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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. You Should Have Left
    David Koepp is a fatally un-obsessive craftsman, one who’s fashioned a horror film that resembles a tasteful coffee table book.
  2. Mr. Jones
    The film is an unnervingly beautiful tribute to the lives lost during the Holodomor, and to the people who have seen the world for what it is, instead of the dream of it they’re instructed to believe.
  3. 7500
    Convenient plot twists undermine its early pretense that it’s aiming for something other than to exploit our deepest, most regressive fears.
  4. Babyteeth
    It incorporates addiction, age-inappropriate romance, mental illness, and terminal disease into its plot without collapsing into a movie-of-the-week black hole.
  5. Da 5 Bloods
    Lost in so much bombast is the kind of story about its main characters’ lives that could’ve affirmed Spike Lee’s critique of America.
  6. Hill of Freedom
    It isn’t without its pleasures and insights, but it’s ultimately little more than an excuse for Hong to try out a new stylistic color in his auteurist palette.
  7. Artemis Fowl
    Artemis Fowl concocts an adventure that requires its privileged hero to go virtually nowhere, physically or emotionally. As if he ordered it on Instacart, conflict is simply dropped off on his front stoop, and all he has to do is throw on some shoes and sunglasses to pick it up.
  8. You Don't Nomi
    Has the time come to ask if the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction?
  9. Sometimes Always Never
    The film unites its seemingly disparate strands of somber drama and deadpan comedy into a surprisingly cohesive whole.
  10. The King of Staten Island
    Throughout, Judd Apatow dramatizes the ideal of community with an almost Eastwoodian sense of rapture.
  11. Tommaso
    Abel Ferrara’s film is about that precise feeling of living with an itch unscratched.
  12. Shirley
    Every scene in Josephine Decker’s film operates at a maximum frenzy fraught with subtext.
  13. The Infiltrators
    The film is never more compelling than when relying on footage of the real radical DREAMer group the National Immigrant Youth Alliance.
  14. On the Record
    Russell Simmons’ victims’ sense of their own complex relations to historical power structures emerges from the film’s lucid recounting of the sexual assault allegations against him.
  15. The Vast of Night
    Director AndrePatterson never breaks the film's incantatory spell with pointless freneticism, patiently savoring the great thrill of genre stories: anticipation.
  16. The High Note
    Everything here wraps up as tidily as it does in your average Hallmark Channel movie.
  17. Crystal Swan
    Throughout the film, it’s as if mundane objects hold the remedies for the wretchedness of everyday life.
  18. The Lovebirds
    Once the film shifts into a broader comedic register, it no longer capitalizes on Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae’s gift for gab.
  19. The Painter and the Thief
    Throughout the documentary, Benjamin Ree upsets conventions, offering a moving portrait of two lost souls.
  20. Inheritance
    Simon Pegg occasionally fulfills the nightmarish potential of the film’s fairy-tale premise.
  21. Take Me Somewhere Nice
    From beneath defensive layers of distanced comic despair emerges a sincere story about a young woman’s emotional reconciliation with her troubled place of origin.
  22. The Trip to Greece
    The series’s ambient preoccupation with death is foregrounded more than ever before with this film’s main dramatic subplot.
  23. Military Wives
    The film seems almost content to have you forget about everything that inspired it in the first place.
  24. Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
    In this time of peril and chaos, Elizabeth Carroll’s documentary is a balm for the soul.
  25. The Wolf House
    The film’s animation leans into its most jerky, artificial qualities, all the better to enhance the atmosphere of bizarre unreality.
  26. Fourteen
    Dan Sallitt recognizes that even the sturdiest of friendships are inevitably tested by time and the evolution of personal responsibility.
  27. Capone
    Every scene is virtually self-contained, and so Capone feels as if it’s starting all over again from frame to frame.
  28. Spaceship Earth
    The film offers a refuge of idealism and intellectuality in an age that’s actively hostile to both of those qualities.
  29. Arkansas
    The film’s insistence on keeping the stakes low throughout is probably its key strength.
  30. On a Magical Night
    Christophe Honoré deposits all his chips on the comedic premise at the expense of character study and gravitas.
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