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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. Bob Trevino Likes It
    It has its very powerful moments, but the oddly linear, untroubled journey of its two main characters robs the film of some of its emotional authenticity.
  2. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
    Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is pure pedagogic bliss.
  3. Videoheaven
    Alex Ross Perry doesn’t insert himself into something he views as bigger than himself, and that sense of reverence lends an emotional anchor to even the driest, disaffected parts of Videoheaven.
  4. Girls Trip
    Malcolm D. Lee's film at least it goes down easy. Easy like a Sunday-morning hangover.
  5. The Way He Looks
    What progressively mounts tension is the film's understanding of a boy's gradually realized homosexuality as being inextricable from the central metaphor of compromised vision.
  6. Florence Foster Jenkins
    The film champions coddling people like Florence Foster Jenkins and treats critical thinking as the enemy.
  7. Dragonslayer
    Is Josh "Skreech" Sandoval the least deserving documentary subject ever?
  8. Remote Area Medical
    Despite the subdued anger and drawn-out suffering on display, the documentary is primarily a work of hope.
  9. The Farewell Party
    A neatly balanced tragicomedy about the easily blurred line between assisted living and assisted death.
  10. Francofonia
    For all its congratulatory spirit, the film has the persistent feeling of an elegy bidding adieu to a bygone time.
  11. Drinking Buddies
    Less precise and cohesive than much of Joe Swanberg's recent work, as its small, improvisational skeleton struggles to meet the demands of the more ambitious story it's trying to tell.
  12. The Theory of Everything
    Meticulous in its adherence to conventional narrative inducement, this biopic only offers a sanded-down and embossed vision of Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde's 30-year marriage.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
    Format owes much to Short Cuts, but Haneke’s wintry vision lacks Altman’s sense of life overflowing beyond the frame.
  14. A Perfect World
    Hancock lays the groundwork for Eastwood to transform what might have been an admirable, tightly told entertainment into something far more emotionally resonant, slyly self-aware, and rich in subtext.
  15. Dogman
    The film only succeeds at evoking a firm sense of place and an accompanying air of alluring grotesquerie.
  16. The Road
    For a spell, the film gets by on its unpretentious flair for atmosphere, even its disconcerting nonsensicality.
  17. Dawn of the Dead
    Romero’s distinctly Pittsburghian sensibilities can’t be underestimated when explaining Dawn’s appeal; the Monroeville Mall perfectly evokes the feel of a hollow monument standing at the center of a community that couldn’t be bothered to define itself any more distinctively than could be represented by their choice between Florsheim or Kinney’s shoes. The mall, in essence, shoulders the burden of their identity.
  18. Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
    Lili Horvát’s film delights in wallowing in ambiguity, contradiction, and doubt.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Piranha
    Dante makes films that Spielberg’s id might make, movies that double down on pop cultural know-how and riotous thrills without pausing for anything so unentertaining as an earnest assessment of humanity.
  20. Get On Up
    As if taking a cue from its own title, the movie emphatically sets its sights on the upward trajectory of Brown's career.
  21. Blitz
    Blitz is an earnest, broad-strokes portrait of a bustling city that occasionally succeeds in communicating the unprecedented sensory shock of modern warfare, but its uncritical craftsmanship and quarantining of past atrocities from present-day concerns also render the proceedings mostly lifeless.
  22. Big Sonia
    Cinema has rarely mined the consequences of being a child of a Holocaust survivor and Big Sonia adeptly explores how, in many cases, losing much of one's family led many survivors to put undue pressures on their future children.
  23. King Car
    Renata Pinheiro’s film boasts the pleasures of shlock while sacrificing none of its philosophical rigor.
  24. American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
    As Ridgen and Rossier take pains to point out, a man so rigorously committed to putting an end to oppression ought not be so easily dismissed, even if coming to grips with such a challenging figure may be finally as difficult as getting to the bottom of the Arab-Israeli conflict itself.
  25. Gazer
    The main character’s condition feels like a dramatically dubious attempt to shroud the somewhat spindly nature of the film’s plot.
  26. The Brink
    Alison Klayman’s fly-on-the-wall documentary cuts Trump’s Rasputin down to size but doesn’t completely dismiss his power.
  27. Shazam!
    Shazam! sees DC combining the golden-age optimism espoused by Wonder Woman and the jubilant, self-aware silliness of Aquaman into a satisfying whole.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Evil Dead
    Raimi's script is riotously deadpan, his compositions undeniably breathtaking and inventive. [6 March 2002]
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Damned
    Roberto Minervini’s camera ably conjures the melancholy and alienation that afflict his characters across scenes that merge documentary and neorealist techniques, but it’s far from realistic to expect a troop of soldiers to act aloof around each other when they’re all in the shit.
  30. Crime Wave
    A relentlessly unforced potboiler that gazes at noir through the looking glass.
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