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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. Teen Spirit
    In the end, the film is all too ready to transform into just another shiny pop object indistinguishable from so many others before it.
  2. Southpaw
    Each battle scar in the film is a testament to a vaguely but nonetheless forcefully defined notion of masculinity.
  3. Happy Death Day 2U
    Happy Death Day 2U pushes further than even matters of life and death into a realm in which stakes don’t even really apply anymore, concerned as it is not with how we live our best lives, but with how we can be the best possible versions of ourselves.
  4. Shirley
    In the end, this sub-Sorkin-esque political potboiler sidelines Chisholm's most meaningful community work to the fact that she tried and failed to run for president.
  5. Anniversary
    This is an overtly political film that’s hesitant to express its own political views.
  6. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    Tim Burton's direction reminds us of the distinct, peculiar coyness that was always at the heart of his best films.
  7. Piranhas
    Claudio Giovannesi’s film is more an interesting tweak of Goodfellas than an eye-opening social statement.
  8. Easy Money: Hard to Kill
    There's ultimately little in the way of authentically resonant drama underneath the film's self-conscious busy-ness.
  9. Limelight
    Limelight focuses far too much on the club's downfall and not nearly enough on what attracted its denizens there in the first place, managing only to preach to the choir, forgetting to also take it to church.
  10. The First Monday in May
    Andrew Rossi pays sporadic lip service to recognizing cultural specificity before returning to his star-gazing ways.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Evil Dead
    The setup and geography are consistent with the original, though the film never makes the mistake of trying to rebottle the lightning that electrified Sam Raimi's movie.
  12. In the Name of My Daughter
    This adaptation is to concerned with narrative fidelity and formal objectivity to pierce the veil of power dynamics that largely comprises the film's concerns.
  13. Thor: Love and Thunder
    Across Taika Waititi’s film, a war against the gods feels like an afterthought to a bad rom-com.
  14. The Burnt Orange Heresy
    The film allows that we are complicit in privilege for our fascination and envy.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Painted Skin: The Resurrection
    A vaporous, watered-down frappe of a fantasy epic.
  16. The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
    Tsui Hark's film is the veteran director's chance to let his imagination run riot in the context of a high-budget, 3D IMAX production.
  17. The Maze Runner
    A curious blend of our newly acquired taste for dystopia alongside a healthy sprinkling of Lord of the Flies, the film offers familiar pleasures without prompting the sense of having already been here before.
  18. The Sleepwalker
    The film soon settles into a confident, well-staged groove, primarily because of two unambiguously terrific performances.
  19. Band of Robbers
    It places more focus on the childish fabulousness of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer than the racial reckoning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  20. Strange Weather
    There’s a tough and mysterious film within Strange Weather, though it doesn’t quite escape the strictures of a busy and studiously weird narrative that’s governed by formula screenwriting.
  21. Phenomena
    The whole of Phenomena is less than the sum of its parts, but the parts are often terrifying and exhilarating.
  22. Moss
    Daniel Peddle's film emphasizes, for better and worse, the crushing monotony of living in insolated parts of the Deep South.
  23. Human Flowers of Flesh
    There’s an emptiness to Helena Wittmann’s Human Flowers of Flesh that no amount of striking cinematography, thematic suggestion, and allusions to Jean Painlevé can disguise.
  24. Blackout
    As in his prior work, the far-reaching curiosity and fascinatingly conflicted nature of Fessenden’s perspective is still his greatest strength.
  25. Neptune's Daughter
    As if trying to put quotation marks around its disposability, 1949’s Neptune’s Daughter uses a perpetually underwhelmed narrator to undercut its central love story, surrounded by polo antics and swimwear fashionistas.
  26. Baby Ruby
    The film’s depiction of the fear and uncertainty of motherhood gives in to monotony.
  27. Barbarians
    Throughout, Barbarians oscillates between smugness and apprehensiveness about the film that it’s trying to be.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Cars 2
    A crass and uncharacteristically threadbare cash-grab.
  29. The Revenant
    Since Bart's bloodlust is never matched in tenor by his righteousness, the story remains rife with unfulfilled moral inquiry.
  30. France
    France indecisively utilizes a news personality’s crocodile tears as a symbol of the bad faith that pervades news discourse.
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