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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. Digger
    Georgis Grigorakis’s film may not revolutionize the western genre by transposing it to an unlikely setting, but it doesn’t dilute it either.
  2. Final Cut
    Unlike One Cut of the Dead, Michel Hazanavicius’s similar ode to low-budget resourcefulness often rings false.
  3. Emergency
    Emergency is uneven, but it’s grounded by dynamic performances and a vivid portrayal of the minutiae of friendship.
  4. Men
    Men is ultimately about as deep as its title, a swipe at the multi-faceted terribleness of its titular subject that rarely gets beyond being a mere catalogue of the different ways that guys can be irritating around and dangerous toward women.
  5. Hold Your Fire
    The film’s aesthetic approach is purposeful, echoing the us-or-them sentiment held by both groups aiming guns at the other.
  6. Downton Abbey: A New Era
    A New Era’s acknowledgement that some things must die for new things to be born works to justify the film’s title by quietly linking its themes of entitlement and survival.
  7. Firestarter
    This new Firestarter is an almost anachronistically short production whose elements just sit there like mishandled kindling.
  8. Deception
    With his Deception, Arnaud Desplechin renders one of a great author’s slighter works titanic by comparison.
  9. The Last Victim
    Distractingly indebted to No Country for Old Men, the film’s wild tonal swings mostly leave it feeling impossibly disjointed.
  10. Montana Story
    The film is initially distinguished by its poetic understatement, only for it to eventually succumb to staleness.
  11. Top Gun: Maverick
    The film fully surrenders to the grandiose fun that’s marked the best of Tom Cruise’s recent star vehicles and reaffirms Joseph Kosinski as a blockbuster craftsman par excellence.
  12. Pleasure
    The film fiercely homes in at the moral perversity of an industry at a particular intersection of capitalism, patriarchy, and digital-age spectacle.
  13. The Takedown
    The Takedown’s supposedly inclusionary, pro-immigrant messaging is constantly undermined by puerile and dated humor.
  14. Dragnet Girl
    Dragnet Girl features an array of seemingly debased molls and violent loners who blow off steam with punching bags in between petty wrongdoings, but it never outright vilifies any of them.
  15. The Bad Guys
    The Bad Guys is a heist film that steals all of its moves.
  16. The Cathedral
    The Cathedral is a deeply humanist film, but it’s also a relentlessly bleak exorcism of a family’s intolerances.
  17. Firebird
    There are clichés and then there are only clichés, and Firebird is suffocated by them.
  18. Anaïs in Love
    For all of its farcical overtones, the film contains many shrewd observations about the power games inherent in relationships.
  19. Lux Æterna
    If the film-within-the-film is a vapid fetishization of women’s martyrdom, Lux Æterna is a willful exercise in repulsing its own audience.
  20. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    At its finest, this psychedelic, horror-strewn romp’s artistry perfectly reflects the intensity of Strange navigating endless alternate realms.
  21. Human Factors
    Despite the mystery of the home invasion becoming increasingly tangential, Human Factors remains a compelling puzzle-box.
  22. Memory
    Martin Campbell’s film never shakes off its familiarity, and as such seems destined to, well, be lost to public memory.
  23. Fire of Love
    The film oscillates between the playfully on the nose and the existentially profound with the confidence of a volcano chaser surfing on a river of lava.
  24. Los Conductos
    A collage-like tale of vengeance told with an often impressionistic elusiveness, the film can also be bewildering in its juxtapositions.
  25. The Innocents
    The Innocents adopts a slasher-esque vibe that, however airlessly aestheticized, feels lurid for the sake of being lurid.
  26. The Tale of King Crab
    A film that so clearly takes delight in the unfolding of a story and the unpacking of an enigmatic character is refreshing in an arthouse landscape where such narrative qualities are often relegated to secondary concerns.
  27. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
    Despite this clever setup, Tom Gormican’s film isn’t the self-reflexive skewering of Hollywood that one might expect.
  28. Father Stu
    The film is a Hollywood-approved show of Old Testament judgment that sees all people as sinners and thus deserving of all the punishment they receive.
  29. The Northman
    While the canvas of Robert Eggers latest is considerably broader than that of The Witch and the Lighthouse, it feels as if its psychological chaos hasn’t expanded accordingly.
  30. Ambulance
    Rarely have Michael Bay’s frenzied stylistic tics been so effectively intertwined with the substance of one of his films.
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