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For 7,792 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: 4,362 out of 7792
  2. Mixed: 1,496 out of 7792
  3. Negative: 1,934 out of 7792
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  1. 1917
    The most thrilling and haunting details here are actively undermined by the chief technical gimmick of the film.
  2. The Missouri Breaks
    A beautiful, gleefully weird vanity project that never quite coheres.
  3. The Way Back
    The film makes the path to basketball glory and the road to personal redemption seem oddly effortless.
  4. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
    For all the film’s invention, for all its trickiness, it doesn’t really move.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Dark Waters
    Todd Haynes’s film intermittently hits upon a few original ways of representing its ripped-from-the-headlines mandate.
  6. Wrinkles the Clown
    The film’s mid-act about-face lends a refreshing sense of complexity to an otherwise superficial depiction of Wrinkles.
  7. First Cow
    The sense of a nascent community rising up out of the primordial muck is palpable, so it’s unfortunate that John Magaro and Orion Lee's characters ultimately feel outside it all.
  8. Waiting for the Barbarians
    Ciro Guerra never quite finds an imagistic equivalent to the novel’s apocalyptic mood and subtly hallucinogenic atmosphere.
  9. A Rainy Day in New York
    The film’s skittishness is particularly maddening considering that Woody Allen has nothing to artistically to prove.
  10. Dead Ringer
    The film, meekly directed far across the soundstage by former actor Paul Henreid, is a potboiler filled with oh-so-convenient plot twists and purely incidental characterizations.
  11. Cunningham
    While some individuals are inevitably more compelling than others, as a whole the entire series, and “63 Up” in particular, is completely enveloping as it draws us into the latest happenings of these people we’ve followed for so long.
  12. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello’s film works better as a story of self-loathing and self-destruction than it does as a social critique or political statement.
  13. Disappearance at Clifton Hill
    What distinguishes the film from much of its ilk is Albert Shin’s ongoing taste for peculiar and unsettling details.
  14. The Moneychanger
    It’s apparent that Veiroj disdains no one so much as Humberto, but the film makes vanishingly little of the man’s undoubtedly twisted psyche.
  15. The Kingmaker
    The film confirms that the ruthless knack of the wealthy and powerful to remain so is a universal impulse.
  16. In My Room
    In My Room often exhibits an interest only in the accruing of incidents, giving it a this-happens-then-this-happens quality that defiantly eschews psychological shading.
  17. Richard Jewell
    Ironically, Clint Eastwood is as condescending of Jewell as the bureaucrats he despises.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Experiment in Terror
    Credit the film’s modest virtues to Edwards’s undeniable verve as a visual stylist. Still, with a running time slightly over two hours, Experiment in Terror is a bit too protracted to count as an unqualified success.
  19. The Trial of the Chicago 7
    It pulses with relevancy in a time when debates over authoritarianism, protests, and the necessity of radicalism are convulsing America.
  20. Waxwork
    Waxwork is certainly no hidden horror gem, but its flashes of wit and genuine enthusiasm for the horror genre are enough to make it a reasonably enjoyable time.
  21. Shooting the Mafia
    Kim Longinotto is so eager to celebrate her hero that she also glides past thornier portions of Letizia Battaglia’s life.
  22. Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
    A supplementary subject of most of Herzog’s work, which it shares with Chatwin’s, is a bottomless yearning for wonder.
  23. Slay the Dragon
    The film is suitably direct, clear-eyed, and exhaustive in documenting the massive impacts that gerrymandering has, particularly on communities of color.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Sneakers
    It’s a surprise to discover a cerebral, 25-year-old film following the blueprint for today’s endless glut of superhero movies. It certainly operates on this level for the masses.
  25. The Silent Partner
    Though Duke’s film lacks the warmth and humanism of Something Wild, it’s possessed of a similarly idiosyncratic edginess.
  26. Whirlybird
    At its best, Matt Yoka’s documentary vividly captures how personal demons shape creative output.
  27. Respect
    When Jennifer Hudson is singing her heart out, not so much approximating Aretha’s voice as channeling her soul, the effect is transportive.
  28. The Photograph
    The film is at its best when it’s focused on the euphoria and tribulations of its central couple's love affair.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Beastie Boys Story
    Often feels like a cross between a TED talk and a memorial service, but one gets the sense that Diamond and Horovitz are finally getting years’ worth of grief off their chests. The cumulative effect is, at the very least, touching.
  30. José
    Li Cheng gets much closer to capturing his characters’ predicaments when he trusts the images alone.
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