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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. Hell or High Water
    As with Sicario, the broad strokes of the film's Southwestern stereotypes gradually sharpen into focus as the story pivots to a look at the systemic forces that shape the characters.
  2. Abortion: Stories Women Tell
    Tracy Droz Tragos's documentary examines its titular subject with a compassionate eye for regional detail.
  3. The Model
    The film unapologetically warns us at every turn that fashion is nothing but a business, fueled by naiveté and rape.
  4. The Lost Arcade
    The film's images have a loose, rough, textured liveliness that honors the spirit of Chinatown Fair.
  5. Joshy
    The film feels most real, even at its most absurd, when focused on the idea of closure as a kind of fantasy.
  6. Anthropoid
    Director Sean Ellis's film offers a potent examination of the moral rectitude of resistance.
  7. Disorder
    Alice Winocour's film begins as a vivid portrait of a man warily eyeing the tumult of his homecoming.
  8. Edge of Winter
    One comes to resent the film for how it thrills to the possibility of a father hurting his children.
  9. Amateur Night
    The film is peppered with interesting true-life details, but these are overwhelmed by frantic comedic sequences.
  10. Suicide Squad
    Like the recruited criminals themselves, the film longs to be bad, yet its forced by outside pressures to follow narrow, preset rules.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Neither Heaven Nor Earth
    While he may indulge in the occasional programmatic jump scare, writer-director Clément Cogitore ultimately heaves his debut feature closer to the realm of psychological terror, understanding that there's nothing more frightening or darker than the human mind.
  12. Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
    The documentary is just more of what we've come to expect from director Richard Linklater's expanded fanverse.
  13. Will You Dance with Me?
    Derek Jarman's footage speaks to the freedoms afforded by the combination of a darkened dance floor and like-minded people.
  14. The Tenth Man
    As films about dopey dudes finding love go, The Tenth Man is too modest for its own good.
  15. Front Cover
    The very few instances where stereotypes are challenged are forced and didactically delivered.
  16. Five Nights in Maine
    Maris Curran never reconciles the film's impulse to interiority with its weakness for hothouse melodrama.
  17. Little Men
    Director Ira Sachs transforms the smallest blip on life's radar, a childhood friendship, into a momentous occasion.
  18. Don't Blink - Robert Frank
    Like the work it illuminates, the doc feels formally impeccable yet utterly unstaged, a vivid distillation of a distinct and precious life.
  19. Bad Moms
    The end-credits sequence shows up the rest of the film as the broad and incoherent live-action cartoon that it is.
  20. Pete's Dragon
    It abandons its subtlety en route to becoming a moralistic screed about the preservation of the nuclear family.
  21. Ants on a Shrimp
    It offers lively and layered images that reveal the chefs both as individuals and components of a larger social organism.
  22. Jason Bourne
    One of the more admirable traits of the original Bourne trilogy is how little pleasure it takes in its violence, but Jason Bourne revels in its vicious action sequences.
  23. Nerve
    By merely transposing its generic high school clique drama onto an augmented reality platform, Nerve sacrifices most of its novelty, but the filmmakers demonstrate a marginal interest in how this mediated environment warps the perspectives of its characters.
  24. Homo Sapiens
    A real yet illusory world is evoked so seamlessly that it also feels just one step away from pure cinematic fiction.
  25. Into the Forest
    Essentially a post-apocalyptic telenovela, it sanitizes the concept of sisterhood, and even womanhood.
  26. On the Silver Globe (1988)
    It becomes a bleak comic spit into the face of organized religion, organized society, and even organized narrative.
  27. Indignation
    James Schamus's screenplay is rich with culturally specific details that deepen these forking moral predicaments.
  28. The Land
    Writer-director Steven Caple Jr.'s social-realist tendencies run up against some unconvincing genre elements.
  29. Gleason
    It has an irritating habit of depending on our natural reactions, letting the subject matter do the heavy lifting.
  30. Viral
    The film slightly reorients our perspective on the familiar tropes of both the teen and apocalyptic genres.
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