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For 7,789 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 6.2 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: 4,359 out of 7789
  2. Mixed: 1,496 out of 7789
  3. Negative: 1,934 out of 7789
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  1. Kiki
    When compared to the high-stakes dramas at the center of Paris Is Burning, where sex workers dreamed of becoming supermodels, Kiki feels rather tame.
  2. Girl Asleep
    From the overtly vibrant colors to the caricaturesque dimensions of the performances, the film's aesthetic promises a great allegorical message that never arrives.
  3. Miss Stevens
    It provides materials for discussion without directing the viewer toward a particular solution or easy answer.
  4. Blazing Saddles
    A limp, shapeless mess of a film trades in a genuine respect for westerns’ tropes for purile vulgarity and joy-buzzer showmanship.
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    Game of Aces
    The characters' motivations are dictated less by the dynamics of their personalities and more by the needs of the screenplay.
  6. Chuck
    Like its protagonist, Philippe Falardeau's film gets lost in a haze of incidental cacophony.
  7. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
    Throughout his nearly six-hour documentary, Abbas Fahdel is content with showing only the outer surface of people's lives.
  8. Rat Film
    Inherent to director Theo Anthony's misappropriation of the essay form is a conflicting account of precisely which history his documentary seeks to investigate.
  9. Blair Witch
    It doesn't suggest documentary footage found in the woods so much as a haunted-house version of Hardcore Henry.
  10. Before the Flood
    The documentary's focus on elite solutionism effectively erases the role of popular agitation in formulating social change.
  11. Catfight
    Onur Tukel attempts to connect Ashley and Veronica’s barbarity to the broader callousness of American life, but the satire is too blunt to really stick.
  12. Frantz
    The pacing is so humorless and funereal that it squelches the possibility of heat or conflict arising between the characters.
  13. Jackie
    Pablo Larraín's film bluntly hammers home the notion that history is framed by perception rather than reality.
  14. The Journey
    Paisley and McGuinness's intellectual back and forth is rendered so compellingly that one wishes the filmmakers didn’t feel a need to resort to a surfeit of momentum-killing plot contrivances.
  15. The Woman Who Left
    It suffers by resembling arty, didactic bloat when it most begs for a more sophisticated dramatic touch.
  16. Tanna
    The film blends the Bard with National Geographic, failing to make a case for the inexplicability of their union.
  17. Baden Baden
    The film plays like it's been methodically configured to snuff out an even marginal indulgence of its characters' emotions.
  18. The Whole Truth
    The filmmakers are so disengaged from the psyches of its characters that The Whole Truth ultimately plays as little more than the cinematic equivalent of a trashy airport novel that will grip you in the moment before it dissolves from memory immediately afterward.
  19. My Scientology Movie
    The only element that significantly differentiates this documentary from its peers is Louis Theroux's good-natured cheekiness.
  20. Phantasm IV: Oblivion
    The freewheeling atmosphere of dread more than make up for the incoherence, but Phantasm IV: Oblivion at times feels like an expensive, 35mm home movie made by some kids in their backyard.
  21. Ocean's 8
    With Ocean's 8, Gary Ross serves up a mildly engaging riff on the heist film, but he rarely strays from the established formula of Steven Soderbergh's original Ocean's trilogy.
  22. My Dead Boyfriend
    Slacker that it is, the film never seems willing to put in the necessary work to live up to its potential.
  23. Always Shine
    The film undermines the unity of its characterizations, redirecting into garish phantasmagoria.
  24. Rainbow Time
    Linas Phillips's contrived sense of follow-through betrays the truthfulness of his initial characterizations.
  25. Detour
    The effect of the film becomes not unlike watching a puzzle solve itself without demanding either the audience’s emotional or intellectual investment.
  26. Mifune: The Last Samurai
    In many ways, Toshirô Mifune the man remains just as mysterious after watching Steven Okazaki's film as he was before.
  27. Portrait of a Garden
    Portrait of a Garden‘s distance from its human subjects forestalls the film’s momentum and strips it of a heart.
  28. Bitter Harvest
    The film is an awkward mix of swashbuckling love story and polemic, painted in very broad strokes.
  29. Buster's Mal Heart
    Writer-director Sarah Adina Smith's film confuses narrative gimmickry for the sensitive evocation of an inner life.
  30. Like Crazy
    Restless, at times even chaotic, the film often seems to be replicating the experience of having a manic episode.
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