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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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  1. Happiest Season
    The film translates the often difficult realities of a specific kind of marginalized love into a story with broad appeal.
  2. Collective
    The film reminds us that without investigative reporting there’s no democracy, and that traditional expectations around impartiality and objectivity may be untenable in the face of horror.
  3. Jiu Jitsu
    Nicolas Cage’s amusing turn as a kooky hermit with an affinity for newspaper hats often feels awkwardly spliced into the film.
  4. Embattled
    The film muddies its sense of moral righteousness by suggesting that violence and vengeance can only be defeated by more of the same.
  5. Vanguard
    The film is an uncanny reflection of the jingoism that Hollywood has been wrapping in glossy spectacle and exporting to foreign markets for decades.
  6. Come Away
    The film can’t seem to decide whether it’s fantasy or allegory and whether its characters are fan fiction or flesh and blood.
  7. Hillbilly Elegy
    Hillbilly Elegy feels like a bland feel-good story rather than one part of a longer tragedy with no clear end.
  8. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
    The greatest gift offered by the film is an empowering world that looks less like invention and more like real life.
  9. Ammonite
    Francis Lee’s compulsion to make Mary Anning stand in for something broader than herself keeps tripping up the film.
  10. The Life Ahead
    With its tough-minded characters from divergent cultures finding a common bond despite their differences, the film doesn’t deliver much in the way of surprises, but it turns out to be a starker and more honest piece of work than it might initially seem.
  11. Zappa
    The documentary is determined not to be a typical rock-god story with predictable rise-and-fall arcs.
  12. Fatman
    If it weren’t so airless, it’d be easier to appreciate Fatman a character study of Santa’s midlife woes.
  13. I Am Greta
    Even though it’s about a person who speaks with courage about the urgency of the global crisis, I Am Greta itself doesn’t possess enough of that urgency.
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Nov 9, 2020
  14. Freaky
    Freaky doesn’t reach for any arch commentary beyond the suggestion that, hey, Freaky Friday the 13th is a pretty funny idea.
  15. Coded Bias
    The documentary dives down the rabbit hole to chillingly, comprehensively expose how algorithms can perpetuate bias in often unforeseen and unjust ways.
  16. The Climb
    The film slides seamlessly between empathizing with its clueless bros and making them objects of unsparing derision.
  17. Mank
    The film's most haunting sequences are self-contained arias in which characters grapple with their powerlessness.
  18. The Dark and the Wicked
    This supernatural fable elevates the subtext of Bryan Bertino’s earlier work to the level of text.
  19. Let Him Go
    Despite a searing performance from Diane Lane, writer-director Thomas Bezucha’s film ultimately self-immolates.
  20. Triggered
    Once you get past the faux-provocation of the film’s title, it’s difficult to tell what ideologies the filmmakers are trying to skewer.
  21. Kindred
    It’s difficult to shake that the film finishes saying what it has to say long before it staggers to the end.
  22. Jungleland
    Director Max Winkler truly seems to believe that he’s cutting to the heart of the boulevard of broken dreams.
  23. Come Play
    While it can be expected that high-concept horror movies will often be sewn together from the premises of recent genre successes, it’s much too easy to see the stitches in writer-director Jacob Chase’s Come Play.
  24. Madre
    Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s feature-length Madre contemplates how memories of loss linger and distort the present.
  25. Wolfwalkers
    The storyline’s edges are frayed just enough to give it the gentle distance of a tale recalled though the gauze of myth and memory.
  26. His House
    Throughout, Remi Weekes forcefully, resonantly ties the film’s terror to the inner turmoil of his characters.
  27. The Witches
    This is a sleek-looking vehicle that’s eager to be scary but not comfortable being ugly.
  28. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    Too often, the film teases big, wild comedic set pieces that end up deflating almost instantly.
  29. Synchronic
    About a drug that sends its users back in time for seven minutes, the film holds your hand and walks you through its chronology mazes
  30. Sound of Metal
    Darius Marder’s film captures, with urgency and tenderness, just how enticing the residue of the past can be.
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