dominic Cooke’s film is content to regurgitate some of the more tired artistic tropes about the Cold War.
  26. Men
    Men is ultimately about as deep as its title, a swipe at the multi-faceted terribleness of its titular subject that rarely gets beyond being a mere catalogue of the different ways that guys can be irritating around and dangerous toward women.
  27. The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
    The deconstruction of corporatized play culture gets run through the sequelizer machine, with predictably acrid results.
  28. Maudie
    Maud Lewis herself couldn’t paint a hurricane that would blow the film’s overburdened narrative off course.
  29. The Good Boss
    In the end, Fernando León de Aranoa’s film suggests that there may not be a lot of daylight between a good boss and a true villain.
  30. Stopmotion
    The film falters when it attempts to mold its best instincts into a discernible narrative shape.
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