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For 7,792 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
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. Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
    Florian Habicht unwisely shifts his focus from Sheffield and its unique denizens to the band's personal history, effectively turning the film into an episode of Behind the Music.
  2. The Color of Time
    If The Tree of Life was a contemplation of the universal mysteries and verities of life, The Color of Time is an hour spent scrolling through a stranger's family album.
  3. Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
    Director Chuck Workman's simply compiles Welles's greatest moments, offering little in the way of an authorial point of view.
  4. If You Don't, I Will
    The actors play off one another beautifully, but the film bottoms out just as it's getting warmed up.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Kidnap
    Ultimately, Kidnap is an efficient vehicle for the delivery of some lean action that's frequently weakened by a scarcely whip-smart script.
  8. The Jungle Book
    Jon Favreau draws heavily on his film's animated predecessor for plot, characterizations, and more, but doesn't know how to fit these familiar elements into his own coherent vision.
  9. Tracers
    The lusterless camerawork keys itself almost empathetically to the drab reality of the film's spaces, settled and unsettled alike, but it can't enliven the hackneyed plot.
  10. The Mountain Between Us
    Hany Abu-Assad’s film is notable for the way it fixates on its characters’ rush toward survival, homing in on the intimacy that they achieve without ever suggesting that there’s any actual romance in their future.
  11. 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.
  12. The Purge: Election Year
    Its greater focus on disreputable genre thrills comes at the expense of making coherent points about class inequalities, political exploitation, or man's inhumanity.
  13. The Wrecking Crew
    Overall, the documentary comes off as a solipsistic, uncritical look at an incredible moment in the history of American music.
  14. Pete's Dragon
    It abandons its subtlety en route to becoming a moralistic screed about the preservation of the nuclear family.
  15. Manny
    An informative, if largely deferent, biographical documentary that tritely explains the ascendancy of Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao.
  16. Bloodsucking Bastards
    It evinces a qualified kind of courage in its anonymous convictions, parodying a world that barely ever existed by barely existing itself.
  17. Digging Up the Marrow
    In the end, Adam Green reminds us that he's all to eager to go for the easy thrill.
  18. Dope
    Dope is a mess of styles and mixed signals, a pulp fiction that mostly tend to its loyalties to other cine-odysseys through the streets of Los Angeles.
  19. The Overnight
    The film's Buñuelian potential for harpooning the bourgeoisie is quickly dashed in favor of mumblecore antics.
  20. Grandma
    Writer-director Paul Weitz's proudly boisterous star vehicle for Lily Tomlin has about as many ambitions as it does delusions.
  21. Knock Knock
    There's satiric potential here, but Eli Roth's sense of humor abandons him when his hero isn't about to get down with the get down.
  22. Slow West
    A pageantry of pseudo-art poses, a self-consciously cool reorientation of the western as silly symphony.
  23. Unexpected
    It suggests that Kris Swanberg has taken notes on what a film concerned with pregnancy should include without actually making it.
  24. What Happened, Miss Simone?
    It utilizes Maya Angelou's claim as tantalizing bait rather than the starting point for a feature-length thesis statement.
  25. The Wolfpack
    Crystal Moselle aims her cinematic arrow at the hearts of the same choir that Andrew Jarecki's stunted aesthetics preach to.
  26. October Gale
    The film begins as a moodily introspective drama about grief before implausibly morphing into a stale thriller.
  27. Meru
    Its expositional crutch proves most inadequate when the team ascends the final pitch to the top after years of preparation in no more than a minute of screen time.
  28. People Places Things
    The film introduces a promising romantic pentagon, only to let it float away unfulfilled into studiously benign coming-of-age clouds.
  29. Steve Jobs
    The screenwriter's signature verbal-diarrhetic dialogue allows for a nonstop blaring of actorly chops that, like the movie at large, is nothing if not committed.
  30. Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
    Director Kiah Roache-Turner's film is an excitingly efficient and ultraviolent zomedy.
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