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For 7,776 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: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. Heaven Knows What
    If nothing else, Heaven Knows What is one of the most harrowing cinematic depictions of drug addiction in recent memory, reliant less on formal gimmickry than on close observation of behavior.
  2. Blackbird
    The film is, like its main character, too naïve to understand or, at least, to deploy the reparative powers of camp.
  3. The Age of Adaline
    Less a sincerely kooky elegy to lost time than a slightly off-kilter acting out of familiar rom-com bona fides about commitment-phobes missing out on life.
  4. The Water Diviner
    In straining for the profound, the film ultimately loses its way in a veritable no-man's land of ill-conceived stylistic choices and narrative switchbacks.
  5. The Great Museum
    The ghostliness of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna derives from an identity crisis, where digitization threatens to eradicate the gallery space.
  6. The Forger
    A sluggish, obvious fusion of a disease-of-the-week tearjerker with a comedic family crime romp that abounds in stiflingly over-emphasized Boston-crime-movie details.
  7. Misery Loves Comedy
    Commingling industry shoptalk with introspective insights and wrangling testimonials, the film casts an incredibly wide net, but doesn't reveal much of anything.
  8. Little Boy
    It conveys life experience to such a sentimentalized degree that the world comes to resemble only the sham of a Norman Rockwell painting.
  9. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
    Director Brett Morgen distinguishes the biographical documentary by viewing himself as more of a curator than a film director.
  10. Child 44
    The film is at once devoted to corroborating and casting an exaggerated light on Soviet paranoia and the state's rhetoric of unmasking its enemies.
  11. True Story
    If the film's copycat visual artistry illuminates nothing, at least its script is sincerely devoted to probing Finkel and Longo's odd partnership.
  12. Félix And Meira
    Maxime Giroux's sharp filmmaking instincts aren't always supported by similarly acute dramatic instincts.
  13. The Road Within
    The film's tired sentimentality aside, its general lack of empathy is most damning.
  14. Monkey Kingdom
    The cumulative effect is cheerily life-affirming, a bracing infusion of macaque-style joie de vivre.
  15. The Dead Lands
    A phony collection of storytelling clichés held under the banner of archetype and lent a modicum of weight by the splendor of the landscape.
  16. Tangerines
    For all of the potential, historically specific revelations regarding nation and religion, Tangerines elects to become bathetic hokum.
  17. Closer to the Moon
    Writer-director Nae Caranfil oddly forgoes the abundant elegiac aspects of his film's factual material for a tone approaching the ebullient.
  18. Beyond the Reach
    If all a movie needed was a boy with abs and a gun (or slingshot), then Beyond the Reach would be a masterpiece.
  19. Antarctic Edge: 70° South
    It appears afraid of alienating viewers by overloading on scientific jargon, and in the process becomes too attracted to ultimately superfluous anecdotes from her subjects.
  20. Alex of Venice
    Chris Messina is eventually a little too indifferent to the machinations of the plot, but the film, however inescapably sentimental, is a romantic daydream that casts a lovely spell.
  21. The Longest Ride
    There's little doubt where Cormac McCarthy-bashing Sparks's allegiances lie. The Longest Ride is truly no country for old ambiguity.
  22. Lost River
    The story, more a tangle of violent, symbolic gestures, regards economic exploitation with fetishistic, impossibly overdetermined abandon.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
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    When the genre-film spectacle arrives, it's in full force, and the strictures of the framing device manage to amplify, rather than suppress, the impact of the shocks and scares.
  24. Kill Me Three Times
    The affectionate humanism that typically laces Simon Pegg's postmodern self-awareness is missing from Kriv Stenders's film.
  25. The Harvest
    Director John McNaughton, once an agile orchestrator of seemingly incompatible tones, has retained his talent for teasing insinuation.
  26. The Sisterhood of Night
    The film is so unusually moving and penetrating because it refuses to cloud its emotions in distancing irony, anger, or nihilism.
  27. About Elly (2009)
    Asghar Farhadi's sensibility embodies a combination of empathy and paranoia that's striking considering that the latter is normally driven by self-absorption.
  28. Rebels of the Neon God
    Tsai Ming-liang's debut makes one yearn for an alternative reality where it, not Pulp Fiction, became the beacon of '90s independent filmmaking.
  29. Desert Dancer
    The film's relentless turning of its characters' experience into platitudes and homilies is served for our too-easy consumption.
  30. Woman in Gold
    The film evades all but the most careful commonplaces about the relationship between the viewer and the work of art at its center.
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