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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. Together
    Together’s dramaturgy perfectly, if unintentionally, underscores the suffocating nature of pandemic living.
  2. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    On the screen, Shang-Chi is rotely defined by the same “gifted kid” impostor syndrome as so many other self-doubting MCU heroes before him.
  3. Reminiscence
    Reminiscence’s noir adornments inadvertently feel closer to parody than loving homage.
  4. The Night House
    The film upends the clichés that practically define the ghost story in surprising and intriguing ways.
  5. 499
    The film raises pertinent questions about Mexico’s mixed cultural heritage and the contested representation of reality.
  6. Demonic
    Like District 9, the film is a genre outing with big ideas that’s more committed to the power of arsenals and pyrotechnics.
  7. Cryptozoo
    Dash Shaw’s deceptively simple animation regularly descends into phantasmagoria that delivers on his story’s strange premise.
  8. Don't Breathe 2
    The film’s gore is just as likely to invoke fear as to serve as a killer punchline to one of Rodo Sayagues’s set pieces.
  9. Homeroom
    Despite the film’s narrow scope, it’s hard to not be impressed by the political and civic engagement of its teen subjects.
  10. In the Same Breath
    In Wang Nanfu’s extraordinary documentary, contemporary political structures are as much of a disease as Covid-19, and, in the long run, the deadlier foes.
  11. The Meaning of Hitler
    Though uneven, the film is clever about avoiding age-old conundrums regarding the disavowal of the language of horror.
  12. Respect
    When Jennifer Hudson is singing her heart out, not so much approximating Aretha’s voice as channeling her soul, the effect is transportive.
  13. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
    The film synthesizes the nihilistic tone of The End of Evangelion with the more hopeful terms of the anime’s original intended finale.
  14. Beckett
    It’s thanks to a kind of tug of war between background and foreground that Beckett succeeds as a piece of entertainment.
  15. Whirlybird
    At its best, Matt Yoka’s documentary vividly captures how personal demons shape creative output.
  16. Free Guy
    There’s so much discernible IP baked into Shawn Levy’s film to make its calls for artistic ingenuity feel hypocritical at best.
  17. Bring Your Own Brigade
    Lucy Walker’s absorbing study of California’s 2018 wildfires consistently goes in illuminating and surprising directions.
  18. Swan Song
    The disconnect between the realities of different generations of gay men is one of Swan Song’s most unexpectedly joyful through lines.
  19. Materna
    Rarely do the filmmakers show people mutually affecting one another in cycles of pain and control, rather than blaming phantom figures.
  20. The Suicide Squad
    Throughout the film, James Gunn renders the half-grim, half-absurdist nature of the Suicide Squad with delightfully bloody abandon.
  21. In Front of Your Face
    The film is an obsessive rumination on the little squabbles and inconveniences and pleasures that add up to the bulk of our lives.
  22. Compartment No. 6
    Juho Kuosmanen’s film interestingly thrives off of an ironic juxtaposition of character and environment.
  23. The Green Knight
    A methodical, if largely allegorical, exploration of its main character’s psyche, the film smooths out the enduring mysteries, opaque psychology, and narrative idiosyncrasies of its source material.
  24. Never Gonna Snow Again
    With Never Gonna Snow Again, Malgorzata Szumowska presents a charm against apocalyptic despair but also willful ignorance, insisting that, with sufficient imagination, we can face a climate crisis of our own making.
  25. The Evening Hour
    In spite of the film’s strikingly lived-in sense of place, the script’s melodramatic storytelling works against that verisimilitude.
  26. Jungle Cruise
    Jaume Collet-Serra’s deft touches elevate what otherwise feels like another formulaic contemporary Disney blockbuster.
  27. Nine Days
    Writer-director Edson Oda never really puts a unique spin on the familiar story of otherworldly figures peering in on the lives of the living.
  28. Enemies of the State
    The film’s concession to the fungible nature of presented reality comes across not as indecisive but courageous.
  29. Sabaya
    The film’s terseness could make it too cryptic for some, but that doesn’t blunt the impact of its most visceral or tender moments.
  30. Stillwater
    Stillwater gives itself over to drastic plot twists that derail what was already a film over-stuffed with narrative incident and ideas.
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