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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. Fathers and Daughters
    The film's weird reformulation of the Electra complex is nothing short of a sexist fantasy of salvation.
  2. The Mermaid
    It offers a wonderful visual reprieve from the cumbersomely mechanized aesthetic of so much contemporary fantasy.
  3. Our Little Sister
    The film's reserve softens some of its more piquant observations about tradition and mortality.
  4. Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
    The doc finds pathos in an amiable, fluid construction that chronologically charts the career (and political) ambitions of TV producer Norman Lear.
  5. Cell
    The film insufficiently connects the book's prophecy with its present-day, real-world forms of realization.
  6. The Legend of Tarzan
    The film's action sequences are a jumble of movement and cuts that have no discernible relation to the actual motion of the characters.
  7. Our Kind of Traitor
    It works as both a modern morality play for our globalized world and as an indictment of Europe's ethical bankruptcy.
  8. The Purge: Election Year
    Its greater focus on disreputable genre thrills comes at the expense of making coherent points about class inequalities, political exploitation, or man's inhumanity.
  9. The Innocents
    Anne Fontaine's film is an allegory for women's condition more generally, in times of war or peace.
  10. Carnage Park
    The film covers "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" by way of Rob Zombie, Quentin Tarantino, and Ti West.
  11. Life, Animated
    It never addresses Disney's wholly manufactured stranglehold on turning adolescent desire into a consumerist impulse.
  12. The BFG
    The film, full of such quietly inventive visual magic, is perfectly content to simply revel in the stuff dreams are made of.
  13. Independence Day: Resurgence
    Emmerich rewards our patience with an impersonally massive set piece involving the usual generic stew of mass CGI-imagined demolition. The insensitivity displayed toward human life in these sequences would be galling even by Emmerich's standards, if this pitiful albatross of corporate capitalism could work up enough energy to be offensive.
  14. Misconception
    The even-handedness of Yu's gaze throughout the first part of the film, alas, isn't sustained in the second and third chapters.
  15. The Shallows
    What makes the film churn so forcefully for so long is Jaume Collet-Serra's visual acrobatics.
  16. Free State of Jones
    After its bracing opening, the film begins to indulge the worst impulses of well-meaning liberal cinema.
  17. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    It infuses an outdoorsy survival tale and a coming-of-age story of friendship with Taika Waititi's penchant for distaff flakiness.
  18. Swiss Army Man
    Even as it invites snarky ridicule, the film dares you to buy into its singular earnestness.
  19. Wiener-Dog
    The film's back half nearly goes completely astray with two segments featuring unimaginative characterizations and tepid, mean-spirited scenarios.
  20. Nuts!
    Throughout, director Penny Lane strings together telling incidents and anecdotes with a light touch.
  21. Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
    It presents a captivating portrait of one of the era's greatest defenders of artistic freedom and a true American original.
  22. The Phenom
    Noah Buschel shows that formula can be repurposed to serve empathetic ends without losing its self-actualizing appeal.
  23. Three
    The film shows how much Johnnie To still experiments with his form, especially as he continues to transition to digital cinema.
  24. Land and Shade
    The landscape seems to push the characters away at the same time that it anchors them into place, suggesting that elsewhere is a promise that only dreams can keep.
  25. Central Intelligence
    It's a pity that no one else involved in the making of the film had Dwayne Johnson's sly intuition.
  26. Finding Dory
    Finding Dory follows its predecessor in being broadly concerned with comforting notions of home and family.
  27. Cosmos
    Andrzej Zulawski's film experiment ranks somewhere between captivatingly off the wall and utterly exhausting.
  28. My Love, Don't Cross That River
    Jin Mo-young fetishizes his subjects' wholly modest behaviors as cute manifestations of a pure form of human interaction.
  29. Clown
    Jon Watts does nothing with the scarily funny notion of a respectable professional who suddenly refuses to shuck a party costume.
  30. Argentina
    The film stagnates by restricting camera mobility and focusing more on capturing dimensions of the performances in close-up.
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