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For 7,779 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: 4,353 out of 7779
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7779
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7779
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  1. Una
    The film gives Una a little more agency, but director Benedict Andrews often invalidates such empowerment.
  2. Jonathan
    The dichotomy represented by Jonathan and John is too clean for the film's exploration of a divided psyche to ever feel particularly complex.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Fright Night
    What makes Fright Night such a hoot to this day, on top of the great performances, is the deft blending of humor and suspense that Holland manages to build in his story.
  4. Match
    Patrick Stewart's performance is practically an argument for Belber to jettison everything else and take the actor on the road as a one-man spoken-word act.
  5. Supporting Characters
    Glides from a mildly off-putting opening across several scenes that waver between sitcom superficiality and sudden, unexpected gusts of feeling, ultimately ending on a note of perfectly judged emotional ambivalence.
  6. Xenia
    It leaves room for a few flights of fancy where the lack of verisimilitude feels less like screenplay filler and more like unabashed poetic license.
  7. Lynch/Oz
    Alexandre O. Philippe’s essay film is both dead-serious about its subjects and playfully exploratory.
  8. The Mafia Only Kills in Summer
    Individual politicians, detectives, and mafiosi come and go so quickly that the audience doesn't have enough time to become emotionally invested in their lives and deaths.
  9. Labyrinth of Lies
    It only scratches the surface of the mass psychological wounds and trauma that the trials unleashed on the Germany psyche.
  10. Little Girl (La Pivellina)
    The film lacks the immediacy of the Dardenne brothers' pictures, the electrifying sense that anything might happen, while also avoiding their penchant for redemptive resolutions.
  11. The Help
    High school creative-writing-class ironies of all kinds abound in The Help.
  12. Lu Over the Wall
    Throughout, director Masaaki Yuasa’s imagination runs so wild that it becomes impossible to resist.
  13. Charm City Kings
    The film looks for an emotional payoff by continually upping the stakes of its main character’s self-destructive short-term thinking.
  14. Annabelle: Creation
    Like Lights out, David F. Sandberg's previous film, Annabelle: Creation is a haunted-house horror story that plays on our primeval fear of the dark.
  15. Black Box
    The film ruminates on how virtuality infiltrates the deepest regions of our subconscious to reprogram the inner workings of the self.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Daddio
    The film is as tedious and predictable as its traffic-clogged Long Island Expressway setting.
  17. The Names of Love
    Chockfull of ideas in a way that's both scattershot and more than a little exciting.
  18. Dark Star: HR Giger's World
    It weaves through past and present, memories and reality, analysis and history, like a mercurial mind reminiscing seemingly at random.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dragnet
    Dragnet winks at its source material often, but besides a committed lead performance by Dan Aykroyd and the return of Webb’s partner, Harry Morgan, little remains of the original show. This ain’t your grandmother’s Dragnet; it’s your deranged drunk uncle’s Dragnet.
  20. Ideal Home
    The broad strokes of the performances make the film's occasional lurches into sentimentality seem especially jarring.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Köln 75
    Unfortunately, for a film mainly about an assertive young woman making her way in a culture ruled by men, Köln 75 becomes far more compelling after Jarrett finally makes his entrance.
  22. Joshy
    The film feels most real, even at its most absurd, when focused on the idea of closure as a kind of fantasy.
  23. Ramen Shop
    Its drawn-out descriptions of culinary traditions and practices are enticing enough, but the same can’t be said about the characterizations.
  24. The King
    If only the film made more of the curious tension between Timothée Chalamet’s Henry and Robert Pattinson’s dauphin.
  25. A Glitch in the Matrix
    Rodney Ascher is a sly master of mining potentially jokey or gimmicky subjects for the alienation they primordially express.
  26. 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.
  27. Abigail
    While there’s plenty to be said about Abigail’s impressively over-the-top scarlet mean streak, the hellride that the filmmakers take us on is all the more effective for the character groundwork laid prior.
  28. Destroyer
    The filmmakers treat their material sternly and humorlessly, as if there's some great moral lesson to be imparted from Erin's inexhaustible blotto jerkiness.
  29. The Last Mountain
    Haney's movie is not great cinema, nor was meant to be, but as an introduction to one of the myriad dangers threatening our earth, it serves its cause well enough. And that, after all, is the whole point.
  30. Dragon
    Peter Ho-Sun Chan and Deonnie Yen Chan are too resourceful to let things remain dull for long.
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