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For 7,767 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Depraved
    Larry Fessenden diagnoses the rot of our era through the shifting personalities and power dynamics of solipsistic men.
  2. Monos
    Alejandro Landes’s film depicts amorality with minimal curiosity and a surplus of numbing stylistic verve.
  3. Downton Abbey
    Every scene here feels as if it begins with a grenade being thrown into a room, leaving one to wonder how it will be diffused, and after a while, all you see are the gears of various sublots turning separately until they mesh together and move in unison.
  4. The Wild Goose Lake
    The film’s masterstroke is that its fugitive antiheroes are framed by an environment that reflects their criminal lives back at them.
  5. Jojo Rabbit
    Waititi is incapable of dealing with the twin horrors of oppression and indoctrination beyond cheap-seats sentimentality and joke-making.
  6. Ema
    In the film, the literal union of bodies is the only logical means of conveying the reestablishment of emotional bonds.
  7. Honey Boy
    In Alma Har’el’s film, Shia LaBeouf’s plays an avatar of his father as an expressionistic act of self-therapy.
  8. Knives Out
    The actors’ hammy performances only compound the amusement of watching a dynasty propped up by largesse fall to pieces at the very thought of actually having to earn their way in life.
  9. Just Mercy
    In a time when awareness and acknowledgement of racial bias and extrajudicial measures by law enforcement in America is at its most widespread, such scenes feel condescendingly pitched to an unconverted audience of the imagination.
  10. Proxima
    The film falls back on a reductive rumination on the balance between maternal obligation and career aspiration.
  11. Vitalina Varela
    At last, Pedro Costa appears to be more interested in how people get on with life than how they keep the company of ghosts.
  12. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    It’s not hard to parallel David/Dickens’s head-spinningly intricate descriptors with Iannucci’s own prodding, poetically vulgar rhetoric.
  13. The Whistlers
    Corneliu Porumboiu’s film is very much a genre exercise, and a particularly Soderberghian one at that.
  14. The Truth
    The tactility of earlier Hirokazu Kore-eda imagery has been traded for a softer, more luscious, nevertheless melancholic dream world.
  15. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov depicts pain in blunt terms, but he traces the aftershocks of coping and collapse with delicate subtlety.
  16. Atlantics
    As Mati Diop mourns Senegal’s lost men, she honors their grief and affords them tremendous power all at once.
  17. It: Chapter Two
    The film argues we’re stronger and better when we’re home, building communities that can oppress the oppressors and build up so-called “losers.”
  18. Liberté
    Though betraying the markings of its original form in its small revolving ensemble, single location, and frequent tableau staging, Liberté conjures a sustained ambiance and eroticism that’s unique to the language of cinema.
  19. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    What's most stirring about Céline Sciamma's film is the lack of artifice in Héloïse and Marianne's feelings for one another.
  20. The Traitor
    It’s at its best when showing how gangsters undermine their lofty notions of nobility with displays of narcissism.
  21. Ms. Purple
    Subtlety dissipates as Justin Chon’s film grasps for something louder and more obvious.
  22. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
    It isn’t long into the film when the hagiographic soundbites from famous interviewees become the dominant mode.
  23. Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
    The film is at its best when its focus remains on Ivins’s fierce commitment to her ideals and willingness to speak her mind.
  24. Night Hunter
    The film is so clichéd and scattershot as to make Copycat look like Peeping Tom by comparison.
  25. Don't Let Go
    Would that Jacob Estes had kept the particulars of his murder mystery as intricate as the sci-fi of his main characters’ communion.
  26. The Miracle of the Little Prince
    In a world increasingly resistant to cultural exchange, the miracle of The Little Prince is how it’s become so universally beloved, and Boonstra’s film is a worthy homage to its passionate translators who’ve been so inspired by Saint-Exupery’s story .
  27. Ága
    Milko Lazarov seems driven to record the inner workings of a singular slice of Inuit culture before it goes the way of the reindeer.
  28. The Load
    Chromatically, The Load makes Saving Private Ryan look like The Band Wagon. Yet Glavonic still manages to convey the devastation and numbness that results from atrocity without resorting to exploitation. Trauma is approached obliquely, more a subliminal fact of life than a single psychological rupture to be confronted and mended.
  29. Angel Has Fallen
    The film seems to have cobbled its set pieces together from a series of close-ups edited as if by random selection.
  30. Vita & Virginia
    The film frequently falls back on the stately demeanor of countless other historical biopics and period pieces. Read our review.
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