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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. Embattled
    The film muddies its sense of moral righteousness by suggesting that violence and vengeance can only be defeated by more of the same.
  2. The Glass Castle
    As in Destin Daniel Cretton’s previous feature, Short Term 12, the oscillations between sociological horror and misty-eyed sentimentality call attention to how meticulously the film arranges its emotional punches.
  3. Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish
    What's most disappointing about Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish is how it fails to deliver on the hybridizing NYC gimmickry of its title.
  4. West of the Jordan River
    Amos Gitai regularly takes incidents and anecdotes out of context, making it difficult for viewers who lack intimate knowledge of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to follow the proceedings.
  5. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
    The hedgehogs are the stars here, and after three delightfully breezy good times at the theater, it’s no longer a surprise as to why that is.
  6. Genius
    It makes a convincing argument for viewing Thomas Wolfe's work as a product of the excess and exuberance of the 1920s.
  7. Chasing Portraits
    Its major contribution, as one museum curator suggests, may be to bring the works of Moshe Rynecki back into prominence.
  8. Greedy Lying Bastards
    What Craig Scott Rosebraugh's film lacks in originality, it makes up for in comprehensiveness.
  9. The Cut
    Fatih Akin falls back on convenience and contrivance to streamline the thornier specificities of his grand-scale narrative.
  10. Radioactive
    Marjane Satrapi’s film could have benefited from the tangy humor and cynicism of her graphic novels.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Flesh+Blood
    In the end, Verhoeven’s greatest irony, and the often pedestrian narrative’s most brilliant stroke, isn’t to decide in favor or against Martin. He’s of a piece with his nature, and he leaves the story as he entered it: unchanged and unbowed by the carnage he’s both witness to and agent of
  12. Race
    This is a complication-smoothing take on Jesse Owens's elegant riposte to Hitler's racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
  13. Our Time
    The film elides politics in order to earnestly consider whether love is necessarily an act of possession.
  14. Midnight's Children
    Preserves much of the novel's intricacy and human drama, perhaps due to Salman Rushdie's involvement as co-screenwriter, even if it remains singularly unremarkable from a cinematic perspective.
  15. The Human Surge
    The film’s default state is an ambient inertia that gestures vaguely in multiple directions without concerning itself with the hard work of constructing an argument, a convincing milieu, or even a compelling mood.
  16. On the Road
    The lack of a strong expository voice further simplifies the wealth of explicit sex Walter Salles dramatizes, much of it drawn from juicy swathes of Jack Kerouac's only recently published original scroll.
  17. The Details
    The Details is as smug and self-satisfied as its privileged lead character.
  18. Nightbitch
    It’s disappointing to see a film with such a weird premise as Nightbitch ease into an orthodox storytelling mode.
  19. Deadpool & Wolverine
    Deadpool & Wolverine doesn’t flinch from speaking some measure of truth to power.
  20. Invaders from Mars
    Committed horror nerds and conspiracy-minded liberals alike will find fleeting suggestions of the canny parable that nearly manages to surface.
  21. Focus
    The film turns out to instead be a strained trumpeting of the return of the proverbial king of the box office.
  22. Miami Connection (1987)
    Love it or hate it, it's doubtful you'll ever forget it, and it may just force you to redefine your definition of what constitutes "good" cinema.
  23. Live Cargo
    The faces in Logan Sandler's film, like the landscapes of the paradise setting, only convey an empty sort of ambiguity.
  24. 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.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Antibirth
    It’s unfortunate that the only part of the film that works does so by taking the wind out of the rest of it.
  26. Hyena
    The Gerard Johnson film's blanket cynicism is its most shopworn quality of all.
  27. 1BR
    The film gives palpable expression to the sense of hopelessness felt by those who fall under the control of cults.
  28. The Fate of the Furious
    The film finally tips the franchise over from modestly thoughtful stupidity into tedious, loud inanity.
  29. Girls Just Want to Have Fun
    But even from an objective viewpoint, Girls Just Want to Have Fun isn’t really a bad film, at least not in the ways in which we tend to define bad films. The acting is more than competent, there’s not much glaringly bad dialogue, the humor is inventive, and the song-and-dance is engaging.
  30. Non-Stop
    The latest collaboration between director Jaume Collet-Serra and star Liam Neeson is made with far more care and visual detail than you might expect.
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