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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. Out of Blue
    Carol Morley’s film wants to blow our minds, but it succeeds only at rousing our boredom.
  2. Dragged Across Concrete
    With his latest, S. Craig Zahler doubles down on the best and worst elements of the pulp film.
  3. MS Slavic 7
    In its balance of a wispy narrative and long, quiet episodes of textual close reading, the film feels incomplete in a productive way.
  4. Us
    Even though it’s not as tidily satisfying as Get Out, the new film is both darker and more ambitious, and broader in its themes.
  5. Buddy
    It would appear that some of Buddy’s humans have indeed written off their fellow people. Does this matter? Honigmann’s film doesn’t plumb this potentially resonant question, as it’s hesitant to look a gift dog in the mou
  6. Ramen Shop
    Its drawn-out descriptions of culinary traditions and practices are enticing enough, but the same can’t be said about the characterizations.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sunset
    László Nemes’s follow-up to Son of Saul simply feels like two films awkwardly affixed to one another.
  8. Captive State
    The film might have better performed if it consisted of more than a smattering of good but relatively isolated ideas.
  9. Triple Frontier
    J.C. Chandor turns an intensely physical narrative into another of his inadvertently generic studies of procedure.
  10. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
    Alex Gibney’s documentary tells a dramatic, if somewhat workmanlike, story of Silicon Valley hubris meeting old-fashioned scamming.
  11. The Eyes of Orson Welles
    The Eyes of Orson Welles honors the central paradox of Welles: that he was a joyful poet of alienation who was, like most of us, both victim and victimizer.
  12. The Juniper Tree
    The Juniper Tree’s peculiar pedigree as an American indie fueled by European arthouse tropes and constructed with a flair for the avant-garde and the handmade marks it as a welcome rediscovery.
  13. Five Feet Apart
    In the film, hardly any fact about cystic fibrosis is raised without being doubly, even triply, underlined for viewers.
  14. Knife + Heart
    The film quickly settles into a holding pattern of repetitive porno-movie hijinks and increasingly listless murder scenes.
  15. The Aftermath
    The film’s threads of personal loss and cultural friction are all but lost amid the tawdry romantic entanglements.
  16. The Mustang
    Single-minded and direct in its execution, the film is a hard look at the extremes of masculine guilt and healing.
  17. Combat Obscura
    The portrait it paints of its Marines is appropriately discordant, redolent of the twitchy frustration caused by a long stint in a sparse landscape with a hazy mission.
  18. The Hummingbird Project
    Throughout, the film can’t decide what attitude to strike toward its characters’ evident greed.
  19. Yardie
    The film’s tendency to break the “show, don’t tell” directive becomes especially irksome in its homestretch.
  20. The Kid
    Its scenes wildly escalate to a fever pitch at the drop of a hat, before then ending, more often than not, with abrupt violence.
  21. Gloria Bell
    The film’s open-ended narrative tends to be undermined by the simplicity of its thematic signifiers.
  22. Two Plains & a Fancy
    No description can do justice to its best moments, which render the absurd and sublime one and the same.
  23. Captain Marvel
    The film doesn't pay nearly enough attention to Danvers’s crucial emotional metamorphosis from dual-identity self-doubter to fearless warrior battling to keep Earth safe.
  24. Island of the Hungry Ghosts
    The film is a haunting portrait of the island as a purgatorial realm between the poles of isolation and liberation.
  25. I'm Not Here
    Throughout, J.K. Simmons invents the film with a primordial physicality of loneliness and self-loathing.
  26. An Elephant Sitting Still
    The film’s gritty, mundane agonies come to feel like a series of moral tests with genuinely unpredictable outcomes.
  27. The Hole in the Ground
    The film gradually becomes something more than a mixtape of horror gimmicks as it homes in on a frightening real-world subtext.
  28. The Wedding Guest
    Michael Winterbottom’s film succeeds in translating the problematics of intercultural conflict into thriller fodder.
  29. Giant Little Ones
    Keith Behrman’s film comprehends the malleable, often inscrutable nature of desire.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Woman at War
    It balances its various modes so carefully and efficiently that it achieves a graceful unity, if a strange one at that.
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