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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. Death on the Nile
    Once things get moving, it’s smooth sailing to the double-shocker of a denouement.
  2. Jackass Forever
    To see the old-timers pass the torch to their acolytes cements the improbable importance of Jackass in American pop culture.
  3. Last Looks
    Throughout Last Looks, the filmmakers tend to a conventional mystery that could have benefited from more satiric intention.
  4. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
    The material realities of being a woman in Chad are expressed with profound sympathy in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s film.
  5. Hatching
    The ham-handed allegorical construction, generically titled characters, and self-serious tone in its final third drains the story of the specificity that might have resulted in a more incisive critique of the perils of perfectionism.
  6. Nanny
    Writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s film ultimately proposes that survival is the greatest form of resistance.
  7. Resurrection
    The film is one of the more intrinsically frightening evocations of a traumatized mind since Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
  8. Cha Cha Real Smooth
    Rather than thoughtfully reflect on post-collegiate ennui and disillusionment, the film settles for erecting a monument to its main character’s awesomeness.
  9. You Won't Be Alone
    Throughout You Won’t Be Alone, writer-director Goran Stolevski rejects the slickness that defines so-called elevated horror.
  10. Dual
    Riley Stearns’s film consistently tickles the funny bone, even when it comes at the expense of psychological nuance.
  11. Sharp Stick
    Sharp Stick shows that Lena Dunham’s preference for solipsistic protagonists with boundary issues has its limitations.
  12. Alice
    Alice plays as an inadvertent parody of contemporary liberalism’s fascination with and fetishization of ‘70s black radicalism.
  13. Watcher
    Watcher gives a feminist twist to a throwback genre, but never does its topicality dilute its gripping suspense.
  14. Brighton 4th
    The film unfolds at a pace that is unhurried yet self-assured, submerged in the rhythms that govern its characters’ lives.
  15. Master
    Mariama Diallo’s film never seems to fully buy into its horror trappings and ends up treating its characters as avatars for multiple grievances.
  16. Fresh
    Fresh is pitched as a kind of genre corrective, except its tone-deaf cheekiness only results in a feeling of dreary regression.
  17. Call Jane
    The film consistently fails to underline the risks and pressures faced by the women in an underground abortionist network in Chicago in the late ‘60s.
  18. Speak No Evil
    Until its contrived conclusion, the film plays as a queasy satire of conditioned interpersonal behavior.
  19. Clean
    While its plot is strictly by the numbers, Clean is elevated by its stylistic flair and propulsive pace.
  20. When You Finish Saving the World
    Jesse Eisenberg’s satire hits its targets dead on, but he flattens his mother-and-son narcissists to the point of caricature.
  21. Breaking
    Abi Damaris Corbin’s quiet and unobtrusive style helps 892 build tension primarily from character instead of incident.
  22. Happening
    This period drama manages the difficult task of speaking to our current moment without being didactic or preachy.
  23. The King's Daughter
    The film provides no space to explore its relationships, and as a result there’s little friction to the climax.
  24. Simple Passion
    The film makes no attempt to embody the themes that form the core of Annie Ernaux’s story in its aesthetics.
  25. Redeeming Love
    The film is too narrow-minded to explore the notion that a saint-like man may want to satisfy his normal carnal desires.
  26. The Last Thing Mary Saw
    The film comes to feel like a parody of a possession flick rather than a straightforward replication of the genre’s tropes.
  27. Scream
    It’s at a certain point toward the finale that this Scream becomes almost as drearily repetitious as the reboot culture that it skewers.
  28. The Whaler Boy
    The film is a vivid rumination on the fuzzy border between fantasy and reality.
  29. Sansho the Bailiff
    There’s a reason Sansho the Bailiff is often greeted by critics and audiences with something akin to rapture: It’s a work that divorces the existential riddles of faith from regimented dogma, favoring instead the practical challenges, contradictions, and ambiguities of life as it’s often lived.
  30. Italian Studies
    During an amnesiac’s atmospheric nighttime ramble through Manhattan, the seeds of a narrative are sewn but never nurtured.
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