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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. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    The film exists resolutely outside of salience and doggedly within the comfort of escapism.
  2. Miss Sloane
    The screenplay's enigmatic nature holds one's interest throughout, even as the film veers into pat moralism.
  3. Rules Don't Apply
    Warren Beatty's portrayal of Howard Hughes has the overly polished feel of an anecdote that's been told too often.
  4. Bad Santa 2
    Both a potent rendering of and cure for the holiday blues, Bad Santa 2 shows that even the most hopeless situations can be remedied and that just about anyone is capable of redemption
  5. Ne Me Quitte Pas
    The entirety of the film seems increasingly constructed around ill-begotten attempts at dark humor.
  6. Nocturnal Animals
    Nocturnal Animals gets close to a double-barreled satirical thriller commenting on the historic rift between city and country.
  7. Notes on Blindness
    Its fatal mistake is to make up for blindness, instead of embracing it as something other than a liability.
  8. The Love Witch
    The film has an artisanal intensity that prevents it from turning into a smug and predictable exercise in political revision.
  9. The Illinois Parables
    Even more diverse than the film's historical material is its eccentric mash-up of styles and approaches.
  10. Life on the Line
    For a film about such a singular profession, Life on the Line offers surprisingly little insight into linemen's day-to-day labor.
  11. Bleed for This
    Any initial gestures toward acknowledging Vinny Paz's macho egotism are eventually downplayed as the film becomes just another formulaic triumph-over-adversity saga.
  12. Hunter Gatherer
    A deliberately offbeat characterization of mental illness, Hunter Gatherer is ultimately a failed act of empathy.
  13. The Take
    For a film so interested in the public's malleability, The Take isn't particularly good at controlling its own audience.
  14. The Monster
    The film has an eerily WTF arbitrariness that should be the domain of more films in the genre.
  15. Almost Christmas
    The film is most affecting in its simpler moments, particularly those revolving around food.
  16. Incendies
    An enormously effective piece of filmmaking, Incdendies unfolds as a series of eye-opening disclosures which Villeneuve plays as much for (admittedly enthralling) sensation as for any kind of wider-ranging inquiry, a questionable approach given the thorny nature of the material.
  17. Arrival
    The film's searching images counterpoint the hyper-articulate methodology of its characters' sense of imbalance and uncertainty.
  18. Lazy Eye
    Writer-director Tim Kirkman tries to peg depth of character on the character of Dean instead of having him earn it.
  19. Dreamland
    The sense of a film school student doing movie karaoke with his influences is evident throughout Dreamland.
  20. Come and Find Me
    Aaron Paul possesses an innate everyman quality that lends itself well to writer-director Zack Whedon's film.
  21. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
    The plaintive plain-spokenness of the interviewees, the way they matter-of-factly speak of atrocity, is transcendent and intensely haunting.
  22. Doctor Strange
    Nothing that Marvel Studios has produced can compare to the visual splendor of Scott Derrickson's Doctor Strange.
  23. My Dead Boyfriend
    Slacker that it is, the film never seems willing to put in the necessary work to live up to its potential.
  24. Rainbow Time
    Linas Phillips's contrived sense of follow-through betrays the truthfulness of his initial characterizations.
  25. Trolls
    Trolls is a flashy, pre-fab product, but the animators are given just enough space to create moments of genuine artistry.
  26. Loving
    Loving finds little grooves of humanity to explore in its characters, and in its milieu, in between expected plot beats.
  27. Don't Call Me Son
    Writer-director Anna Muylaert writes themes into excellent, controlled first acts that turn capricious by the third.
  28. Dog Eat Dog
    Paul Schrader's film scrambles for contemporary relevance and finds only nihilistic hollowness.
  29. Hacksaw Ridge
    This is a work of defiantly simplistic, classically structured Hollywood storytelling, and Mel Gibson takes to its hokey plot points with some gusto.
  30. Inferno
    It's impossible to even laugh at Inferno given how Ron Howard reduces the material to a dull spectacle of earnest puzzle-solving.
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