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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. Fire in Babylon
    Perhaps because the Caribbean serves as its main setting, Fire in Babylon simply can't help but take it easy.
  2. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
    The film captures Vreeland's perhaps unwitting philosophical integrity just as much as it drowns us in the exuberance of her work.
  3. This Is Not Berlin
    Hari Sama never quite manages to seamlessly sync the film’s anti-bourgeois political commitments to its soap-operatic register.
  4. The Dry
    The particulars of the central mystery are mundane, to the point where the film itself doesn’t spend too much time digging into them.
  5. What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
    The conclusion suggests the film exists to affirm the preconceived desires and perceptions of its makers.
  6. Kill It and Leave This Town
    Mariusz Wilczyński’s animation style strikes an unlikely balance between the childlike and the proficient.
  7. Blockers
    Viswanathan, Newton, and Adlon generate a bit of chemistry throughout, but it's undermined by the fundamentally mechanistic nature of Brian and Jim Kehoe's screenplay, which ultimately forces these girls' experiences into neat little scenarios that are constructed every bit as didactically as a workplace training video.
  8. La Grazia
    The relative restraint of La Grazia makes its baroque flourishes stand out all the more.
  9. Green Book
    Peter Farrelly manages to respect the severity of the characters’ social context while ensuring that Green Book never steps outside its protagonists’ relationship, a delicate balancing act that credibly makes a feel-good, effervescent comedy out of its thorny subject matter without ever sanitizing it.
  10. The Animal Kingdom
    The soft-pedaled approach to its narrative strands gives the film the feel of an extended TV pilot.
  11. White Reindeer
    What's dark and weird about Zach Clark's film is also what's tangible, authentic, and wise about it.
  12. The Mole Agent
    That Maite Alberdi’s camera itself is present in The Mole Agent as a quasi-ethical concern suits the way Sergio, as he shuffles through the home’s hallways, gradually comes to be uncomfortable with his own surveillance.
  13. Of an Age
    The ambivalence with which the film treats its main character’s revelation proves rich with complication and offers a new intervention into a genre we thought we’d fully internalized.
  14. Late Shift
    For all its empathy, Late Shift upholds the dubious virtue of self-sacrifice that underpins the Protestant work ethic.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Alps
    Both a companion piece to and in many ways a reversal of "Dogtooth," it builds on that film's surreally terse style and notions of communication and identity without diluting its singularity or concentration.
  16. Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
    A rock-doc that mythologizes the tragicomic flame out of power pop's seminal band, and the fan-made afterlife that brought them long-delayed success.
  17. The Competition
    Claire Simon knows that the best way to capture the anxiousness of a moment is to leave it unembellished.
  18. Boy Erased
    Good as Lucas Hedges is at acting the tortured teen, Jared is finally too much of a cipher for his story to really hit with the force that it should.
  19. The Changeover
    It’s this carefully managed equilibrium between the inherent preposterousness of its mystical milieu and the convincing emotional reality of Laura’s journey that ultimately makes The Changeover, for all its muddled mythos, a lively and engaging excursion into an unusually naturalistic world of magic.
  20. The Avengers
    While The Avengers exhibits exemplary craftsmanship, Joss Whedon hasn't made a great film.
  21. The Matchmaker
    The film ultimately fails to treat history as anything but a string of melodramatic reference points for moody characters haplessly trying to find love.
  22. Venus in Fur
    After years of respectable filmmaking, it's refreshing to witness a reinvigorated Roman Polanski willing to once again delve deep into seedy psychodrama.
  23. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
    The greatest gift offered by the film is an empowering world that looks less like invention and more like real life.
    • 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.
  25. Antarctica: A Year on Ice
    Anthony Powell's vision as a filmmaker is frustratingly limited to an information-style presentation that doubles as an enthusiastic advert for the transcendental qualities of the terrain.
  26. The In-Laws
    The In-Laws never makes deeper, sustained sense of its premise and seems content to revel in the more basic pleasure of seeing Falk and Arkin interact with one another.
  27. Oh Lucy!
    Atsuko Hirayanagi's feature-length directorial debut offers a surprising take on the tricky art of communication.
  28. Hide Your Smiling Faces
    Daniel Patrick Carbone's pensive style, so dotted with ethnographic detail, is interested in revealing a world in flux, but his fixation on death is so incessant that it situates the film as a morose fetish object.
  29. Dark River
    While Clio Barnard so masterfully limns her protagonist’s tortured soul, the brother-sister drama at the center of the film remains frustratingly hazy.
  30. The Times of Bill Cunningham
    The film undermines Cunningham’s egalitarianism by linking him directly with the kind of elite snobbery and wealth fixation he abhorred.
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