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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. Benedetta
    Throughout Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven builds up a heady, campy mix of religious imagery, corporeal abjectness, and masochism.
  2. Annette
    The musical format proves a natural fit for Leos Carax’s love of the visual fantasies created by the cinema’s most basic means of illusion.
  3. The Witches of the Orient
    The film’s fanciful archival montages shrewdly demonstrate the ways in which memory and art seamlessly combine to document reality.
  4. No Sudden Move
    With One Sudden Move, Steven Soderbergh mixes an old-school 1950s noir with a modern sense of social self-consciousness.
  5. A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
    John Maggio’s documentary is workmanlike in presentation but scintillating in its content.
  6. The Tomorrow War
    The Tomorrow War is little more than a clunky, Nolan-esque exercise in instruction-manual cinema.
  7. Bad Tales
    Narration, as the film reminds us, isn’t only a diversion but a form of authority, of power, and when authority is least conspicuous, it’s often at its most insidious.
  8. The Forever Purge
    As it strives for a grander metaphor of life in America, The Forever Purge resorts to sweeping generalizations that make the prior films in the series feel like pinnacles of subtlety.
  9. Kid Candidate
    The film doesn’t leave us with a complex sense of Hayden Pedigo as a person and political candidate trying to take on an unjust system.
  10. Zola
    Janicza Bravo prioritizes character and personal eccentricity, in the process truly earning the screenplay’s cutting observations about how social media encapsulates culture’s ability to commercialize anything, especially ourselves.
  11. Black Widow
    In its final moments, Black Widow gives its heroine the humanity she never quite gained in her appearances in prior Marvel films, and it’s a shame that this slight but crucial wrinkle to the familiar morality of so many superhero stories ultimately feels more like a twist than a springboard for a new, more morally enlightened era of the MCU.
  12. First Date
    The shadow of Risky Business looms large, and distractingly, over Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp’s film.
  13. The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52
    While 52 remains something of a mystery, The Loneliest Whale renders him less of a metaphor.
  14. The Ice Road
    The film is a muddle of clichés and unremarkable action sequences that bleed together into a cacophony.
  15. My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To
    Jonathan Cuartas’s film vividly diagnose a sickness of insularity endemic to middle-class America.
  16. Werewolves Within
    The film becomes unexpectedly, effectively violent just when you’ve written it off as a glorified SNL sketch.
  17. Against the Current
    Against the Current’s style imposes a generic visual language onto a subject who’s anything but generic.
  18. F9: The Fast Saga
    At its best, F9 delivers the most spatially coherent, dynamic car scenes in the series to date.
  19. The American Sector
    The film accomplishes a restoration of sorts, allowing us to see how historical objects can confer meaning on a new context.
  20. Sun Children
    The film tends toward the dramatically monotonous, but its unwavering sense of purpose ensures that it’s also compellingly human.
  21. False Positive
    False Positive threads classic horror-film tropes with a woozy, partially comic sensibility but doesn’t fully commit to this approach.
  22. Fathom
    Throughout, there are moments when you may feel as if Drew Xantholoulos could push harder on the film’s philosophical implications.
  23. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
    It’s Morgan Neville’s impression of Bourdain as a time bomb existing in plain sight that allows Roadrunner to be more than a greatest-hits rundown of the man’s life.
  24. Luca
    Pixar’s most intimate and laidback effort since Ratatouille feels like a throwback to one of Mark Twain’s rollicking picaresque sagas.
  25. Sweat
    Sweat mostly adheres to a time-honored tale of the pitfalls of fame, despite its ultra-modern context.
  26. Les Nôtres
    The film is a j’accuse aimed at those complicit in oppressing the most vulnerable in order to protect the powerful.
  27. The Sparks Brothers
    The film embodies the idiosyncratic, tongue-in-cheek sensibilities of Ron and Russell Mael’s long-running cult American pop band.
  28. The Lost Leonardo
    The Lost Leonardo deals less with absolutes than fungible notions of perception and power.
  29. Summer of 85
    François Ozon’s paean to nostalgia wraps tragedy and obsession in a whimsical bow.
  30. Gaia
    After a while, the film’s elaborate, often breathtaking special effects come to feel like it’s only source of complexity.
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