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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. Long Strange Trip
    The film plays like one of the Grateful Dead's seminal concerts: protracted and digressive, yet intricate in its design.
  2. Berlin Syndrome
    Until its hasty climax, Cate Shortland's film is rewardingly patient and psychologically cogent.
  3. Everything, Everything
    The film's plot crux isn't romantic fatalism, but 2017's cutest manifestation of trendy gaslighting.
  4. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
    Steve James is clearly positioning the film as a rallying cry, and its weaknesses as art might bolster its strength as reformatory theater.
  5. Icaros: A Vision
    The film has a calming and inevitable quality, and a leisurely sense of pacing that favors image and sound over narrative propulsion, that slows our own biorhythms, fostering our sensorial empathy with the passengers.
  6. The Woman Who Left
    It suffers by resembling arty, didactic bloat when it most begs for a more sophisticated dramatic touch.
  7. Paint It Black
    It combines the brooding intensity of a slow-burn thriller with the high-flown ornamentation of a gothic melodrama.
  8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
    The film's problem isn't so much the grossness of its humor as the laziness with which it's executed.
  9. The Commune
    The Thomas Vinterberg film's sentimentality is suspect, laced with an intriguing but vague strain of bitterness.
  10. Wakefield
    Writer-director Robin Swicord's film seems content to merely carry out its absurdist premise until the bitter end.
  11. Afterimage
    Andrzej Wajda's film is a lean, unwavering look at the effects of artistic idealism in the face of fascist doctrine.
  12. Alien: Covenant
    The only saving grace of the film's mostly recycled horrors is how they deepen Michael Fassbender's android David.
  13. The Challenge
    Here the organic and the frivolously material aren't oppositions or rivals, but partners in a spectacle for men's eyes only.
  14. Violet
    Devos's impressive debut bores into the mourning process and its piquant combination of emotional numbness and sensory vulnerability, rigorously avoiding finding an easy way out of this quagmire.
  15. Snatched
    The mother-daughter relationship ostensibly at the film’s heart is largely reduced to tired jokes about how moms can be overprotective and don’t understand how to use Facebook.
  16. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    For all the attempts to update King Arthur to be cool and sexy, neither the character nor the film around him musters any spark.
  17. The Drowning
    If there’s anything worth mulling over about The Drowning, it's the way it proffers the East Coast couple as an inevitably miserable institution without really meaning to.
  18. Hounds of Love
    Hounds of Love builds to a crescendo that earns its emotional catharsis while staying true to its roots as a truly chilling and intense thriller.
  19. The Wedding Plan
    Rama Burshtein allows us to form our own impressions based on what she presents to us of the Orthodox faith.
  20. Elián
    It has the decency to recognize that only Elián González has the right to define his sense of truth for himself.
  21. The Wall
    The Wall packs a surprisingly savage punch by boiling the exploits of battle down to its essential elements.
  22. Paris Can Wait
    The film leaves the lasting impression of a story that takes place in its own elitist and hermetically sealed world.
  23. Folk Hero & Funny Guy
    In the film's best scenes, Jeff Grace displays a delicate understanding of various modes of male fragility.
  24. Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
    The film hovers between being a straight-up biopic of Zweig and a diagnosis of neoliberalism's recent ceding to neofascist policy and nationalistic fervor.
  25. Take Me
    Schilling and Healy never quite overcome the fact that Take Me is a suspense comedy that simply isn't very suspenseful or very funny and, just as importantly, never finds a thematic through line.
  26. 3 Generations
    The main character is too often pushed to the sidelines so that the filmmakers can indulge tired family-drama tropes.
  27. Chuck
    Like its protagonist, Philippe Falardeau's film gets lost in a haze of incidental cacophony.
  28. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    The film at one point offers the finest sustained act of emotional storytelling to grace a Marvel Studios production.
  29. Last Men in Aleppo
    Feras Fayyad's film is broadly concerned with portraying the titular Syrian city as a community of neighbors and colleagues.
  30. Ta'ang
    The film follows its refugee subjects closely but with a physical and narrative distance that respects their independence.
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