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For 7,768 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: 4,345 out of 7768
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7768
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7768
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  1. Argentina
    The film stagnates by restricting camera mobility and focusing more on capturing dimensions of the performances in close-up.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)
    Eva Husson's controversy-courting debut is neither as lewdly subversive or as raucously debauched as its provocative title.
  3. Tickled
    There's no sustained effort to answer the first question any editor or J-school instructor worth his or her salt would ask: So what?
  4. Genius
    It makes a convincing argument for viewing Thomas Wolfe's work as a product of the excess and exuberance of the 1920s.
  5. Diary of a Chambermaid
    The lack of ambiguity reflects Benoît Jacquot's treatment of the text, which is devoid of either formal obsessiveness or a contemporary hook.
  6. The Conjuring 2
    The Conjuring 2 is a model of heightened tension and uneasy release, but the tropes propelling these night terrors grow stale pretty quickly.
  7. Now You See Me 2
    The sheer amount of people and incident indifferently presented throughout this film suggests only an obligation to quota-filling.
  8. Call Her Applebroog
    It implies that not even the concentrated self-scrutiny required to make art like Ida Applebroog's is enough to make sense of ourselves to ourselves.
  9. From Afar
    The film renders visible a very complicated, and awfully repressed, truth not only about gay desire, but desire in general.
  10. 'Til Madness Do Us Part
    Wang Bing intends to give back to the inmates the opportunity for individual expression that society has robbed them of.
  11. The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
    It resonates as a portrait of artists trying to figure out their own paths toward making valuable contributions to the world.
  12. Puerto Ricans in Paris
    The film simply limps to predetermined truths that hypocritically advocate the maintenance of placid family values.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    King Jack
    Harsh punishments are dished out in a way that jolts the material away from coming-of-age cliché.
  14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
    Its openly mercenary ethos initially scan as a bracing lack of pretense in a market crammed to the gills with insidious faux-sentimentality, but its overstuffed relentlessness proves almost equally tedious.
  15. De Palma
    Like Hitchcock, De Palma reveals himself to be guided by an unusual mixture of intuition and intellectualization.
  16. The Neon Demon
    The simmering insinuations of Nicolas Winding Refn's film eventually flower into full-on exploitation.
  17. Me Before You
    It punks its impressionable audience into believing a lie, then punishes them for their foolishness.
  18. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    The film's lampooning of a business built on pure surface extends to its riotous original songs.
  19. Honeyglue
    It's more interested in borrowing terminal cancer as a narrative shorthand for intensity than investigating it as a lived experience.
  20. The Witness
    The film presents Kitty Genovese's identity as an afterthought, turning her living days and nights into incidental details.
  21. Warcraft
    Watching this bloated mélange of derivative fantasy tropes unfold is akin to being forced to follow the efforts of a particularly ham-fisted gamer, with the viewer being jerked back and forth across countless busy CGI landscapes by a plot that's utterly predictable when it isn't confusing.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Approaching the Unknown
    The film fails to lay down the character foundation that might have elevated the third-act histrionics.
  23. Art Bastard
    Robert Cenedella exudes humility even as he sounds off against the societal forces that anger him and fuel his work.
  24. Les Cowboys
    Never content to suffice as a mediocre thriller, Les Cowboys is a wellspring of embarrassment for all parties involved.
  25. The Final Master
    The film is a seemingly endless series of convoluted double-dealing, backstabbing, and factional realignment.
  26. The Wailing
    Na Hong-jin's The Wailing is a work of thriller maximal-ism, a rare case of more actually being more rather than less.
  27. Jia Zhangke, A guy from Fenyang
    Walter Salles reinforces the impression of Jia's own art as emerging fluidly from the vagaries of his own life and socioeconomic position.
  28. The Thoughts That Once We Had
    Thom Andersen attempts to establish unity by effectively bridging vast swaths of film history into one cohesive body of work.
  29. ma ma
    Julio Medem's film has enough hanky-courting plot mechanics for three remakes of Beaches.
  30. Chevalier
    Athina Rachel Tsangari's obvious skill can't hide the fact that her concept is one-note.
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