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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. Infinite
    Symptomatic of the Marvel-ization of modern action cinema, the film seems to exist mostly as an advertisement for future product.
  2. The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
    The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard improves on its 2017 predecessor only insofar as it runs 20 minutes shorter.
  3. Awake
    It’s difficult to imagine a high-concept thriller that coalesces around its one-line conceit less convincingly than Awake.
  4. The Misfits
    The film is almost refreshing in its flightiness, even as it remains defiantly ignorant of the world in which it exists.
  5. The Amusement Park
    With The Amusement Park, George Romero holds a cracked (funhouse) mirror up to a callous and ultimately terrified society.
  6. Sublet
    Eytan Fox’s film is a low-key observance of two men finding the beauty in each other’s mysteries and contradictions.
  7. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
    The film apes the style that James Wan established with the original Conjuring without establishing any real identity of its own.
  8. Slow Machine
    The film navigates a tricky space between pathos and absurdity and often turns on a dime from one to the other.
  9. The Ancient Woods
    The film brings us somewhere where we aren’t, and probably could not be, but nevertheless feels tangibly real.
  10. The Carnivores
    The characters don’t exist solely to affirm the film’s various themes, and as a result, their humanity gets under your skin.
  11. In the Heights
    Consistently surprising and creatively fearless, John C. Chu’s film brings monumentality to a work of infinite heart.
  12. Moby Doc
    The film’s tendency to over-explain, over-intellectualize, and over-script events leaves little room for spontaneity and doubt.
  13. Cruella
    The film’s outward liveliness can’t mask the inner inertia it has as just another lifeless product assembled in a factory.
  14. Funhouse
    Throughout, it’s difficult to sort the contrivances that writer-director Jason William Lee is parodying from those he’s indulging.
  15. Final Account
    Luke Holland’s stark and revealing documentary is a gift of memory to future generations, though it’s one that some will likely view as an unwelcome reminder of how everyday people can become complicit in incomprehensible evil.
  16. The Dry
    The particulars of the central mystery are mundane, to the point where the film itself doesn’t spend too much time digging into them.
  17. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
    The reality of Nazi Germany and its looming atrocities feels as if it exists only beyond the edges of the film’s frame.
  18. Spring Blossom
    Throughout her directorial debut, Suzanne Lindon paints a concise and truthful portrait of her protagonist’s feelings of estrangement.
  19. Seance
    Simon Barrett imbues his narrative with a purplish emotionality that the Urban Legend movies didn’t even think to bother with.
  20. A Quiet Place Part II
    John Krasinski is most in his comfort zone when the importance of family and legacy drives the film’s tension.
  21. New Order
    The film utilizes a trendy issue as window dressing for a tedious and delusional exploitation film-slash-museum piece.
  22. Dream Horse
    After watching this Welsh racehorse drama, even those of us who’d struggle to pronounce the word may find ourselves feeling a bit of hwyl.
  23. Those Who Wish Me Dead
    The film half-heartedly teeters between a kinetic action thriller and something a little more low-key.
  24. The Woman in the Window
    The Woman in the Window never manages to transcend the impression that it’s merely being clever.
  25. Army of the Dead
    The film’s masterful prologue writes a check that the remainder of this very long, very indulgent film labors mightily to cash.
  26. Spiral: From the Book of Saw
    The film doesn’t reset the Saw template in any marked way. It seems primed to explore the present-day fight against police brutality, but it never lives up to that promise.
  27. Profile
    Timur Bekmambetov’s Screenlife film is more fluff piece than hard-hitting news story.
  28. The Perfect Candidate
    The film’s aesthetic, understandably fused with its protagonist’s dogged can-do attitude, is both the source and limitation of its power.
  29. All Light, Everywhere
    Theo Anthony’s film is a playful, enraging, free-associative cine-essay that both expands and eats itself alive as it proceeds.
  30. Friends and Strangers
    The film’s tonal and situational shapeshifting doesn’t go to the surrealist lengths of Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but James Vaughan similarly indulges in burlesquing upper-middle-class complacency.
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