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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. Yourself and Yours
    Yourself and Yours‘s commitment to its various extreme ambiguities is a crucial facet of the film’s success.
  2. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
    Unimaginatively directed and indifferently shot, the film never establishes a distinctive voice for itself.
  3. The Son of Joseph
    The insistence of Green’s gaze throughout the film encourages us to look beyond the mechanisms of speech and behavior at the more uncanny movements of the conscience.
  4. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
    The film buzzes with hand-drawn creativity that's precious in both the pop-cultural and material senses.
  5. Phantasm IV: Oblivion
    The freewheeling atmosphere of dread more than make up for the incoherence, but Phantasm IV: Oblivion at times feels like an expensive, 35mm home movie made by some kids in their backyard.
  6. The Great Gilly Hopkins
    Glenn Close's face teems with a flawlessly controlled gravitas that’s completely at odds with the film’s ordinariness.
  7. Theo Who Lived
    Theo Who Lived is fascinating, and Theo Padnos is an exacting storyteller, but the film pushes through one story point to the next, occasionally prizing velocity over texture.
  8. The Girl on the Train
    It forgoes its promise of twisty adult thrills in favor of a grimly deadpan lecture about messy truths and false perceptions.
  9. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
    Throughout his nearly six-hour documentary, Abbas Fahdel is content with showing only the outer surface of people's lives.
  10. Toni Erdmann
    By its end, Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann is a work of laser-guided social critique and a comedy.
  11. London Town
    The film evinces a clear-eyed sense of the limits that a capitalistic society places on its working class.
  12. 37
    There's a fundamental lack of dramatic exigency in writer-director Puk Grasten's storytelling.
  13. Newtown
    Its enervated address of both mental-health treatment and gun laws receives few constructive articulations beyond a single scene.
  14. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan's film gradually comes to its sense of exquisitely calibrated, hardened intimacy.
  15. The Greasy Strangler
    It aims for John Waters-style transgression without evincing half of Waters’s wit and affection for eccentric lifestyles.
  16. Blue Jay
    Mark Duplass and Sarah Paulson have extraordinary chemistry, painting a cumulative portrait of the fragility and rareness of being truly in sync with a partner.
  17. The Birth of a Nation
    Nate Parker strains to control the strange and stirring complications of his subject's visionary apocalypticism.
  18. Being 17
    André Téchiné does justice to the closeness between repulsion and desire, difference and sameness, heterosexuality and homosexuality.
  19. 13th
    As with Selma, filmmaker Ava DuVernay has fashioned a work of pummeling and clear-eyed intelligence.
  20. Masterminds
    Jared Hess's film turns out to be a succession of failed jokes punctuated by a few cathartic laughs.
  21. Julieta
    Pedro Almodóvar’s object-oriented approach ends up blocking off the deeper emotional access that Alice Munro's stories so effortlessly attain.
  22. Girl Asleep
    From the overtly vibrant colors to the caricaturesque dimensions of the performances, the film's aesthetic promises a great allegorical message that never arrives.
  23. Certain Women
    The threat of feeling slighted links every small and large ripple of drama in Kelly Reichardt's film.
  24. I, Daniel Blake
    It's pock-marked by the conservative dramatic conventions and broad political gestures that have marred much of Ken Loach's recent output.
  25. Tharlo
    In the logic of the film, for the camera to move at all would feel like a betrayal of its contemplative hunger.
  26. Denial
    Denial shows that people’s misfortunes need not preclude them from living virtuous lives founded on basic human decency.
  27. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
    The film captures our world as systematic yet miraculous, evolving toward more elaborate and resilient forms.
  28. Long Way North
    Even if Long Way North's narrative makes for a bland frame, there’s no denying the beauty of the picture it holds.
  29. American Honey
    This is a patchwork dystopia of white poverty whose facets are both difficult to deny and to prove exist precisely as depicted.
  30. A Man Called Ove
    It's emotionally manipulative, but its two leads find a core of humanity even in the most calculating plot machinations.
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