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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 Civil Dead
    Clay Tatum’s film is wholly and refreshingly uninterested in tugging at the heartstrings.
  2. Full Time
    Full Time doesn’t have much to say about organized labor, or labor in general, other than that work can be really stressful.
  3. Talk to Me
    The film has a free-floating, nearly intangible sense of unease that greatly serves it.
  4. Infinity Pool
    If David Cronenberg seems almost indifferent to his audience, Brendon Cronenberg is so fixated on freaking people out that he can sometimes neglect to do much else.
  5. Shortcomings
    Shortcomings is a mostly comedic but fitfully insightful examination of a character type familiar to indie cinema: the solipsistic guy who fills the gap left by emotional underdevelopment with intense opinions delivered at bad times.
  6. 20 Days in Mariupol
    At its core, 20 Days in Mariupol is a testament to the citizens of Mariupol.
  7. Sometimes I Think About Dying
    The film is an imperfect but affecting portrait of social isolation that captures both the pain and the warmth that comes with finally letting others in.
  8. Iron Butterflies
    Roman Liubyi’s documentary is nothing if not self-consciously obsessed with its own making.
  9. Life Upside Down
    The film could aim with a bit more precision at the price of its characters’ evident comfort.
  10. birth/rebirth
    Birth/Rebirth serves as a perverse correction, recalibrating decades of dilution to reemphasize the moral weight and emotional anguish at the heart of Shelley’s novel.
  11. Fair Play
    Chloe Domont has conjoined a familiar fantasy of the powerful hedge fund magnate with brutally familiar quotidian details of a relationship that’s about to undergo a profound stress test.
  12. You Hurt My Feelings
    The film deals forthrightly with the question of purpose and whether or not it can be found in a career.
  13. Cat Person
    Cat Person only succeeds when it stays in a space of mystery and unknowing.
  14. Shotgun Wedding
    The film has a rather perfunctory feel, as if it were unwilling to go all in on its ludicrous concept.
  15. Close
    The film reminds us that any coming of age is a risky business where finitude and mourning are the only guarantees.
  16. Missing
    Humor for the sake of humor is a worthwhile pursuit, but Missing’s final act is more unintentionally funny than intentionally funny.
  17. Skinamarink
    Skinamarink is confidently made, and certain upside-down images are especially creepy, but its spell is broken by its sheer, ungodly slowness, which springs from a paucity of ideas.
  18. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
    Promising but failing to deliver the colorful characters and winding, breakneck plot of a caper, Operation Fortune may itself be a ruse, but it’s not a convincing one.
  19. Chess Story
    Philipp Stölzl craftily melds the genres of period drama and psychological thriller, not for the purposes of reheated nostalgia, but to shed a cold light on the recursions of historical trauma.
  20. M3GAN
    There’s enough sardonic humor to keep the proceedings edgy enough, but it’s hard not to wish that the filmmakers would’ve taken a cue from their eponymous villain and really pushed things past the boundaries of good taste.
  21. Alice, Darling
    The emotional crux of Alice Darling is less the manner in which it lays out a roadmap for an exit from an abusive relationship and more its attentiveness to the profound ramifications of such relationships for the women in them.
  22. A Man Called Otto
    The film is so toothless that its protagonist is ultimately about as forbidding as a warm hug.
  23. The Pale Blue Eye
    The film often feels like one of the corpses in its story: cold, lifeless, and without a heart.
  24. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody
    There are only clichés in this rise-and-fall material, with the sole distinctive wrinkle being the weight given to the rise versus the fall.
  25. Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
    Lizzie Gottlieb’s documentary is a celebration of a profound, dying privilege.
  26. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
    Given that big-studio children’s animation so often feels like it was created by algorithm, it’s refreshing to see a kid’s cartoon like <em>The Last Wish</em> that’s filled with too many ideas rather than too few.
  27. Babylon
    [Chazelle’s] torturously glib cynicism is quite the attitude around which to build an epic boondoggle of this sort. Equally as heinous is the 11th-hour optimism that he then attempts to tack onto Babylon via a jaw-droppingly wrongheaded climactic montage.
  28. The Old Town Girls
    The Old Town Girls never seems to have a strong enough sense of the kind of film it wants to be to pull together its more interesting elements into a coherent whole.
  29. Avatar: The Way of Water
    For all the genuine thrills provided by its pioneering pageantry, Way of Water ultimately leaves you with a soul-nagging query: What price entertainment?
  30. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
    Nina Menkes’s documentary comes dangerously close to inhabiting its own title.
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