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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 Offering
    It inspires retrospective gratitude for the empty yet slick craftsmanship of someone like James Wan.
  2. Bridgend
    The film, with its dark-blue-hued cinematography and murky music, is all foreboding atmosphere.
  3. Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
    Eiichi Yamamoto's cult anime strikes a perfect balance between midnight-movie enchantment and arthouse sophistication.
  4. The Idol
    The film's clichés ultimately contain both too little conviction and too little complication, their inspirational messages more imagined than real.
  5. Being Charlie
    Most of the film's characters are unconvincing, flattened out by Charlie's self-focused lens.
  6. Viktoria
    The film is ultimately stultifying because the disconnection between the various characters is so immediately accepted as such a foregone conclusion that nothing ever seems to be at stake, and the heavily horizontal imagery, though accomplished and evocative, if fussy, only evokes two states of mind: loneliness and disconnection.
  7. Ratchet & Clank
    The film crams in jokes long past the point of relevance and often to outright distraction, if not annoyance.
  8. Keanu
    Keanu is declawed by design, but it's hard not to wonder what the cat could've dragged in.
  9. Special Correspondents
    Ricky Gervais's film hopscotches through a variety of premises, looking for jokes that never arrive.
  10. Viva
    The drag in the film rejects the U.S.-centric obsession with "realness" and the acrobatics that come with it.
  11. Pelé: Birth of a Legend
    The beautiful game, as Pelé called football (or soccer to us Americans), has never felt like such a sedate slog.
  12. High-Rise
    The film's notion of a caste system is crudely reductive in the manner of a routine future-shock thriller.
  13. Sacrifice
    The film's very design turns out to be a whimpered bark followed by a toothless bite.
  14. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    The overriding despair of Winter's War's imagery calls into question who, exactly, the film is for.
  15. A Hologram for the King
    Remarkably faithful, except in how it rather boldly transforms Dave Eggers's drama into a broad comedy.
  16. Nina
    The film is committed to the sort of broad strokes that reduce a great artist's life to a spectacle of self-pity.
  17. Elvis & Nixon
    The film is taken with comfy gags that celebrate these men's ownership of pop culture, filtering them through a lens of unrevealing caricature.
  18. The Meddler
    Writer-director Lorene Scafaria's film is an unconvincing character study that plays like a painfully unfunny sitcom.
  19. Men & Chicken
    An admirably bizarre and beautiful genre mixtape, but Anders Thomas Jensen's empathy for his characters gradually impedes his imagination.
  20. Hockney
    After a nearly virtuoso opening, it reduces passages of the painter's life into multiple montages of pop pabulum.
  21. Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
    Michael Levine provides a history without a real sense of individuated struggle or even singular personage.
  22. Sworn Virgin
    Given its nearly episodic structure, formal choices, and similar thematic inquiries, Sworn Virgin suggests an unofficial remake of Vivre Sa Vie.
  23. The Family Fang
    There's real texture and emotional heft to the central relationship between the siblings, but that's thanks more to the actors than the script.
  24. Tale of Tales
    Matteo Garrone returns the fairy tale to its roots in cautionary horror grounded in deep, contradictory, neurotic relationships with gender and patriarchy.
  25. Holidays
    Every short exudes a commercially slick anonymity that effectively flattens any potential excitement.
  26. Barbershop: The Next Cut
    A pop sonata of stand-up comedy routines layered with, if not vitality, then at least honest energy.
  27. The First Monday in May
    Andrew Rossi pays sporadic lip service to recognizing cultural specificity before returning to his star-gazing ways.
  28. The Jungle Book
    Jon Favreau draws heavily on his film's animated predecessor for plot, characterizations, and more, but doesn't know how to fit these familiar elements into his own coherent vision.
  29. Criminal
    Criminal's absence of style, the lack of relish the filmmakers take in the material's inherent ludicrousness, is a failure of conviction.
  30. Our Last Tango
    Throughout the documentary, the question of truth is equated to the essence of the tango.
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