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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. The Lie
    It's hard to say which is worse: the unfunny caricatures or the indulgent soul-searching.
  2. A Star Is Born
    The film is equal parts I Will Survive and pop martyrdom, instigated by a star so enormous that she could likely bankroll the Department of Defense for the year of 1976 and still have money left over.
  3. Mission: Impossible
    Unlike most action films, Mission: Impossible's distinct appeal operates not so much on suspense but on improbability.
  4. Jakob's Wife
    Travis Stevens’s film is psychologically astute, until it gives itself over to turning subtext into extremely legible text.
  5. Dating Amber
    Dating Amber rather seamlessly strips itself of its hyperbolic affectations to reveal a heartbreaking story of emancipation through friendship.
  6. The Drama
    Kristoffer Borgli delights in creating a hypothetical trap for his lovers, but he also acknowledges that there’s something romantic about being stuck in it together.
  7. Dawn of the Dead
    This new Dawn of the Dead doesn't stop to take a breath, and remains frequently scary and engaging in the moment without leaving much to chew on afterward.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Surviving Progress
    By turning the idea of progress on its head, the nimble Surviving Progress exquisitely presents to us the possibility that humankind's achievements may cause its downfall.
  9. Black Mama White Mama
    Black Mama, White Mama became a key reference point for postmodern mash-up artists like Quentin Tarantino and Neveldine/Taylor, but the film’s socio-political jungle is not all fun-and-grindhouse games.
  10. My Darling Supermarket
    If the world outside the Supermercado Veran is rife with poverty and crime, we wouldn’t know it from inside this little cocoon.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Hava Nagila: The Movie
    The documentary can at times feel like you're wasting your time on a subject you might wish you had only accidentally crossed paths with briefly on Wikipedia.
  12. The Forgiven
    Whatever satire of white elite society is intended by The Forgiven has been blunted by monotony.
  13. Nobody 2
    Behind the violence and gore, Nobody 2 only offers the skeleton of a narrative.
  14. Running from Crazy
    The modern-day sections with Mariel Hemingway, while detailing the redemptive promise of the title, too often come across as either indulgent time-filler or overflow with PSA-level superficiality.
  15. Jurassic World
    Jurassic World can't tell whether it wants to be junk food or not, lovingly poking fun at some Hollywood tropes while shamelessly indulging others.
  16. On the Ice
    The moral dilemmas in On the Ice ultimately fail to resonate, Qalli's concluding plea for his flawed humanity coming off as strangely hollow.
  17. The Dead
    The Dead ultimately doesn't have much of a pulse, as it fails to transcend the banality of its inevitable theme.
  18. Strike a Pose
    The filmmakers and performers show great maturity in refusing to settle scores or spill secrets.
  19. Valley of Love
    The film enables us to feel the emotional weight of a posthumous letter precisely because we can only imagine its contents.
  20. Our Mothers
    Around his main character, writer-director César Díaz builds a complex but unpretentious interrogation of national belonging.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Detroit Unleaded
    It compellingly engages with the specific problems of a cultural group rarely represented in American film, but it too easily and abruptly resolves its main characters' problems.
  22. In Darkness
    Anthony Bryne's high-flown style only serves to highlight the film's icky way of exploiting real-world tragedy for kicks.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    There's Still Tomorrow
    It’s a film about domestic violence that, while clearly intended as an homage to Italian neorealism, finds levity through choreographed musical numbers and moments of light magical realism.
  24. The Whistleblower
    It reaches a peak of dramatic anguish in star Rachel Weisz's single moment of naked fury, rather than through the tenacity and compassion that define her crusading title character.
  25. Miss You Already
    It winningly reflects how to utilize quiet understandings and, yes, very loud laughter.
  26. 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
    If you grant the documentary its slanted perspective at the outset, it works well as its own state-of-the-union address.
  27. Those Who Wish Me Dead
    The film half-heartedly teeters between a kinetic action thriller and something a little more low-key.
  28. Bad Boys for Life
    The film may leave you wondering what purpose this franchise serves if not to give expression to Michael Bay's nationalist, racist, and misogynistic instincts.
  29. Learning to Drive
    Instead of using the titular metaphor as a means to seek deeper, darker ends, Isabel Coixet proceeds to restate it over and over again.
  30. Ballerina
    Sans a mythology of its own, or any substantive ties into where the John Wick films go chronologically after this, Ballerina is just another 87Eleven joint.
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