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For 7,778 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: 4,352 out of 7778
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7778
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7778
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  1. Aquaman
    Often divertingly colorful and busy to a fault, the film seems to dare us to mock the world of comics' most risible superhero.
  2. Arkansas
    The film’s insistence on keeping the stakes low throughout is probably its key strength.
  3. Violent Night
    Ultimately, it’s the filmmakers’ insistence on both subverting the expectations of the family Christmas film and upholding them that leaves Violent Night feeling like it wants to have its Christmas cookies and eat them too.
  4. 3
    3 is a smidgeon film. Take a smidgeon of scientific/ethical discussion, throw in a pinch of dance/poetry/dream sequences, tie the whole thing up with split-screen montages and you no longer just have a film about a love triangle, but a Godardian objet d'art.
  5. Reality
    Quentin Dupieux has a talent for rendering otherworldly concepts banal in a manner that reflects the stymied desires of his characters.
  6. Viktoria
    The film is ultimately stultifying because the disconnection between the various characters is so immediately accepted as such a foregone conclusion that nothing ever seems to be at stake, and the heavily horizontal imagery, though accomplished and evocative, if fussy, only evokes two states of mind: loneliness and disconnection.
  7. The Gambler
    The filmmakers delve into a fantasyland of luxe coastal casinos and neon-lit bathhouses--as shrug-worthy a stab at picturing the contemporary black market as could be requested.
  8. Clown in a Cornfield
    Eli Craig’s film works precisely because it plays things straight.
  9. Clementine
    There’s a hint of Jane Campion’s own uncanny perversion of the banal throughout Lara Jean Gallagher’s film.
  10. The Flash
    Nothing Batman or Supergirl do in The Flash to save the world is more effective than what Barry Allen does to save it with a hug and a can of tomatoes.
  11. Summer of Blood
    Onur Tukel is able to offer a reasonably fresh spin on familiar vampire-movie tropes, giving pitiless misanthropy pedal-to-the-metal comic wit.
  12. Rainbow Time
    Linas Phillips's contrived sense of follow-through betrays the truthfulness of his initial characterizations.
  13. 52 Pick-Up
    52 Pick-Up loses its sense of social texture in the last third when everyone begins to die by decree of formulaic three-act screenwriting, and its indifference to the plight of Harry’s wife (Ann-Margret) is unseemly, but the film is an often nightmarish gem awaiting rediscovery.
  14. Spirited
    To say that the film grows tedious quickly would suggest that it wasn’t already trite from frame one.
  15. Beloved
    Ultimately crammed at a frustrating juncture between period-piece froth and seriously conceived drama, never tipping its hand toward either.
  16. Zombieland: Double Tap
    Behind the self-awareness and the irony is merely a hollow emotional core, a lack of anything to say because saying something would require ambition rather than complacent winks and nods.
  17. Promised Land
    Gus Van Sant's new film offends for how it views the struggles of the landowners at the heart of its story as subservient to their oppressor's triumph of the spirit.
  18. Military Wives
    The film seems almost content to have you forget about everything that inspired it in the first place.
  19. The Croods
    The film takes more than a few pages from the James Cameron playbook.
  20. Trolls
    Trolls is a flashy, pre-fab product, but the animators are given just enough space to create moments of genuine artistry.
  21. Perfect Sense
    Visually glassy and smooth, Perfect Sense values the dynamic mood of each scene without being overly stylized.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Torn Curtain
    Torn Curtain, which was a commercial success because of the drawing power of its stars, is an artistic flop.
  23. Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
    Matthew Miele has made a department store of a documentary, stocked to the hilt with an obscene inventory of storylines, talking heads, and utterly tasteless choices.
  24. Young Goethe in Love
    What unfolds is a predictably anguished story of true love thwarted by material circumstances, or in the terms dictated by the film, rationality triumphing over romance.
  25. Clandestine Childhood
    Benjamín Ávila structures the film as a series of precious moments, remembrances of a difficult year when the politics of patria and family got in the way of his puppy love.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Gate
    If you can get in touch with your inner 12-year-old, The Gate is a pleasant diversion.
  27. Little Pink House
    Courtney Moorehead Balaker's film is mostly a sobering dramatization of a true and controversial story in recent Connecticut history.
  28. Forsaken
    The film adheres to the dictionary definition of a classical genre without ever attempting to subvert it.
  29. The Current War: Director's Cut
    The film falls back on the myth of modernity being born in the laps of practical, native-born American ingenuity.
  30. Bitch
    Initially offbeat, Bitch awkwardly pivots toward a more inspirational story of regret and reconciliation.
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