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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. Moka
    Frédéric Mermoud's film makes an elaborate pretense of honoring the traditions of the observational procedural.
  2. Zero Motivation
    Zero Motivation is refreshingly casual in the depiction of its female-centric environment, but the freshness of its performances is often compromised by a directorial impulse to reduce the female experience to spiteful girl fights, virginal malaise, and bunk-bed antagonism.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Piano Lesson
    This film feels at times like the earnest result of a group of artists paying tribute to a great playwright rather than a fully realized work of its own.
  4. Take Me Somewhere Nice
    From beneath defensive layers of distanced comic despair emerges a sincere story about a young woman’s emotional reconciliation with her troubled place of origin.
  5. Gook
    Justin Chon fumbles the take on how his characters' anger fits into the greater landscape of a L.A. during the aftermath of the Rodney King beating.
  6. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
    The film works best when it focuses viewer attention most acutely on the story, deflecting it away from the director's manipulations.
  7. Young Hearts
    The film truthfully hints at the sharp whirs behind the smooth façade of everyday life.
  8. Rumours
    The film is winningly defined by its peculiar admixture of national pride and self-deprecation.
  9. The Seduction of Mimi
    The Seduction of Mimi is socio-political discourse, Italian style: Sex speaks louder than words on any given subject.
  10. What Will People Say
    The film flirts with miserablism, but it counterbalances the direness of its main character's situation with moments of levity.
  11. How to Make Money Selling Drugs
    The film employs a flashy text-and-graphics aesthetic that immediately brings to mind the satirical undercurrent of a Grand Theft Auto video game.
  12. The Trip to Greece
    The series’s ambient preoccupation with death is foregrounded more than ever before with this film’s main dramatic subplot.
  13. Gabriel and the Mountain
    The film seems to think that the mere recognition of Gabriel as a narcissist sufficiently complicates the character's sense of entitlement.
  14. Moffie
    Oliver Hermanus’s film is a rumination on the consequences of apartheid on those who benefit from it most.
  15. Chronicle
    Offers up little more than a tired morality play about the dangers of power, rehashing stale insights about the narcissism of the documentary impulse.
  16. Arthur Christmas
    A yuletide fable that boasts Aardman Animation's peerless mix of whip-smart comedy and cheery heart.
  17. The Other Dream Team
    Made with considerable reverence, but it doesn't quite manage to tow a tricky tonal line that's required when working with such sensitive and complicated material.
  18. Into the Woods
    This PG-rated romp is, refreshingly, less notable for its happily-ever-afters than its oh-no-they-didn'ts.
  19. Chronic
    A dour and withholding character study, Michel Franco's film invites more questions than it’s willing to answer.
  20. The Outlaw Josey Wales
    The remnants of war are fractious and far-flung in Clint Eastwood's impressive revisionist western.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Experiment in Terror
    Credit the film’s modest virtues to Edwards’s undeniable verve as a visual stylist. Still, with a running time slightly over two hours, Experiment in Terror is a bit too protracted to count as an unqualified success.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Messiah of Evil
    Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz’s eerily brooding Messiah of Evil remains an undervalued gem of American gothic filmmaking.
  23. What They Had
    What They Had gracefully coasts on its patient observations of one family’s dynamics, but once the third act hits, Elizabeth Chomko goes about neatly tidying up seemingly every loose end.
  24. Blue Jay
    Mark Duplass and Sarah Paulson have extraordinary chemistry, painting a cumulative portrait of the fragility and rareness of being truly in sync with a partner.
  25. I Used to Be Darker
    The songs performed here function as the creative end point of emotional trauma, revealing pain gradually transfigured into art.
  26. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
    The film is packed with mirthful pranksterism, a vigorous anti-authoritarian streak, and literal potty humor.
  27. Predestination
    The film effectively underlines the one undertaking that time-travel fantasies can never truly allow: escape from ourselves.
  28. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
    It’s a giddy, diabolical, and terminally underappreciated sequel to the film that made Joe Dante’s career.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
    As thorough as the filmmakers are in providing a political context for Fishbone, they're often reduced to tunnel vision in an attempt to lift the unheralded band to its rightful place in music history.
  30. Asako I & II
    Like Happy Hour, Asako I & II is a parable of the grace — and, yes, happiness — that spring from resignation.
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