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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. The Vanishing
    The Vanishing seems truly troubled by its action violence in a way that many similar thrillers aren’t.
  2. Disconnect
    Fails not so much because of its occasional self-seriousness or didacticism than it does from a scattered plot that makes the story's overriding theme or message difficult to grasp.
  3. The Damned
    Had we been allowed to truly sit with the characters’ prejudices, then The Damned might have earned the desperation with which it strains for contemporary resonance.
  4. Gretel & Hansel
    Beginning with the reversed names in its title, the film announces itself as a distinctly feminine spin on the Grimm fairy tale.
  5. Goat
    The film's understanding of the brittleness that begets the "traditions" of frat culture is altogether shallow.
  6. MaXXXine
    First with X, then with Pearl, and definitively with MaXXXine, West has buried his unique style and forward-thinking vision under an astroturfed surface of compulsory cinematic references and cliché cultural signifiers.
  7. The Shine of Day
    As in Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel's 2009 film, La Pivellina, modesty is the key to The Shine of Day, and sometimes to the detriment of audience involvement and focus.
  8. Dementia
    The film doesn't quite earn Jones's performance, but it engenders considerable goodwill for allowing him to give it.
  9. Sleeping with Other People
    This is exactly the kind of movie at which David Wain took aim with his sublime rom-com parody They Came Together.
  10. Gaia
    After a while, the film’s elaborate, often breathtaking special effects come to feel like it’s only source of complexity.
  11. Your Lucky Day
    The film coasts far on the pleasant surprise of some sharp plotting.
  12. Captain Marvel
    The film doesn't pay nearly enough attention to Danvers’s crucial emotional metamorphosis from dual-identity self-doubter to fearless warrior battling to keep Earth safe.
  13. Dolphin Tale
    If its plotting can be slight, the film's restraint and earnestness help prevent it from ever tipping over into outright mawkishness, and its performances similarly avoid over-the-top histrionics.
  14. A Better Life
    Save for its loving, plaintive, and thorough tour of the seldom-filmed East L.A., A Better Life is, top to bottom, derivative-of Polanski in its direction and of "Bicycle Thieves" in its plot (even Alexandre Desplat's gussy score suggests Angelo Badalamenti playing Mariachi Night).
    • 64 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Rental Family
    The few glimpses we get of the supporting cast suggest a more exploratory film, but these strands only exist to be woven back into Philip’s formulaic journey of self-discovery.
  16. undertone
    Throughout Undertone, Ian Tuason delights in deploying sound to eerily suggestive ends.
  17. Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
    Lorna Tucker's documentary sustains a tone that oscillates between earnest admiration and wry exasperation.
  18. The Innkeepers
    Winding up the tension to an almost stubborn degree, Ti West forestalls the inevitable disappointment of its release, a blow that's further softened by how immaculately the whole movie is shot.
  19. Dark Touch
    The film is beholden to a strange internal logic that gives primacy not to its protagonist's suffering, but to its maker's thirst for fun.
  20. Catch Me Daddy
    The film plods from one gruesome moment to the next, as if its mere aversion to optimism constitutes a philosophy.
  21. Quartet
    For a movie that aims to make four artists' last spotlit hurrah a revel-worthy moment, Quartet shouldn't urge the viewer to welcome the closing of the curtain.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Prometheus
    It aspires to Stanley Kubrick's "2001", but in its maddeningly unresolved plot threads and cornball cosmic mysticism, it lands closer to "Mission to Mars" -though Prometheus lacks any action set piece as gripping as the Brian De Palma film's sentient sandstorm.
  23. New York, New York
    New York, New York, like most Martin Scorsese films, is about the trials and glories of making art.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bonjour Tristesse
    The film finds a state of grace in that torrential pull between the familiar and the new.
  25. Goon
    A second-rate dude comedy in which an untalented knucklehead becomes a star through brute violence.
  26. Mimosas
    Mimosas confounds its surface narrative with intimations of more layered meanings to come through a jockeying of story threads.
  27. The Lost Bus
    Paul Greengrass employs a peripatetic restlessness to the material, and while that brings an often thrilling sense of verisimilitude to the film, the cliché-stuffed screenplay too often plays against the intended solemnity of the project.
  28. The Party
    The comically rich visual tapestry of Blake Edwards’s The Party still endures.
  29. Teenage
    It botches itself out of its own epic ambitions, an aesthetic slickness that seems to contradict, if not betray, its subject matter, and a maddeningly subdued critical spirit.
  30. The Patience Stone
    While Atiq Rahimi's film may peel away the many layers of its female lead like an onion, the end result is still just an onion.
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