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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. 22 Jump Street
    As funny and batshit insane as the movie often is, the fact that 22 Jump Street knows it's a tiresome sequel doesn't save it from being a tiresome sequel, even as Lord and Miller struggle to conceal the bitter pill of convention in the sweet tapioca pudding of wall-to-wall jokes.
  2. The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
    Slavoj Žižek manages to explain some of Lacanian psychoanalysis's most inscrutable notions with disarming clarity and infectious urgency.
  3. Hopper/Welles
    Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper both understand that cinema’s inherent fakeness is the wellspring of its importance and its danger.
  4. Erupcja
    While it isn’t an overt examination of it in the manner of The Moment, the film does feel like a natural cinematic extension of Charli XCX’s melancholy party-girl persona.
  5. We Are What We Are
    Jim Mickle plays the scenario deadly straight and unintentionally exposes all of its attendant absurdities, leaving the cast stranded.
  6. Young Adult
    Pairing again after the mad success of "Juno," Cody and Reitman prove a canny team when it comes to capturing frank yet polished modernity, getting at truths of the here and now even if a certain excess of gloss denies them the full Americana humanism of someone like Alexander Payne.
  7. Gemini
    With Gemini, Aaron Katz does his cover of the Los Angeles-set murder mystery, homing in on the genre's evocative loneliness.
  8. Brad's Status
    The film is less contemptuous of Brad than compassionate: brutally honest about his faults, yet ultimately understanding of them.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
    At the same time that director Carl Colby probes into the true character of his mysterious father through an arsenal of interviews with those that knew him, he gives equal weight to the dark chapters of America's history that his father's life traversed.
  10. Last Days Here
    Gambling on the unlikely redemption of a doom metal fuck-up, this potential rock-doc tragedy reveals a bromance of idol and idolator.
  11. Scenes of a Crime
    A true-crime documentary of invigorating analytical clarity and evenhandedness.
  12. 52 Tuesdays
    Sophie Hyde barely elaborates on the toll James's transition takes on him and only superficially as it affects Billie's psyche.
  13. How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy
    A definitive reflection on the work of two great directors and the specific slices of cinema they so fruitfully cultivated.
  14. A Quiet Place Part II
    John Krasinski is most in his comfort zone when the importance of family and legacy drives the film’s tension.
  15. River of Grass
    Kelly Reichardt's film is a wry, appealingly raggedy look at the impossibility of conjuring up excitement from boredom.
  16. Only the Young
    Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims refuse to use their subjects as test cases for any sort of larger thesis.
  17. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The difference between Niels Arden Oplev's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and David Fincher's own is not, as some might have hoped, the difference between night and day, but between curdled milk and a warmed-over holiday second.
  18. The Cage Fighter
    The Cage Fighter isn't sentimental about the notion of an aging sports hero who needs one more day in the proverbial sun, recognizing that desire as macho folly.
  19. Searching for Ingmar Bergman
    Margarethe von Trotta's documentary reminds us of the reasons for Bergman's continued influence on cinema today.
  20. Predator: Badlands
    The action is horrifying, inventive, and heart-pounding, but it’s also the least surprising part of Predator: Badlands.
  21. 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.
  22. Shadow Dancer
    James Marsh carries forward the mood and menace of the opening into the balance of the work, perfectly matching his aesthetic strategies to the story's shifting moral terrain.
  23. The Wonder
    The Wonder coheres as a powerful study of the way in which people are cloistered by their own stories.
  24. Emma.
    This lively adaptation plays up the novel’s more farcical elements, granting it a snappy, rhythmic pace.
  25. Falcon Lake
    The inadvertent effect of the oppressive, almost overbearing gloom that shrouds Falcon Lake is that it manages to sap the life out of its initially carefree depiction of young people’s emotional lives.
  26. Sweaty Betty
    Sweaty Betty is a reminder that poetry comes in all shapes and sizes, and that art ultimately dictates its own terms.
  27. The Disappearance of My Mother
    It’s fascinating to see Benedetta Barzini in academic action, like an ethnographer of the patriarchy herself, bringing back news from its most glamourous yet rotten core.
  28. Disco Boy
    Lack of clarity, it turns out, is what makes Disco Boy so enjoyable, and imbues it with gravitas.
  29. No Date, No Signature
    Vahid Jalilvand's film is so worked out that you know that every nuance is pointed and intentional.
  30. Becoming Astrid
    Despite convincing performances, the film is hampered by its stylistic and moral conventionality.
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