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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. Karl Marx City
    Petra Epperlein's personal ties to the subject matter provides the documentary with a necessary anchor point.
  2. Saban's Power Rangers
    Power Rangers is so concerned with launching a mature teen-targeted franchise that it often forgets to have some fun.
  3. Prevenge
    Alice Lowe evinces a knack for locating society’s most awkward pressure points, and a willingness to punch them.
  4. Wilson
    Wilson lurches jarringly from poignant melancholy to cartoonish slapstick, unable to settle on a consistent tone.
  5. I, Olga Hepnarová
    The filmmakers take few measures to engender sympathy for Olga, but their prismatic take on her life, while novel, precludes making any resonant statements about homosexuality, emotional health, or humankind’s capacity for evil.
  6. A Woman, a Part
    The film’s depiction of friendship seldom pushes past insights predicated on a fundamental tension between characters.
  7. I Called Him Morgan
    Director Kasper Collins imbues this documentary with an ambiguous, unsettlingly empathetic emotional force.
  8. Song to Song
    The film is about floating along on currents of uncertain desire and excitement, overthinking your own indulgence in these whims, and then sometime later on down the road, through no clear constellation of reasons, recognizing that a real human connection was squandered in the haze of all that self-exploration.
  9. Lady Macbeth
    It isn't until its final moments that Lady Macbeth turns into the kind of meaningless, mean-spirited, and proudly irredeemable non-character study that likens it to, say, last year's emptily foreboding Childhood of a Leader.
  10. T2 Trainspotting
    The heart of T2 lies in the relationship between Renton and Sick Boy, but their rocky reunion is another victim both to the wheel-spinning innate in Hodge’s script and Boyle’s relative lack of fresh ideas.
  11. By the Time It Gets Dark
    Anocha Suwichakornpong earnestly and ambitiously attempts to redefine cinema’s conventional grasp of consciousness.
  12. Beach Rats
    Beach Rats is most compelling when it puts a self-aware focus on Harris Dickinson’s sculpted male figure.
  13. After the Storm
    The stock character types that Hirokazu Kore-eda employs across the board are pretty much open books from the start.
  14. The Wound
    Though the film settles into a familiar coming-of-age trajectory, it's always enlivened by John Trengove's intimate, inquiring eye.
  15. Frantz
    The pacing is so humorless and funereal that it squelches the possibility of heat or conflict arising between the characters.
  16. The Belko Experiment
    The film's characters are stock types without enough satirical texture to fulfill their function in the narrative.
  17. Menashe
    Striking throughout are the seemingly caught-on-the-wing moments that subtly enrichen the film’s characterizations.
  18. The Sense of an Ending
    Ritesh Batra's film is a tale of white nostalgia that should have found its footing on dramatic grounds.
  19. Kong: Skull Island
    Every creature here that's intended to burrow themselves into the audience’s nightmares are less wonders of imagination than of size.
  20. My Scientology Movie
    The only element that significantly differentiates this documentary from its peers is Louis Theroux's good-natured cheekiness.
  21. The Ottoman Lieutenant
    More conspicuous than its rote melodrama is the way the film elides the concurrent genocide of ethnic Armenians by Ottoman forces.
  22. Brimstone
    Its bid for social correctness does nothing to make the juvenile and numbing fixation on brutality any more palatable.
  23. White Sun
    Deepak Rauniyar may be more skilled dramatist than inspired image-maker, but his admirably balanced and humane social and political perspective is bracing nevertheless.
  24. Canners
    Canners plays a bit too infatuated with its subjects and for reasons not wholly clear by the film's end.
  25. Actor Martinez
    Mike Ott and Nathan Silver's film has a ghostly, tremulous quality that eats under the skin.
  26. Who's Crazy? (1966)
    Thomas White's is a bizarre, undisciplined romp through snowbound Belgian vistas and '60s signifiers alike.
  27. The Other Half
    The film's emotional resonance is consistently stifled by excessively gloomy aesthetic and stylistic tics.
  28. Patti Cake$
    The obstacles and opportunities that Patti encounters are often rote, but her struggles and triumphs are detailed with a gravity that honors and elucidates her feelings.
  29. Raw
    Throughout Raw, Julia Ducournau exhibits a clinical pitilessness that’s reminiscent of the body-horror films of David Cronenberg.
  30. Suntan
    Argyris Papadimitropoulos struggles to lift his material out of a downbeat mode of cringe comedy.
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