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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. Things Heard & Seen
    Ultimately, the film’s most impactful terrors have nothing to do with things that go bump in the night.
  2. Moby Doc
    The film’s tendency to over-explain, over-intellectualize, and over-script events leaves little room for spontaneity and doubt.
  3. Dear Evan Hansen
    The film works harder to fix the problems with its source material than to establish itself as an independent piece of art.
  4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
    The film undermines its initial sense of intimacy and momentum with a stop-and-start story structure that by and large exists to make as much room as possible for its characters’ banter.
  5. False Positive
    False Positive threads classic horror-film tropes with a woozy, partially comic sensibility but doesn’t fully commit to this approach.
  6. The Misfits
    The film is almost refreshing in its flightiness, even as it remains defiantly ignorant of the world in which it exists.
  7. Ailey
    Not even Alvin Ailey’s peers can articulate the innovations and soulfulness of his choreography half as well as his work itself.
  8. Catch the Fair One
    The solemnity of Josef Kubota Wladyka’s film is at odds with the gratuitousness of its violence.
  9. Italian Studies
    During an amnesiac’s atmospheric nighttime ramble through Manhattan, the seeds of a narrative are sewn but never nurtured.
  10. No Man of God
    As an exploration of the misogyny that drove Bundy’s crimes, Amber Sealey’s film mostly falls short of its potential.
  11. Gaia
    After a while, the film’s elaborate, often breathtaking special effects come to feel like it’s only source of complexity.
  12. Lamb
    Though eerie and quietly deadpan, the film circles its grab bag of themes for so long that it also becomes tedious.
  13. Mothering Sunday
    For all of the film’s somberness, its depiction of an era of rigid class divisions and incalculable loss still comes through the hazy, soft-focus goggles of nostalgia.
  14. France
    France indecisively utilizes a news personality’s crocodile tears as a symbol of the bad faith that pervades news discourse.
  15. Against the Current
    Against the Current’s style imposes a generic visual language onto a subject who’s anything but generic.
  16. We Need to Do Something
    We Need to Do Something mainly succeeds at suggesting a more compelling film beyond its bathroom walls.
  17. Kid Candidate
    The film doesn’t leave us with a complex sense of Hayden Pedigo as a person and political candidate trying to take on an unjust system.
  18. Jane by Charlotte
    The film neglects to find a conceptual framework for its prolonged consideration of Charlotte Gainsbourg’s eventual revelation: “I have always loved you, but it’s much clearer to me now.”
  19. Materna
    Rarely do the filmmakers show people mutually affecting one another in cycles of pain and control, rather than blaming phantom figures.
  20. The Lost Daughter
    For a while, Olivia Colman’s expressive performance carries the film, with little narrative distraction or stylistic conspicuousness.
  21. The Mad Women's Ball
    The film capsizes in the absence of a compelling center for Mélanie Laurent to hang her directorial panache.
  22. House of Gucci
    Ridley Scott’s tale of greed and revenge practically begs for melodramatic excess.
  23. The Guilty
    This is an engaging, no-frills entertainment that still fails to justify its reason for being.
  24. There's Someone Inside Your House
    The film feels like a missed opportunity to interrogate society’s fervent need to make pariahs out of people for their past mistakes.
  25. Hit the Road
    For too much of its running time, Panah Panahi’s film is untethered from any kind of captivating narrative purpose.
  26. Mayday
    The film circles a thorny premise, which makes it all the more disappointing that it results in a conventional clinch.
  27. Cyrano
    As is typically the case with Joe Wright's films, one is left both exhilarated and exhausted, wishing that he had been more interested in the material at the center of his house of flourishes.
  28. Encounter
    In spite of the film’s troublingly naïve take on mental trauma, Riz Ahmed vividly and empathetically captures a man’s wounded soul.
  29. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody
    There are only clichés in this rise-and-fall material, with the sole distinctive wrinkle being the weight given to the rise versus the fall.
  30. Montana Story
    The film is initially distinguished by its poetic understatement, only for it to eventually succumb to staleness.
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