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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. Life of the Party
    Novelty and Melissa McCarthy’s comedic chops only carry Life of the Party to midterms, and it soon becomes apparent that it’s a star vehicle without any engine.
  2. Pokémon Detective Pikachu
    At the very least, Ryan Reynolds’s casting perfectly splits the difference between the adorable and the absurd.
  3. Humor Me
    Sam Hoffman respects his characters and evinces curiosity about their lives—and these qualities aren't to be taken for granted. But he isn't willing to disrupt his familiar and tightly structured plot.
  4. Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer
    Lost, or at least merely glossed over, throughout this hagiographic documentary portrait is the miraculous story of an effeminate Brazilian boy who was actually allowed to blossom through dance and who, because of such permission, has managed to survive his queer childhood a little more unscathed.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gandhi
    Though Kingsley’s saturnine poise is much more interesting in roles which call for varying degrees of slipperiness, he nevertheless manages to bring shades into the inherently monochromatic saintliness of the role with life-sized, profoundly felt gravity and dignity, all while executing that marvelous, peculiarly British trick (remember Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips) of seeming to age from within.
  6. Blindspotting
    The film takes aim at myriad targets and bluntly satirizing them in disparate styles that never mesh into a cohesive whole.
  7. Creed II
    Creed II is absent of both the topically political atmosphere of Rocky IV and the bravura action of Ryan Coogler's Creed.
  8. My Art
    Laurie Simmons isn’t so much creating art as a means to explore cinema’s effect on identity as she is conducting an act of indulgence.
  9. The Last Movie Star
    The film is a collection of old-fogey clichés, with a narrative that mixes a career retrospective with a road trip.
  10. Bumblebee
    Bumblebee exudes some of the tediousness of a reformed sinner who decries hedonism, trying hard to convince us that it now believes in something.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Domino
    The film goes through its motions too quickly for its imagery to convey the irrepressible force of provocation.
  12. Non-Fiction
    Olivier Assayas drains the film of the playfulness at its margins, leaving only an esoteric lecture in its place.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sunset
    László Nemes’s follow-up to Son of Saul simply feels like two films awkwardly affixed to one another.
  14. Under the Silver Lake
    Even after the film (quite entertainingly) explains itself, it never feels like more than a howl of frustration and cynicism.
  15. Hereditary
    In writer-director Ari Aster's smugly agitating feature debut, the devil is certainly in the hackneyed details.
  16. The Happy Prince
    For every haunting sequence in The Happy Prince, there’s five that redundantly wallow in Oscar Wilde’s misery, which is Rupert Everett’s point, but it becomes wearisome.
  17. Juliet, Naked
    The film is loaded with inconsequential detours and questionable and inconsistent character psychology as it stumbles awkwardly to its foregone conclusion.
  18. 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.
  19. Monsters and Men
    Like many films tackling socially inflammatory material, Monsters and Men is constrained by its politics.
  20. The Long Dumb Road
    Director and co-writer Hannah Fidell's film never finds the right mix of meaningful parable and sophomoric romp.
  21. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
    There is, of course, Gene Wilder as Wonka, the reason most people think they like this movie, and he’s a wonderful actor quite capable of hitting Dahl’s ambivalences (and he has a lovely entrance), but Stuart’s clunky stop-and-start pace and sketchy tone give him nowhere to go.
  22. The Catcher Was a Spy
    As the film proceeds, the appeal of its nostalgia wears thin and you may notice that there isn't much beyond the window dressing.
  23. Pass Over
    Pass Over spins African-American hardship into existential myth, suggesting along the way such plays as Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit.
  24. Assassination Nation
    Assassination Nation carelessly affirms the idea that all women should be able to fight back at will, and if they don’t, it’s on them.
  25. Puzzle
    The film buoyed by Kelly Macdonald, who's a master of understated vulnerability, but she can't steer it out of the doldrums.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    See No Evil, Hear No Evil
    Trapped inside its overwritten crime story is a breezy character study starring two men with genuine chemistry and a flair for both physical and verbal comedy. In the rare moments when Pryor and Wilder simply talk to each other, there’s the potential for a funny and poignant interracial two-hander like I’m Not Rappaport. It’s too bad that potential is squandered on a senseless murder plot.
  27. Submission
    This tentative questioning of the sometimes unscrupulous methods and deleterious consequences of political correctness is further undermined by Ted's insipid character and general indifference to his fate.
  28. Spinning Man
    The film is ultimately tethered to the strictures of a procedural thriller, as it's rife with functional dialogue and plotting as well as forgettable aesthetics, which cumulatively reduce the existential calisthenics to filler.
  29. Marrowbone
    An incessant deluge of subplots drowns what could have been a sparse and beautiful ghost story.
  30. Pope Francis - A Man of His Word
    It often plays like a toothless PR video designed to rehabilitate the Catholic Church's reputation in the wake of its global pedophilia scandal.
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