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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. The Dinner
    The film is shrilly, luridly, dully, and unremittingly ugly, preaching to a choir that it also demonizes.
  2. A Woman's Life
    The choice of low-grade, handheld digital images further reduces the film to the clichés of revisionist literary filmmaking.
  3. Like Crazy
    Restless, at times even chaotic, the film often seems to be replicating the experience of having a manic episode.
  4. Burden
    The film dispenses with sensationalism, engaging with Chris Burden's most notorious work on its own terms.
  5. Risk
    Laura Poitras doesn't indulge in score-settling cheap shots, but seriously grapples with her contradictory subject.
  6. Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
    The film is intended to be placed at the altar of Julian Schnabel, an artist so singular that words simply fail.
  7. The Circle
    The film is a hokily melodramatic rise-fall-redemption story with a mostly unearned patina of greater significance.
  8. Rupture
    It attempts to dress up torture-porn tropes with a late-inning switch to science fiction that spectacularly backfires.
  9. The Lovers
    Azazel Jacobs’s film takes some shrewd steps to update the comedy of remarriage for the age of the smartphone.
  10. Sleight
    Sleight never shows much interest in exploring how blackness can inform its genre's tropes.
  11. Obit
    The film ascribes to a conventionally contrapuntal take on the lives of those who spend all day surrounded by death.
  12. Voice from the Stone
    In none of its manifestations is grief as tidy and meticulously arranged as in Eric D. Howell's film.
  13. One Week and a Day
    The film is a comedy that depicts the difficult period of transition from mourning back into normal life.
  14. Buster's Mal Heart
    Writer-director Sarah Adina Smith's film confuses narrative gimmickry for the sensitive evocation of an inner life.
  15. Manifesto
    The film’s visceral pleasures often work at cross purposes with the cerebral message of the manifestos.
  16. Unforgettable
    The truly depressing thing about a thriller as undercoocked as Unforgettable is its failure to fly on dark fantasy.
  17. Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont's formalism is presently charged with a spark of simultaneously controlled and spontaneous mystery.
  18. Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
    Lydia Tenaglia's direction is occasionally flashy and cluttered, but her empathy for Tower is evocative and poignant.
  19. The Promise
    The Promise simply turns this historical tragedy into mere background noise for a flimsy romantic triangle.
  20. Sand Castle
    Unwittingly perhaps, the film reveals itself as a microcosm of America's foreign policy in the Middle East.
  21. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
    This is a sports tale in which the character building has almost nothing to do with the sport.
  22. Fast Five
    From unique to generic, it's a gear-shift that may prolong the franchise's life (a mid-credits coda confirms that a sixth installment is on its way), but, in the process, also renders it redundant.
  23. Free Fire
    Ben Wheatley's film reduces the modus operandi of the action movie down to its starkest elements.
  24. A Quiet Passion
    A Quiet Passion's accomplishment is in fleshing out the stark context behind Emily Dickinson's ethereal words.
  25. The Fate of the Furious
    The film finally tips the franchise over from modestly thoughtful stupidity into tedious, loud inanity.
  26. Born in China
    The film is neatly organized around not only the changing of the seasons, but a Disney-branded "circle of life" ethos.
  27. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    Writer-director Joseph Cedar charts Norman's rise-and-fall arc with the attention to detail of a procedural.
  28. Little Boxes
    The film's default mode is to lazily skewer suburbanites as cartoonishly privileged yuppies.
  29. Mimosas
    Mimosas confounds its surface narrative with intimations of more layered meanings to come through a jockeying of story threads.
  30. Heal the Living
    The film allows the sorrows of losing a life and the joys of saving it to remain congruent.
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