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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. Sembene!
    The film unfolds as a kind, politically soft offering of what lies beneath both Sembène's films and the man himself.
  2. Of Men and War
    A work of astounding sensitivity and precision, it argues for emotional honesty as a moral and psychic imperative.
  3. In Jackson Heights
    The lightning in the film’s bottle isn’t some generic feel-good humanism, but a complicated one, fighting for its own existence, sometimes angry, sometimes despondent.
  4. Barista
    It captures the frustration and the longing of forever wanting more and better at the expense of casualness of being.
  5. Wrecker
    Time and again, the filmmaker cuts the money shot meant to theoretically cap a sequence.
  6. What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
    The conclusion suggests the film exists to affirm the preconceived desires and perceptions of its makers.
  7. The Hallow
    The film never really digs into its suggested themes of gentrification, domestic turmoil, or backwoods folklore, but most of its effectiveness stems from a kitchen-sink approach to genre clichés.
  8. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
    The flick is an artless, puerile shadow of the likes of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Cornetto trilogy.
  9. Our Brand Is Crisis
    It only serves to validate George Clooney's devotion to showmanship as Hollywood's current reigning poster boy for blue-state morality.
  10. Flowers
    Everyone heals, or doesn't heal, on cue, and the initial pathos of the narrative is dulled by the architecture of its through lines.
  11. Hard Labor
    The allegorical possibilities of a disintegrating wall point to a film that could have been.
  12. The Royal Road
    The cumulative effect is altogether perplexing, as it's difficult to tell if Olson's trying to upend clichés or settle for them.
  13. Love
    Gaspar Noé's lack of self-investigation merely situates the film as a libidinal advertisement for a tantrum-prone filmmaker's delayed adulthood.
  14. Bare
    Dianna Agron, suddenly inspired to let go, proves the perfect on-the-prowl foil to Paz de la Huerta's free spirit.
  15. The Armor of Light
    It doesn't trust the inherently complex material to speak for itself or care to consider its consequences beyond instances of manufactured, gut-wrenching immediacy.
  16. Insiang (1976)
    Lino Brocka's portrait of familial treachery and societal abandonment channels its melodrama through the filter of neorealism.
  17. Jem and the Holograms
    It's the screenwriting equivalent of Ryan Adams sucking the pop vitality out of Taylor Swift's deliriously produced tunes.
  18. Burnt
    Everything in the by-the-numbers script signals that Adam must transform himself from and abusive tyrant in the kitchen to the head of a loving and fully functional family.
  19. The Last Witch Hunter
    It has enough ingredients for a reasonably entertaining fantasy adventure—except, that is, for an interesting lead character with an emotionally compelling hook.
  20. Suffragette
    The film's episodes and attitudes register with searing immediacy while feeling true to their time period.
  21. Rock the Kasbah
    The film quickly settles into a depressingly one-note groove as a culture-clashing circus act.
  22. Asthma
    Asthma inevitably becomes another film about a man airing out his traumas and hitting all the requisite marks on his path to healing.
  23. Pasolini
    Biopics ascribe titanic importance to a subject's every gesture, but Ferrara stresses the reality of creation, of its ordinary activities that nonetheless give an artist a sense of fulfillment.
  24. The Pearl Button
    Despite the defeated tone of Patricio Guzmán's tales, a spotlight is placed on the power of persistence.
  25. Jason and Shirley
    Stephen Winter's film doesn't earn the gall it evinces by pissing on Shirley Clarke's masterpiece.
  26. Bone Tomahawk
    One wishes that S. Craig Zahler had more explicitly faced the cultural demons lingering within his premise, attempting to exorcise them.
  27. Nasty Baby
    The film is a compelling addition to Sebastián Silva's cinema of compassionate comeuppance.
  28. Tokyo Tribe
    Sion Sono's film imagines gangs not as rebels without a cause, but a lost generation of displaced, poisoned youths.
  29. Heart of a Dog
    Laurie Anderson condenses contemporary, human experience to the point where exterior and interior are made indistinguishable from one another.
  30. Extraordinary Tales
    It offers a CliffsNotes encapsulation of Edgar Allen Poe's most enduring works for viewers unacquainted with them.
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