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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. All I Can Say
    The film refuses to shy away from the unvarnished honesty of Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon during his brief moment of fame.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Follow That Bird
    While kids will and have enjoyed the film as a sweet-and-occasionally-exciting road trip with all their favorite Sesame Street friends, parents are presented with far deeper themes to consider.
  3. Gagarine
    The film is at its most effective and engaging when simply capturing the vibrancy of a world onto its own.
  4. Sweat
    Sweat mostly adheres to a time-honored tale of the pitfalls of fame, despite its ultra-modern context.
  5. Slalom
    The film’s real subject is a young woman awakening to her oppression, rendered poignant in all its awkwardness by Noée Abita.
  6. A Girl Missing
    Kôji Fukada adores stray textures that stick in the proverbial throat and free-associatively affirm his characters’ rootlessness.
  7. Blessed Child
    Filmmaker Cara Jones offers a poignant testament to the baggage and insecurities hounding her own life.
  8. Greenland
    There are enough left turns here to allow us to shake the impression that we’ve been to this rodeo before.
  9. French Exit
    In French Exit’s best passages, sadness and curt, resonant comedy exist side by side unceremoniously.
  10. I Care a Lot
    Throughout, J Blakeson crafts sharp, curt dialogue that makes a fashion statement out of contempt.
  11. The Secrets We Keep
    The film is ultimately too tidy to embrace anything truly startling or unexpected, either stylistically or narratively.
  12. Enola Holmes
    Even when the plot occasionally falters, Enola’s continuous invitations to complicity renew the film’s momentum.
  13. Ammonite
    Francis Lee’s compulsion to make Mary Anning stand in for something broader than herself keeps tripping up the film.
  14. 12 Hour Shift
    The plot, geared as much for comedy as horror, is wound with efficient build-up, and its revolving-door atmosphere is consistent enough to paper over some iffy acting, baggy dialogue, and more than a few minutes of wasted real estate.
  15. Luca
    Pixar’s most intimate and laidback effort since Ratatouille feels like a throwback to one of Mark Twain’s rollicking picaresque sagas.
  16. Z
    Forty years on, it’s still an eye-catching, fast-paced watch, but the plaudits it won as an uncompromising thriller and landmark cinema seem as shaky as the film’s villainous military officers’ insistence that its central murder was an accident.
  17. Buoyancy
    The film never quite pushes beyond the archetypal nature of its scenario to fully unearth its characters’ psychological turmoil.
  18. Pieces of a Woman
    When the film’s actors are given space to etch their characters’ feelings, they turn in strikingly naturalistic performances.
  19. Dear Comrades!
    It’s in its depiction of the communist party’s response to a peaceful demonstration that Andrei Konchalovsky’s latest is at its most effective.
  20. Unpregnant
    Its few nutty ideas demonstrate how little distance Unpregnant manages to put between itself and a standard high-school comedy.
  21. I Am Greta
    Even though it’s about a person who speaks with courage about the urgency of the global crisis, I Am Greta itself doesn’t possess enough of that urgency.
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Nov 9, 2020
  22. Freaky
    Freaky doesn’t reach for any arch commentary beyond the suggestion that, hey, Freaky Friday the 13th is a pretty funny idea.
  23. The Dark and the Wicked
    This supernatural fable elevates the subtext of Bryan Bertino’s earlier work to the level of text.
  24. Sun Children
    The film tends toward the dramatically monotonous, but its unwavering sense of purpose ensures that it’s also compellingly human.
  25. Wife of a Spy
    Wife of a Spy could use a streak of live-wire, huckster crudeness, a bit of melodrama delivered in an unselfconscious manner.
  26. Gunda
    By the time the credits roll on the film, we realize we’ve been watching not so much a sketch of the lives of farm animals as a threnody for their deaths.
  27. Concrete Cowboy
    The film is stirring when it really dives into specificity.
  28. Limbo
    A comedy about the migrant crisis is more daring than a coming-of-age story, and Limbo, wanting it both ways, dilutes its best instincts with sops to formula.
  29. Shadow in the Cloud
    Roseanne Liang leverages the absolute implausibility of the film’s later scenes into something brisk and exciting right to the very end.
  30. The Lie
    At the heart of Veena Sud’s film is the raw material for a potentially ingenious satirical domestic thriller.
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