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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. Gun Crazy
    Lewis, through sheer force of will, turns the script’s easy ways out into the essence of blunt, adolescent sexual flowering.
  2. Tomboy
    Tomboy is one of those little big films whose simplicity and concision suggest the excess of meaning that language (cinematic or otherwise) could never account for.
  3. Bones and All
    Both Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet are sadly at a disadvantage given how many of the older actors gnaw at the scenery like it’s a still-warm cadaver.
  4. Dune: Part One
    Dune ends up feeling like an extended prologue for what one can only hope will be a sequel that will clarify its parables and paradoxes.
  5. 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.
  6. Cheatin'
    The plot is pure pulp, inspired in equal parts by the tropes and imagery of film noir, grand opera, and silent melodrama.
  7. The Invitation
    A charged, unnerving turn of the screw, The Invitation is consumed by the fear of forgetting.
  8. A Woman's Life
    The choice of low-grade, handheld digital images further reduces the film to the clichés of revisionist literary filmmaking.
  9. Roxanne Roxanne
    One presumes that Michael Lerner's sense of emphasis is meant to humanize Shanté, defining her apart from the fame she achieved, but this stratagem backfires as Roxanne Roxanne mires itself in scenes of speechifying domestic strife.
  10. They Shot the Piano Player
    Unlike, say, Richard Linklater’s Waking Life, which takes advantage of rotoscoping to lend a unique style to the animation depending on who’s talking and about what, They Shot the Piano Player aims for more stylistic continuity than one would expect, given the free-wheeling soundtrack.
  11. Every Little Thing
    Terry Masear’s experience as a victim of childhood abuse is succinctly and broadly addressed, underscoring a largely unspoken meta-narrative about the necessity of compassion and forgiveness.
  12. In the Shadow of Women
    Philippe Garrel's film uses its characters' stodgy, formal language to betray their self-consciousness.
  13. The Strangler (1970)
    This 1970 psychological thriller was Paul Vecchiali’s self-conscious attempt during the waning years of the Nouvelle Vague to take the movement’s genre-defying sensibilities in a new direction.
  14. The Oldest Person in the World
    Sam Green’s documentary has a knack for finding moments where we can feel the broad sweep of a supercentenarian lifespan, condensed down into a single, everyday occurrence.
  15. Rush
    Ron Howard's by-the-seat-of-your-pants aesthetic makes the slower, darker sequences feel hurried and bland, especially when stacked up next to the racing sequences.
  16. Smooth Talk
    Throughout, Joyce Chopra patiently and shrewdly observes the contradictions of human behavior that Laura Dern brilliantly conveys.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bully
    Leaves us moved by poignant scenes of victims' shattered lives, but, for reasons unclear, keeps the bullies themselves largely out of our reach.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Magnificent Seven
    The Magnificent Seven fights an uphill battle in matching the scope and thrills of its source material.
  19. Winnie the Pooh
    Pooh's moral triumph isn't all that weighty, but it's almost existentially profound to see the silly old bear forgo honey a little while longer because of someone else's needs.
  20. Armageddon Time
    The film is an illustration of the transition from the ethical pliancy of youth to the moral discernment of adulthood.
  21. Lovesong
    So Yong Kim's film ultimately manages a convincing articulation of friendship between women.
  22. 2nd Chance
    2nd Chance a terrific American tall tale as well as a cautionary tale and a ripping good yarn.
  23. Thelma
    Thelma's transition into a paranormal thriller doesn’t complicate its initially potent character study.
  24. Colette
    It's the film's concerted emphasis on Colette's ambivalent nature and desires that reveals her to be an artist just ahead of her time, fighting against, yet seduced by, her present.
  25. Little Sister
    The film's attempt at political insight and portrayal of social malaise are meant to give it the illusion of depth.
  26. The Workshop
    Matthieu Lucci deftly carries the weight of all the symptoms that The Workshop loads upon Antoine, a resonant character whose inscrutability is at once dangerous, sympathetic, and eerily apt.
  27. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a film that feels ripped right out of a high school art-class notebook, and sounds like a Twitch stream.
  28. Disobedience
    In the end, Disobedience is less about the subjugation of the self to the group than the courage to embrace uncertainty if one were to break out of the prison of a world one has been born into.
  29. My Big Night
    Álex de la Iglesia's film is an explosion of kitsch, an intensely formalized mixture of farce and tragedy.
  30. Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
    It presents a captivating portrait of one of the era's greatest defenders of artistic freedom and a true American original.
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