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For 7,769 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 6.5 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 7769
  2. Mixed: 1,491 out of 7769
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7769
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  1. Paulo Coelho's Best Story
    Daniel Augusto relies on familiar tropes pertaining to the sexy, rebellious rock-star artist who does things his own way.
  2. Jenny's Wedding
    Tolerance in the film doesn't so much suggest a recognizably real epiphany as it does a moving Hallmark card.
  3. Counting
    The poetic pretenses are compounded by a sledgehammer insistence on elusive and irreducible moments as inherently beautiful.
  4. A LEGO Brickumentary
    Here's a documentary so insidious, so comprehensively scrubbed clean, that it argues for the therapeutic powers of consumerism.
  5. That Sugar Film
    One senses that all of these kinds of documentaires are finally aggrandizing shrines made by artists trying to erect something out of nothing.
  6. The Kindergarten Teacher
    The film's denouement is at once shocking and organic because it echoes a well-paced but nasty children's fable.
  7. The End of the Tour
    It does well in using dialogue to shape its escalating tête-à-tête, but the filmmaking is too fuzzy to expand on those ideas.
  8. Best of Enemies
    Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville reinforce the very circumstances they outwardly condemn.
  9. Listen to Me Marlon
    Among the film's many revelations is the level of self-aware humility Brando exudes while talking about his life and creative process.
  10. Paper Towns
    To hose down the white elephant in the room right off the bat, yes, it falls into place as a coming-of-age spin on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype.
  11. The Vatican Tapes
    Like technological innovation itself, the film seems overwhelmed by the reach of all its techo-cultural parts.
  12. Pixels
    This is a Happy Madison production, and as such it's exhaustively lazy, outside of its righteous dedication to the valorization of the man-child.
  13. Southpaw
    Each battle scar in the film is a testament to a vaguely but nonetheless forcefully defined notion of masculinity.
  14. Lucky Stiff
    Its irritatingly saccharine tone is such that it shuns grappling with certain characters' dubious and perverse behaviors.
  15. Big Significant Things
    Its anodyne tastefulness effectively lumps it into a big vat of likeminded Sundance-or-SXSW-endorsed offerings.
  16. Dark Was the Night
    The film may take the notion of implication over illustration a bit too far.
  17. Samba
    Even as Samba struggles to hold onto his identity, the film becomes entangled in an identity crisis of its own.
  18. 10 Cent Pistol
    One wishes the director had as burning of an interest in significance as he does trickery and quippery.
  19. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold never luxuriates in all this film history, but rather channels the artifice and affect it embodies into new insights.
  20. Unexpected
    It suggests that Kris Swanberg has taken notes on what a film concerned with pregnancy should include without actually making it.
  21. American Heist
    The film offers a veritable smorgasbord of dated, only-in-the-movies clichés about the debt-ridden working class.
  22. The Young Kieslowski
    Another effort to explain how difficult it is to be a young, white, smart, non-disfigured, upper-middle-class male.
  23. Trainwreck
    The script doesn't revel in Amy's quite harmless flaws, or at least examine them in the spirit of benevolence.
  24. Ant-Man
    Half-assed mentions of the Avengers, as well as a few cameo appearances sprinkled both within the feature and in its credits stingers, exude less shame than a crowd-pandering politico.
  25. Jellyfish Eyes
    Takashi Murakami has invested the film with the same sort of primal pop-art aesthetic that distinguishes much of his art.
  26. Irrational Man
    Woody Allen and Joaquin Phoenix's collaboration on Irrational Man's antihero is the closest the film gets to a saving grace.
  27. Mr. Holmes
    Bill Condon ignores the delights and hardships of becoming an artist in lieu of simply presenting the long-touted liberating effects of art.
  28. Lila & Eve
    Charles Stone III's film ultimately succeeds as a convincing social plea, but fails as compelling cinema.
  29. Ardor
    It broods along as if it's expressing something monumentally important with each slow-as-molasses camera move.
  30. The Stanford Prison Experiment
    The formalism fashions effective textural shortcuts to behavioral understanding that the remarkable cast fills in with chilling, convincing finesse.
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