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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. Alita: Battle Angel
    Battle Angel is by some distance the most entertaining of the recent crop of would-be franchise starters, exciting on its own merits while leaving just enough of its world tantalizingly unexplored to actually fuel our interest in wanting to see where its characters go from here.
  2. What They Had
    What They Had gracefully coasts on its patient observations of one family’s dynamics, but once the third act hits, Elizabeth Chomko goes about neatly tidying up seemingly every loose end.
  3. Half Magic
    The film displays a sprightly tone and blissful sense of liberation in charting the exploits of characters seeking to live by their own feminine-centric rules.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Arachnophobia
    Arachnophobia isn’t great filmmaking, appearing to be kept in check by vaguely resembling Spielbergian entertainment without rising to its altitudes. But it’s a pleasant, acutely nostalgic elicitation of the VHS era and the woozy, preadolescent excitement of awaiting the next cranked-out Spielberg Xerox picture.
  5. Oh Lucy!
    Atsuko Hirayanagi's feature-length directorial debut offers a surprising take on the tricky art of communication.
  6. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Richard E. Grant is captivating on his own, but his rapport with Melissa McCarthy is so effortless that their characters’ conversations offer deeper pleasures than the main plot of the film.
  7. Never Goin' Back
    Writer-director Augustine Frizzell's film is funny and surprisingly tender, if at times frustratingly uneven.
  8. Braven
    Lin Oeding’s action thriller thrives on both the beauty of its natural, snowbound surroundings and the brutal instincts of man.
  9. Lu Over the Wall
    Throughout, director Masaaki Yuasa’s imagination runs so wild that it becomes impossible to resist.
  10. Maya
    The film’s intimacy is as precise as its intellect is vague.
  11. Piercing
    If the film is mildly disappointing, it’s because it doesn’t go far enough. It confidently prepares us for a frenzy that never quite materializes.
  12. American Animals
    As he showed in "The Imposter," writer-director Bart Layton knows how to spin a compelling yarn.
  13. Skate Kitchen
    The film is empathetic toward and clear-eyed about its young characters, even if the drama it constructs around them tends toward the superficial.
  14. Pow Wow
    Its tension between ethnographic ensemble study and thesis-oriented docu-essay is irreconcilable.
  15. Generation Wealth
    Into a broad-strokes picture of a culture in crisis, Lauren Greenfield attempts to incorporate autobiographical elements, which results in some awkward narrative pivots and jarringly clunky voiceover.
  16. Sorry to Bother You
    For a spell, Boots Riley's cultural ire is so cool-headed that Sorry to Bother You easily distinguishes itself from Mike Judge's similarly themed Idiocracy, but along the way it, too, settles for swinging for the fences—so much so that the target of its satire is no longer in its crosshairs.
  17. Journey's End
    Director Saul Dibb has infused his adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play with a striking sense of urgency.
  18. Searching
    As nimble as Aneesh Chaganty is in presenting his main character's multi-faceted interaction with technology in the first hour, the film suddenly morphs into a generic and manipulative missing-person thriller.
  19. Death Race 2000
    Death Race is a maladroit but exuberantly gamey mix of social commentary and blue-collar goofiness.
  20. Blaze
    With Blaze, a fractured story of country music singer-songwriter Blaze Foley, director Ethan Hawke admirably battles the clichés of the musical biopic.
  21. Uncle Drew
    Uncle Drew, the old-school streetballer played by NBA all-star Kyrie Irving, is a cheerfully scruffy creation, and so is the film that bears his name.
  22. The Forgiven
    Roland Joffé's film is largely successful in its attempt to grapple with the terrible truths of apartheid and its legacy.
  23. Death on the Nile
    Once things get moving, it’s smooth sailing to the double-shocker of a denouement.
  24. Angels Wear White
    In her understandable fury, Vivian Qu almost valorizes suffering, embracing it as a substantial signifier of identity.
  25. Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
    Christian Papierniak manages to get a tricky tonal balance more or less right, capturing the false sense of superiority that Izzy projects over her environment without allowing the film itself to revel in said superiority.
  26. Sadie
    Sadie remains a clear-eyed portrait of maternal love, teenage turmoil, and the singular type of tight-knit bonds formed, out of necessity in many cases, in low-income communities.
  27. Roxanne Roxanne
    One presumes that Michael Lerner's sense of emphasis is meant to humanize Shanté, defining her apart from the fame she achieved, but this stratagem backfires as Roxanne Roxanne mires itself in scenes of speechifying domestic strife.
  28. Dovlatov
    According tot he film, truly courageous artists aren't necessarily the ones who tackle the state head-on, but rather the ones who stay true to themselves even when no one likes what they have to say.
  29. Dark River
    While Clio Barnard so masterfully limns her protagonist’s tortured soul, the brother-sister drama at the center of the film remains frustratingly hazy.
  30. The Endless
    Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead veer away from the deeper, even meta-cinematic, implications of their plotting.
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