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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. The Academy of Muses
    It's a shame that the José Luis Guerín film's verbal qualities far outpace its formal attributes.
  2. The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
    It insists that it's in moments of small talk, between life's larger events, that one finds vitality.
  3. The Hollars
    The film's ruefully honest tone is periodically drowned out by the blare of stagey coincidences.
  4. Happy Hour
    Hamaguchi arranges most sequences around a handful of static, roomy medium shots that subtly suggest emotional dynamics through camera and actor positioning.
  5. I Am Not a Serial Killer
    The film comes unsettlingly close to being an apologia for the kind of violence that stems from adolescent disaffection.
  6. The Intervention
    Clea DuVall crafts an entire film out of aborted attempts at a revelation that feel completely anodyne.
  7. Fatima
    The film appears to have been devised to pander to the presumptions of Western, liberal viewers.
  8. Hands of Stone
    The Panamanian-born Roberto Duran's story has all the makings of a fascinating film, but Hands of Stone isn't it.
  9. Southside with You
    The film may not announce itself as hagiography, but it’s hero-worshipful to its core.
  10. Complete Unknown
    Underneath the impersonal formal beauty and good acting is a familiar moral about self-imposed limitations.
  11. In Order of Disappearance
    The film has been executed with a sense of formally stylish and thematically symmetric panache.
  12. Don't Breathe
    The film's sustainment of its corkscrew tension is so elegant and methodical as to feel dance-like.
  13. Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
    The film is, at least, a marvelously enticing advertisement for the upcoming Final Fantasy XV video game.
  14. A Tale of Love and Darkness
    The film mostly succeeds in capturing the nuances of an event that continues to arouse passionate debate to this day.
  15. Ben-Hur
    Ben-Hur director Timur Bekmambetov offers nothing new to the cinematic lexicon of the chariot race.
  16. War Dogs
    The film is unrepentantly cynical when it comes to the global business of warmongering, but proves unsurprisingly earnest when it comes to the lure of the American dream.
  17. 13 Assassins
    Beginning with a series of traps before escalating into sword-to-sword skirmishes, Miike's centerpiece boasts sharp momentum and nasty muscularity.
  18. The Sea of Trees
    There's little here to suggest that the film is anything more than a hastily cobbled-together studio star vehicle.
  19. Kate Plays Christine
    It movingly posits acting as a metaphor for the search for connection, through visceral texture rather than platitude.
  20. Morris from America
    Chad Hartigan's film is especially perceptive about the effect of external influence on personal development.
  21. The People vs. Fritz Bauer
    Lars Kraume's tinkering with the historical record would be more welcome were he also shifting away from the standard biopic template.
  22. Spa Night
    It recombines elements of the emigrant saga and the coming-of-age story into a searching, fresh-faced portrait.
  23. Ixcanul
    The film's structure, however stifling, is filled with gorgeous imagery and nuanced symbolism.
  24. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
    It routinely alternating between episodes that contrast exhilaration with exploitation and damnation.
  25. Imperium
    It demonstrates both the fatal proximity and deceptive distance that can exist between the words and deeds of extremists.
  26. Kampai! For the Love of Sake
    Mirai Konishi's documentary inevitably reveals itself to be an elaborate infomercial for Westerners.
  27. Kubo and the Two Strings
    It offers a powerful metaphor for the manner in which we carry the memories of our departed inside ourselves.
  28. Florence Foster Jenkins
    The film champions coddling people like Florence Foster Jenkins and treats critical thinking as the enemy.
  29. Sausage Party
    Though the filmmakers may not believe in a higher power, they still maintain a faith in raunchiness as an id-blasting form of liberation from rigid norms, spiritual, sexual, or otherwise.
  30. Blood Father
    The film shrewdly capitalizes on Mel Gibson's off-screen embarrassments and controversies.
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