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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. Child's Play
    By the end, it becomes what it initially parodies: a dime-a-dozen slasher film with a silly-looking doll as the villain.
  2. In the Aisles
    By subverting the impulse to indulge a winning romance between its two bright European stars, In the Aisles insists on the dignity of its appealing but rather thin characters.
  3. Nightmare Cinema
    The anthology justifies Mick Garris’s passion for horror, though he ironically proves to be one of his project’s liabilities.
  4. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
    In verbally recounting her history, Morrison proves almost as engaging as she in print, a wise and sensitive voice.
  5. The Quiet One
    In the end, the film feels like a sketch that’s been offered in place of a portrait.
  6. Wild Rose
    Tom Harper’s film empathetically probes the growing pains of self-improvement.
  7. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese culls various images together to offer a startlingly intense vision of America as place that, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, essentially believes in nothing, following one demoralizing crisis after another.
  8. Shaft
    Ultimately, the only truly retro thing about this weirdly reactionary potboiler is its politics.
  9. Toy Story 4
    The film seamlessly interweaves fun escapades and earnest emotions, but it lacks the visual power of its predecessor.
  10. Men in Black: International
    The film wastes its charismatic leads in a parade of wacky CG creations whose occasional novelty is drowned out by its incessance.
  11. American Woman
    Sienna Miller lends credibility to a character that in other hands might seem like a caricature of the white underclass.
  12. The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
    We never spend enough time with the characters to believe the urgency, and lushness, of their cravings.
  13. Our Time
    The film elides politics in order to earnestly consider whether love is necessarily an act of possession.
  14. Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
    The documentary proves that the history and mythology of American jazz is as intoxicating as the music itself.
  15. Being Frank
    The film sends the curious message that that any time an abusive parent spends with a child is time well spent.
  16. Late Night
    The film lacks for the more lacerating, freely parodic energy of The Larry Sanders Show and 30 Rock.
  17. Papi Chulo
    A shrill and insipid spectacle of cross-cultural communion, but don’t call it stupid, as that would suggest that it doesn’t know exactly what it’s doing.
  18. Dark Phoenix
    The film is an all-too-fitting whimper of a conclusion to a franchise that never remotely fulfilled its potential.
  19. This One's for the Ladies
    There’s a surprising sense of communal exchange between the male strippers and their fans in Gene Graham’s documentary.
  20. Funan
    There are hints that the film will scale itself to the broader historical context of this era, but the screenplay never elaborates on the ethnic strife the undergirds the Cambodian genocide.
  21. The Raft
    The film uses Santiago Genovés’s experiment to scrutinize memory and capture the feeling of life under a very curious sort of dictatorship.
  22. Bacurau
    The film succeeds as a stingingly personal missive aimed squarely at Brazil’s right-wing president.
  23. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    The film simultaneously announces itself as an expressive portrait of a city, an endearing ode to male comradery, a leisurely paced hangout flick, an absurdist comedy, and a melancholic reflection on gentrification and urban black experience.
  24. Framing John DeLorean
    John DeLorean has a biography that could have been reverse engineered from a Hollywood epic about the rise and fall of an auto-industry mogul.
  25. Pavarotti
    Throughout, the too-brief depictions of Luciano Pavarotti’s flaws are conspicuously shrouded in a veil of hagiography.
  26. Too Late to Die Young
    The experience of watching Dominga Sotomayor’s film is not unlike entering a stranger’s dream without an anchor.
  27. The Fall of the American Empire
    Despite a few undeniably intense and lurid moments, the film lacks the pulsating fury of a significant genre work.
  28. Ma
    In the end, the filmmakers settle for stigmatizing victimhood, abusing Sue Ann almost as much as her former tormentors.
  29. The Image You Missed
    The film finds Dónal Foreman exploring the suggestive gaps that exist between his own biography and that of his father.
  30. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    The film is frustrating in the end for reaffirming the traditional blockbuster’s allegiance to human perseverance.
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