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For 7,792 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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. R.M.N.
    R.M.N. is more suspense thriller than procedural, and it’s content to have the audience walk on the razor’s edge of doubt and fear through much of its two-hour running time. Perhaps too content.
  2. M3GAN
    There’s enough sardonic humor to keep the proceedings edgy enough, but it’s hard not to wish that the filmmakers would’ve taken a cue from their eponymous villain and really pushed things past the boundaries of good taste.
  3. There Are No Saints
    At its best, Alfonso Pineda Ulloa’s film gleefully embodies the grungy spirit of classic exploitation cinema.
  4. Enys Men
    Enys Men might have been called A Blueprint for Revival: an attempt to restore to horror something that Jenkin feels has been lost. If only it didn’t lack the power to truly frighten us, it may have flourished.
  5. Good Night Oppy
    Ryan White’s documentary is cute to a fault and filled with a rapturously uncomplicated glee about the joys of exploration.
  6. Godland
    The film’s unifying theme is the egocentrism and inevitable violence of masculinity.
  7. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    The climax has a certain primally cathartic power, but it doesn’t quite dispel the air of self-satisfaction that envelops the script.
  8. See How They Run
    The film breaks little new ground but is at least a notable improvement on, well, The Mousetrap.
  9. Asteroid City
    A dryly comedic bricolage of mid-century Americana and postwar anxieties with only the lightest dusting of plot, the 1950s-set Asteroid City finds Wes Anderson moving even closer to cultural curation and further from sustained storytelling.
  10. Thunder Road
    The ubiquitously involved star’s charisma can’t completely overshadow a sluggish plot... Nonetheless, its hard-charging chase sequences make it a vintage Dukes of Hazzard-flavored noir.
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  11. Fall
    Scott Mann’s film succeeds by simply committing to and steadily ratcheting up the ludicrous awesomeness of its premise.
  12. Book Club: The Next Chapter
    The film is devoid of serious conflict, yet it hits with unexpected feeling.
  13. Argentina, 1985
    For a film about the crimes of a fascist military dictatorship that employed mass torture, rape, kidnapping, and murder as weapons of social control, Argentina, 1985 sure goes down smooth.
  14. Country Gold
    For all its formal playfulness, the film never loses its grip on the interior lives to its characters.
  15. No Bears
    No Bears generally spends less time finding aesthetic articulations of its themes than it does building out an increasingly convoluted plot to support them.
  16. Dos Estaciones
    For all its lush cinematography, capturing regional custom and dramatic panoramas alike, this is a film about repression, an inhibition that no amount of tequila can take away.
  17. The African Desperate
    That The African Desperate is a send-up of art school is beyond doubt, but what’s less clear is just how far the satire goes.
  18. Master Gardener
    For Paul Schrader, even a film called Master Gardener ultimately pivots on a man having to take out the macho trash.
  19. A Compassionate Spy
    The suggestion that Ted Hall’s actions were that of simple and pure heroism leaves Steve James’s documentary in tension with the more nuanced view that Hall seemed to have of himself.
  20. Mufasa: The Lion King
    The film, unbound by having to recreate large swaths of the original Lion King whole cloth, was clearly allowed to be a product of its director.
  21. Theater of Thought
    It’s as if by being confronted by new innovations that appear to have come straight out of a sci-fi film, Werner Herzog exercises his galaxy brain to see what we could be capable of a decade, even a century, from now.
  22. Sick
    Throughout, the film’s characters impressively hold their own when forced to defend their lives, with director John Hyams catching every incident of bone-crunching mayhem as if he were shooting a martial arts film.
  23. Please Baby Please
    The film’s unapologetic level of artifice is at once the source of its pleasures and limitations.
  24. Project Wolf Hunting
    There’s an admirably propulsive, single-minded sense of purpose to the film’s commitment to gore.
  25. Piggy
    Throughout, writer-director Carlota Pereda announces herself as a skilled manipulator of audience sympathies.
  26. There There
    The artifice of There There certainly generates an added layer of frisson that might not have been there were the film shot under more conventional circumstances. But the root material has enough rich humanity and taut conflict to it that the result would have succeeded regardless.
  27. Scarlet
    The film drifts so far into weightless fantasy that it practically dissipates before one’s eyes.
  28. Inside
    Whether or not Vasilis Katsoupis’s film achieves escape velocity from genre limitations though overt sociopolitical commentary is questionable.
  29. Boston Strangler
    While the film’s determination to spotlight the women who brought down the Boston Strangler over the killer himself is admirable, it leaves a hole in the middle of the film that nothing else really manages to fill.
  30. The Holdovers
    The Holdovers is ultimately a story about the absence of family, and as it watches three individuals come together and apart, it’s subtly attuned to the way that class constricts people’s lives.
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