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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 Mountain
    For all its emotional restraint, Rick Alverson’s film builds to a point of remarkable pathos.
  2. The Great Hack
    It seems so invested in a rehabilitation of Brittany Kaiser’s image that the filmmakers’ own motives end up being its most interesting subject.
  3. Angels Are Made of Light
    The film is an intimate portrait of a nation terminally anxious about who will see fit to rule it next.
  4. Skin
    After a while, the film’s not-strictly-linear structure and handheld camerawork come to feel like self-conscious signs of “gritty” realism, attempts at masking a certain conventionality.
  5. Mike Wallace Is Here
    Much like its subject, Avi Belkin’s documentary knows how to start an argument.
  6. Cassandro, the Exotico!
    It wouldn’t be fair to call the film hagiographic, but the director’s empathy, if not love, for her subject hinders her from examining Cassandro’s wounds with much depth.
  7. David Crosby: Remember My Name
    The film captures a man haunted by his past mistakes and nearly certain that he doesn’t have the time left to begin making up for them.
  8. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
    Radu Jude’s film is a bitterly comic essay on nationalist mythologies and historical amnesia.
  9. Into the Ashes
    Aaron Henry is prone to pulling back from any moment that might give greater depth to his revenge tale.
  10. At War
    It’s always clear who’s right and who’s wrong, which material interests each is representing, and who’s lying and who’s telling the truth.
  11. Bottom of the 9th
    Raymond De Felitta’s film offers a sampler course of formulas, which creates a strangely unfulfilling tension.
  12. Crawl
    The film is more straight-faced than Alexandre Aja’s prior work, trading absurd kills for narrow escapes from gaping alligator jaws.
  13. The Farewell
    The film taps into universal truths about the passage of time, the inevitability of loss, and how we prepare one another for it.
  14. Sea of Shadows
    Richard Ladkani’s Sea of Shadows, which bristles with drama and a panicky sense of righteous anger, uses the potential extinction of one little-known species of whale to symbolize a far larger and potentially globe-spanning problem.
  15. The Lion King
    There’s something very cheap at the core of this overtly, ostentatiously expensive film, reliant as it is on our memory of the original to accentuate every significant moment.
  16. Rojo
    It masterfully sustains a sense of “wrongness” that will be felt even by those unfamiliar with Argentina’s history.
  17. Sword of Trust
    Marc Maron’s commanding aura of regret gives the film, despite its missed opportunities, an emotional center.
  18. Stuber
    More than its violence, the film is defined by its vileness, its straight-faced attachment to outmoded ideas about masculinity and law enforcement.
  19. Midsommar
    A deeply unnerving film about the indissoluble, somehow archaic bond between self and family—one more psychologically robust than Aster’s similarly themed Hereditary. And it’s also very funny.
  20. Spider-Man: Far from Home
    Jon Watts deftly weaves the epic and the mundane aspects of Spider-Man’s existence throughout the film.
  21. Ophelia
    Transforming Ophelia’s abuser into a helpful co-conspirator hardly seems like the most daring feminist reading of Hamlet.
  22. Annabelle Comes Home
    The film is at least as likely to elicit laughs as shrieks, and certainly unlikely to leave a lasting impression.
  23. Three Peaks
    The film ably plumbs the fears of a well-meaning man who tries his best to play by the rules of middle-aged courtship.
  24. The Other Story
    Through this endless string of undercooked subplots, Avi Nesher’s film continually trips over itself.
  25. Maiden
    Director Alex Holmes ultimately takes a frustratingly simplistic approach to his thematically rich material.
  26. Child's Play
    By the end, it becomes what it initially parodies: a dime-a-dozen slasher film with a silly-looking doll as the villain.
  27. In the Aisles
    By subverting the impulse to indulge a winning romance between its two bright European stars, In the Aisles insists on the dignity of its appealing but rather thin characters.
  28. Nightmare Cinema
    The anthology justifies Mick Garris’s passion for horror, though he ironically proves to be one of his project’s liabilities.
  29. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
    In verbally recounting her history, Morrison proves almost as engaging as she in print, a wise and sensitive voice.
  30. The Quiet One
    In the end, the film feels like a sketch that’s been offered in place of a portrait.
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