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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. Lamb
    Though eerie and quietly deadpan, the film circles its grab bag of themes for so long that it also becomes tedious.
  2. Hit the Road
    For too much of its running time, Panah Panahi’s film is untethered from any kind of captivating narrative purpose.
  3. Mass
    In the hands of its cast, Mass gives such precise and profound expression to the totality of grief that it comes to feel downright palpable.
  4. There's Someone Inside Your House
    The film feels like a missed opportunity to interrogate society’s fervent need to make pariahs out of people for their past mistakes.
  5. Venom: Let There Be Carnage
    The title isn’t only a promise of so much destruction to come, but also inadvertently an assurance that its most action-packed sequences will be defined by loudness, incoherence, and pointless cruelty.
  6. No Time to Die
    This Bond’s overall arc from modishly merciless killing machine to aging assassin with the familial feels comes off as a treacly sop to psychological complexity.
  7. Mayday
    The film circles a thorny premise, which makes it all the more disappointing that it results in a conventional clinch.
  8. Prayers for the Stolen
    There’s a haunting beauty to Tatiana Huezo’s depiction of the gradual cross-contamination of childhood innocence and criminal aggression.
  9. The Tragedy of Macbeth
    What’s absent here is the murderous lust for power that dovetails with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s lust for each other, and which proves their mutual undoing.
  10. A Chiara
    The film’s initial aimlessness is pleasurable for the way that it allows the viewer to stare at life being processed on the stunned, confused, and ecstatic face of a teenager.
  11. Birds of Paradise
    Birds of Paradise lacks the nuance and finesse needed for its story to really take flight.
  12. Cry Macho
    The film achieves the nourishing simplicity of a fable, and its devotion to the quotidian elements of mythical small-town western life is nearly religious.
  13. The Power of the Dog
    The film looks at times like a stiff-jawed period piece, but it ripples underneath with a prickly modern sensibility.
  14. The Many Saints of Newark
    The juxtapositions between backroom politicking, intimate family drama, and the occasional lurches into action often give the impression of a TV season’s worth of content crammed into two hours.
  15. Flee
    The film effectively immerses us in the wrenching details of Amin’s story, but it keeps us just a bit too far removed from the man himself.
  16. Dear Evan Hansen
    The film works harder to fix the problems with its source material than to establish itself as an independent piece of art.
  17. Encounter
    In spite of the film’s troublingly naïve take on mental trauma, Riz Ahmed vividly and empathetically captures a man’s wounded soul.
  18. Surge
    More than effective in visualizing its protagonist’s disorientated state of mind, the camerawork may leave viewers feeling like they just stepped off of a merry-go-round.
  19. The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
    The film persuasively sheds light on the grievances of the Palestinian people that have long fallen on deaf ears.
  20. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
    The film is an offbeat epic informed by a reverence for the past and a delicate wariness toward the future.
  21. Procession
    Robert Greene’s gaze is an attempt to accord his subjects the dignity of attention, utilizing cinema as a form of emotional due process.
  22. One Second
    One Second is as much a tribute to the struggles of a man whose life has stolen from him as it is to a bygone way of looking at movies.
  23. Il Buco
    The film meticulously evokes a 1961 speleological expedition, but its search for thematic resonance is frustratingly general.
  24. The Forgiven
    Whatever satire of white elite society is intended by The Forgiven has been blunted by monotony.
  25. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    The Eyes of Tammy Faye mostly plays out as a showcase for Jessica Chastain to bring as much emotional sturm und drang to the woman as she lurches between various states of turmoil.
  26. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
    The film charts Louis Wain’s slow, long mental breakdown in ways that tackily oscillate between the pitying and the whimsical.
  27. Futura
    Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, and Alice Rohrwacher’s documentary rather faithfully captures the spirit of our times.
  28. Benediction
    Terence Davies’s film is a rhapsodic portrayal of an upper-crust milieu in which words are wielded like weapons by people who might otherwise be pariahs.
  29. Belfast
    Kenneth Branagh's film understands the malleability of memory, and it embodies cinema’s ability to offer a kind of escapism, but up until its climax it plays like a retreat from reality.
  30. Copshop
    With its pulpy thrills, hyperbolic dialogue, charismatic scumbags, and a score heavy in electronic effects and percussion, the film effortlessly coasts on a gnarly old-school vibe.
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