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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. Nocturne
    If Quirke’s film means to mimic the tunnel vision of its protagonist, it does so perhaps too effectively, losing its thematic potency as it travels on a predictable trajectory, involving spooky drawings and sisterly spats, all the while leaving the existential miasma sitting out of frame.
  2. Evil Eye
    Evil Eye is a feast of timidly undeveloped raw material.
  3. Honest Thief
    The repetitious plot is more ritual than text as we watch yet another Liam Neeson avenger defy the will of younger, unscrupulous men.
  4. French Exit
    In French Exit’s best passages, sadness and curt, resonant comedy exist side by side unceremoniously.
  5. The War with Grandpa
    Only when left to their own devices do the film’s stars enter the less manic, more heartfelt realm of the book.
  6. Over the Moon
    At its most beguiling, director Glen Keane’s animated film Over the Moon mixes the unbridled free-association of playtime with an undercurrent of barbed satire.
  7. The Forty-Year-Old Version
    Radha’s remaking of herself contains an uplifting, unpretentious truth about aging: It’s never too late to make a new start.
  8. Charm City Kings
    The film looks for an emotional payoff by continually upping the stakes of its main character’s self-destructive short-term thinking.
  9. The Wolf of Snow Hollow
    Writer-director Jim Cummings reinvigorates an oft-told tale with personal, thorny preoccupations.
  10. Black Box
    The film ruminates on how virtuality infiltrates the deepest regions of our subconscious to reprogram the inner workings of the self.
  11. The Lie
    At the heart of Veena Sud’s film is the raw material for a potentially ingenious satirical domestic thriller.
  12. I Carry You with Me
    Heidi Ewing’s tale of immigration and deportation afflicting the lives of a Mexican gay couple flashes its reason for being at every turn.
  13. Hopper/Welles
    Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper both understand that cinema’s inherent fakeness is the wellspring of its importance and its danger.
  14. A Call to Spy
    Because its focus is so split, the film lacks the pervasive sense of danger one expects from a spy thriller.
  15. The Glorias
    The film weaves its refreshingly unpredictable web as the strands of Steinem’s life spiral around each other through snippets of scenes that work efficiently and never preachily.
  16. Possessor Uncut
    Though Possessor favors nihilist spectacle to existentialism, Brandon Cronenberg is more interested in exploring emotional dislocation than Christopher Nolan.
  17. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Dick Johnson Is Dead is very much a film about its own making, one which repeatedly exposes its artifice.
  18. Blood on the Wall
    Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested’s prismatic look at a devastating new chapter in the War on Drugs lacks for cohesiveness.
  19. Save Yourselves!
    The film fails to use its millennial characters to investigate contemporary attitudes about the possibility of world annihilation.
  20. 12 Hour Shift
    The plot, geared as much for comedy as horror, is wound with efficient build-up, and its revolving-door atmosphere is consistent enough to paper over some iffy acting, baggy dialogue, and more than a few minutes of wasted real estate.
  21. The Boys in the Band
    This new Boys in the Band is a Matryoshka doll of period piecery, a flashback of a flashback of a flashback.
  22. The Trial of the Chicago 7
    It pulses with relevancy in a time when debates over authoritarianism, protests, and the necessity of radicalism are convulsing America.
  23. On the Rocks
    There are few modern filmmakers who possess Sofia Coppola’s gift for capturing how our idealized, movie-fed ideas of “night life” reflect our longing for adventure as well as our loneliness.
  24. Beginning
    The low-key, serene natural beauty of Beginning’s setting provides a counterpoint to the often-disturbing events of the film.
  25. Tragic Jungle
    It operates in an ambiguous register, suggesting that a woman is working in unison with nature to dole out revenge for their exploitation.
  26. Kajillionaire
    The precarity and itinerant lifestyle of the central figures in Kajillionaire can be seen as a logical next step in Miranda July’s filmmaking trajectory.
  27. Ava
    Ava isn’t only banal, but also, in its half-hearted stabs at novel ideas, seemingly content with its banality.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
    One of the most striking effects here occurs whenever Herzog and Oppenheimer slow down the film’s often-hectic pace to let viewers ponder the sheer beauty of the imagery, whether that’s painterly rendered details of landscape or the natural splendor of closely observed crystals and minerals.
  29. Wildfire
    The structure of Wildfire’s narrative doesn’t emerge out of a simplistic progression from strife to reconciliation, as writer-director Cathy Brady has her characters follow a realistically erratic trajectory.
  30. Another Round
    Thomas Vinterberg’s latest, like The Hunt, is ultimately a parable about breaking a social contract.
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