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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. Superintelligence
    The big disappointment of the film is that Melissa McCarthy’s performance is all Jekyll and no Hyde.
  2. Perfect Strangers (Perfectos Desconocidos)
    Manolo Caro's film uses its characters as rigid markers of cowardice, lust, and entitlement.
  3. Photograph
    In pushing so many seemingly crucial moments off screen, the film transforms its main characters into blank slates.
  4. Radioactive
    Marjane Satrapi’s film could have benefited from the tangy humor and cynicism of her graphic novels.
  5. Aniara
    The filmmakers are interested in world building only as a pretext for maintaining a tone of non-contemplative ennui.
  6. Maniac
    Maniac simply exists as a wretched yet unforgettable succession of scenes meant to corrupt even the purest of minds, if you can help yourself from laughing uncontrollably at its overwhelming amount of inconsistencies.
  7. The Charmer
    Director and co-writer Milad Alami's film feels like several fused-together trial drafts of the same narrative.
  8. The Wolf Hour
    The film is all surface, and its depiction of trauma becomes increasingly exploitative and hollow as it moves along.
  9. Little
    Its most amusing moments are in the interplay between the central characters as they adjust to an abruptly shifting reality.
  10. Little Woods
    Nia DaCosta indulges one of rural quasi-thriller’s most tiresome gambits: humorlessness as a mark of high seriousness.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bobby Deerfield
    Bobby Deerfield is not so much a failed vanity project as it is a groping, often sensitive and rather death-obsessed character study based on Erich Maria Remarque’s fatalistically titled novel Heaven Has No Favorites.
  12. Honkytonk Man
    Though the film is obviously coated with a veneer of nostalgic sentimentality, Eastwood never lets Honkytonk Man veer into maudlin territory.
  13. Velvet Buzzsaw
    With its silvery sheen and sexy lure of celebrity actors being naughty, the film recalls the decadent, self-consciously chic art it parodies.
  14. Maiden
    Director Alex Holmes ultimately takes a frustratingly simplistic approach to his thematically rich material.
  15. The White Crow
    Ralph Fiennes’s film too conspicuously avoids an overt political perspective.
  16. The Tomorrow Man
    The film is content to peddle the naïve notion that love is the panacea for all that ails you.
  17. The Highwaymen
    Where Bonnie and Clyde is gloriously tragic, The Highwaymen is blunt and anti-climactically savage, fulfilling as well as somewhat critiquing former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer’s bloodlust.
  18. Wine Country
    The film’s relatively static approach to narrative works in scenes where the material is funny or elevated by a certain performance.
  19. Monos
    Alejandro Landes’s film depicts amorality with minimal curiosity and a surplus of numbing stylistic verve.
  20. The Report
    In the end, it can’t help but sentimentalize the better angels that supposedly reside in the land of liberty’s flawed human fabric.
  21. Them That Follow
    Unfortunately, the care with which the filmmakers set up Them That Follow’s context and their characters crumbles in the final act.
  22. Child's Play
    By the end, it becomes what it initially parodies: a dime-a-dozen slasher film with a silly-looking doll as the villain.
  23. Pavarotti
    Throughout, the too-brief depictions of Luciano Pavarotti’s flaws are conspicuously shrouded in a veil of hagiography.
  24. Monster Hunter
    Paul W.S. Anderson has simply combined the established iconography of the popular Capcom game franchise with prefab movie moments.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Young Racers
    The Young Racers mostly succumbs to the streak of pretension strongly felt beneath the hubristic surfaces of more than a few Corman features.
  26. Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
    The film hits its plot milestones as fast as humanly possible, cohesion or depth be damned.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Horror Express
    The best that can be said for Horror Express is that it doesn’t take itself at all seriously, and it isn’t too proud to steal outright what other films politely borrow.
  28. The Day Shall Come
    The film is an aimless, albeit sometimes funny, chronicle of absurd behavior and government ineptitude.
  29. Fisherman's Friends
    The script doesn’t contain many lines that ring true, and a few clang wildly off-key.
  30. Ramen Shop
    Its drawn-out descriptions of culinary traditions and practices are enticing enough, but the same can’t be said about the characterizations.
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