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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. Siberia
    Abel Ferrara doesn’t require traditional dream logic, as his grasp of the nitty-gritty quotidian of longing is inherently uncanny.
  2. If You Build It
    It isn't until the rushed conclusion when director Patrick Creadon shows the possibilities of what the documentary could have been.
  3. Joker
    The film is one that might have been dreamed up by one of the cynical douche bros from the Hangover during a blacked-out stupor.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Night of the Comet
    While it would be unduly dismissive to write off Night of the Comet as a cult film merely by association, a good bit of its ancillary charm is obviously owing to its resonant casting choices: Reuniting Beltran and Woronov in the wake of Paul Bartel’s blistering black comedy Eating Raoul adds extra spice to the one longish scene they share.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
    For a three-hour, epoch-ending epic made by a comedy neophyte, it yields a treasure of showbiz lore.
  6. Clash of the Titans
    These fantastical He-Man epics were common in the early ’80s (Legend, Conan the Barbarian, and The Beastmaster were all variations of the same theme), and while Clash of the Titans remains one of the genre’s homelier entries, there’s no faulting a film this lovingly and aptly arcane.
  7. Mother, Couch
    Other than a sort of wistful quirkiness, it’s not clear what Mother, Couch gains by skewing away from a more straightforward, streamlined family drama.
  8. The Little Mermaid
    This Little Mermaid feels more or less like two-hour-plus cosplay with the texture and gravitas of a Disneyland sideshow.
  9. Magic Trip
    At its best, Magic Trip evokes the freewheeling, idealistic, psychedelic vibe of an era's origins; at worst, it's a film in which people narrate their own druggie home movies.
  10. Carmen
    By stripping the story back to its most elemental form, Benjamin Millepied makes it feel mythic, poetic, and captivatingly romantic.
  11. What If
    Right up to its simplistic ending, the film is pleased to regurgitate the contrived tropes of the genre without ever honestly addressing the ethics of romantic boundaries.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Unfriended
    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.
  13. The Magician
    The Magician might have worked better if it could have sustained for its first several sequences a sense of genre confusion.
  14. Wet Woman in the Wind
    Akihiko Shiota's sketch-like scenes have an eccentric and volatile intensity, as the filmmaker stages subtly theoretical moments that still allow for spontaneity.
  15. This Is 40
    It certainly suffers from the staleness of its off-the-cuff, improv-inspired mode of comedy, which prizes free-form riffing over organically constructed comedic scenarios.
  16. Cruella
    The film’s outward liveliness can’t mask the inner inertia it has as just another lifeless product assembled in a factory.
  17. Primate
    If only the filmmakers had put the same care and thought into their human characters, then Primate might have been worth going apeshit over.
  18. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    The ill use made of the stars' charms in this initially strained, then egregiously dopey mushfest can likely be credited to market-tested notions of modern popular romance.
  19. The Look
    Rampling is very much aware of the camera's every intention and possibility. Perhaps too aware, like the kind of over-educated narcissist for whom real spontaneity is too costly a risk.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    New World
    This is action-thriller feather preening, but all the wit in the world can't hide the narrative sprawl that rots from within.
  21. Deepsea Challenge 3D
    Less explored in all the ensuing back-patting is the question of whether Cameron is, in fact, sincerely interested in learning more about the world around him or whether this mission is merely intended to stroke his own ego.
  22. The Roses
    The War of the Roses, both the book and the Danny DeVito film, is an infamously brutal comedy of terrors, and The Roses is cuddly by comparison.
  23. Viva
    Viva‘s intentionally flat performances and flatter double entendres...mercilessly satirize the Playboy mindset even as the film revels in the kitschiness of it all.
  24. Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
    The documentary is briskly paced, often compelling, but a little soft, as it succumbs to hero worship.
  25. Mama Weed
    Mama Weed is intended to wash over you, leaving good vibes in its wake, but it doesn’t challenge Isabelle Huppert or the audience.
  26. 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Where Soldiers Come From
    A four-year study of an Afghan war-bound group of friends (the mother of Cole, the goofy joker of the group, compares the boys to the characters in The Deer Hunter), Courtney's documentary is equal parts heartfelt and public-television predictable.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (Une bouteille à la mer)
    The film obviously can't resolve the conflict between Palestine and Israel, but the resolution to the story's arc feels nonetheless forced and misplaced.
  29. Complete Unknown
    Underneath the impersonal formal beauty and good acting is a familiar moral about self-imposed limitations.
  30. Back to Burgundy
    Cédric Klapisch correlates wine’s complex arrangement of flavors to the complexity of memory itself, which, it should be said, is the most nuanced of the filmmaker’s wine metaphors.
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