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For 7,779 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 6.3 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: 4,353 out of 7779
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7779
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7779
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  1. Beneath the Harvest Sky
    It flourishes in the spaces between the plot's necessary setups and subsequent payoffs, which is nearly enough to redeem the film if not for the narrative going belly up in the third act.
  2. Totally Killer
    It might not be quite as incisive a piece of genre dismemberment as Wes Craven’s Scream or Drew Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods, but it has a lot of fun poking at the tricks and tropes of slasher movies all the same.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Burning Hot Summer
    The Louis Garrel character's mixture of self-containment and alleged possessiveness over his wife fails to convince, if not to irritate.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Twins of Evil
    Twins of Evil benefits considerably from seasoned performances by a veteran cast that includes genre icon Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, and Kathleen Byron.
  5. Dual
    Riley Stearns’s film consistently tickles the funny bone, even when it comes at the expense of psychological nuance.
  6. Godzilla
    In form, it's no wham-bam VFX sizzle reel replete with sputtering, ejaculatory climaxes. It's the magnificently sustained equivalent of Ravel's "Bolero," with nuclear warheads in place of timpani rolls.
  7. The Discoverers
    It pushes itself beyond shrill predictability in its willingness to indict the public and familial histories at its core.
  8. Willow Creek
    Bobcat Goldthwait exposes the characteristic male pursuit of power to which females are often made subservient.
  9. Killer Joe
    It thrills in seeing dumb people getting their due in hyper-stylized displays of violence, and yet it never feels contemptuous of them.
  10. The Assessment
    The Assessment works its way through intriguing conundrums about the motivations and qualifications of parenthood, as well as the power dynamics at play between parents and children.
  11. Dead Man
    Dead Man is likely Jim Jarmusch’s most stunning achievement.
  12. Grabbers
    Good, clean genre entertainment, the sort of harmless yet endearing brand of moviemaking seemingly unattainable in today's Hollywood system.
  13. Ava
    The film's constant cruelty is so inescapable that it starts to feel unfair not only to the protagonist, but to Iran itself.
  14. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
    Despite some satisfyingly gut-busting moments, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue retains a very British stiff upper lip.
  15. Bitter Moon
    As easy as it would be to make rude connections between the film’s raunchy shenanigans and Polanski’s own history, the fact is that Bitter Moon doesn’t feel like either an explanation, an apology, nor a defense of the kinky sexual games adults play. Think of it as Polanski’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
  16. Kon-Tiki
    It lacks the fire and eccentricity that we want from our stories of adventurers driven by obsessions that could be seen as egotistical or just plain bonkers.
  17. Loving Vincent
    Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman's film is driven by an off-putting and oxymoronic fusion of reverence and egotism.
  18. The German Doctor
    In Lucía Puenzo's film, things always feel off balance even as the plot points click all too neatly into place.
  19. Love, Brooklyn
    Love, Brooklyn, especially its loftier ideas, might have benefited from more of a satirical bite.
  20. Young Woman and the Sea
    The film leaves no room for doubt about what Trudy Ederle will accomplish, and thus creates virtually no dramatic tension in her inevitable rise to the top ranks of women’s swimming.
  21. American Dharma
    The film feels rather like listening to the arsonist calmly explain why he set the fire as we continue to watch it rage.
  22. Begin Again
    It's a film that lives in the high and not in the comedown, even though its characters are often stalled and wallowing.
  23. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
    Its dedication to the transgressive power of frivolity remains the franchise's greatest weapon.
  24. Amulet
    The film never feels as satisfying or as haunting as its bow-tying epilogue strives for.
  25. The Daughter
    It too often strains for a tragic gravity that its ultimately melodramatic characters never earn.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Newlyweeds
    Going neither in the direction of Reefer Madness nor a Cheech and Chong movie, it's both funny and serious, and its depictions of pot-smoking could be read as either promotional or cautionary.
  27. Stress Positions
    The film is an insightful look at modern discontent and the pandemonium that it breeds.
  28. The Source Family
    The research and elucidating synthesis on display effectively illuminate the pernicious aura of a lifestyle pursued by the yearning, lost souls of the time.
  29. New Order
    The film utilizes a trendy issue as window dressing for a tedious and delusional exploitation film-slash-museum piece.
  30. La Última Película
    The film isn't so much about "the end of cinema" as it is about the people who abuse the medium and their subjects for their own political agenda.
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