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For 7,776 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: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. Last Days in the Desert
    It's never made clear how witnessing a family deal with their specific issues affects Jesus's own perspective on his destiny.
  2. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies's sheer talent for creating sensuous images conveniently masks how little of this feeling actually emerges from the plot these images illustrate.
  3. Captain America: Civil War
    The undeniable fun of Civil War's action scenes only exacerbates the failure of the narrative to adequately contend with its own themes.
  4. Dheepan
    Jacques Audiard's film struggles to overcome the burden of its over-simplified, moralizing setup.
  5. A Bigger Splash
    What intrigues, if in a lurid sort of way, is the film's fudging of projected viewer desires with its characters'.
  6. Elstree 1976
    It too often fails to examine how the long shadow cast by Star Wars affected its its background actors' lives.
  7. Bite
    Chad Archibald doesn't quite land Bite's transition over from claustrophobic character study into full-blown monster movie.
  8. Sin Alas
    The film's Cuban specificity comes to seem like an opportunistic locale for reenacting a decidedly art-cinematic legacy.
  9. The Offering
    It inspires retrospective gratitude for the empty yet slick craftsmanship of someone like James Wan.
  10. Bridgend
    The film, with its dark-blue-hued cinematography and murky music, is all foreboding atmosphere.
  11. Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
    Eiichi Yamamoto's cult anime strikes a perfect balance between midnight-movie enchantment and arthouse sophistication.
  12. The Idol
    The film's clichés ultimately contain both too little conviction and too little complication, their inspirational messages more imagined than real.
  13. Being Charlie
    Most of the film's characters are unconvincing, flattened out by Charlie's self-focused lens.
  14. Viktoria
    The film is ultimately stultifying because the disconnection between the various characters is so immediately accepted as such a foregone conclusion that nothing ever seems to be at stake, and the heavily horizontal imagery, though accomplished and evocative, if fussy, only evokes two states of mind: loneliness and disconnection.
  15. Ratchet & Clank
    The film crams in jokes long past the point of relevance and often to outright distraction, if not annoyance.
  16. Keanu
    Keanu is declawed by design, but it's hard not to wonder what the cat could've dragged in.
  17. Special Correspondents
    Ricky Gervais's film hopscotches through a variety of premises, looking for jokes that never arrive.
  18. Viva
    The drag in the film rejects the U.S.-centric obsession with "realness" and the acrobatics that come with it.
  19. Pelé: Birth of a Legend
    The beautiful game, as Pelé called football (or soccer to us Americans), has never felt like such a sedate slog.
  20. High-Rise
    The film's notion of a caste system is crudely reductive in the manner of a routine future-shock thriller.
  21. Sacrifice
    The film's very design turns out to be a whimpered bark followed by a toothless bite.
  22. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    The overriding despair of Winter's War's imagery calls into question who, exactly, the film is for.
  23. A Hologram for the King
    Remarkably faithful, except in how it rather boldly transforms Dave Eggers's drama into a broad comedy.
  24. Nina
    The film is committed to the sort of broad strokes that reduce a great artist's life to a spectacle of self-pity.
  25. Elvis & Nixon
    The film is taken with comfy gags that celebrate these men's ownership of pop culture, filtering them through a lens of unrevealing caricature.
  26. The Meddler
    Writer-director Lorene Scafaria's film is an unconvincing character study that plays like a painfully unfunny sitcom.
  27. Men & Chicken
    An admirably bizarre and beautiful genre mixtape, but Anders Thomas Jensen's empathy for his characters gradually impedes his imagination.
  28. Hockney
    After a nearly virtuoso opening, it reduces passages of the painter's life into multiple montages of pop pabulum.
  29. Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
    Michael Levine provides a history without a real sense of individuated struggle or even singular personage.
  30. Sworn Virgin
    Given its nearly episodic structure, formal choices, and similar thematic inquiries, Sworn Virgin suggests an unofficial remake of Vivre Sa Vie.
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