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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. Slumberland
    Slumberland lacks the sense of danger that Winsor McCay liberally infused into his stories.
  2. 2nd Chance
    2nd Chance a terrific American tall tale as well as a cautionary tale and a ripping good yarn.
  3. Violent Night
    Ultimately, it’s the filmmakers’ insistence on both subverting the expectations of the family Christmas film and upholding them that leaves Violent Night feeling like it wants to have its Christmas cookies and eat them too.
  4. Lady Chatterley's Lover
    However faithfully the film transposes the plot and themes of the source material, it struggles to capture the spirit, ironing out D.H. Lawrence’s modernity-skeptical modernism and losing sight of his poetic vision.
  5. Devotion
    This unfocused, awkwardly paced film never quite gets off the ground and, as a result, will do little to change perceptions of the Korean War as the “forgotten war.”
  6. Strange World
    While Strange World’s examination of generational tension is tender and inspiring, as well as nicely tied to its theme of the necessity of adapting to changing times, the film’s sci-fi elements and environmental message are more half-baked in their execution.
  7. She Said
    Ultimately, She Said is more concerned with eliciting the audience’s admiration than its understanding, its compassion, or even simply its interest.
  8. There There
    The artifice of There There certainly generates an added layer of frisson that might not have been there were the film shot under more conventional circumstances. But the root material has enough rich humanity and taut conflict to it that the result would have succeeded regardless.
  9. The Menu
    For as potent as the film’s shocks can be in the moment, it’s difficult to shake off that the screenplay lacks for the breadth of variety that’s necessary to make more than just a restaurant’s tasting menu take flight.
  10. The Wonder
    The Wonder coheres as a powerful study of the way in which people are cloistered by their own stories.
  11. Spirited
    To say that the film grows tedious quickly would suggest that it wasn’t already trite from frame one.
  12. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
    The film signals that Alejandro G. Iñárritu, perhaps, is unable to push the limits of his own artistic expression.
  13. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    Though its lugubrious and plodding narrative spins its wheels ahead of someone coming along to fill T’Challa’s shoes, Wakanda Forever does stand out for its depictions of grief.
  14. Paradise City
    If only everyone else had followed John Travolta’s lead, then the film might have lived up to its title.
  15. My Father's Dragon
    The hot streak for Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon cools with My Father’s Dragon.
  16. Missing
    The film ties itself into many knots as it chases the superficial sugar high of a big reveal.
  17. Something in the Dirt
    The film’s sheer fun and invention counterbalance its main characters’ abject failure in their search for meaning and success.
  18. Good Night Oppy
    Ryan White’s documentary is cute to a fault and filled with a rapturously uncomplicated glee about the joys of exploration.
  19. Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
    The focus on Ferragamo’s craft, and the very structure of manufacture, is exciting, but the narrative’s tendency to embody the opposite of his innovativeness feels lazy and contradictory.
  20. Utama
    Stock story beats of generational dispute run throughout Utama, existing mainly to show off the widescreen possibilities of the Scope frame.
  21. Please Baby Please
    The film’s unapologetic level of artifice is at once the source of its pleasures and limitations.
  22. Argentina, 1985
    For a film about the crimes of a fascist military dictatorship that employed mass torture, rape, kidnapping, and murder as weapons of social control, Argentina, 1985 sure goes down smooth.
  23. Raymond & Ray
    Rodrigo García’s film is fastidious, tidy, and lifeless, with every obligatory gesture in its place.
  24. Black Adam
    The film has the courage of its convictions, suggesting that violence on behalf of an oppressed people isn’t only justifiable but even moral.
  25. Halloween Ends
    Just as David Gordon Green seems to have finally unshackled his legacyquel trilogy from the dead weight of the past, the film loses the courage of its convictions.
  26. Causeway
    It’s to Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry’s credit that what lingers is their characters’ uncertainty.
  27. Piggy
    Throughout, writer-director Carlota Pereda announces herself as a skilled manipulator of audience sympathies.
  28. Enys Men
    Enys Men might have been called A Blueprint for Revival: an attempt to restore to horror something that Jenkin feels has been lost. If only it didn’t lack the power to truly frighten us, it may have flourished.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Showing Up
    Deftly, Showing Up leaves unresolved the familial, creative, professional, and interpersonal matters at its core, staying true to its vision of an artistic environment perpetually caught between modest comfort and precariousness.
  30. Last Flight Home
    Last Flight Home is an anguished therapy session disguised as a meditation on life and death.
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