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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. Lux Æterna
    If the film-within-the-film is a vapid fetishization of women’s martyrdom, Lux Æterna is a willful exercise in repulsing its own audience.
  2. The Professor
    The film goes down easy because it saves the self-improvement clichés for the homestretch.
  3. Crawl
    The film is more straight-faced than Alexandre Aja’s prior work, trading absurd kills for narrow escapes from gaping alligator jaws.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Giant
    Sitting through it is like cramming a decade’s worth of daily television-watching into a single sitting.
  5. Weathering with You
    Contemporary outrage could’ve potentially counterpointed the film’s increasingly mawkish tendencies.
  6. A Face in the Crowd
    Strong performances and a fiery aggressive tone keep things moving, but A Face in the Crowd is dated and not particularly deep.
  7. Ford v Ferrari
    At a time when the nation continues to weigh the fate of its auto industry, James Mangold’s depiction of the Ford Motor Company facing its first major financial threat transparently plays to nostalgic reveries of the industry’s golden age.
  8. Three Peaks
    The film ably plumbs the fears of a well-meaning man who tries his best to play by the rules of middle-aged courtship.
  9. The Quiet One
    In the end, the film feels like a sketch that’s been offered in place of a portrait.
  10. Blackboard Jungle
    Poitier’s acting is scalding hot. If The Blackboard Jungle is worth anything, it’s for bearing witness to a major star in the making.
  11. The Bad Seed
    The Bad Seed might not have the lurid veneer of Oedipal conflict that turned The Good Son into a supreme guilty pleasure, but it’s got more false-façade performances than you could ever hope for.
  12. The Caine Mutiny
    The Caine Mutiny is not distinctive filmmaking or storytelling, and its idea of ethical debate is relying on familiar archetypes and arguments. It sure is standard, though. It’s like the well-constructed house that’s not meant to be distinctive, but was made to endure.
  13. The Americanization of Emily
    Though a bit overstuffed with long-winded speeches, Chayefsky’s scabrously funny script brims with snappy, crackling dialogue.
  14. Force of Evil
    Garfield’s likably unlikable protagonist provides Force of Evil with a semblance of cohesiveness, even if the film often feels like the product of dueling fetishes and pet symbols.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Wise Guys
    The macho bluster taken seriously in De Palma’s gorgeous but uninterestingly pumped-up Elliott Ness saga is here intriguingly skewered.
  16. The Band Wagon
    Only musical theater people will plug into this love-fest, breaking their arms patting themselves on the back. That’s entertainment?
  17. Black and Blue
    The film's command of action defuses concerns about whether it offers a thorough social critique.
  18. Soul
    While most Pixar films pride themselves on presenting rich, fantastical responses to real-world wonderings, Soul keeps conjuring up visions that don’t correspond precisely enough to anything in the real world.
  19. Gun Crazy
    Lewis, through sheer force of will, turns the script’s easy ways out into the essence of blunt, adolescent sexual flowering.
  20. Promare
    Promare often feels like a maximalist season finale trimmed of any build-up, a climax that’s outstanding to watch yet empty beyond its pure spectacle.
  21. Cassandro, the Exotico!
    It wouldn’t be fair to call the film hagiographic, but the director’s empathy, if not love, for her subject hinders her from examining Cassandro’s wounds with much depth.
  22. Tel Aviv on Fire
    Playfully biting as it can be, Tel Aviv on Fire tends to falter when it loses sight of the target of its satire.
  23. Angels Are Made of Light
    The film is an intimate portrait of a nation terminally anxious about who will see fit to rule it next.
  24. Dolemite Is My Name
    After its promising first act, Craig Brewer’s film becomes a series of fleeting bits, allowing questions to pile up.
  25. Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
    Robertson’s sense of having witnessed friends and collaborators get washed away by bitterness and addiction was more fulsomely evoked by The Last Waltz.
  26. True History of the Kelly Gang
    In more than one sense, Justin Kurzel’s aggressively strange film queers the myth of the oft-lionized Ned Kelly.
  27. Greed
    The film takes occasional stabs at comic grotesquerie, but it’s brought back to earth by an insistent docudrama seriousness.
  28. The Perfect Candidate
    The film’s aesthetic, understandably fused with its protagonist’s dogged can-do attitude, is both the source and limitation of its power.
  29. Wasp Network
    The final product feels like more of an interesting and beautifully filmed anecdote than compelling political and human drama.
  30. Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
    The film is at its best when its focus remains on Ivins’s fierce commitment to her ideals and willingness to speak her mind.
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