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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 Instigators
    Like a well-executed heist, the film knows how to get in and get out with minimal fuss.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
    Soi Cheang richly draws the city as both prison and refuge, where brutal exploitation sits alongside the residents’ deep sense of solidarity and cooperation.
  3. War Game
    By setting up such a potentially cataclysmic scenario and not convincingly illustrating how it could be resolved or stopped from occurring in the first place, War Game undercuts the very reason it was made.
  4. Happy Campers
    Amy Nicholson’s empathy for her subjects is undeniable.
  5. Hell Hole
    The most consistent recurring theme across the work of the Adams family—parenthood as a siphoning off of the life giver’s vitality in a protracted, eternal cycle of decay and renewal—finds its most literal, alien expression here.
  6. Coup!
    The film has little to add on the subject of the interplay of politics and infectious disease, then or now.
  7. Only the River Flows
    The craft brought to bear on Only the River Flows is captivating, but when it comes to matters of story, it cultivates a frustrating air of disinterest.
  8. Deadpool & Wolverine
    Deadpool & Wolverine doesn’t flinch from speaking some measure of truth to power.
  9. Dìdi
    The film speaks unflinchingly to the unique anxieties and frustrations of early teenhood.
  10. My Spy: The Eternal City
    My Spay: The Eternal City is derailed by how readily it succumbs to the ludicrousness of a plot that generates stakes that are far too heavy for the threadbare structure to support.
  11. Twisters
    The film proceeds as a jumble of poorly sketched backstories and subplots, half-hearted topical references, and tepid fan service.
  12. Crumb Catcher
    Chris Skotchdopole’s feature debut is a tantalizing mix of the absurd and the mundane.
  13. Oddity
    Thanks to its expert staging, the film doesn’t lose much in the way of immediacy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    July Rhapsody (2002)
    Ann Hui’s investment in her characters and their passions bleeds through every frame.
  15. Crossing
    Crossing is never less than nobly intent on showing trans people as worthy of dignity, safety, and love.
  16. Fly Me to the Moon
    Fly Me to the Moon’s sudden shift toward the weighty throws off the pace of what had been a formulaic but charming rom-com, as the heavy-handed look at both Cole’s and Kelly’s past demons fails to mesh cohesively with the antic silliness that preceded it.
  17. Sing Sing
    In its depiction of actors flourishing through artistic struggle, Sing Sing ultimately argues that the most effective liberation happens through the freeing of the body as well as the soul.
  18. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
    The film lays out an impassioned case for the nearly unique greatness of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s body of work.
  19. The Convert
    All of the time spent on Thomas Munro’s various campaigns for reconciliation and harmony between two Māori tribes hampers the film, which would have been better served had it expounded on the grander conflicts that it only superficially acknowledges.
  20. Longlegs
    This is a sturdily constructed horror film with a foundation sneakily built on shifting sands.
  21. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
    It’s a film of familiar pleasures, but like Harold Faltermeyer’s still infectiously enjoyable synth-pop theme, they do remain highly pleasurable.
  22. The Substance
    The humanity of Demi Moore’s performance, the greatest of her career, gives Coralie Fargeat’s boldest ideas an emotional backbeat.
  23. Eephus
    Carson Lund treats the power of a shared interest with profound, elegiac empathy.
  24. The Nature of Love
    The Nature of Love engages with the stylings and bubbly tonality of the classic rom-com in ironic fashion, along the way exploring complex aspects of human behavior.
  25. Mother, Couch
    Other than a sort of wistful quirkiness, it’s not clear what Mother, Couch gains by skewing away from a more straightforward, streamlined family drama.
  26. MaXXXine
    First with X, then with Pearl, and definitively with MaXXXine, West has buried his unique style and forward-thinking vision under an astroturfed surface of compulsory cinematic references and cliché cultural signifiers.
  27. Kill
    Kill continually finds clever ways to defy our expectations through the particular placement of dramatic beats, surprising shifts in tone, and even just the way it keeps flipping the geography of the action.
  28. A Family Affair
    Ultimately, Richard LaGravenese’s rom-com is a little too packed with soul-searching speeches.
  29. A Quiet Place: Day One
    Like most of this series’s best action, the big bombastic noise is often a distraction from something far more intimate, and in Day One’s case, something far more existentially beautiful.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Daddio
    The film is as tedious and predictable as its traffic-clogged Long Island Expressway setting.
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