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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. Styx
    The film is a penetrating an indictment of the bureaucratic obstacles placed in front of refugees.
  2. Mapplethorpe
    In Mapplethorpe, the ultimate purpose of the film seems to be the reductive portrayal of the artist as yet another tormented queer destroyed by his tendencies toward vice.
  3. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
    Chiwetel Ejiofor announces himself as a sensitive, shrewdly restrained filmmaker with his quietly assured directorial debut.
  4. The Competition
    Claire Simon knows that the best way to capture the anxiousness of a moment is to leave it unembellished.
  5. The Changeover
    It’s this carefully managed equilibrium between the inherent preposterousness of its mystical milieu and the convincing emotional reality of Laura’s journey that ultimately makes The Changeover, for all its muddled mythos, a lively and engaging excursion into an unusually naturalistic world of magic.
  6. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
    If the film sometimes feels too small in comparison to its predecessors, it manages to make the most of its quietest moments.
  7. Paddleton
    The film largely plays its scenario with a straight and gooey face, coaxing its actors to indulge their worst tendencies.
  8. The Iron Orchard
    Director Ty Roberts’s film is unable to realize that its subject matter is that of a horror story.
  9. Wrestle
    The documentary shines a piercing light on the sorts of people that our governments would too often rather forget.
  10. The Dreamed Path (Der traumhafte Weg)
    That the film adheres, upon close scrutiny, to the rough shape of a classical romantic tragedy—a seemingly intuitively understandable genre—only confirms the extreme degree to which Schanalec’s idiosyncratic manner of storytelling skirts and frustrates expectations.
  11. The Kindness of Strangers
    The film’s repetitive and lifeless dialogue robs otherwise charismatic performers of distinguishing characteristics.
  12. The Unicorn
    The documentary illuminates how art and artists live together in a symbiotic existence, each giving as well as taking.
  13. Isn't It Romantic
    As the film becomes increasingly reliant on predictable narrative tropes, it evolves into the very thing it set out to parody.
  14. Happy Death Day 2U
    Happy Death Day 2U pushes further than even matters of life and death into a realm in which stakes don’t even really apply anymore, concerned as it is not with how we live our best lives, but with how we can be the best possible versions of ourselves.
  15. Birds of Passage
    Money corrupts, Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s would say. Easy money corrupts completely.
  16. Donnybrook
    The film knots several strands of new-millennium despair into something that very nearly approximates greatness in its first half.
  17. Fighting with My Family
    While it pays lip service to the fascinating theatrical norms of pro wrestling, the film ends up expending most of its energy on its search for barriers that Paige can break through.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ruben Brandt, Collector
    The film doesn’t apply the necessary touch and precision to balance its sleek, chromed parts into a revving whole.
  19. United Skates
    The documentary brings to the foreground a fascinating and, moreover, beautiful culture lurking in the background of other stories.
  20. What Men Want
    This gender-swapped update of What Women Want doesn’t pass up the opportunity to undercut itself whenever it gets the chance.
  21. The Prodigy
    The filmmakers fail to realize that the darkest horror here doesn’t lie in the triumph of true evil, but in seeing how far a regular family will go to protect itself before doing the right and necessary thing, however hard or horrible it might be.
  22. High Flying Bird
    Steven Soderbergh’s film considers modern media as a vehicle for revising white patriarchal capitalism.
  23. Under the Eiffel Tower
    It’s tough to root for the pair when neither of them experiences genuine hardship. In the end, all dramatic conflict here is sunny and soporific.
  24. Lords of Chaos
    Jonas Åkerlund’s breezy approach to this material not only cheapens the music, but also has the effect of downplaying the severity of the scene’s truly unsavory politics.
  25. The Gospel of Eureka
    The documentary is uniquely attuned to the fickle whims of history, politics, and biographical circumstance.
  26. Alita: Battle Angel
    Battle Angel is by some distance the most entertaining of the recent crop of would-be franchise starters, exciting on its own merits while leaving just enough of its world tantalizingly unexplored to actually fuel our interest in wanting to see where its characters go from here.
  27. Cold Pursuit
    It’s the way the film’s humor specifically subverts its genre’s expected emotional valences that makes it so effective.
  28. Velvet Buzzsaw
    With its silvery sheen and sexy lure of celebrity actors being naughty, the film recalls the decadent, self-consciously chic art it parodies.
  29. Miss Bala
    The Mexico of this film is merely a place of abject lawlessness, whose hellishness exists only to stoke our fascination for how the protagonist grows as a person by drawing on her inner strength.
  30. Arctic
    The film has a raw immediacy that can only be achieved when most cinematic excesses have been eliminated.
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