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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. Soylent Green
    The film strikes a poignant chord with its chilling portrayal of a state-sponsored euthanasia program that utilizes movie-watching as a narcotic designed to help the sick and elderly die peacefully.
  2. Rocketman
    As a musical, Dexter Fletcher’s film is just fun enough to (mostly) distract us from its superficiality.
  3. Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
    Lorna Tucker's documentary sustains a tone that oscillates between earnest admiration and wry exasperation.
  4. What Will People Say
    The film flirts with miserablism, but it counterbalances the direness of its main character's situation with moments of levity.
  5. Convoy
    At its best, the film finds Peckinpah moving into a new poetry of non-violence, of movement associated with explicit, actualized harmony, but the director doesn’t trust himself, mistaking change of form for impersonal commercial stewardship.
  6. Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
    The film is enlivened by an acute grasp of the impossibilities that abused Indonesian women face in a society predicated on their continued physical and emotional subjugation to men.
  7. What Keeps You Alive
    If Hannah Emily Anderson's performance was as fully imagined as Brittany Allen's, then What Keeps You Alive might have attained the emotional dimensions of a robust psychodrama.
  8. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
    Though it has the requisite murder every 10 minutes or so (including victims snapped in half and punched through the heart, and a triple decapitation), Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives feels more like a harbinger for the Scream series with its self-aware jokiness.
  9. The Night Eats the World
    Dominique Rocher reinvigorates the zombie film only to succumb to the strictures of the coming-of-age romance.
  10. The Citizen
    It adheres too rigidly to news-cycle replications of barbaric governmental acts, and without putting them into greater perspective.
  11. Dark Money
    Kimberly Reed's approach is too bloodless to make us feel the full weight of the injustices her film identifies.
  12. Mirai
    The fabric of the fantasy world depicted in the film lacks the cohesion of its central theme about appreciating one’s place in a family tree.
  13. Cielo
    Alison McAlpine's documentary lacks urgency beyond its persistent pondering of the sky's eternal mysteries.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Hal
    Just before the documentary slips into hero worship, Amy Scott pries beneath the calm surface of her bearded and bespectacled subject to reveal the silent rage that fueled his work.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Little Women
    Individual scenes are set to the rhythm of the young women’s conversations, which at times approach Gilmore Girls-level warp speed.
  16. Stan & Ollie
    At its best, Stan & Ollie shows how the private and personal dimensions of art are achingly inseparable.
  17. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
    The film more or less keeps things efficiently moving, wringing white-knuckle tension less through jump scares than from the darkness of a seemingly infinite void.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Gate
    If you can get in touch with your inner 12-year-old, The Gate is a pleasant diversion.
  19. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    In their best films, the Coens mine the depths of loneliness and egotism and frailty and solipsism. But in THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS there's a noticeable lack of deeper insinuation, a lack of curiosity.
  20. Lookin' to Get Out
    Lookin’ to Get Out, however, though pieced together with Ashby’s trademark character sympathy and technical aplomb, is one toke over the line: Unkempt and unconvincingly funny, the film is infused with the thin, despondent languor of a mourning man’s second-hand marijuana smoke.
  21. Chef Flynn
    At times, Cameron Yates appears to be too protective of his subjects, which somewhat neuters the drama of the narrative.
  22. Too Late to Die Young
    The experience of watching Dominga Sotomayor’s film is not unlike entering a stranger’s dream without an anchor.
  23. The Fall of the American Empire
    Despite a few undeniably intense and lurid moments, the film lacks the pulsating fury of a significant genre work.
  24. Maria by Callas
    The film is less hagiographic than most documentaries of its kind, which isn't to say that Tom Volf's adoration of his subject is ever in doubt.
  25. The Biggest Little Farm
    The film is often quite moving in spite of its evasions, suggesting a real-life Charlotte’s Web, but one wonders what an artist with a bit more distance might’ve made of such rich material.
  26. Donnybrook
    The film knots several strands of new-millennium despair into something that very nearly approximates greatness in its first half.
  27. Her Smell
    A story of filth and fury and, eventually, of placidity and peace, Her Smell is Alex Ross Perry’s most chaotic and unmuffled film — until it isn’t.
  28. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
    The film is beautiful and occasionally quite moving, but its subject matter deserves more than art-house irresolution.
  29. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
    Once it gets past what feels like submission to genre demands, the drama reaffirms its focus on the central themes.
  30. Navajo Joe
    Navajo Joe plays more like a ’50s B western in its fluid pacing, compact narrative construction, and hokey emphasis on star power than it does the kinds of sprawling genre re-workings common to its era.
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