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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. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
    Sweet but narratively thin and didactic, the latest from DreamWorks Animation always seems as if it’s trying to find its footing.
  2. No Hard Feelings
    What ultimately sinks No Hard Feelings is its inability to convincingly meld its excessively bawdy humor and its Hallmark Channel-level drama of two opposites who help one another to embrace life.
  3. God Is a Bullet
    Aside from the red stuff, the film is scarcely interested in what’s inside its characters.
  4. The Stroll
    The Stroll is overtly broad, detached, and full of ready-made empowerment rhetoric.
  5. Happer's Comet
    Whereas films like Halloween and Blue Velvet expose the violence and perversion that underlies the manicured artifice of so many suburban environs, Happer’s Comet, by means of a simple temporal displacement, gestures above all at their arbitrariness.
  6. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    The only past that Dial of Destiny is interested in plundering is the glory of its predecessors.
  7. Elemental
    Elemental does a whole lot of huffing and puffing but, at its core, feels no more grounded than a gentle wisp of air.
  8. Asteroid City
    A dryly comedic bricolage of mid-century Americana and postwar anxieties with only the lightest dusting of plot, the 1950s-set Asteroid City finds Wes Anderson moving even closer to cultural curation and further from sustained storytelling.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Maggie Moore(s)
    The story’s center isn’t strong enough for the rest of its disparate parts to hold.
  10. Users
    The film’s triumph is keeping us on our toes by sending us into an ether where fear and wonder live hand in hand.
  11. The Flash
    Nothing Batman or Supergirl do in The Flash to save the world is more effective than what Barry Allen does to save it with a hug and a can of tomatoes.
  12. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    It achieves the rarest of feats of any tentpole Hollywood release, animated or not: gleefully matching exhilarating stylistic experimentation with a multi-tiered narrative of equal ambition.
  13. Padre Pio
    Offering visceral immediacy over meticulous construction, Padre Pio bristles with arresting images.
  14. Falcon Lake
    The inadvertent effect of the oppressive, almost overbearing gloom that shrouds Falcon Lake is that it manages to sap the life out of its initially carefree depiction of young people’s emotional lives.
  15. Reality
    The film interrogates both the state of our world and the lines between fiction and document.
  16. Lynch/Oz
    Alexandre O. Philippe’s essay film is both dead-serious about its subjects and playfully exploratory.
  17. The Boogeyman
    Ultimately, The Boogeyman is like so many other modern horror films that prioritize mood above all else.
  18. Kandahar
    Where Kandahar is most intriguing is in the oddly even-handed depiction of both American and Middle-Eastern characters as largely exasperated professionals going about their grisly work because they’re too old to pivot to a different job.
  19. The Little Mermaid
    This Little Mermaid feels more or less like two-hour-plus cosplay with the texture and gravitas of a Disneyland sideshow.
  20. White Balls on Walls
    Sarah Vos creates a nearly mockumentary effect that neither fully lampoons nor endorses contemporary standards for the art world’s political correctness but lands at a decidedly more ambivalent point.
  21. Fast X
    Being as this is the first of a possibly three-part finale, Fast X’s sense of fun is constantly deflated by all the table-setting.
  22. Sanctuary
    This is a theatrical story told in a purposefully and self-consciously theatrical manner.
  23. Stay Awake
    Jamie Sisley’s film looks at its serious subject matter through a maudlin lens.
  24. L'Immensità
    By turns wry and tragic, but never glib or mawkish, this is a visually rich and evocative drama about navigating the often treacherous path to adulthood.
  25. The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
    The film is an object lesson in what can result when a work of art subordinates itself to a message.
  26. Hypnotic
    The film is a pointlessly complicated house of cards that crumbles due to its own hollowness.
  27. Fool's Paradise
    The film sprints past its targets, dealing glancing blows to subjects that have already been obliterated by decades’ worth of Tinseltown parodies.
  28. The Starling Girl
    The film is an impressively complicated and compassionate drama about shame and desire.
  29. Book Club: The Next Chapter
    The film is devoid of serious conflict, yet it hits with unexpected feeling.
  30. Monica
    Monica is an unsentimental exploration of its main character’s search for personal fulfillment through human connection.
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