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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 Pink Cloud
    After a while, writer-director Iuli Gerbase’s boldly mundane take on forced isolation gives way to a regular sort of mundanity.
  2. Belle
    For all of the film’s visually striking action and musical set pieces, it’s the generosity of spirit with which it approaches the modern teenage experience that’s its most impressive attribute.
  3. The 355
    The film treats its premise as the backdrop for a trite celebration of empowerment and teamwork among professional women.
  4. Expedition Content
    The issue of racism sits nestled under both this sequence and the field of anthropology as a whole, giving Expedition Content a nakedly ontological dimension that interrogates how images are produced and who produces them.
  5. King Car
    Renata Pinheiro’s film boasts the pleasures of shlock while sacrificing none of its philosophical rigor.
  6. The Velvet Queen
    Long stretches of the film are simply mesmerizing, but both Sylvain Tesson’s written compositions and the conversation between him and Vincent Munier often lapse into clichés about the distractions and decadence of modern society.
  7. The Matrix Resurrections
    Where the love story was a means-to-an-end afterthought in the first Matrix, it’s now the crux of the tale, and the emotional undercurrents are so intoxicating that it more than makes up for the relative inelegance of the action scenes.
  8. tick, tick...Boom!
    tick, tick… BOOM! never quite resolves that tension between well-attended wake and intimate memoir.
  9. Cyrano
    As is typically the case with Joe Wright's films, one is left both exhilarated and exhausted, wishing that he had been more interested in the material at the center of his house of flourishes.
  10. Spider-Man: No Way Home
    There’s no attempt to hide that the film is pure fan service, a greatest-hits mashup of Spider-Man’s cinematic legacy.
  11. The Novice
    At its best, the film suggests some kind of hellish Nike commercial, where “just do it” becomes less an inspirational motto than a grueling portent of doom.
  12. The King's Man
    The film is so caught up in its own idea of national exceptionalism that its tagline might as well be Make England Great Again.
  13. The Tender Bar
    The film insists so forcefully that J.R. has lived a topsy-turvy, singular life that it abandons a potentially more rewarding approach of foregrounding how relatable many of his moments of self-discovery really are.
  14. Last and First Men
    The push and pull between gradual buildup and apocalyptic rupture allows the film to infiltrate the mind and recalibrate our sensitivity to time.
  15. National Champions
    As a peek into the relationship between sports, media and capitalism, National Champions feels like a beginner’s playbook.
  16. Don't Look Up
    Like Vice before it, the film too often uses satire as a tool of castigation rather than as a means of truly attacking the status quo.
  17. Being the Ricardos
    Like all Aaron Sorkin-penned characters, this film’s version of Lucille Ball is a mouthpiece for his brand of smarmy, know-it-all sarcasm.
  18. Nightmare Alley
    Guillermo del Toro's remake of Nightmare Alley is less a living and breathing movie than a fossilized riff on the idea of a movie, particularly the American noir.
  19. The Lost Daughter
    For a while, Olivia Colman’s expressive performance carries the film, with little narrative distraction or stylistic conspicuousness.
  20. Agnes
    The film is a thoughtful examination of the human desire for it and the accompanying hope that it may exorcise the emptiness we feel.
  21. West Side Story
    Steven Spielberg's West Side Story is at its best when it zooms in and settles down into character study.
  22. The Sleeping Negro
    Though often abstract in its imagery, the film’s blistering commentary remains firmly rooted in our present reality.
  23. Silent Night
    The film misplaces the root of our current existential dilemma, then covers it with tepid droll comedy and clunky melodrama.
  24. The Hand of God
    Throughout Paolo Sorrentino’s film, the line between miracle and cosmic prank, even tragedy, is rendered indistinguishable.
  25. The Unforgivable
    The Unforgivable is devoid of all textures and emotions that don’t readily affirm the film’s rigid worldview of redemption.
  26. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
    Johannes Roberts’s prequel ultimately remains buried by its indifference to unchecked corporate power.
  27. The Humans
    Throughout The Humans, Stephen Karam orchestrates the highs and lows of a family reunion with Chekhovian subtlety.
  28. House of Gucci
    Ridley Scott’s tale of greed and revenge practically begs for melodramatic excess.
  29. Licorice Pizza
    It’s the hints of danger, employed like ghost notes in a shuffling rhythm, that lend the film its sneaky depth of feeling.
  30. Zeros and Ones
    Zeros and Ones is the unwelcome spectacle of a bad boy attempting to apologize for his badness.
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