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For 7,767 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 6.2 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: 4,344 out of 7767
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7767
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7767
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  1. Fight or Flight
    Dramatic moments create tonal stutters that prevent the film from becoming the unhinged Looney Tune that it wants to be.
  2. Another Simple Favor
    The first film was divided against itself—half a typically broad Paul Feig comedy, half imitation Gone Girl—and the sequel doesn’t fare much better as a genuine thriller.
  3. When Boys Leave Home
    Its bizarre melding of moral-panic melodrama with the filmmaker’s signature wrong-man theme is fascinating.
  4. Thunderbolts*
    Faced with oblivion, our third- and fourth-string MCU characters choose life, all while the film hammers home that there’s no reason why they should.
  5. The Gullspång Miracle
    The film is a philosophical account of the shaky ground that human existence stands on.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Vulcanizadora
    Joel Potrykus looks without flinching at the ultimate consequences of permanent adolescence.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bonjour Tristesse
    The film finds a state of grace in that torrential pull between the familiar and the new.
  8. Until Dawn
    The film is far from original, but it successfully translates game logic to the big screen.
  9. Havoc
    If the rest of it had been as driven by such a ferocious sense of purpose as its final act, Havoc would be one of the finest action movies of the decade so far.
  10. On Swift Horses
    It’s difficult to shake that there’s something tragic blaring from the sidelines that the film’s wistful, pitch-perfect Hollywood ending can’t acknowledge.
  11. The Accountant 2
    As The Accountant 2 drags out to over two hours, and its two storylines remain tonally at war with one another, it becomes increasingly clear that, two films in, this series still hasn’t figured out exactly what it wants to be.
  12. Sinners
    Sinners is one of the most distinctive, confident mainstream films of the modern era, but it nonetheless leaves an audience with the tacit reminder of the limits of art to set one free in a system that profits as much off its exploitation as that of manual labor.
  13. The Virgin of the Quarry Lake
    Laura Casabé abstracts the typical emotions of tortured teens, only to then amplify them.
  14. Invention
    Courtney Stephens’s film blends fiction and autobiography to fascinating implications.
  15. Gunslingers
    In the end, Nicolas Cage can only do so much to bring this hastily assembled oater to life.
  16. Direct Action
    We sorely need documentaries like Direct Action that can show not only the real leverage that militant mass movements can exert, but how that power can be redirected from protest to the building of autonomous communities and back again.
  17. The Amateur
    The Amateur is a relaxed and pleasurable throwback to the spy pulp of the 1970s and ’80s, yet told with a (mostly) honest appraisal of the C.I.A.’s ethical failings.
  18. Sacramento
    The film’s strength is that it knows how to keep things moving.
  19. A Minecraft Movie
    There’s a self-reflexivity to the game’s artifact-y textures that’s lost in this film adaptation, where the finely detailed look of just about everything says nothing in itself about the endless possibilities of a digital world’s malleability.
  20. Eric Larue
    While the film features a strong performance from Judy Greer, it’s essentially a patchwork of broad strokes that rarely feel like they’re bringing its world to credible life.
  21. When Fall Is Coming
    The film is a bit too muddled to bring its main character fully into focus, despite Hélène Vincent’s best efforts to do so.
  22. Gazer
    The main character’s condition feels like a dramatically dubious attempt to shroud the somewhat spindly nature of the film’s plot.
  23. Freaky Tales
    For all of its spiritedness, Freaky Tales wants for the sense of invention that defines the films that it references and whose moves it often falls back on borrowing.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Henry Fonda for President
    If Fonda was an avatar of American liberalism’s tolerance and self-scrutiny, the film suggests, so, too, does he represent its complicity in the nation’s sins and its failure to change its course in the direction of justice.
  25. Drowning Dry
    Drowning Dry offers something akin to a cinematic concussion as it begins warping the experience of time.
  26. Warfare
    This is a formidable technical showcase and obsessive forensic recreation whose imposed formal limitations become meaning-making ends in and of themselves.
  27. The Woman in the Yard
    The film is a slow-burning tale of very real traumas suffered by a woman far out of her element and forced to process a tragedy on top of it all.
  28. A Working Man
    David Ayer’s film proceeds as an unambiguous celebration of its hero’s vigilantism.
  29. The Friend
    Hardly a false note is sounded throughout The Friend, but it operates within such a limited emotional range that it drifts into monotonic plainsong.
  30. Holy Cow
    The rhythms and structure of Holy Cow embody the swirling confusion and contradictions of adolescence itself.
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