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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. Summerland
    Throughout, the film’s characters exhibit little life outside of their moments of tragedy and symbolic connections.
  2. The Fight
    The film justly draws attention to the perpetual work that must go into preserving democratic institutions.
  3. A Girl Missing
    Kôji Fukada adores stray textures that stick in the proverbial throat and free-associatively affirm his characters’ rootlessness.
  4. Radioactive
    Marjane Satrapi’s film could have benefited from the tangy humor and cynicism of her graphic novels.
  5. Amulet
    The film never feels as satisfying or as haunting as its bow-tying epilogue strives for.
  6. Fisherman's Friends
    The script doesn’t contain many lines that ring true, and a few clang wildly off-key.
  7. The Rental
    Dave Franco has a mighty command of silence as a measurement of emotional aftershock.
  8. The Painted Bird
    Václav Marhoul’s film is at its most magnificent when it lingers on the poetry of its images.
  9. Blessed Child
    Filmmaker Cara Jones offers a poignant testament to the baggage and insecurities hounding her own life.
  10. Ghosts of War
    The film’s unreflective earnestness is haunting in all the wrong ways.
  11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    It’s in certain characters’ trajectories that the Ross brothers locate the tragic soul of the bar.
  12. Relic
    The film heralds the arrival a bold and formidable voice in horror cinema.
  13. Greyhound
    With no vividly drawn humans on display, the action feels like rootless war play.
  14. The Beach House
    The character drama becomes afterthought as it’s superseded by action.
  15. The Old Guard
    Though it smartly prioritizes the bond of relationships over action, the film is in the end only somewhat convincing on both counts.
  16. We Are Little Zombies
    The film is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a world where emotions are accessed and revealed primarily through digital intermediaries.
  17. The Wages of Fear (1953)
    Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear now seems much less like Salt of the Earth-as-a-potboiler and a lot more like the spiritual godfather to every testosterone-fueled thrill ride since.
  18. Palm Springs
    The film smuggles some surprisingly bleak existential questioning inside a brightly comedic vehicle.
  19. Hamilton
    The show offers testimony to the power of communal storytelling, just as mighty on screen as on stage.
  20. Family Romance, LLC
    We are never quite sure of the extent to which situations and dialogues have been scripted and, as such, it’s as though Herzog were more witness than author, more passerby than gawker, simply registering Japan being Japan.
  21. Force of Nature
    The film presents its scattershot cop-movie tropes in earnest, as if, like hurricanes, they were natural, unavoidable phenomena.
  22. John Lewis: Good Trouble
    The film is well-outfitted with telling, thematically rich shards of historical information.
  23. All I Can Say
    The film refuses to shy away from the unvarnished honesty of Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon during his brief moment of fame.
  24. My Spy
    Peter Segal’s film is pulled in so many different directions that it comes to feel slack.
  25. The Audition
    With great clarity, the film conveys how discipline can be directed both inward and outward.
  26. Irresistible
    These are desperate times, but if Jon Stewart wants to tack toward a more Frank Capra vein, that’s just fine. We already have one Adam McKay.
  27. House of Hummingbird
    The film is never more intense than when it’s finding parallels between its main character’s anomie and Korea’s dehumanizing expansion.
  28. A Regular Woman
    Where When We Leave built to simple outage, this one concludes with a rush of complex, conflicting emotions.
  29. Run with the Hunted
    Some of the film’s narrative threads are frustratingly unresolved, while others are wrapped up in arbitrary fashion.
  30. Wasp Network
    The final product feels like more of an interesting and beautifully filmed anecdote than compelling political and human drama.
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