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For 7,772 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 6.4 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: 4,346 out of 7772
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7772
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7772
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Spring Breakers
    One of the effects of Harmony Korine's feverish, hypnotic style is that the whole thing feels like a fantasy—or rather a nightmare perversion of the American dream.
  2. Reality
    Matteo Garrone has a sure eye for outlandish set pieces that exhibit the expansive outlines of his ideas, but these spectacles are sporadic, and the spaces between them tend to lag.
  3. If I Were You
    A wannabe French-style infidelity farce that keeps indulging in unnecessary bathos and subplots.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    From Up on Poppy Hill
    The story arc is somewhat facile, and its lesson about preserving history instead of demolishing it to make way for new, shiny things is too obvious.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Admission
    The estrogenic elements prove widely ineffectual, but they're just pieces of this overlong, overloaded misfire whose double-entendre title ultimately just goads the jaded viewer to admit defeat.
  6. Downeast
    An exposé of how the financial structures that make businesses possible in America seem to conspire against genuine good will and non-self-serving ambition.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Gimme the Loot
    A nose-to-the-ground portrait of two believably aspirational protagonists and their constant hustle to make good on the movie's eponymous demand.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Monk
    Dominik Moll never addresses Matthew Gregory Lewis's original groundbreaking ideas in the film, nor does he rework the material for a contemporary audience.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Dead Man Down
    The action merely meanders when it should be hurtling forward, running in circles when one expects it to head toward a conclusion or some sense of resolution.
  10. Greedy Lying Bastards
    What Craig Scott Rosebraugh's film lacks in originality, it makes up for in comprehensiveness.
  11. Le Petit Soldat (re-release)
    Compared to "Breathless," Le Petit Soldat's images suggest a stronger sense of place, as characters seem inextricably linked to their environment. Overall, the film lacks the artifice of Hollywood cinema, which Godard admired but was looking to move past after catching flack from the French left wing.
  12. Oz the Great and Powerful
    An amorphous melange of ill-fitting reference points and misappropriated aesthetics, a lumbering family blockbuster both tiresome and wholly indistinct.
  13. Electrick Children
    Rebecca Thomas's debut feature is a sensible and humane exploration of youthful curiosity.
  14. Gut Renovation
    Due to the one-minded construction of the documentary, there's little to parse beyond impassioned harrumphs.
    • 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.
  16. The We and the I
    A delirious representation of incipient personalities in bloom, its form as amorphous and reckless as the vibrant youths it portrays.
  17. Language of a Broken Heart
    A feigned attempt at a stereotypically quirky indie film that has virtually nothing in the way of formal sophistication or narrative ambition.
  18. The Silence
    The slightly dour tone is the perfect backdrop for the director to skillfully weave together his varied narrative strands in a surprisingly entertaining medley.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Emperor
    Peter Webber's historical drama is blunt about its stylistic ambitions while at the same time failing to meet them, and the effect is one of sad ineffectuality.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The ABCs of Death
    Tellingly, this horror anthology's finest entries convey how real horror comes in more than shades of red, and how it lives inside us all.
  21. The Last Exorcism Part II
    Scenes of solemn importance drag on to the point of self-parody in an attempt at establishing mood, while dialogue reeks of connect-the-dots spoonfeeding.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Beyond the Hills
    It's Cristian Mungiu's staging and compositional skill that lends the material its true sense of dawning dread.
  23. The Condemned
    It adds up to a methodically bland, intellectually sluggish exercise in guilt-tripping that's nonetheless still more interested in its rich and sexy characters than the supposed unfortunates.
  24. Day of the Falcon
    There's an enormous amount of perverse pleasure to be had here for those who get off on the annihilation of nuance.
  25. War Witch
    Though ostensibly a character study, it's nevertheless characterized by the vaguely moralizing tone of an issue film, one whose candor in the face of brutality seems calculated for maximum liberal appeal.
  26. 21 and Over
    By the dictates of the boys-will-be-boys party genre, 21 and Over is so tame that it barely manages to even be offensive.
  27. Jack the Giant Slayer
    This epic waste of $190 million plunders the grab bag of overused plotlines, failing to put its own stamp on much of anything.
  28. Future Weather
    The film is ultimately enjoyable despite its faults, at least partially because it represents an earnest, honest attempt to empathize with struggling American working-class women.
  29. The Sweeney
    Clichés abound, even in the look of the film, which toggles between post-Ritchie crime-violence burlesque and sleek, Nolanesque faux-grandeur.
  30. Welcome to Pine Hill
    Keith Miller doesn't always trust the fluency of his visual language, occasionally forcing a point that's already being captured.
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