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For 7,765 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: 4,342 out of 7765
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7765
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7765
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  1. Riefenstahl
    If there’s still anyone uncritically repeating Riefenstahl’s narrative of naïveté, they’ll find it hard to sustain by the end credits.
  2. The Threesome
    The film effortlessly melds its sadcom properties with more predictable rom-com traditions.
  3. Preparation for the Next Life
    One small, shrewd decision after another allows Preparation for the Next Life to sustain its naturalism to the end.
  4. Caught Stealing
    The story’s boilerplate setup gets a noticeable lift thanks to Darren Aronofsky’s style and focus.
  5. Love, Brooklyn
    Love, Brooklyn, especially its loftier ideas, might have benefited from more of a satirical bite.
  6. The Roses
    The War of the Roses, both the book and the Danny DeVito film, is an infamously brutal comedy of terrors, and The Roses is cuddly by comparison.
  7. The Toxic Avenger
    Pulled awkwardly in so many directions, this Toxic Avenger all but comes apart at the seams.
  8. A Little Prayer
    The film patiently illustrates how places imprint themselves upon us and guide our actions.
  9. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass becomes a film about its own condition of being an outsider to its own time, lost as it is in the aesthetics of another time that it views with a kind of nostalgic disquiet.
  10. Splitsville
    Splitsville thrives on the unpredictability of this formal freedom before settling back into a familiar Hollywood narrative formula: the comedy of remarriage.
  11. Eden
    As the plot progresses, the film appears increasingly adrift, discordantly sliding between farce, satire, and murder mystery.
  12. Dracula
    As Dracula wears on, its lack of focus starts to grate, while Radu Jude’s deployment of profane, disreputable dialogue and imagery starts to resemble a stylistic tic more than a genuine affront to his audience’s sensibilities.
  13. Honey Don't!
    The film is paced in such a languid, dreamy way that it’s hard to get a grasp on how each scene connects to the larger themes or the larger mystery until fairly late.
  14. Nobody 2
    Behind the violence and gore, Nobody 2 only offers the skeleton of a narrative.
  15. Sentimental Value
    The film’s multi-layered structure supports a familiar but often profoundly affecting tale of intergenerational family conflict.
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    The more the film diverges from Kurosawa’s, the more confident and distinguished it becomes.
  17. Witchboard
    Some of the period action set pieces are spirited in their staging, while the film doesn’t lack for gruesome and elaborate kill sequences, which is almost enough to distract from the screenplay’s patchiness and insipid characterizations.
  18. Went Up the Hill
    Samuel Van Grinsven’s Went Up the Hill is characterized by a starkly precise aesthetic and withholding approach to the ghost story.
  19. The Knife
    The overriding suspense here is largely created by watching truth become negotiable, and through the small, plausible distortions of the truth that people come up with when survival instincts kick in.
  20. Fixed
    The balls-out shock value doesn’t detract from the fact that Fixed is more square than its makers probably think it is.
  21. Weapons
    For every moment of electrifying horror, Whitest Kids U’ Know alum Zach Cregger cleanses the palette with equivalent comic relief.
  22. An Officer and a Spy
    The sum of its aesthetics, as in The Pianist, feels at once like a gritty window into history as it was and a haunting amber-trapped essence of the feeling of an age.
  23. My Mother's Wedding
    Where Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married completely immersed viewers in the sometimes messy intimacies of family, My Mother’s Wedding feels more like a stage production that forgot to include its first act.
  24. It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
    The film is a resonant depiction of the gaping holes left by Jeff Buckley’s untimely death.
  25. Boys Go to Jupiter
    Julian Glander powerfully channeling the ennui of his characters with images of everything from vacant parking lots to empty swimming pools.
  26. A Samurai in Time
    A Samurai in Time isn’t just having fun with fake swords and chonmage wigs, as it also provides a lot of gentle reflections about history, modernity, and our place in it all.
  27. She Rides Shotgun
    Nick Rowland’s film doesn’t seem to have faith in the story the novel tells.
  28. The Naked Gun
    The Naked Gun is of a piece with the “joke in every frame” approach that Zucker, Abrams, and Zucker brought to their best work.
  29. Souleymane's Story
    Petty humiliations accumulate into a quietly blistering indictment of a culture that’s conditioned immigrants to hustle, wait endlessly, and smile through it all, as if their sanity weren’t constantly under strain.
  30. Together
    That Together treats its body horror as just another wrinkle in the complexities of what it means to love someone else is writer-director Michael Shanks’s smartest move.
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