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For 7,776 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 6.3 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: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. 37
    There's a fundamental lack of dramatic exigency in writer-director Puk Grasten's storytelling.
  2. Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
    The animation feels like the result of the cold calculus of an algorithm rather than a human director with a personal vision.
  3. The Circle
    The film is a hokily melodramatic rise-fall-redemption story with a mostly unearned patina of greater significance.
  4. Man Down
    Dito Montiel's silly plot machinations waste a solid performance from Shia LaBeouf.
  5. Pet
    The screenplay quickly loses this moral clarity as the plot twists pile up and the power balances shift.
  6. Burn Country
    For a film that warns against believing in a mirage, Burn Country seems all too comfortable perpetuating one.
  7. Dreamland
    The sense of a film school student doing movie karaoke with his influences is evident throughout Dreamland.
  8. Wilson
    Wilson lurches jarringly from poignant melancholy to cartoonish slapstick, unable to settle on a consistent tone.
  9. Gifted
    The grace notes are crowded out by the screenplay’s plot machinations and emotional manipulations.
  10. Hunter Gatherer
    A deliberately offbeat characterization of mental illness, Hunter Gatherer is ultimately a failed act of empathy.
  11. Downsizing
    Alexander Payne's defenders might call his often acidic touch Swiftian, though it comes off more toothlessly noncommittal.
  12. Ne Me Quitte Pas
    The entirety of the film seems increasingly constructed around ill-begotten attempts at dark humor.
  13. Before I Fall
    All the film has to show for its efforts are tired platitudes about the value of altruism and living each day as it if were the last.
  14. Everything, Everything
    The film's plot crux isn't romantic fatalism, but 2017's cutest manifestation of trendy gaslighting.
  15. Best and Most Beautiful Things
    It believes that the avenue to proving humanity is through banalizing gestures of quotidian significance.
  16. The War with Grandpa
    Only when left to their own devices do the film’s stars enter the less manic, more heartfelt realm of the book.
  17. Youth in Oregon
    Joel David Moore's film is too often distracted by irrelevant emotional grandstanding.
  18. The Ardennes
    It predictably lurches toward acts of extreme violence with little interest other than the instant titillation such moments afford.
  19. Blind
    At one point, the film makes a bold but foolish move by getting in the ring with Tolstoy, analogizing itself to Anna Karenina in a self-seriously laughable attempt to pass its schmaltzy and contrived romance narrative off for something significantly grander.
  20. A Bad Moms Christmas
    The pressures of Christmas prove too great to fight off and the need for feel-good holiday cheer inevitably veers the film toward half-hearted, sentimental drama that seems purely obligatory to its seasonal milieu.
  21. Cézanne et Moi
    The film barely even scratches the surface of the animating force of Cézanne and Zola's lives: their art.
  22. The Dinner
    The film is shrilly, luridly, dully, and unremittingly ugly, preaching to a choir that it also demonizes.
  23. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
    The film's problem isn't so much the grossness of its humor as the laziness with which it's executed.
  24. The House
    The House's limp comedic pieces are only sporadically enlivened by a game cast.
  25. The Hitman's Bodyguard
    Because it so consistently fails to meld its comic sensibilities and love stories with its generic action premise into a seamless whole, The Hitman's Bodyguard sometimes just appears to be parodying the sort of mess it ends up being.
  26. Alpha
    It reduces the domestication of wolves to a series of simplistic interactions that don’t exactly convey the difficulties of a wild animal overcoming millennia of instinct.
  27. Victoria and Abdul
    By privileging the white characters in its narrative, Victoria & Abdul exposes itself as insidiously hypocritical.
  28. Claire in Motion
    Throughout, writer-directors Lisa Robinson and Annie J. Howell's film buckles under the weight of its symbolism.
  29. Megan Leavey
    Everyone here, from fellow marines to Iraqis, is merely a supporting player in Megan Leavey's emotional journey.
  30. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
    There are only so many monster-centric jokes to be made before they become toothless, and only so many ways to preach tolerance before it sounds more like blunt moralizing.
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