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For 7,772 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
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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: 4,346 out of 7772
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7772
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7772
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  1. Isle of Dogs
    Anderson is clearly a massive talent working, again, in his prime. However uncomfortable, it's crucial to ask what gives him the right to romp around in all these signifiers in service of bespoke whimsy—but then the word for it isn't “right,” but rather privilege.
  2. Red Sparrow
    The way that Dominika is at once completely transparent and at the same time impossible to read is Red Sparrow's most intriguing through line, not least of which for the way that Jennifer Lawrence makes you grasp the canny mental gymnastics that her character has to do in order for everything that she says to be at once truth and obfuscation.
  3. Loveless
    One feels in the film's punishing bleakness a yearning for transcendence.
  4. Tehran Taboo
    The film is full of astute, and poetically staged, critiques of the parallel worlds resulting from Iran's police state.
  5. The Party
    It captures the qualities of live theater that are rarely transmitted to film, of being immediate, alive, and spontaneous, as if the viewer is just a stone's throw away from the characters.
  6. Looking Glass
    There's no follow-through or follow-up on how the main character's voyeurism informs his burgeoning sexual perversions.
  7. Early Man
    The clash between prehistoric pastoralism and technological progress at the center of the film is laden with potential for biting comedy, but Nick Park flattens the conflict into a series of slobs-versus-snobs clichés.
  8. Double Lover
    Though Double Lover has a slight oneiric quality from the start, it grows increasingly delirious, the plot threads knotting in convoluted patterns and the overall mood more and more ridiculous.
  9. The Boy Downstairs
    Endeavoring to give us a post-mumblecore spin on Annie Hall, writer-director Sophie Brooks seemingly fails to understand what made Woody Allen's film so appealing: its rich, multi-faceted characterizations.
  10. Nostalgia
    Mark Pellington's Nostalgia is less a living, breathing film than a presentation of sentiments revolving around a pat question: Are the objects of our lives merely detritus, or are they vital to our identities?
  11. The 15:17 to Paris
    One misses the prismatic structure of the 15:17 to Paris book, which fuses multiple points of view and which is reduced by Dorothy Blyskal's script to cut-and-pasted bromides.
  12. Fifty Shades Freed
    James Foley’s film suggests that any semblance of capitulation on Christian’s part is a win for Ana and women at large, even if that momentary triumph leads to a further sacrifice of Ana’s independence.
  13. Black Panther
    Michel B. Jordan plays Erik Killmonger with such moving, occasionally gut-wrenching commitment that it nearly mitigates the goofiness of his moniker and the superficiality of the film in toto.
  14. Permission
    Brian Crano is as skittish as his protagonists are about the particular contours of their dilemma. To put it bluntly, Permission is a sex film without the sex.
  15. Entanglement
    Ben doesn't deserve our sympathy, in part for how noxiously the film has imagined the female characters who surround him.
  16. Peter Rabbit
    Peter Rabbit plays like a country cousin to Paul King's Paddington films, similarly balancing slapstick, absurdism, and a touch of gross-out humor, though without King's transcendently oddball sensibility.
  17. The Ritual
    Eventually, the filmmakers reveal the secrets they'd previously withheld, spoiling the film's sustained mystique.
  18. Golden Exits
    Alex Ross Perry's characters are shrewd enough to recognize the irrational contours of their lives, which they diagnose and chew over in some of the most inventive, twisty, and richly ironic dialogue in modern American cinema.
  19. The Female Brain
    The Female Brain never seems quite sure whether it wants to probe the depths of its title subject or just make us laugh. And given the shallowness of its quasi-scientific blather and the tepidness of its comedy, it ultimately does neither.
  20. Basmati Blues
    Danny Baron's film awkwardly melds Bollywood romcom tropes with a half-hearted critique of the GMO industry.
  21. 24 Frames
    Movement and progress are the organizing principles throughout Abbas Kiarostami's final, posthumously released film.
  22. Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
    The animation feels like the result of the cold calculus of an algorithm rather than a human director with a personal vision.
  23. In the Intense Now
    Although João Moreira Salles tries to tap into the pleasurable elements inherent to the essayistic as a cinematic form, such as making the merging of intimate and social reality poetically visible, his storylines never quite gel.
  24. On Body and Soul
    On Body and Soul's fusion of romance, comedy, ultraviolence, and political commentary has the logic of a lucid dream.
  25. Legend of the Mountain (1979)
    Every pan and snap zoom and dissolve is exact, every whorl of smoke and wind-thrown swath of leaves pulled from a dream and placed methodically before our eyes.
  26. A Fantastic Woman
    Superficial when it means to be elliptical and regressive in its attempts to promote pride and tolerance, Sebastián Lelio’s film is beautiful but vacant, the type of melodrama that reminds us that they shouldn’t always make them like they used to.
  27. 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.
  28. Braven
    Lin Oeding’s action thriller thrives on both the beauty of its natural, snowbound surroundings and the brutal instincts of man.
  29. The Last Family
    The film tends to literalize its theme of unfulfilled desire by having characters explicitly lament their lost pasts.
  30. A Ciambra
    First the film inhabits the eye of a storm—which is to say, the storm of Italy’s wretched peripheries—before submitting to the more ersatz cinematic will of filling Pio’s life with beginnings, middles, and ends.
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