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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. Stray Bullets
    What distinguishes Stray Bullets from so many other low-budget crime films is Jack Fessenden's sense of quietness.
  2. The LEGO Batman Movie
    The film is an unbroken chain of one-liners, sight gags, and pop-culture references, and the hit-to-miss ratio is high.
  3. The Island Funeral
    The film rolls political commentary into the template of a “lost highway” horror film by forgoing ironic distancing.
  4. A United Kingdom
    The Amma Asante film's broade sociopolitical overview is balanced by the intimate attention paid to the leads.
  5. Keep Quiet
    The filmmakers astutely reveal how a culture can eat another alive and somehow live with itself.
  6. Kedi
    Ceyda Torun’s Kedi is an open, tender-hearted meditation on the relationship between felines and humans.
  7. Rings
    Rings is unsure as to whether it’s a sequel to the other entries in the series or a contemporary reboot.
  8. The Space Between Us
    The Space Between Us is simply disappointing when it isn’t trying to browbeat its audience into emotional submission.
  9. Eloise
    Robert Legato's film is lifelessly composed of the usual tropes of horror films set in mental asylums.
  10. War on Everyone
    The film is in love with the tropes it ridicules, and it doesn't take long for that love to dwarf any possibility of critique.
  11. The Lure
    Agnieszka Smoczynska's film is most poignant when it simply stares at its own strangeness.
  12. Youth in Oregon
    Joel David Moore's film is too often distracted by irrelevant emotional grandstanding.
  13. Wheeler
    Ryan Ross's Wheeler is at its strongest as a showcase for Stephen Dorff’s husky, lived-in performance.
  14. Don't Knock Twice
    The film's storylines fail to inform or intensify each other in any theme-deepening or character-developing ways.
  15. The Comedian
    Nearly everything in Taylor Hackford's tin-eared comedy is as ersatz as the Robert De Diro character's rage is real.
  16. I Am Not Your Negro
    The film makes no concessions about its dissatisfaction with the whole rotten lot of so-called western democracy.
  17. Dark Night
    Tim Sutton's film often surprises on the micro level, but its broader execution gives reason for pause.
  18. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
    The Resident Evil films are so unconcerned with traditional character and narrative that they suggest either abstract art or the fevered brainstorming of a child at play.
  19. A Dog's Purpose
    Lasse Hallström's gooey film exists only to offer comforting reassurances about dogs' natural servility.
  20. I Am Michael
    Justin Kelly's film is more interested in rushing through the narrative's events than contemplating their environment.
  21. The Daughter
    It too often strains for a tragic gravity that its ultimately melodramatic characters never earn.
  22. Gold
    The film finds no treasure of gleaming originality in its energetically told but crushingly clichéd anti-capitalist parable.
  23. The Salesman
    Asghar Farhadi's film yields a tonal and emotional friction that's simultaneously tragic, transcendent, and comic.
  24. Donald Cried
    Finding the drama and humor in everyday situations like these isn't easy, but Avedisian makes it look as natural as swinging on a vine.
  25. xXx: Return of Xander Cage
    Quibbles dissipate in the face of the giddiness of the action, which builds to such a relentless head that even the serious stakes of the film’s motivation give way to a largely pleasant vibe.
  26. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo
    Very few films accept the contradicting velocities of gay desire, and present them in such blunt yet graceful fashion, the way Paris 05:59 does.
  27. Split
    Split is personal and outlandish, with questionable themes, riveting plotting, somber storytelling, and elegant construction.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    We Are the Flesh
    The film establishes a hypnotic rhythm through razor-stropped editing and a reverberant sound design that later scenes will disrupt with alarming impunity.
  29. Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
    Cohen here is ever the model of grace and dignity around his peers, if not exactly entirely at peace with himself.
  30. Starless Dreams
    Mehrdad Oskouei avoids sentimentalizing the girls or tritely lamenting their stolen innocence.
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