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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. A Kind of Murder
    The film seems more interested in its art design then in fully developing the story's underlying sexual ethics.
  2. Ghostland: The View of the Ju/’hoansi
    The film’s nagging representational problem stems from its reductive sense of place and portraiture of emotional displacement, which gradually phases out the possibility of thornier revelations.
  3. Solace
    It joylessly coopts the hoariest stylistic tics and narrative tropes from your run-of-the-mill 1990s thriller.
  4. Hidden Figures
    The central characters' dogged refusal to cede their places on a team that keeps trying to reject them is a moving display of heroism.
  5. The Founder
    Michael Keaton's powerful performance in The Founder is marooned in a wishy-washy story.
  6. Frank & Lola
    The film occasionally benefits from the weird energy shared between Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots.
  7. Office Christmas Party
    Josh Gordon and Will Speck's Office Christmas Party generally smacks of trying too hard to earn its laughs.
  8. The Brand New Testament
    At first, the film’s dark humor is amusing, only for it to wear off once an actual plot kicks into motion.
  9. On the Map
    It captures how sports can bring wholly disparate people together to accomplish feats that change the destiny of nations.
  10. La La Land
    Every element of La La Land is bound up in a referentiality that largely precludes the outpourings of emotion we come to musicals for.
  11. Harry Benson: Shoot First
    While it offers ample opportunity to admire Benson's body of work, it provides few aesthetic delights of its own.
  12. Burn Country
    For a film that warns against believing in a mirage, Burn Country seems all too comfortable perpetuating one.
  13. All We Had
    Katie Holmes's feature-length directorical debut is more earnest than remarkable, but with its heart in the right place.
  14. Old Stone
    Johnny Ma's Old Stone is a lean, nasty entry in a subgenre that could be termed the bureaucratic noir.
  15. Pet
    The screenplay quickly loses this moral clarity as the plot twists pile up and the power balances shift.
  16. Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)
    What the film embodies, unfortunately, the listlessness of its slacker characters.
  17. Lost and Beautiful
    When he's not busy lamenting a bygone past, Marcello more broadly and usefully reminds us of a world beyond our own and a time beyond the present, all of which can be easy to forget in a country as full of political and economic turmoil as present-day Italy.
  18. Patriots Day
    As long as Patriots Day is concerned with recreating the sense of ambient chaos among sparring investigators and an anxious community, it’s immersive and thrilling.
  19. Man Down
    Dito Montiel's silly plot machinations waste a solid performance from Shia LaBeouf.
  20. Jackie
    Pablo Larraín's film bluntly hammers home the notion that history is framed by perception rather than reality.
  21. Best and Most Beautiful Things
    It believes that the avenue to proving humanity is through banalizing gestures of quotidian significance.
  22. Two Trains Runnin'
    Sam Pollard's documentary teeters on reaching a higher plane of meaning simply through the efficiency of its information.
  23. Bobby Sands: 66 Days
    Brendan J. Byrne's documentary about Bobby Sands colors its familiar formal lines with welcome intelligence.
  24. The Eyes of My Mother
    Though the film strives to be audacious and galvanizing, it's easily shaken off as an exercise in stunted necrophilia erotica.
  25. Lion
    Lion's faults of structure and pacing might limit its power, but in stretches it still roars.
  26. Moana
    Compared to your average Disney princesses, Moana is neither selfishly rebellious nor simplistically innocent.
  27. Seasons
    Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud's Seasons is a nature documentary that reveals itself as a story of tragic usurpation.
  28. Mifune: The Last Samurai
    In many ways, Toshirô Mifune the man remains just as mysterious after watching Steven Okazaki's film as he was before.
  29. Allied
    In the film, Robert Zemeckis brings to bear his pop-epic scope in what's otherwise a claustrophobic story.
  30. Baden Baden
    The film plays like it's been methodically configured to snuff out an even marginal indulgence of its characters' emotions.
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