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For 7,786 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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: 4,357 out of 7786
  2. Mixed: 1,495 out of 7786
  3. Negative: 1,934 out of 7786
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  1. In the Shadow of Women
    Philippe Garrel's film uses its characters' stodgy, formal language to betray their self-consciousness.
  2. The Forbidden Room
    Its utter indulgence in esoterica paradoxically leaves it most vulnerable to the beating heart of this great artist of self-therapy.
  3. Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
    Miguel Gomes combats austerity with expansiveness, leavened by doses of frivolity and scatology.
  4. Hotel Transylvania 2
    It risks offense by putting a typically Adam Sandler-ian twist on a tired familial trope, though such risks can often be the only thing enlivening forced franchise installments like this one.
  5. Western
    After the film's early optimism and speculative midsection, Western struggles to manage all the rich dramatic irony of its final half hour, perched uneasily between plot and stasis.
  6. The Intern
    Nancy Meyers is unquestionably committed to her auteurist signature of giving her female protagonists their cake and letting them eat it too.
  7. Labyrinth of Lies
    It only scratches the surface of the mass psychological wounds and trauma that the trials unleashed on the Germany psyche.
  8. The Martian
    The film goes in for the idea of texture and tics and human behavior, but there's no conviction, and no real push for eccentricity.
  9. Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
    It forays into satirical terrain in order to elide actual dealings with the problems at hand, so that each piece feels alternatively frivolous and weighty.
  10. Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
    Miguel Gomes's formal talents, which include a flair for close-ups of elegantly smooth or weathered faces, transcend his soft spot for the didactic.
  11. Stonewall
    At its worst, the film dangerously repackages the queer experience using language invented by those originally deployed to break it apart.
  12. Becoming Bulletproof
    The trust that Bulletproof's filmmakers have in their cast and their talent is humanely and succinctly illustrated throughout.
  13. Cemetery of Splendor
    It gently and often imperceptibly shifts between past and present, legend and modernity, wakefulness and reverie.
  14. Mississippi Grind
    Ryan Boden and Anna Fleck convey an engagingly low-key atmosphere, pervasive with wayward souls haunted by poor choices.
  15. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
    It mistakes touch-and-go navel-gazing for comprehension, as if speaking to as many subjects as possible produces an inherently compelling take.
  16. 99 Homes
    Ramin Bahrani's talent for orchestrating sequences of tightly wound tension is in full bloom here, as is his complementary knack for quieter grace notes.
  17. Misunderstood
    The film is only slightly dependent on the self-pity that informed Asia Argento's last effort, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, but it feels similarly airless.
  18. The Keeping Room
    Director Daniel Barber uses a bleak and unresolved portion of American history to justify indulging typical genre-film nihilism.
  19. The Assassin
    The film carves out a rich emotional sphere concomitant to its stunning production design, finding delicate poetry in the dispassionate pursuit of revenge.
  20. Ashby
    The film displays little ability to utilize Ashby's violent actions for means other than high-concept fodder and out-of-place bloodshed.
  21. The Green Inferno
    The savagery here is rooted in retrograde myths that might have been easier to stomach had the cannibalism been positioned as a fantastical unleashing of retribution.
  22. Everest
    It feels less like an cautionary adventure movie or the classy Hollywood equivalent of a Reader's Digest "Drama in Real Life" and much more like a disaster epic.
  23. Black Mass
    Like any crime saga without a more potent thematic hook, the film's relentlessly insular script dwells on themes of loyalty and fraternity.
  24. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    Every set piece brings to mind an Epcot Center attraction built from borrowed parts, geared toward reinforcing the young audience's belief that adults just don't understand them.
  25. Pawn Sacrifice
    It's best appreciated as a tragicomic profile of a man whose extraordinary talent was undermined by the farcical political reality in which he was enmeshed.
  26. Cooties
    It makes an occasionally spirited pretense of injecting the tensions of the United States's educational system into a familiar zombie-siege scenario.
  27. The Cut
    Fatih Akin falls back on convenience and contrivance to streamline the thornier specificities of his grand-scale narrative.
  28. Prophet's Prey
    One watches the film with an escalating sense of disbelief and horror, as Warren Jeffs is steadily revealed to be an even greater monster than we initially take him for.
  29. The New Girlfriend
    François Ozon is never willing to fully engage with the ridiculousness of his material, resulting in an uneasy mix of wry distance and unearned emotion.
  30. Freeheld
    The filmmakers, for better and for worse, stay out of the actresses' way, as Freeheld's artistry is so unadorned that the performances somehow feel more naked as a result.
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