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For 7,775 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: 4,349 out of 7775
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7775
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7775
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  1. Ava
    The film's constant cruelty is so inescapable that it starts to feel unfair not only to the protagonist, but to Iran itself.
  2. Ready Player One
    It's a boldly attempted strike against the monolithic corporatization of fan service, and arguably one of the few films that defines dystopia as nothing less than a marketplace of trademarked, cross-promotional intellectual property. In other words, our here and now.
  3. Cocote
    Nelson Carlo de Los Santos's first fiction feature is a dazzling collage of styles and approaches in which every scene feels different from the one that came before.
  4. Gemini
    With Gemini, Aaron Katz does his cover of the Los Angeles-set murder mystery, homing in on the genre's evocative loneliness.
  5. First Match
    After a certain point, Olivia Newman's film treats the womanhood of its main character as an afterthought.
  6. All I Wish
    Writer-director Susan Walter's film seems almost determined to disprove the causality of social phenomena.
  7. Milla
    Valérie Massadian's Milla begins with a stylistic bait-and-switch that neatly summarizes the film's overall sense of formal balance.
  8. The Last Movie Star
    The film is a collection of old-fogey clichés, with a narrative that mixes a career retrospective with a road trip.
  9. Outside In
    Lynn Shelton's film firmly resists supplying its main characters with easy, you-can-have-it-all answers.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Beirut
    Brad Anderson's Beirut doesn't quite make foreign espionage look fun, but it shows how it might appeal to the sort of masochist who's also an adrenaline addict.
  11. Sherlock Gnomes
    Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary characters feel as if they've been air-dropped into a universe where they don't belong.
  12. Midnight Sun
    Throughout, the film's tone vacillates jarringly between corny, broad humor and unrestrained treacle.
  13. Makala
    Emmanuel Gras resists pitying or sentimentalizing his main subject, or exalting him merely for his resilience in the face of such a harsh, uncaring reality.
  14. Paul, Apostle of Christ
    The film's simple, redundant, but valuable moral lesson to its audience finds comfortable enough expression in an aesthetic that's banal but impressively consistent.
  15. Pacific Rim: Uprising
    Steven S. DeKnight's film lacks for Guillermo del Toro's visual acumen, but it makes up for that with an energetic sense of chaos throughout its front-and-center skirmishes, and in the end hedges closer to the nightmarish intensity of such inspirational texts as Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  16. Roxanne Roxanne
    One presumes that Michael Lerner's sense of emphasis is meant to humanize Shanté, defining her apart from the fame she achieved, but this stratagem backfires as Roxanne Roxanne mires itself in scenes of speechifying domestic strife.
  17. MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A.
    Stephen Loveridge fully understands that even the trifurcated title of his film may not be entirely equipped at capturing the extent of M.I.A.'s many-faceted identity.
  18. Beauty and the Dogs
    The film savors its obviousness and cruelty as badges of honor, reducing itself to a technical polemic.
  19. Final Portrait
    As seen through James Lord’s eyes, the dramas and passions on display throughout the film come off as melodramas and grotesqueries.
  20. Back to Burgundy
    Cédric Klapisch correlates wine’s complex arrangement of flavors to the complexity of memory itself, which, it should be said, is the most nuanced of the filmmaker’s wine metaphors.
  21. The Workshop
    Matthieu Lucci deftly carries the weight of all the symptoms that The Workshop loads upon Antoine, a resonant character whose inscrutability is at once dangerous, sympathetic, and eerily apt.
  22. Tomb Raider
    This isn’t an adaptation of a video game so much as an adaptation of a video game’s tutorial level.
  23. 12 Days
    With a tender and respectful gaze, 12 DAYS (@distribfilmsus) sheds light on the relationship between the French state and the mentally ill.
  24. Flower
    Flower is a sentimental work of faux nihilism, pandering to children who’re just discovering alienation.
  25. Allure
    Evan Rachel Wood and Julia Sarah Stone have a natural chemistry together that brings a feverish and unsettling intensity to their characters' tumultuous relationship, but there's no reprieve from the dour tone of the film.
  26. Journey's End
    Director Saul Dibb has infused his adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play with a striking sense of urgency.
  27. Josie
    Complicating Sophie Turner's character would have allowed the film to feel as if it had more on its mind than pulling the rug out from under us.
  28. Dear Dictator
    The potential comic absurdities of the premise are squandered as soon as the film settles into a tepid coming-of-age tale.
  29. Keep the Change
    With a surprisingly compassionate eye, the film susses out the comic and tragic elements borne from the daily struggle of living with autism.
  30. Gringo
    The circuitous narrative of Nash Edgerton's Gringo is such that it never allows for a character or storyline to develop in a particularly efficient way, as every few minutes an abrupt twist or turn sets things off in a new and unexpected direction.
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