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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 First Wave
    Matthew Heineman’s documentary successfully emphasizes how people’s emotions were whipsawed by an unprecedented crisis.
  2. The Summit of the Gods
    While the film intermittently stuns in revealing Everest’s topographical mystique, its expedition into what makes climbers tick struggles to get off the ground.
  3. Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
    The film pulls back the veil on Kurt Vonnegut to show how a gloomy dissatisfaction brooded underneath his quippy surface personality.
  4. I Was a Simple Man
    The film’s quietly uncanny narrative wondrously depicts not only a dying man’s reflection on his life, but also the very nature of Hawaii itself.
  5. The Feast
    The Feast makes a stab at drawing out modern, very real anxieties around wealth disparity and ecological devastation without falling back on genre tropes, asking us to consider how the land itself may come to feast on the rich.
  6. Ghostbusters: Afterlife
    Though flattering through and through, the film is ironically removed from the charms of the worshipped original.
  7. Encanto
    Encanto doesn’t steer away from the inevitable happy ending one expects from most animated films geared toward children, but it subverts expectations by bringing humanity to even its most flawed characters.
  8. C'mon C'mon
    C’mon C’mon admirably doesn’t indulge in heartstring-tugging pathos, but the film suffers from a certain shapelessness.
  9. Uppercase Print
    The film metatextually insists that we not be taken in by new, more sophisticated methods of obfuscation.
  10. Mayor Pete
    The film’s approach is completely subsumed by the importance of the Mayor Pete persona as the means and ends of the candidacy.
  11. King Richard
    Rarely has a film used its foreknowledge of a happy ending as a reason to remain so uncritical and incurious of its central subject.
  12. Red Notice
    A constant sense of motion can’t obscure how stale, secondhand, and spiritless this entire endeavor feels.
  13. Dangerous
    Dangerous betrays the promise of its title by playing things extremely safe.
  14. Finch
    The end of the world may never have had less impact than it does in Miguel Sapochnik’s Finch.
  15. The Beta Test
    Underneath the film’s seeming casualness is an astute portrait of alcoholism, as well as a knowing glimpse of how micro tensions affect macro power plays, from pissing contests between men to sexual violations.
  16. Hive
    A layer of ambivalence facilitates our identification with Fahrije but also makes her a distinct character and not just an archetype.
  17. Eternals
    At once bloated and rushed, Eternals suffers from frequent lurches in tempo that dispel its occasional moments of tranquil thoughtfulness.
  18. Army of Thieves
    Matthias Schweighöfer’s film puts itself in a box, consistently failing to justify why its story deserves our attention more than the spectacle of the recently deceased rising to feast upon the flesh of the living.
  19. Ron's Gone Wrong
    The film celebrates individuality even as it suggests that everyone needs their own A.I. tech to validate everything they like and think.
  20. Antlers
    In Antlers, the big bad is never supposed to be as scary as society’s collective wrongdoing.
  21. Broadcast Signal Intrusion
    Jacob Gentry’s film punches through all the layers of homage to arrive at a place of true horror.
  22. Labyrinth of Cinema
    Manic, maximalist, and bristling with postmodern bells and whistles, Labyrinth of Cinema is exactly what its title suggests.
  23. Freeland
    At their best, writer-director Mario Furloni and Kate McLean evince a masterful grasp of storytelling that’s subtle and rich in innuendo.
  24. Halloween Kills
    As far as improvements go, Michael Myers’s revitalized brutality is arguably the only successful one that Halloween Kills makes.
  25. Needle in a Timestack
    The film is too blinded by manufactured sentimentality to see the more compelling what-if scenario lying right in front of its eyes.
  26. Luzzu
    Alex Camilleri’s most significant departures from his influences take place on the level of content, but, thankfully, they strain the integrity of the neorealist framework just enough to keep Luzzu fresh, if not revolutionary.
  27. Parallel Mothers
    The film is a ghost story as well as a story of transference, which Pedro Almodóvar understands to be one in the same.
  28. The Last Duel
    Ridley Scott’s medieval saga insightfully revels in the complexities of its competing storylines.
  29. The Rescue
    Aside from being a thrilling account of a hair-raising rescue, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s documentary attests to living a calling.
  30. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
    Evangelion 2.0 evolves the original show’s central conceit of being alone together with other people in leaps and bounds. The problem with that is: Neon Genesis Evangelion was never a leaps-and-bounds kind of show.
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