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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. The Death of Dick Long
    Daniel Scheinert’s film finds a very human vulnerability lurking beneath the strange and oafish behaviors of its male characters.
  2. Abominable
    The second half’s series of hollow visual spectacles foreground the film as a corporate product.
  3. First Love
    First Love reveals itself to be an elegant and haunting Takashi Miike film in throwaway clothing.
  4. Rambo: Last Blood
    The Looney Tunes nature of Rambo’s murder spree tempers much of the script’s ideological offense.
  5. Ad Astra
    In a future where the plagues of civilization have only evolved into new shapes and sizes, it asks, in a roundabout way, if there’s anything worthier of exploration than our own relationships.
  6. Judy
    Renée Zellweger can reach all the notes and hit all the marks, but Garland’s intense emoting eludes her.
  7. Loro
    Like most of Paolo Sorrentino’s films, Loro is closer to a stylistic orgy than an existential rumination on Italy’s heritage.
  8. Promare
    Promare often feels like a maximalist season finale trimmed of any build-up, a climax that’s outstanding to watch yet empty beyond its pure spectacle.
  9. I Was at Home, But
    Angela Schanalec’s film configures itself most potently in hindsight as a punch to the gut.
  10. Midnight Traveler
    Balancing rough-edge verité with highly composed images and a meticulous structure, it doesn’t preclude itself from finding something like poetry in its subjects’ struggles.
  11. Young Ahmed
    The Dardennes maintain a distance from Ahmed as a way of celebrating their refusal to reduce him to any easy psychological bullet points.
  12. Oh Mercy!
    Arnaud Desplechin evinces a glancing touch with showing how social tension and need inform law and crime.
  13. Villains
    Maika Monroe’s engaging performance serves only to highlight how feeble and unconvincing the rest of the film is.
  14. Marriage Story
    Throughout, the subtle glimpses of a couple’s lingering affection for one another complicate the bitterness of their separation.
  15. The Laundromat
    Steven Soderbergh takes a macro approach to the scandal, though the results, with rare exception, are vexingly micro.
  16. Harriet
    Portraying Tubman above all else as a vessel for a higher power ironically only makes her appear less tangible.
  17. The Moneychanger
    It’s apparent that Veiroj disdains no one so much as Humberto, but the film makes vanishingly little of the man’s undoubtedly twisted psyche.
  18. Where's My Roy Cohn?
    This sharp, to-the-point portrait of the crook, fixer, and right-wing pitbull resists the urge to darkly glamorize him.
  19. Waves
    This is a rare case of a film that’s stronger when it colors inside the lines than radically traces outside of them.
  20. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello’s film works better as a story of self-loathing and self-destruction than it does as a social critique or political statement.
  21. Hustlers
    The film is remarkable for capturing a brewing conflict between women while also celebrating their connection.
  22. Motherless Brooklyn
    Motherless Brooklyn feels altogether too tidy, a film that revives many of the touchstones of noir, but never that throbbing unease that courses through the classics of the genre.
  23. Fire Will Come
    The film is much more in synchrony with the haziness of its imagery when it preserves the awkwardness between characters, the impossibility for anything other than life’s basic staples to be exchanged.
  24. Ford v Ferrari
    At a time when the nation continues to weigh the fate of its auto industry, James Mangold’s depiction of the Ford Motor Company facing its first major financial threat transparently plays to nostalgic reveries of the industry’s golden age.
  25. Uncut Gems
    In the film, a man's individual tragedy illuminates the emptiness of the systems that define him.
  26. Joker
    The film is one that might have been dreamed up by one of the cynical douche bros from the Hangover during a blacked-out stupor.
  27. Sibyl
    Justine Triet is less committed to some make-believe realism than she is to the tricks that memory and language can play on us.
  28. The Goldfinch
    Enough of the individual moments pulled from the rag-and-bone shop of Donna Tartt’s sprawling mystery narrative make an emotional impact that the story’s structural issues fail to register as much at first.
  29. The Sound of Silence
    A wonderful high concept is compromised for another story of lonely people learning to connect.
  30. Color Out of Space
    The film is a vivid depiction of how a confrontation with the unknown can so easily shatter the fragile bonds that hold us together.
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