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For 7,778 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: 4,352 out of 7778
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7778
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7778
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  1. Unraveled
    Marc H. Simon's documentary has the thrust of a great American noir or black comedy.
  2. Red Flag
    It surprisingly abandons its obvious meta elements and unfolds as a straightforward road-trip flick, opting for an exhibition of self-loathing rather than self-reflexivity.
  3. The Autopsy of Jane Doe
    This is cinema’s most comprehensive look at the gruesome business of necropsy since Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes.
  4. Cocoon
    The film has something for everyone but, in effect, offers nothing of substance to anyone. The interplay between Ameche, Cronyn, and Brimley allow for some lively, even touching scenes in a product—and make no mistake, a product is exactly what it is—that is, at best, adequate.
  5. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    This is a film that projects an unflinching sincerity and optimism, and the first in the MCU, a franchise that has brought much of Marvel Comics’s wildest flights of fancy to life, to really channel the spirit of Kirby’s creations and how that first endeared them to audiences.
  6. June Zero
    June Zero is a tender, if sometimes cynical, portrait of a new country on old land struggling through the growing pains of establishing its presence both to the international community and its own people.
  7. Black '47
    As the historical specificity embedded in the film’s more expansive opening act is abandoned, the more predictable, archetypal trappings of a revenge narrative begin to take hold.
  8. Asylum
    Asylum tries telling similar tales (twice) and comes up pathetically short in the scare department, but the atmosphere and theatrics of the Amicus presentation make it a more than worthwhile trip down memory lane for die-hard horror buffs.
  9. In My Mother's Arms
    Throughout, it becomes clear that both the film and its subject are defined by the necessity of multitasking.
  10. The Lovers and the Despot
    The haphazard blending of fact and clips from disparate films unrelated to Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee's ordeal confuses an already intricate tale.
  11. Bonsái
    Cristián Jiménez's film knows how entangled the will to know is with the will to make love.
  12. Touch Me Not
    Touch Me Not‘s commingling of narrator and narrative, character and actor, fiction and documentary suggests that cinema itself is capable of being a manner of touch, the site of a nebulous and freeing encounter between people.
  13. Please Baby Please
    The film’s unapologetic level of artifice is at once the source of its pleasures and limitations.
  14. Point and Shoot
    In abandoning a more vigorous discussion of class and race-based senses of entitlement, Marshall Curry reveals his goals to be less critical or rigid than passively honorific.
  15. Agnes
    The film is a thoughtful examination of the human desire for it and the accompanying hope that it may exorcise the emptiness we feel.
  16. Photograph
    In pushing so many seemingly crucial moments off screen, the film transforms its main characters into blank slates.
  17. 100 Nights of Hero
    The film’s brand of feminism is as skin-deep as the narrative.
  18. Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
    Morgan Spurlock has little to say about Comic-Con other than that its attendees value it on a par with Christmas.
  19. The Way
    The making of The Way must have been a nice moment for father and son, but why must the rest of us suffer?
  20. The Rover
    Robert Pattinson's stare is almost thousand-yard enough to make the film's sense of tragedy feel downright Greek.
  21. Suffragette
    The film's episodes and attitudes register with searing immediacy while feeling true to their time period.
  22. Les Nôtres
    The film is a j’accuse aimed at those complicit in oppressing the most vulnerable in order to protect the powerful.
  23. Coup de Chance
    The film is at once among Woody Allen’s most economical works and one of his most free-spirited.
  24. Folk Hero & Funny Guy
    In the film's best scenes, Jeff Grace displays a delicate understanding of various modes of male fragility.
  25. Digger
    Georgis Grigorakis’s film may not revolutionize the western genre by transposing it to an unlikely setting, but it doesn’t dilute it either.
  26. Runoff
    This emotionally affecting film never loses sight of the ethical complexity of forsaking a community in the name of an individual.
  27. Alien: Romulus
    Romulus ends up as the franchise’s strongest entry in three decades for its devotion to deploying lean genre mechanics.
  28. Enforcement
    The film is both a lurid urban thriller and an earnest parable about (almost literally) walking a mile in someone else’s shoes.
  29. Frozen II
    Woke Disney, trying to navigate a tricky representational path, steps all over itself throughout.
  30. There Was Once...
    A not insignificant act of oral history, Gabor Kalman's There Was Once… makes for considerably less compelling cinema whenever it turns its focus away from the talking-head testimony of the Holocaust survivors of Kalosca, Hungary.
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