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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 6.3 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. The Dancer
    Like Loïe Fuller's serpentine dance, the film is structured on repetition: spinning and spinning but never actually taking us nowhere.
  2. Naples '44
    It’s far too scattershot, bouncing from one topic to the next with the carelessness of someone flipping through a book and reading from a random page.
  3. The Tribes of Palos Verdes
    The unvaried register of the filmmaking leads the narrative to feel aimless and dramatically inert.
  4. The Man Who Invented Christmas
    Since “humbug” is already spoken for by Ebenezer Scrooge, “opportunistic” would be the most apt word for The Man Who Invented Christmas.
  5. Antiporno
    Sion Sono, allergic to subtlety, is terrified that we won't notice his detonation of Nikkatsu's sexploitation traditions.
  6. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
    The film curiously steers toward surmising Hedy Lamarr's psychological state as it pertained to love and pleasure.
  7. Brimstone & Glory
    Through its energy and inherent beauty, Brimstone & Glory hits concurrent notes of peril and bliss, but even at a scant 67 minutes it can seem a bit aimless and scattershot.
  8. Coco
    The film brings Pixar's customary emotional directness to a festive, reverent, and wide-ranging pastiche of Mexican culture.
  9. The Star
    Director Timothy Reckart's The Star turns the greatest story ever told into just another kids' movie.
  10. Wonder
    The film has an almost pathological need to ensure that everything turns out well for every single character, while at the same time eliding any truly difficult issues.
  11. Justice League
    When the film's tone slides so firmly back into the murk, it's hard not to see DC's notion of heroism as borderline nihilistic.
  12. Wet Woman in the Wind
    Akihiko Shiota's sketch-like scenes have an eccentric and volatile intensity, as the filmmaker stages subtly theoretical moments that still allow for spontaneity.
  13. The Breadwinner
    Cross-dressing in the story is merely a tool for survival, but such border-crossing is inevitably rife with unintended consequences beyond narrative ones.
  14. Sweet Virginia
    Sweet Virginia doesn’t have much of a point, as its characters are reductive variables in an inevitable equation of carnage.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Song of Granite
    It's funny that the film spends so much time caught up in Joe Heaney's feelings of displacement, because it produces a similar sensation in viewers by forgoing the work of narrative and character development in favor of a stark, elliptical style that becomes tiresome.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
    The film is about the idea of Andy Kaufman, about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive.
  19. Daddy's Home 2
    The film portrays parenting as the death of manhood, a final surrender to the castrating effects of domesticity.
  20. I Love You, Daddy
    It’s as exhilaratingly honest and unshackled a work as many have come to expect from this auteur of cringe comedy, one that foresees, absorbs, and responds to all possible bile that might be directed its way, knowing full well of the muck it dredges up.
  21. Porto
    It grapples with emotional enigma of infatuation, and the question of how such a mighty force can also be so fleeting.
  22. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Throughout the film, a promising character study is smothered beneath lazy genre machinations.
  23. Murder on the Orient Express
    Once the film gets to the Orient Express, it's as if Kenneth Branagh is always itching to get off of it, even having Hercule Poirot at one point look over a list of names while standing atop the train for no discernible reason, except perhaps to enjoy the way the sun peeks out between two distant mountain peaks.
  24. A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
    The film is an interminable saga full of soap-operatic plot twists involving quickly broken marriages, sexual assault, a secret porn career, terminal illness, and a quasi lesbian love affair.
  25. Bitch
    Initially offbeat, Bitch awkwardly pivots toward a more inspirational story of regret and reconciliation.
  26. As You Are
    The outline of Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s As You Are is certainly well-worn, but this coming-of-age film nonetheless stands out for its nuanced sense of detail and the sympathy it extends to its main characters.
  27. Flesh and Blood
    Mark Webber's stripped-down approach renders the messy, unglamorous lives at the film's center with dignity.
  28. Mayhem
    Like so many shoot-‘em-up video games that repeatedly break for cutscenes, the film too often diffuses its tense energy by whipping up context.
  29. Princess Cyd
    Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd is distinguished by a dramatic complexity that would seem to run counter to its remarkably even-tempered tone.
  30. A Gray State
    Erik Nelson's film straddles a fine and admirable line between lurid sensationalism and sober humanism.
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