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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. Mary
    With the filmmakers unwilling to explore a kinky, psychosexual bond between a man and his demonic lady ghost-boat, Mary comes to feel as if lacks a through line, collapsing into a series of disconnected horror-movie beats.
  2. The Two Popes
    There isn’t anything in the bleeding-heart positions espoused by Jorge Bergoglio that complicates Pope Francis’s public persona.
  3. Cyrano, My Love
    The film is imbued with an airless blend of buoyant comedy and soap-operatic backstage drama that recalls Shakespeare in Love.
  4. Black Christmas
    The filmmakers’ overly simplistic depiction of good and evil is mitigated to some degree by the presence of Landon (Caleb Eberhardt).
  5. In the Tall Grass
    Vincenzo Natali’s film divests itself of stakes in the name of total meaninglessness.
  6. Saint Maud
    Rose Glass utilizes a provocative scenario for a vague and deadly serious art exercise.
  7. Guns Akimbo
    Writer-director Jason Lei Howden’s humor might have been tolerable if his film was at least reasonably imaginative.
  8. The Last Full Measure
    The film largely evades any perspectives that might question the institutions that put our soldiers in harm’s way.
  9. Primal
    The film too often suggests an Under Siege that’s been pointlessly larded with critters from Jumanji.
  10. Race with the Devil
    Fonda might have been able to look good in most everything he was in, but even he can’t save a turd like Race with the Devil.
  11. The Turning
    The film casts its source narrative as a delusional fantasy through which to enact the effects of possible traumas that go completely unexplored.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Bombshell
    The film is too irreverent in tone and narrow in scope to place Roger Ailes’s criminality in a larger, more meaningful context.
  13. Knives and Skin
    The film gets so lost in its affected idiosyncrasies that it stops probing any discernible human feelings.
  14. Night of the Lepus
    William F. Claxton’s film is a radically dull riff on the nature-run-amok genre, utilizing what must’ve felt at the time like the only animal not yet exploited to scare audiences. But scares are exactly what the filmmakers didn’t get.
  15. Three Christs
    By the end, it’s as if a good doctor’s god complex has been taken up by the film itself.
  16. Free Guy
    There’s so much discernible IP baked into Shawn Levy’s film to make its calls for artistic ingenuity feel hypocritical at best.
  17. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
    If the SpongeBob franchise has finally gone on the run, it seems like it’s left the audience that matters most in the dust.
  18. VHYes
    The film settles much too comfortably into the well-trodden footsteps of other works.
  19. The Evening Hour
    In spite of the film’s strikingly lived-in sense of place, the script’s melodramatic storytelling works against that verisimilitude.
  20. Intrigo: Death of an Author
    The film evinces neither the visceral pleasures of noir nor the precision to uncover deeper thematic resonances.
  21. The Forever Purge
    As it strives for a grander metaphor of life in America, The Forever Purge resorts to sweeping generalizations that make the prior films in the series feel like pinnacles of subtlety.
  22. King Richard
    Rarely has a film used its foreknowledge of a happy ending as a reason to remain so uncritical and incurious of its central subject.
  23. News of the World
    The film sanctimoniously suggests that ignorance or distrust of the news is nothing new, but rather the bedrock of America’s formation.
  24. The Courier
    Dominic Cooke’s film is content to regurgitate some of the more tired artistic tropes about the Cold War.
  25. The Beyond
    Even by Argento standards, Fulci’s film is nonsensical to the point of distraction.
  26. Spiral: From the Book of Saw
    The film doesn’t reset the Saw template in any marked way. It seems primed to explore the present-day fight against police brutality, but it never lives up to that promise.
  27. My Salinger Year
    The film fails to effectively seize on how its main character’s life and work experiences have affected her as a person and artist.
  28. The Salt of Tears
    Philippe Garrel illustrates the absurdity behind the myth of the complementary couple with the same cynicism that permeates his previous work but none of the humor or wit.
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Feb 23, 2020
  29. The High Note
    Everything here wraps up as tidily as it does in your average Hallmark Channel movie.
  30. The Tomorrow War
    The Tomorrow War is little more than a clunky, Nolan-esque exercise in instruction-manual cinema.
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