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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. Glory
    The film's rough-hewn naturalism belies an exquisite sense of pace and a sneaky breed of gallows humor.
  2. Going in Style
    No one in Going in Style seems to really know what the hell they’re doing or why. And even though that goes double for the filmmakers, at least no one succumbs to taking any of it seriously.
  3. Gifted
    The grace notes are crowded out by the screenplay’s plot machinations and emotional manipulations.
  4. Queen of the Desert
    Throughout Queen of the Desert's narrative, there's no sense of danger, of texture, or even of a rudimentary idea of what's truly driving Gertrude Bell.
  5. All These Sleepless Nights
    Director Michal Marczak's film finds a unique vitality in its densely constructed environment.
  6. Aftermath
    The film evokes nothing more strongly than a live-action adaptation of a Crate and Barrel catalog.
  7. i hate myself :)
    Few documentarians give themselves to their work as literally as Joanna Arnow.
  8. Your Name.
    Even at its most outrageously bizarre, Your Name is bound together by a passionately romantic core.
  9. Win It All
    There's an artisanal scruffiness to Win It All that testifies to Joe Swanberg’s quiet fluidity as a filmmaker.
  10. The Transfiguration
    The film is at its strongest when navigating the story's uneasy relationship to its genre.
  11. Their Finest
    Intimately focusing on its main character's personal triumphs, its refusing to fall into heavy-handed polemicism.
  12. The Ticket
    The Ticket abandons the potentially complex web of drama it initially sets up and moves toward a limp, shallow critique of superficiality itself.
  13. Smurfs: The Lost Village
    It's content to be the sort of film parents can throw on an iPad to ensure 90 minutes' worth of relative peace and quiet away from their antic children.
  14. SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock
    Throughout, the content and tenor of certain stories told by Mick Rock ambitiously inform the film’s style.
  15. Salt and Fire
    Salt and Fire is a doodle, suggesting an assemblage of ecological riffs and fantasias that Werner Herzog may have entertained while making Into the Inferno.
  16. Mine
    The film has absolutely no interest in the dilemmas or after-effects of war and occupation.
  17. Colossal
    When the film's whirligig plotline goes off-rail in the heady final act, Oscar and Gloria's origin story bends over backward to justify a magical-realist conceit that was more fun without explanation.
  18. The Assignment
    Walter Hill and Michelle Rodriguez seem to share Frank’s confusion over the precise difference between cosmetic and biological reality.
  19. Ghost in the Shell
    The primary pleasure of the film resides in its awareness of the impossibilities of unity, whether physical or cultural, within a rapidly transforming global milieu.
  20. Life
    Life, an incredibly square and familiar studio product, baits and switches on two disappointing propositions, moving swiftly from something expectedly cliché to something dismayingly derivative.
  21. The Boss Baby
    Every Republican regime gets the ludicrous devious-baby saga it deserves.
  22. Carrie Pilby
    The film is essentially an exercise in forcing a female genius back into her proper place of dependence on both the father figure and the Prince Charming.
  23. The Blackcoat's Daughter
    Oz Perkins exhibits a committed understanding of the cinematic value of silence and of vastly underpopulated compositions.
  24. The Death of Louis XIV
    Catalan prankster Albert Serra's film ultimately emerges as a compact, improbably riveting viewing experience.
  25. God Knows Where I Am
    Though the film excels at subjectivity and interiority, it tends to falter in conveying more rudimentary information.
  26. The Zookeeper's Wife
    The film imbues a pessimistic view of the seemingly bottomless depths of human cruelty with sorrowful tragic force.
  27. All This Panic
    There's plenty of life in this honest, impressionistic portrait of a cohort of 21st-century American girls.
  28. Cézanne et Moi
    The film barely even scratches the surface of the animating force of Cézanne and Zola's lives: their art.
  29. Live Cargo
    The faces in Logan Sandler's film, like the landscapes of the paradise setting, only convey an empty sort of ambiguity.
  30. David Lynch: The Art Life
    Throughout the documentary, the undisguised regret and longing of David Lynch's reminiscences are often startling.
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