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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. Kingsman: The Secret Service
    It's tructured in familiar, safe terms, plays for very low stakes, and appeals to no one so much as white, male teenagers with chips on their shoulders.
  2. What We Do in the Shadows
    The film sympathetically renders the small humiliations and inconveniences of life as an old-world vampire struggling with modernity.
  3. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
    A dizzying hall-of-mirrors stunt, a horror remake as autobiographical X-ray, and a work of fantasy that serves as a decadently cleansing creative exorcism.
  4. 1971
    Johanna Hamilton's 1971 represents a mind-blowing scoop disguised as a fairly garden-variety issue doc.
  5. The Last Five Years
    The film mostly skirts any connection to musical theater as though it were faintly embarrassed.
  6. Jupiter Ascending
    The film is ntermittently inventive in its visual and physical effects, but its politics are unthinking and obvious, a cheap anti-authoritarian tantrum imbedded in an intergalactic action-melodrama.
  7. Seventh Son
    As is often the case in films like this, Seventh Son is at its weakest when it tries to leaven its brink-of-disaster gravity with a little nerdy humor.
  8. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
    Its dedication to the transgressive power of frivolity remains the franchise's greatest weapon.
  9. Enter the Dangerous Mind
    The title of Youssef Delara and Victor Teran's new film pretty much sums up its shallow and exploitative take on mental illness.
  10. Losing Ground
    The film is a patient exploration of the enlaced connections between professional and emotional sectors.
  11. Mad As Hell
    The doc is too enamored with Cenk Uygur and his convictions that it hews more closely to being a conventional and one-sided biographical portrait.
  12. The Other Man: F.W. de Klerk and the End of Apartheid
    The material being offered has been edited, composed, and made sentimental with the rigor of a political ad campaign.
  13. The Voices
    For most of the film's running time, one mistakes the main character's callousness for the filmmakers'.
  14. Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
    The doc adopts the viewpoint specifically of those who knew him best, and seeks to separate the person from the emblem.
  15. Ballet 422
    Jody Lee Lipes shapes the footage into an intimate symphony of poetically shaped bodies that contrast poignantly with uncertain faces.
  16. Black or White
    Kevin Costner scowls and darts around the dubious thin line between "racism" and un-sugarcoated "truthfulness" that only anti-P.C. wingnuts actually believe exists.
  17. Project Almanac
    The film delivers the same misogynistic, faux-modernistic jolts of trashy humor and labored plotting that typify the work of co-producer Michael Bay.
  18. Above and Beyond
    It may channel the loose, adrenaline-fueled lives of pilots, but the film's inconsistent, often impassive study of this intriguing real-life adventure feels half-told.
  19. Supremacy
    The characters shout themselves hoarse, but they don't really say anything, and it isn't long before we feel like hostages ourselves, bound by the filmmakers' strained moral outrage.
  20. Hard to Be a God
    Aleksei German's final film is choreographed with a Felliniesque social grandeur, but tethered to a neorealist's eye for detail and quotidian matters of social justice.
  21. My Name Is Hmmm...
    The feeling here was perhaps intended to be impressionistic and elusive, but the result is instead rambling and unfocused.
  22. Wild Card
    The action-movie pyrotechnics succeed only at reinforcing Simon West's macho bona fides and condescendingly forcing Jason Statham back into his wheelhouse.
  23. Girlhood
    Girlhood is so keyed to the minutiae of its teenage protagonists' lives, it's as if the film can't stop itself from behaving like they do.
  24. Alien Outpost
    The film splits its time evenly between half-heartedly pretending it's an allegory for our current war on terror and pretending that it's not.
  25. The Boy Next Door
    The camera regards Guzman's buttocks and Lopez's breasts with an evasion of visual pleasure that could be blamed on the actors' nudity clauses if the entirety of the film didn't resemble a Lifetime movie embarrassed to have found its way to theaters.
  26. Mommy
    When Xavier Dolan's tremendous empathy for the abandoned, medicated, and economically stressed is given full visual flight, it's easy to get lost in the rush.
  27. The Humbling
    Philip Roth's original ending is cranked up to 11, flattening the more interesting contours of Al Pacino's performance into a martyr's desperate plea for an audience's love.
  28. Strange Magic
    As juvenile and frivolous a wish-fulfillment fantasy as one might expect from the visionary behind the lightsaber and Princess Leia hogtied to Jabba the Hut, Strange Magic depicts war as a series of scarcely muddied binary oppositions: between good and evil, the beautiful and the ugly, and singing and death by karaoke.
  29. Cake
    The film is a study of grief that drowns in a cold bath of grim self-pity.
  30. Manny
    An informative, if largely deferent, biographical documentary that tritely explains the ascendancy of Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao.
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