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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 Survival of Kindness
    An epic adventure in the guise of an arthouse flick, The Survival of Kindness makes up in visual power and moral clarity what it lacks in subtext.
  2. Femme
    Femme fascinatingly taps into the radical possibilities of the sartorial as narrative device, exploring the tabooed nuances of queer subjectivity and muddying the lines between gay and trans in the way that lived experience tends to do.
  3. #Manhole
    Kumakiri Kazuyoshi counters the comic absurdity with a genuinely discomfiting sense of the manhole’s atmosphere, and threads of intrigue that are already mostly spun by the time you see them.
  4. The Adults
    The Adults affectingly captures the uniquely American ennui provoked by the banalities of a hometown and the lost utopia of childhood.
  5. Disco Boy
    Lack of clarity, it turns out, is what makes Disco Boy so enjoyable, and imbues it with gravitas.
  6. Luther: The Fallen Sun
    The film defaults to the most pedestrian narrative turns imaginable when it’s not just recycling bits from the series.
  7. Creed III
    The film comes down to a draw between its flashes of brilliance and its missed opportunities.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Cocaine Bear
    Cocaine Bear starts running on fumes almost immediately and peters out before the second brick of cocaine is even devoured.
  9. Passages
    While there’s much acute pain in this compact but resonant drama, it can also be funny in a way that smacks of self-deprecation.
  10. Inside
    Whether or not Vasilis Katsoupis’s film achieves escape velocity from genre limitations though overt sociopolitical commentary is questionable.
  11. Manodrome
    While John Trengrove’s skill is apparent in the slow build of tension, it also stands out in the arguably more impressive way that he holds Ralphie’s view of the world separate from that of the film’s.
  12. Past Lives
    Diverging from romances in which lovers are expected to move heaven, earth, and themselves in order to make a moment of love last forever, Past Lives asks us to embrace the changes that come with time.
  13. BlackBerry
    By emphasizing the people in its tech tale, and the comedic possibilities in their mismatch, rather than the gee-whiz factor, Matt Johnson frees BlackBerry from the need to convince its audience how important the invention at its center was.
  14. The Quiet Girl
    The Quiet Girl earns its most emotionally powerful scenes because of the way that it so gracefully convinces us that it wasn’t even building toward them in the first place.
  15. She Came to Me
    The fatal flaw of the film is that it genuinely believes in the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.
  16. Of an Age
    The ambivalence with which the film treats its main character’s revelation proves rich with complication and offers a new intervention into a genre we thought we’d fully internalized.
  17. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
    Quantumania feels less the start of a new phase of Marvel films than a tired retread of adventures we’ve already been on.
  18. Emily
    The film takes advantage of the leeway for speculation afforded by its subject’s reclusive nature.
  19. Marlowe
    Neil Jordan’s Marlowe is an homage so riddled with noir clichés that one may initially take it for a genre parody, except that the jokes never arrive.
  20. Sharper
    A fumbled ending lets the air out of what is otherwise a fun and quietly stylish caper.
  21. Magic Mike's Last Dance
    By never committing to neo-screwball antics nor a more serious analysis of codependency, the film ends up stranded in emotional ambiguity.
  22. Godland
    The film’s unifying theme is the egocentrism and inevitable violence of masculinity.
  23. The Blue Caftan
    The film is best experienced by simply wallowing in the lushness of its fabrics, sartorial and symbolic alike, refusing the temptation to unspool its poetic parallels.
  24. The Outwaters
    With The Outwaters, the found-footage horror film has unexpectedly found its trippy, unmooring, ultraviolent answer to the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft and the free-associative barbarity of A Page of Madness.
  25. Huesera: The Bone Woman
    The film is a sensitive character study disguised as an unnerving exercise in body horror.
  26. Consecration
    Consecration ends up not just gimmicky but derivative of Christopher Smith’s own prior work.
  27. Knock at the Cabin
    The film takes its time delving into its characters' headspaces, to the point that it becomes less of a thriller than an unorthodox character study, especially as its expertly deployed use of flashback slowly forms the emotional core of the story.
  28. Baby Ruby
    The film’s depiction of the fear and uncertainty of motherhood gives in to monotony.
  29. Magazine Dreams
    Magazine Dreams melds the alluring and the horrific in an unsettling mixture suited to its account of the peril of pursuing physical perfection.
  30. Rye Lane
    Rye Lane’s antic energy and caricatured portrait of England’s capital city fail to make its central romance truly resonate.
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