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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. Straight Outta Compton
    It's most towering accomplishment are its set pieces, which manage to be brash, exhilarating, and even occasionally moving.
  2. Meru
    Its expositional crutch proves most inadequate when the team ascends the final pitch to the top after years of preparation in no more than a minute of screen time.
  3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    Temperamentally, Guy Ritchie aligns more with the lithe, James Bond-like Solo: detached, above-it-all, eternally cool under pressure.
  4. Mistress America
    Mistress America is both the most concentrated and antic film in Noah Baumbach's unofficial New York trilogy.
  5. Big Sky
    Jorge Michel Grau's ambitions are stalled by a screenplay that seems to have never made it past a first draft.
  6. Rosenwald
    Director Aviva Kempner profile of Julius Rosenwald suggests a 60 Minutes segment stretched to feature length.
  7. Ten Thousand Saints
    Even when tragedy strikes early on, the revelation is just another "growing up is hard" dot on the grid.
  8. Amnesiac
    Its concern for the reclamation of identity is less important than the dull approximation of The Others' stark haunted-house atmospherics.
  9. Final Girl
    The filmmakers never really answer inevitable questions: What's the point of these fussy allusions?
  10. We Come as Friends
    It grows increasingly hopeless as it contrasts the alien paradise of the opening with the wastelands that resemble corporate dump sites.
  11. Tom at the Farm
    Its allegory for internalized homophobia, a gay man's perilous attraction to straightness itself, seems in this case deeply persona.
  12. Return to Sender
    The kind of wholly misconceived thriller that begs asking precisely what its filmmakers were seeking to accomplish.
  13. Prince
    It revives hope for a pop-art cinema that's capable of treating characters like actual human beings rather than pawns on a chess board.
  14. People Places Things
    The film introduces a promising romantic pentagon, only to let it float away unfulfilled into studiously benign coming-of-age clouds.
  15. Fort Tilden
    It elegantly evolves from an absurdist comedy into a remarkably wounded and uprooted story of friends who're beginning to tire of their shared social cocoons.
  16. How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy
    A definitive reflection on the work of two great directors and the specific slices of cinema they so fruitfully cultivated.
  17. The Great Man
    It exploits the military aesthetics that lend themselves so well to breathtaking sounds and visuals without fetishizing them.
  18. Ricki and the Flash
    Director Jonathan Demme grasps the well of feeling of Diablo Cody's script and eventually harnesses it in his own image.
  19. Fantastic Four
    It adds more grist for the mill to the notion that studios don't hit the big red "reboot" button in any other state than a panic.
  20. The Gift
    Joel Edgerton's boilerplate direction is a blessing for a genre increasingly saddled with literal visualizations of madness.
  21. Dark Places
    The payoff is a huge and telling visual howler, summarizing the entire plot with a blithe indifference that will inevitably mirror the audience's.
  22. Homme Less
    Thomas Wirthensohn frequently sinks into dully positing Mark Reay as something close to the pinnacle of human integrity.
  23. Shaun the Sheep Movie
    It has generous lashings of Aardman Animations' trademark warmth, visual inventiveness, and satisfying Claymation tactility.
  24. Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
    A consummate sampler platter of the bounty of state-of-the-art animation currently available as alternatives established major-studio house styles.
  25. Cop Car
    The narrative derives much of its tension from the unsentimental ambivalence Jon Watts displays toward the story's two pre-teen boys.
  26. Call Me Lucky
    Bobcat Goldthwait's hand too nervously tempers Crimmins's outré tactics as kooky showmanship bred from unimaginable trauma.
  27. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    It can't resist winking at how this franchise manages to defy the limits of both human endurance and its superstar's rickety public status.
  28. Vacation
    Father doesn't just know best, he's the only one whose knowledge or lack thereof means anything at all.
  29. Staten Island Summer
    Breaking the laws of human nature is an ancient comic convention, but it only works when it leads to a laugh.
  30. Two Step
    A zig-zagging, free-associational genre item that's mostly concerned with stretching the generally narrow tonal rules of what a thriller can be.
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