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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. Traffik
    Deon Taylor seems uncomfortable with the escalating relentlessness of a siege film, eventually splitting Traffik off into a variety of other tangents and genres, diluting the potent subtext at the film's center.
  2. Allure
    Evan Rachel Wood and Julia Sarah Stone have a natural chemistry together that brings a feverish and unsettling intensity to their characters' tumultuous relationship, but there's no reprieve from the dour tone of the film.
  3. Hold the Dark
    Hold the Dark's ludicrous seriousness comes to feel like a mask for what's essentially a genre story of murder and mayhem.
  4. Outlaw King
    Outlaw King rattles along at a bracing pace, but the assured bloodshed of the final showdown looms large, casting a weary shadow over the film’s middle section.
  5. Suspiria
    Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria is a funereal pseudo-realist drama about political upheaval and the violence of systems that's at odds with itself.
  6. Damsel
    It's well established by now that the mythic Old West was always a trope written and controlled by men, and that there's really no bottom to which men won't stoop when women are a scarce quantity. In its mad rush toward performative allyship, the film exhausts every possible means of conveying those bombshells.
  7. Looking Glass
    There's no follow-through or follow-up on how the main character's voyeurism informs his burgeoning sexual perversions.
  8. Dear Dictator
    The potential comic absurdities of the premise are squandered as soon as the film settles into a tepid coming-of-age tale.
  9. Beast of Burden
    The film’s flashbacks, which are either too clipped or excessively scored, effectively step on the actors’ toes.
  10. An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
    The absence here of a joke is meant to be hilarious, or to at least congratulate the audience for willfully submitting to a denial of pleasure. Every element of the film is studiously, painstakingly random.
  11. The Last Family
    The film tends to literalize its theme of unfulfilled desire by having characters explicitly lament their lost pasts.
  12. RBG
    The film rarely presents a clear analysis of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's victories, reducing her work to empty slogans.
  13. The Sentence
    Rudy Valdez has no distance from the material, which works simultaneously in the film's favor and, largely, its disfavor.
  14. Hearts Beat Loud
    The steadiness with which Haley's film progresses through its dramatic beats is rather like its familiar-sounding indie pop, moving rhythmically toward a predictable climax whose emotional intensity feels unearned.
  15. In the Intense Now
    Although João Moreira Salles tries to tap into the pleasurable elements inherent to the essayistic as a cinematic form, such as making the merging of intimate and social reality poetically visible, his storylines never quite gel.
  16. All I Wish
    Writer-director Susan Walter's film seems almost determined to disprove the causality of social phenomena.
  17. Josie
    Complicating Sophie Turner's character would have allowed the film to feel as if it had more on its mind than pulling the rug out from under us.
  18. The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
    We never spend enough time with the characters to believe the urgency, and lushness, of their cravings.
  19. The Nun
    The Nun is the cinematic equivalent of a Conjuring-inspired maze at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios.
  20. Sonic the Hedgehog
    Throughout, any and all subtext is buried under the weight of Jim Carrey’s mugging.
  21. Yardie
    The film’s tendency to break the “show, don’t tell” directive becomes especially irksome in its homestretch.
  22. Daughter of Mine
    Unlike My Life in Pink, Daughter of Mine sidesteps all ambiguity, as the film reveals everything about its characters straight away, leaving little room for unexpected complexities about their predicaments to develop.
  23. Profile
    Timur Bekmambetov’s Screenlife film is more fluff piece than hard-hitting news story.
  24. Backstabbing for Beginners
    It fills the screen with a series of explicative conversations set in offices, hotels, and cars throughout which people don’t so much talk to each other as indirectly to the audience.
  25. The Crow
    The remake gets bogged down by a superfluous, hackneyed backstory and narrative threads that are conspicuous for their lack of emotional gravitas, causing the film to feel like a wheel-spinning exercise.
  26. Fireworks
    Akiyuki Shinbo and Nobuyuki Takeuchi's time-travel device mostly just exists to complicate what is, at heart, a trite and sexist love story.
  27. Boundaries
    Christopher Plummer brings a twinkly eyed insouciance to his character, but there's only so many times Jack can make a joke about, say, his adult diapers before it becomes thin and hollow.
  28. Red Notice
    A constant sense of motion can’t obscure how stale, secondhand, and spiritless this entire endeavor feels.
  29. An Ordinary Man
    Yes, deep down, even brutal war criminals like the one played by Ben Kingsley are people too.
  30. SuperFly
    SuperFly is a slicked-up, tricked-out revamp that dispenses with any pretense of verisimilitude in favor of rap-video extravagance and mob-movie bloodshed.
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