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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Suburban Fury
    Robinson Devor is less interested in reconciling Sara Jane Moore’s contradictory allegiances than in exposing how they were formed.
  2. Ash
    Flying Lotus and his collaborators give Ash enough visual flair to occasionally transcend such limitations as forgettable characters with fuzzy motivations.
  3. Dream Team
    Dream Team’s absurdist brand flirts with an art-for-art’s-sake disengagement: the meaningless void as light entertainment, yet another opportunity for burying our heads in the sand.
  4. Heart Eyes
    Heart Eyes is a slasher movie first, and a gnarly one at that, with some imaginative, seat-shiftingly gruesome kills, and some particularly ominous set pieces.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Companion
    The film trenchantly satirizes 21st-century romance while delivering the gory genre goods.
  6. In the Lost Lands
    The film provides Paul W.S. Anderson with a sturdy canvas for his unique brand of gaudy, campy cool.
  7. Meeting with Pol Pot
    Rithy Panh’s film is hard-hitting yet illusive, much like the story its characters are hunting.
  8. Novocaine
    We’re used to heroes who can take a licking and keep on ticking, but Novocaine takes action-movie invulnerability to brutal comic extremes.
  9. Every Little Thing
    Terry Masear’s experience as a victim of childhood abuse is succinctly and broadly addressed, underscoring a largely unspoken meta-narrative about the necessity of compassion and forgiveness.
  10. Sex
    The film’s microcosm of dysfunction is convincing for how it depicts an ongoing, even never-ending, struggle to define oneself.
  11. Until Dawn
    The film is far from original, but it successfully translates game logic to the big screen.
  12. Plainclothes
    Sexy, scary, and occasionally clumsy, Carmen Emmi’s feature-length directorial debut, Plainclothes, is an anxious and unabashed gay drama about social repression and its impacts.
  13. Love, Brooklyn
    Love, Brooklyn, especially its loftier ideas, might have benefited from more of a satirical bite.
  14. Train Dreams
    The film’s mythologizing is refreshingly measured, and it offers an appealingly earnest take on the American story.
  15. By Design
    By forcing us to identify with its largely comatose protagonist, By Design arouses resentment in order to shake us out of torpor.
  16. Bubble & Squeak
    Evan Twohy’s attempt to smuggle some sincerity into this largely absurdist tale shows that he isn’t especially committed to coherence.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Luz
    It’s in the VR world that the film best conveys its themes of modern intimacy and alienation.
  18. It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
    The film is a resonant depiction of the gaping holes left by Jeff Buckley’s untimely death.
  19. Together
    That Together treats its body horror as just another wrinkle in the complexities of what it means to love someone else is writer-director Michael Shanks’s smartest move.
  20. Dead Lover
    The can-do spirit of Dead Lover, as evidenced by the way it couples goofy sound effects with cuts and camera movements, takes it a long way.
  21. Mercy
    More than anything, this twisty dystopian thriller commits to the jittery anxiety of doomscrolling.
  22. BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
    This hybridized essay film embodies the complications and contradictions inherent within Black history—complete with all its erasures and variances.
  23. Caught Stealing
    The story’s boilerplate setup gets a noticeable lift thanks to Darren Aronofsky’s style and focus.
  24. Final Destination: Bloodlines
    Bloodlines finds frights and fun alike in a string of gory kills.
  25. Another Simple Favor
    The first film was divided against itself—half a typically broad Paul Feig comedy, half imitation Gone Girl—and the sequel doesn’t fare much better as a genuine thriller.
  26. Notes on Displacement
    It presents all the complex and seemingly contradictory emotions of a forced life on the road.
  27. McVeigh
    McVeigh’s ominous atmosphere is omnipresent, clinging to Timothy like a dog to a bone.
  28. An Unfinished Film
    If the frames of Lou’s previous work suggested that reality was something that could be unlocked and unfurled, An Unfinished Film’s presentation of reality as it basically was unfortunately gives the filmmaker, and the audience, little to discover.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Klezmer Project
    As with a traditional documentary, The Klezmer Project is affected by forces outside the filmmakers’ control.
  30. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
    The careful balance of “stupid and clever” that solidified the legend of the first film is less steady in its much-belated sequel.
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