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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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  1. The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
    Even at 74 minutes, the documentary comes to feel arduous in its recycling of the same points and imagery, the filmmaking as plodding as its subject is polished.
  2. Macbeth
    Throughout, director Justin Kurzel's stagey pretensions clash with each of his aesthetic choices.
  3. Saint Laurent
    No matter how much Bertrand Bonello varies his split screens, triptychs, and geometric screen divisions, he forgets that one of the most fashionable virtues is knowing when to leave.
  4. Korengal
    The result is an alternately gripping and dully meandering patchwork of these soldiers' stay in the Korengal that pointedly shuns big-picture philosophizing.
  5. White God
    It affects a general air of artistically inclined realism, but it's mostly concerned with building tension via a steady accumulation of flatly conceived misery.
  6. Made in America
    What could have been a spirited dissection of Jay-Z's optimistic enterprise is instead merely an advertisement for it.
  7. Very Good Girls
    Most disheartening is how the female leads aren't given ample space to develop as dynamic characters beyond the most urgent confines of the script's scenarios.
  8. Friday the 13th
    It's a formula with no pretensions.
  9. Harry and the Hendersons
    Unabashedly lefty sentiment colors the whole film.
  10. The Untouchables
    Steeped in De Palma's glorious violence and sinuous cinematography, but stripped of his tricky sensuality and his anarchic self-reflective wit, The Untouchables boils down to a lot of talk.
  11. Beneath
    The film is impersonal and populated with wisps of characters who spend most of the running time wandering around in the dark yelling at one another.
  12. Exhibition
    There's considerable talent on display in Exhibition, but it's the kind of thing people mean when they use the term "art film" as a pejorative.
  13. Video Games: The Movie
    Jeremy Snead's doc comes off more as a commercial for a grand, overarching product that isn't finished being developed.
  14. Siddharth
    A well-intentioned story of an impoverished father searching for his missing child is muddled by an ambitious sociological agenda in Richie Mehta's film.
  15. Marius
    Daniel Auteuil's less exercising diligent homage than indulging troglodytic cinephilia.
  16. Black Mass
    Like any crime saga without a more potent thematic hook, the film's relentlessly insular script dwells on themes of loyalty and fraternity.
  17. Behaving Badly
    Falls back on the trappings of the film's innumerable teenage gross-out forefathers with tiresome vulgarity and rote misunderstandings in place of genuine insight.
  18. The Green Prince
    The proceedings have such a rigidly determined structure, amplified by chapter titles, that the power and conviction in their recountings deteriorate into a placid series of back-and-forths.
  19. A Five Star Life
    The director diligently keeps her heroine's ego in check, and that's awfully principled of her, but her audience may feel as if they've inadvertently booked a trip with no destination.
  20. Horns
    For a story so unconventional, it's executed without director Alexandre Aja's typical commitment to anarchic awe.
  21. War Story
    Mark Jackson's direction strips much of the agency from any character's grasp by insisting that their dilemmas can only be revealed with stone-faced austerity.
  22. The Maid's Room
    Drina is less of an individual, and one whom we wish to see avenged, than a transparent martyr for the collective sins of the wealthy few.
  23. 14 Blades
    An immensely gifted physical performer, Donnie Yen isn't strong enough an actor to suggest an authentic inner life to his character beyond a vague sense of stone-faced dissatisfaction.
  24. The Martian
    The film goes in for the idea of texture and tics and human behavior, but there's no conviction, and no real push for eccentricity.
  25. Paper Towns
    To hose down the white elephant in the room right off the bat, yes, it falls into place as a coming-of-age spin on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype.
  26. ABCs of Death 2
    Irony is a popular pose struck throughout these shorts, which are less revealing of the existentialist despair that death often rouses than they are of their makers' prejudices.
  27. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
    Its openly mercenary ethos initially scan as a bracing lack of pretense in a market crammed to the gills with insidious faux-sentimentality, but its overstuffed relentlessness proves almost equally tedious.
  28. 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.
  29. Winter in the Blood
    Its offbeat aesthetic largely flaunts for appeal, suffocating character and thematic ambition underneath its flashiness.
  30. Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
    By formally acknowledging the material's inherent silliness ad nauseam, the filmmakers have distanced themselves from the spirit of the parody, robbing it of its gruesome pleasures.
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