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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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    • 75 Critic Score
    Decade of Fire
    Decade of Fire’s purpose is to make known how those in the Bronx must continue to fight even today against forces hellbent on their erasure.
  2. The Intruder
    The film is ostensibly about the war for the soul of a house, but it couldn’t feel less lived in.
  3. Georgetown
    It’s an occasionally amusing and insightful beltway satire that’s ultimately undone by its conventional mise-en-scène and predictable plot.
  4. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
    The film essentially indulges in the same act of willful distractedness as Ted Bundy’s admirers.
  5. Meeting Gorbachev
    Werner Herzog’s documentary is a rare example of the arch ironist’s capacity to be awed not by nature but by man.
  6. UglyDolls
    What’s self-worth in the 21st century without a dollar amount attached to it, and what value does UglyDolls have if kids aren’t walking out of the theater nagging their parents for toys of their favorite characters?
  7. Come to Daddy
    Unlike many [M. Night] Shyamalan films, which seem constructed out of Mad Libs, Come to Daddy retains an emotional consistency.
  8. Ask Dr. Ruth
    At its best, the film is a testament to how Ruth Westheimer’s practiced decency was literally a saving grace during the Reagan era.
  9. Long Shot
    As it proceeds toward its telegraphed rom-com ending, the film becomes just more empty rhetoric, an ineffectual reiteration.
  10. Knock Down the House
    Rachel Lears’s film is a rebuttal to the position that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's election victory was an incidental event in American politics.
  11. Body at Brighton Rock
    Appearing to recognize the flimsiness of her material, Roxanne Benjamin overcompensates with insistent direction.
  12. The White Crow
    Ralph Fiennes’s film too conspicuously avoids an overt political perspective.
  13. J.T. Leroy
    It’s disappointing that so much of the film feels like mere tilling of the soil.
  14. Avengers: Endgame
    Every serious narrative beat in the film is ultimately undercut by pro-forma storytelling, or by faux-improvised humor.
  15. Carmine Street Guitars
    The film celebrates the thingness of things, as well as the assuring clarity and lucidity that can arise from devotion to knowledge.
  16. Chasing Portraits
    Its major contribution, as one museum curator suggests, may be to bring the works of Moshe Rynecki back into prominence.
  17. If the Dancer Dances
    It's less of an insightful backstage documentary than a gushing, sycophantic love letter to the late Merce Cunningham.
  18. The Curse of La Llorona
    With The Curse of La Llorona, the Conjuring universe has damned itself to an eternal cycle of rinse and repeat.
  19. Someone Great
    The film plays like a mixtape of various sensibilities, partly beholden to the self-contained form of the bildungsroman; surely it’s no coincidence that a James Joyce poster hangs in the background of one scene.
  20. Instant Dreams
    While the film offers an appealingly nostalgic trance-out, it’s often short on detail, especially in terms of Stephen Herchen’s struggle to create the instant film technology, which director Willem Baptist reduces to exchanges of jargon in atmospheric laboratories.
  21. Rafiki
    The film's slotting of two African women into a familiar romantic structure represents a radical and important upending of contemporary Kenyan sexual mores.
  22. Under the Silver Lake
    Even after the film (quite entertainingly) explains itself, it never feels like more than a howl of frustration and cynicism.
  23. Little Woods
    Nia DaCosta indulges one of rural quasi-thriller’s most tiresome gambits: humorlessness as a mark of high seriousness.
  24. Hail Satan?
    The documentary shrewdly illustrates how media savvy can turn a fledgling protest into an international cause célèbre.
  25. Little
    Its most amusing moments are in the interplay between the central characters as they adjust to an abruptly shifting reality.
  26. Mary Magdalene
    As the plot mechanically moves through Jesus’s greatest hits, the narrative focuses less and less on Mary Magdalene until her life feels completely beside the point.
  27. Stockholm
    Forget Dog Day Afternoon, as the film doesn’t even clear the bar set by F. Gary Gray’s tense and exciting The Negotiator.
  28. Wild Nights with Emily
    The film’s playful tone is a corrective to a century of scholarship that insisted on projecting the image of a moody spinster onto Emily Dickinson.
  29. Girls of the Sun
    With its naked celebration of self-sacrificial combat and idealization of the soldier as an avenging angel, it strikes a tone redolent of old-school war propaganda.
  30. Missing Link
    As in Laika’s other efforts, the humor in the film is more wry than gut-busting, but Chris Butler has developed some truly inventive comic characters.
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