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For 7,776 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: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. The Secret in Their Eyes
    Billy Ray unfurls the parallel time structure with the same flat, procedural monotony applied by Juan José Campanella to the original film.
  2. Secret in Their Eyes
    Billy Ray unfurls the parallel time structure with the same flat, procedural monotony applied by Juan José Campanella to the original film.
  3. The Night Before
    It aims to foster a spirit of giddy anarchy in order to tie a ribbon around its shambolic script and rickety pacing.
  4. Legend
    Given how Legend's script is so bereft of insight into its characters' psyches, perhaps there's only so much even an actor of Tom Hardy's stature can do.
  5. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    It careens from carnage to group therapy so wildly that the action never gets to build and the conversations just repeat themselves.
  6. Very Semi-Serious
    It doesn't seem to aspire to much more than proving that there are nice, talented people behind the New Yorker's walls.
  7. #Horror
    A blunt satire of the dehumanization inherent in social media that also gets off on said detachment.
  8. Kingdom of Shadows
    The visible numbness and empty stares of the doc's three subjects painfully evoke years of being gripped by the war on drugs.
  9. The Creation of Meaning
    In the simultaneously heady and lyrical The Creation of Meaning, we're obviously implicated in that comment, as the film views the meaning-making process as something malleable and dependent on perspective.
  10. The Summer of Sangaile
    Writer-director Alanté Kavaité's film is a string of softly weaved pictorial metaphors steeped in reverie.
  11. Democrats
    According to the film, individual misdeeds aren't the final enemy, but the byproduct of an unregulated regime.
  12. Censored Voices
    By negating more conventional, facts-first priorities, Mor Loushy creates an alternative historiography that's more meant to be felt than learned.
  13. Mediterranea
    The film is unwaveringly attentive to problematizing the dividing line between predator and prey.
  14. Criminal Activities
    The actors have the showmanship to chew the lurid, shopworn material up to bits, savoring it like a Royale with cheese.
  15. Mustang
    The film punctuates the sisters' confinement with various episodes united by their contrivance.
  16. Love the Coopers
    Sloppy and haphazard where it should be calculatedly chaotic, it can't ever seem to settle on an appropriate tone.
  17. Concussion
    The tacky and loose means by which the platitudinous screenplay dances around what ails the story's football players is just one cog in a whirligig of pat representations.
  18. My All American
    All of the film's nuances are ultimately negated by the its relentless canonization of its subject.
  19. Casa Grande
    The film uses its critique of white privilege as a means to woo the legitimizing gaze of international audiences.
  20. James White
    It confronts the hard realities of a world in which few make it to maturity without their share of scars, and no one makes it out of adulthood alive.
  21. By the Sea
    If it stumbles when it seeks our sympathy, it thrives when it's exploiting our fascination with the surface of things, and all that's unknowable underneath.
  22. The 33
    The film doles out a shock or hits a (usually hollow) emotional note every few minutes with mechanical precision.
  23. Shelter
    The characters' marginalized social standing is less indicative of a real-life epidemic and more akin to window dressing.
  24. Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
    It highlights the potent dichotomies that, combined with Bergman's relatively unmediated beauty, made the actress luminescent both on and off screen.
  25. Man Up
    Lake Bell and Simon Pegg's star wattage isn't enough to distract from the sense that their characters are almost exclusively defined by their single-ness.
  26. Funny Bunny
    Alison Bagnall and her talented leads appear to effortlessly achieve a tone that's tricky to sustain, one that abounds equally in absurdism and empathy.
  27. Madam Phung's Last Journey
    With the invocation of national allegiance as an inherent contradiction, the documentary blooms its larger, allegorical inklings.
  28. Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
    The film forsakes all ambiguity regarding McQueen's psychology by stubbornly defining him as a determined, charismatic womanizer.
  29. Heist
    Heist is competently staged, but Scott Mann maintains audience interest with the preponderance of dissonant absurdities.
  30. Miss You Already
    It winningly reflects how to utilize quiet understandings and, yes, very loud laughter.
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