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For 7,772 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. First Man
    Damien Chazelle is clearly in awe of the collective efforts it took to propel Neil Armstrong to the moon, but he remains ambivalent about whether it was all ultimately worth such immense sacrifice.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Hal
    Just before the documentary slips into hero worship, Amy Scott pries beneath the calm surface of her bearded and bespectacled subject to reveal the silent rage that fueled his work.
  3. Ray & Liz
    Ray & Liz generates pathos through its detailed attention to its characters' attempts to find permanence and meaning in a fundamentally unstable reality.
  4. Shoplifters
    In Shoplifters, Kore-eda dramatizes the insidious and relativistic ordinariness of poverty.
  5. The Little Stranger
    Perhaps the film's failure to surprise in the end is a result of leaning too heavily on a toolbox not yet translated into the language of cinematic form.
  6. Destination Wedding
    The way Destination Wedding uses misanthropy to augment screwball tropes ends up being its undoing.
  7. Kin
    Jonathan and Josh Baker's Kin, a feature that comprises little more than an extended introduction to its characters, resembles a TV pilot that's been released into theaters as a standalone property.
  8. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    Hale County dwells on the beauty of the everyday as it recognizes the fragility of individual lives.
  9. Let the Corpses Tan
    Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani get so lost in their catalogue of fetishes that they lose grasp of the snap and tension that drive even a mediocre heist narrative.
  10. Reprisal
    Reprisal is at pains to profess its faith in the symbols of law and order, but it cannot fully repress its almost erotic longing for the unfettered violence of the terrorist.
  11. Operation Finale
    The film never manages to reconcile the enormity of the Holocaust with how ordinary a bureaucrat Eichmann was.
  12. The Happytime Murders
    The film aims only to shock, refusing to deliver anything in an intriguingly post-ironic way in the process.
  13. The Bookshop
    The Bookshop is steadfast in avoiding drama at all costs.
  14. Support the Girls
    The film celebrates the unrecognized willpower and perseverance that undergirds low-wage service work in this country.
  15. What Keeps You Alive
    If Hannah Emily Anderson's performance was as fully imagined as Brittany Allen's, then What Keeps You Alive might have attained the emotional dimensions of a robust psychodrama.
  16. Papillon
    This remake proffers the sort of cinematic nowhere place that's all too common of an increasingly corporate, globalized cinema.
  17. John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
    The documentary's labored juxtapositions create fission, the feel of a director scrambling to dictate the game.
  18. Mile 22
    When Mark Wahlberg's Silva isn't wielding run-on sentences as military-grade weapons, he barks out derivative commands and asinine statements that make him sound like a 13-year-old playing Call of Duty.
  19. Alpha
    It reduces the domestication of wolves to a series of simplistic interactions that don’t exactly convey the difficulties of a wild animal overcoming millennia of instinct.
  20. Minding the Gap
    Zack and Keire's stunts are action scenes that are imbued with the gravity of the participants' youth, revelry, and need to prove themselves.
  21. Juliet, Naked
    The film is loaded with inconsequential detours and questionable and inconsistent character psychology as it stumbles awkwardly to its foregone conclusion.
  22. Cielo
    Alison McAlpine's documentary lacks urgency beyond its persistent pondering of the sky's eternal mysteries.
  23. The Wife
    Glenn Close's perennial look of astonishment and resilience commands the action to the point of turning every other screen element into a gratuitous prop.
  24. We the Animals
    In We the Animals, director Jeremiah Zagar sustains a tone of wounded nostalgia, fashioning a formalism that appears to exist simultaneously in the past and present.
  25. Crazy Rich Asians
    The filmmakers’ ability to seamlessly explore rapidly shifting Chinese cultural norms within the context of the classic trope of a mother who’s hostile toward her son’s partner is the film’s most impressive feat.
  26. Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
    It all feels cheap and looks cheap, a far cry from what S. Craig Zahler can do when overseeing both a film's words as well as its images.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Meg
    Jaws works as both a horror film and a human drama. The Meg doesn't aspire to the earlier film's pathos (its flagrant callbacks to Jaws draw attention to how grotesquely adolescent it is by comparison), but that's because it's above all else a movie-star vehicle, and it succeeds on that front.
  28. Dog Days
    Aside from the occasional idiosyncratic comic beat, Dog Days remains committed to coloring within the lines of established tropes in the animal-centric family film.
  29. A Prayer Before Dawn
    A Prayer Before Dawn is concerned above all with ensuring that we share its main character's sense of dislocation and entrapment.
  30. Elizabeth Harvest
    Sebastian Gutierrez's film creates an incestuous atmosphere that's reminiscent of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
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