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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 Batman
    The film stands apart for thoughtfully suggesting that Batman might actually one day make Gotham a better place, and not merely a safer one
  2. Dear Mr. Brody
    The film poignantly draws a straight line from the economic anxieties of the past straight to the present.
  3. The Desperate Hour
    The Desperate Hour’s broad, vague rendering of its characters is part and parcel of its troubling approach to its material.
  4. Studio 666
    The film’s funny and shocking gore too often plays second fiddle to meandering comedic bits revolving around the band’s recording sessions.
  5. The Burning Sea
    The film drops any interest in the blurring of fact and fiction as it settles into a rote account of a contemporary oil rig catastrophe.
  6. Dark Glasses
    After a brilliantly constructed opening, Dario Argento’s film gives the impression only of a giallo doodle.
  7. Big Gold Brick
    Brian Pestos’s flair for go-for-broke zaniness transmutes what might otherwise have been a lump of self-indulgent clichés into gold.
  8. Rimini
    The film fleshes out the perhaps familiar characterizations at its center by tying contemporary wounds to the persistent presence of Europe’s ugly history.
  9. Flux Gourmet
    Peter Strickland’s playful mockery of performance art and excessively serious-minded “collectives” feels both insular and, at times, a shade too flavorless.
  10. Nobody's Hero
    The film goes from biting satire to broad farce and back as Alain Guiraudie fills it with both social observation and ludicrous incident.
  11. Coma
    A heady rush of ideas, the film’s avant-garde mélange of live-action footage, abstract video art, and multiple kinds of animation just barely masks that it’s a rather simple story about a Zoomer’s inner struggle with both her own mortality and that of the world.
  12. Both Sides of the Blade
    The studied ambiguity of what’s going on in Fire doesn’t keep it from often achieving the suspense of an accomplished erotic thriller.
  13. Small, Slow But Steady
    Small, Slow But Steady is one of the first great pandemic movies because it reflects the lessons about mutual support and communal perseverance that we should be taking from very familiar pandemic struggles.
  14. Alcarràs
    As a tribute to farmers’ way of life, its effective and at times moving, but as an exposé of the potential losses that a business-centric green revolution is in the process of incurring, it wants for a stiffer punch.
  15. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a deeply miscalculated mix of incoherent social commentary and over-the-top gore.
  16. That Kind of Summer
    That Kind of Summer never quite resolves into any one stance on its subjects, an equanimity that’s to its credit.
  17. Dog
    Dog cannily smuggles a nuanced inquiry of a social issue under the guise of popular entertainment.
  18. Leonora addio
    Leonora Addio is a wrestling with memory and history through a deeply personal, if at times indulgent, lens.
  19. Unrest
    Cyril Schäublin’s precisely framed snapshot of a microcosm of timekeepers ends up being a bit too, well, mechanical.
  20. The Novelist's Film
    The film proves that Hong Sang-soo has yet to exhaust his methods of deriving significance and beauty from the most quotidian of details.
  21. Uncharted
    The games are fixated on the idea of honor among thieves, but you wouldn’t know that from the antic, meaningless depiction of the betrayals that play out across the film.
  22. Taurus
    Taurus is in the business of self-aggrandizement, but this is a film that understands that stardom is inherently aggrandizing.
  23. Ted K
    Tony Stone’s avoidance of emotional manipulation in dramatizing Ted Kaczynski’s terror campaign is admirable, but only up to a point.
  24. Strawberry Mansion
    Strawberry Mansion playfully and delightfully draws parallels between the creative agency of dreams and the waking creativity of filmmaking.
  25. Incredible But True
    Quentin Dupieux’s latest endlessly draws out every stilted interaction for maximum deadpan effect.
  26. Kimi
    The film extend into impactful hyperbole the tensions inherent in the situation of being subjects of and subjects to incessant surveillance.
  27. Marry Me
    Marry Me plays out as the logical culmination of a multi-hyphenate icon’s indiscriminate commercial voracity.
  28. The Sky Is Everywhere
    Throughout, Josephine Decker effortlessly keys her intimate and eccentric style to her main character’s complicated inner turmoil.
  29. Catch the Fair One
    The solemnity of Josef Kubota Wladyka’s film is at odds with the gratuitousness of its violence.
  30. Blacklight
    Instead of elaborating its plot, Blacklight offers up repetitious, dialogue-driven scenes that deliver only the shallowest of exposition, advancing the story at a sluggish pace.
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