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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. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    Tim Burton's direction reminds us of the distinct, peculiar coyness that was always at the heart of his best films.
  2. Neruda
    Pablo Larraín has captured Pablo Neruda in all of his pomposity, pretense, courage, and undeniable genius.
  3. Moonlight
    What tends to right Moonlight, even when Barry Jenkins's filmmaking drifts into indulgence, is the strength of its actors.
  4. Staying Vertical
    The film changes gears whenever one is lulled into believing that it has finally settled into a recognizable narrative pattern.
  5. Graduation
    Cristian Mungiu's film is more than just a cry of despair toward the hopelessness of life in modern-day Romania.
  6. Do Not Resist
    Director Craig Atkinson's documentary explicates its points with blunt but persuasive efficiency.
  7. Danny Says
    It ends on a muted whimper of a note that one doesn't expect given that the film's subject is such an immensely entertaining raconteur.
  8. Things to Come
    The film is further confirmation of Mia Hansen-Løve’s delicately devastating ear and touch as a filmmaker.
  9. Paterson
    Paterson's sunny aesthetic and disposition marks a stylistic departure for writer-director Jim Jarmusch.
  10. Desierto
    Any perceptive dialogue or contemporary socio-political subtext is pummeled by Jonás Cuarón’s preference for empty genre thrills.
  11. Queen of Katwe
    The film is a mere fulfillment of familiar tropes, but it approaches sports movie's conventions with a light, funk-inflected touch.
  12. Storks
    Maybe it's not the worst thing in the world that Storks doesn't take many cues from Pixar's tear-jerking playbook.
  13. Fire at Sea
    Fire at Sea initiates a narrative that probes the fundamental gap between wanting to help and actually being able to do so.
  14. The Unknown Girl
    This is a left-footed and clumsily insistent work, exposing the worst aspects inherent to the Dardennes' style.
  15. The Lovers and the Despot
    The haphazard blending of fact and clips from disparate films unrelated to Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee's ordeal confuses an already intricate tale.
  16. Sand Storm
    Elite Zexer weaves an impressively terse narrative of distinctly motivated characters, but the film’s core remains somewhat shapeless due to the routine dramatization.
  17. Personal Shopper
    The film explores the extent to which Olivier Assayas’s characters have always found, and lost, their identities through the aid of their surroundings.
  18. Closet Monster
    It's when Stephen Dunn dares to inhabit the how and not the what of queerness that Closet Monster feels authentic and deliciously strange.
  19. Elle
    This is a film that isn’t afraid to inhabit the maddening ambivalence of pleasure, recognizing that desire simply doesn’t recognize good manners.
  20. Chronic
    A dour and withholding character study, Michel Franco's film invites more questions than it’s willing to answer.
  21. Goat
    The film's understanding of the brittleness that begets the "traditions" of frat culture is altogether shallow.
  22. Beauty and the Beast
    Christophe Gans’s telling of Beauty and the Beast abounds in impersonal and unsatisfying sumptuousness.
  23. Deepwater Horizon
    The film should have been a cautionary tale, but in Peter Berg's hands, it's a hollow account of the resilience of the human spirit.
  24. The Magnificent Seven
    As passably entertaining as the film is, it never surrenders to the abandon of its action, and as such never feels like it shifts out of first gear.
  25. Belle Épine
    Neither sentimentality nor nostalgia for reckless years gone by can be found in Rebecca Zlotowski's Belle Epine, which makes its tale of teenage rebellion in the face of overwhelming grief fall closer to a sobering character study than a classical youth film.
  26. Bridget Jones's Baby
    The Pinkberry solipsism of this particular franchise all but requires our heroine persist as a lovelorn martyr for her audience’s benefit.
  27. A Family Affair
    Throughout A Family Affair, time is continually collapsed to the point where events separated by many years bleed into one another.
  28. Tanna
    The film blends the Bard with National Geographic, failing to make a case for the inexplicability of their union.
  29. Blair Witch
    It doesn't suggest documentary footage found in the woods so much as a haunted-house version of Hardcore Henry.
  30. Dancer
    It refuses to pass judgment on whether or not Sergei Polunin's success was worth so much sacrifice and heartache.
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