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For 7,788 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 7788
  2. Mixed: 1,495 out of 7788
  3. Negative: 1,934 out of 7788
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  1. The Dead Don't Die
    In Jim Jarmusch’s film, what starts as a subtle undercurrent of knowing humor curdles into overt self-referentiality.
  2. Adopt a Highway
    Viewed charitably, Logan Marshall-Green’s sketchy protagonist and vague atmosphere are meant to achieve the effect of a parable.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Red Dawn
    What if Reagan’s America got a taste of her own interventionist foreign policies? Apocalypse, wow.
  4. Sinister
    Ellison's fascination with celluloid to solve a crime recalls Antonioni's "Blowup," but Scott Derrickson is unable to conjure an aura that isn't as transparent and weightless as a ghost.
  5. A Wrinkle in Time
    The film may involve the instant movement among unfathomable distances and the shattered limits of space and time, but it’s only Storm Reid's character who feels multidimensional.
  6. The Beekeeper
    It’s not unlike a partially completed sketch whose occasional flashes of color only serve to remind us how incomplete and lazily constructed the rest of it is.
  7. The Big Year
    Director David Frankel can't lend the inflated sitcom dilemmas of the characters any life, and most mysteriously screenwriter Howard Franklin, whose work in the '90s frequently had appealing quirk and flavor, gets the dubious credit for adapting a 1998 nonfiction book about these hobbyists' pursuit of pink-footed geese and Northern Shovelers.
  8. Book Club
    It’s been said that casting is 90% of directing, and it seems to be 90% of the writing in Bill Holderman's film.
  9. Wrinkles the Clown
    The film’s mid-act about-face lends a refreshing sense of complexity to an otherwise superficial depiction of Wrinkles.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Anemone
    Anemone is unable to tell a family story that lives up to its visual splendor and enigmatic atmosphere.
  11. Prisoners of the Ghostland
    The film is a profound disappointment in part because it feels so overdetermined to live up to Sion Sono and Nicholas Cage’s respective brands.
  12. The Program
    The Program is flashier and more self-conscious than many biopics, but it's ultimately just as hollow.
  13. Ava's Possessions
    Jordan Galland confidently perches the film right on the razor’s edge separating absurdist comedy from horror.
  14. Dumplin'
    As it proceeds through a series of teary reconciliations in the last half-hour of its 110-minute run time, the film's didactic drama begins to grate, its treacly emotions feeling increasingly unearned.
  15. Space Dogs
    The film draws us through its play toward darker, too-seldom-considered sides of human and doggy nature.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey
    Sadly, those looking for any insight into Journey from Ramona Diaz's documentary are going to have to look elsewhere.
  17. Alita: Battle Angel
    Battle Angel is by some distance the most entertaining of the recent crop of would-be franchise starters, exciting on its own merits while leaving just enough of its world tantalizingly unexplored to actually fuel our interest in wanting to see where its characters go from here.
  18. The Book Thief
    Books themselves become the story's key symbol, representing the past and future, loss and possibility, of a place that's ground zero for some of history's darkest days.
  19. Delicacy
    Now that Zooey Deschanel has taken a detour into TV land, is Audrey Tautou the most insufferable pixy presence in cinema today?
  20. Aline
    Valérie Lemercier’s film feels at once like a vanity project for its maker and a glorified fan tribute.
  21. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
    It’s a film of familiar pleasures, but like Harold Faltermeyer’s still infectiously enjoyable synth-pop theme, they do remain highly pleasurable.
  22. ABCs of Death 2
    Irony is a popular pose struck throughout these shorts, which are less revealing of the existentialist despair that death often rouses than they are of their makers' prejudices.
  23. Knight of Cups
    It has the uncanny quality of an out-of-body experience, not a torn-from-the-heart confessional.
  24. The Immortalists
    Some voices of reason and skepticism do make an appearance to rebut and deflate Bill and Aubrey's monumental claims, but aren't allowed to fully elaborate on their arguments.
  25. Irrational Man
    Woody Allen and Joaquin Phoenix's collaboration on Irrational Man's antihero is the closest the film gets to a saving grace.
  26. 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.
  27. Shaolin
    Only Jackie Chan, in a comedic supporting role as a Zen-trained cook who applies his culinary techniques on the battlefield (he "stir-fries" one enemy in a giant pot and "kneads" another like dough), provides any measure of relief.
  28. BMX Bandits
    Ignoring the fact that BMX Bandits is as intimate as a trip to Toys “R” Us, it has almost nothing to offer in the way of impressive stuntwork, carefree yuks, or semi-competent acting. Trenchard-Smith, a master at condescending to his audience, clearly diluted Hagg and Edgeworth’s already toothless concept; that said, there was probably no good way to dress up a line as dire as “You’re right in the poo now, sister” or even “Your little walkie talkies have gone walkies.”
  29. Inside
    Whether or not Vasilis Katsoupis’s film achieves escape velocity from genre limitations though overt sociopolitical commentary is questionable.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
    The film, hyper-aware of the shadow cast by the franchise’s history, struggles to both honor and redeem the past before everything comes to a close.
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