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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. Elvis
    The protracted rubbernecking at Elvis’s inexorable decline epitomizes a film that regularly backs away from its keenest observations about the icon to merely, and superficially, bask in his star power.
  2. Gypsy
    A Slovakian character study of a boy ambivalently caught between worlds that ultimately squanders its promise.
  3. Holy Hell
    It hopes to jolt audiences with OMGs instead of edifying them about the empty lure of Buddhafield's cult mentality.
  4. Ray Meets Helen
    After 15 years away from the cinema, Alan Rudolph reminds one of the suggestive potency of his films.
  5. Chinese Puzzle
    Cédric Klapisch's film becomes an effervescent variation on the time-honored story of striking out for the American dream.
  6. Napoleon
    More times than not, the film’s bursts of humor clash awkwardly with the far more frequent attempts at gravitas that the filmmakers strive for when our protagonist is in battle or engaged in political discussions.
  7. Glass Chin
    The story wisely focuses on the cast's worn-in and jazzy repartee and expresses a perfectly modulated sense of self-awareness.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Killing Them Softly
    The film's cynicism, like everything else, is nothing more than empty posturing, a fashionable pose adopted to ingratiate itself with a disenfranchised public.
  9. Downsizing
    Alexander Payne's defenders might call his often acidic touch Swiftian, though it comes off more toothlessly noncommittal.
  10. Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
    Best exemplified by its fixation on culottes, the film never feels like more than a half-formed in-joke between close friends.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Lost King
    The film, a shabby account of the story behind the story, muddles its themes and only superficially conveys the importance of the historical insights it contains.
  12. Infinitely Polar Bear
    Maya Forbes reveals herself as a sunny optimist, insistent on remembering the ecstatic highs and never dwelling on the despairing lows.
  13. Miles Ahead
    Less a character study than an impressionistic portrait of a troubled artist's internal chaos, it supplies just enough Miles Davis to leave us jonesing for more.
  14. Fury
    The film itself is a lumbering tank of a movie, chunky, loud, and clumsy, mulching down men into meat as proof of its dramatic seriousness and gloomy worldview.
  15. To the Bone
    One of the film’s great qualities is its casualness and willingness to be simply human and to not let sociological politics dominate.
  16. Coma
    A heady rush of ideas, the film’s avant-garde mélange of live-action footage, abstract video art, and multiple kinds of animation just barely masks that it’s a rather simple story about a Zoomer’s inner struggle with both her own mortality and that of the world.
  17. Cross of Iron
    Cross of Iron would almost seem a proper mea culpa by Peckinpah for his controversial career, and the pre-Dogville closing credit sequence featuring a risible, anti-patriotic photo slideshow reveals a director still capable of new and inventive provocation tactics.
  18. Miss Sloane
    The screenplay's enigmatic nature holds one's interest throughout, even as the film veers into pat moralism.
  19. Vivarium
    This a parable about adulthood boasts deeply cynical takes on home, community, and childrearing.
  20. Sleep Furiously
    An affectionate, if uncomfortably stagnant, portrait of moribund rural culture.
  21. The Chaser
    The opaque ethics of The Chaser elide the reductive nature of binary pairs, focusing instead on the far more piquant complexity of human behavior.
  22. Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil
    It highlights how the ownership of art serves as a marker of capital for distinguishing one institution over another.
  23. Lion's Den
    Although the film is essentially contemplative, there’s little here worth contemplating.
  24. Come to Daddy
    Unlike many [M. Night] Shyamalan films, which seem constructed out of Mad Libs, Come to Daddy retains an emotional consistency.
  25. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    Can't mask that, at heart, it's merely a trifling tour documentary that gives further excessive attention to the late-night star's 2010 ouster as The Tonight Show host.
  26. The Happy Prince
    For every haunting sequence in The Happy Prince, there’s five that redundantly wallow in Oscar Wilde’s misery, which is Rupert Everett’s point, but it becomes wearisome.
  27. The Last Rites of Joe May
    Watching Dennis Farina dominate every scene is a joy, and thankfully the actor makes the most of this opportunity.
  28. Ant-Man
    Half-assed mentions of the Avengers, as well as a few cameo appearances sprinkled both within the feature and in its credits stingers, exude less shame than a crowd-pandering politico.
  29. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
    As a metaphor for the way we respond to the media, and the way our politics are funneled through the media lens, the film succeeds most when it revels in ambiguity.
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