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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. Presenting Princess Shaw
    The peculiar circumstances of the documentary necessitate more transparency than the filmmaker is willing to offer.
  2. The Ones Below
    Even the film's lapses inform it with a free-associative sense of portent, evoking the stupid things we inexplicably do in our most personal nightmares.
  3. Holy Hell
    It hopes to jolt audiences with OMGs instead of edifying them about the empty lure of Buddhafield's cult mentality.
  4. Unlocking the Cage
    The problem here isn't necessarily the tension between emotion and rationality, but that the doc does little to explore these dimensions as they arise.
  5. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
    The film's expected rehash of recent pop-culture totems is accompanied by a novel attention to millennial-centric debates about entitlement and identity politics.
  6. The Angry Birds Movie
    The Angry Birds Movie is a lot of things, but none of them true to the app's appeal.
  7. The Nice Guys
    Shane Black's The Nice Guys doesn't want for great exchanges, and even disposable conversations brim with acidic wit.
  8. Journey to the Shore
    Kurosawa allows for a few brief flights of fancy, further abandoning realism for whimsical bursts of glowing color, but otherwise it's a humdrum slog of a voyage.
  9. The Other Side
    Roberto Minervini's documentary is as quintessentially American a text as one could hope for in today's divided union.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Kaili Blues
    Bi Gan's film is a soulful depiction of China's increasingly rapid pace of cultural and economic transformation.
  11. Almost Holy
    Steve Hoover's documentary affords one an unusually intimate glance at the collapsed infrastructure of the former Soviet Union.
  12. Song of Lahore
    The final note of optimism is consistent with the documentary's overall tone and interest in perseverance.
  13. The Darkness
    This enterprise is so listless that one can't even work up a proper head of self-righteous steam over the spooky Native American clichés that drive the plot.
  14. Money Monster
    Jodie Foster manages the interlocking tones of outrage and low humor with an unfailing rhythm and an engagingly casual cynicism.
  15. Love & Friendship
    No Austen adaptation, even the most revisionist ones, have ever felt as vicious as Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship.
  16. The Trust
    Throughout Alex and Benjamin Brewer's film, Nicolas Cage holds the screen with his distinct timing and expressive force of being.
  17. Equals
    The Drake Doremus film all comes down, simplistically and repeatedly, to “feelings make us feel alive.”
  18. X-Men: Apocalypse
    The issue with X-Men: Apocalypse is that Bryan Singer suggests so many possible directions to go in and still chooses the least interesting one.
  19. A Monster with a Thousand Heads
    The politics of the film are consistently muddled by director Rodrigo Plá's conspicuous formal choices.
  20. How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town
    The ingenuity of writer-director Jeremy LaLonde's film ends with its title.
  21. Paths of the Soul
    Zhang Yang achieves an astonishing immediacy by simply allowing the prostration process to play out over and over with minimal aesthetic interference.
  22. What We Become
    When Bo Mikkelsen springs his traditional yet cathartic climax, it's earned because the violence matters truly as violation.
  23. Last Days in the Desert
    It's never made clear how witnessing a family deal with their specific issues affects Jesus's own perspective on his destiny.
  24. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies's sheer talent for creating sensuous images conveniently masks how little of this feeling actually emerges from the plot these images illustrate.
  25. Captain America: Civil War
    The undeniable fun of Civil War's action scenes only exacerbates the failure of the narrative to adequately contend with its own themes.
  26. Dheepan
    Jacques Audiard's film struggles to overcome the burden of its over-simplified, moralizing setup.
  27. A Bigger Splash
    What intrigues, if in a lurid sort of way, is the film's fudging of projected viewer desires with its characters'.
  28. Elstree 1976
    It too often fails to examine how the long shadow cast by Star Wars affected its its background actors' lives.
  29. Bite
    Chad Archibald doesn't quite land Bite's transition over from claustrophobic character study into full-blown monster movie.
  30. Sin Alas
    The film's Cuban specificity comes to seem like an opportunistic locale for reenacting a decidedly art-cinematic legacy.
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