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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. Teen Spirit
    In the end, the film is all too ready to transform into just another shiny pop object indistinguishable from so many others before it.
  2. Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
    The film is a reminder of the potential of these films before they became weighed down by blockbuster-ready excesses.
  3. Dogman
    The film only succeeds at evoking a firm sense of place and an accompanying air of alluring grotesquerie.
  4. Sauvage / Wild
    The film is a tale about how those who spiral so far out of control become blind, if not immune, to the severity of their symptoms.
  5. Pet Sematary
    The story has enough pathos to fulfill the expectations of a great tragedy, but the film feels like a commercial for something else entirely.
  6. The Best of Enemies
    The Best of Enemies may be based on a true story, but in so stubbornly turning the spotlight away from Atwater and the radical, grind-it-out community activism that took on the racism that Ellis helped to foster as a segregationist, it more accurately resembles an all-too-familiar Hollywood tall tale.
  7. Shazam!
    Shazam! sees DC combining the golden-age optimism espoused by Wonder Woman and the jubilant, self-aware silliness of Aquaman into a satisfying whole.
  8. Suburban Birds
    The film’s refusal to commit to its passing fancies is a highly intentional and eventually tiresome declaration of Qui Sheng’s arthouse bona fides.
  9. Wall
    So much of the film is given over to highlighting David Hare’s confusion as a tourist in a conflict he can never fully comprehend.
  10. The Public
    The film is a clunky, overwritten attempt to pack as many tortured subplots and pre-chewed sociological insights as can possibly fit into a two-hour runtime.
  11. Unicorn Store
    Brie Larson’s directorial debut is nothing so much as a series of quirks.
  12. The Haunting of Sharon Tate
    In a film that features Charles Manson and his disciples, there’s something unsavory about presenting Sharon Tate as one of the crazy ones.
  13. Honeyland
    As the world continues to suffer ever-increasing mass die-offs of honeybee colonies, Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska’s film reminds us that there’s indeed a better way to interact with our planet—one rooted in patience, tradition, and a true respect for our surroundings.
  14. The Plagiarists
    This is a rigorous film concerned with questions of cultural appropriation, learned behavior, and the very texture of life in our content-saturated present (a feeling not exclusive to urban centers), but one with the good humor and wisdom to disguise itself as something far more familiar.
  15. The Chambermaid
    Lila Avilés’s film reserves the possibility of flirtations with disaster to turn into acts of emancipation.
  16. The Beach Bum
    With the film, Harmony Korine solidifies his position as the premier cartographer of the Sunshine State as a place of unhurried pursuits.
  17. Dumbo
    Tim Burton manages to put his stamp on this clunky behemoth of a film, but in the end, the Mouse always wins.
  18. The Highwaymen
    Where Bonnie and Clyde is gloriously tragic, The Highwaymen is blunt and anti-climactically savage, fulfilling as well as somewhat critiquing former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer’s bloodlust.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Manta Ray
    Manta Ray functions as an oblique portrait of writer-director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s anger about the Rohingya refugee crisis in Thailand.
  20. Working Woman
    Michal Aviad’s film forcefully brings home a reality that many of us have been aware of only intellectually.
  21. A Vigilante
    It conspicuously tries to distance itself from the revenge film’s propensity toward florid excess.
  22. The Brink
    Alison Klayman’s fly-on-the-wall documentary cuts Trump’s Rasputin down to size but doesn’t completely dismiss his power.
  23. Diane
    Every moment in Jones’s film is so precisely textured that it becomes fantastical.
  24. The Dirt
    Like most biopics, The Dirt crams so many events into its narrative as to compromise the sense that these are real characters in the here and now.
  25. A Land Imagined
    Writer-director Yeo Siew Hua suggests that becoming another person is as easy as dreaming it.
  26. Out of Blue
    Carol Morley’s film wants to blow our minds, but it succeeds only at rousing our boredom.
  27. Dragged Across Concrete
    With his latest, S. Craig Zahler doubles down on the best and worst elements of the pulp film.
  28. MS Slavic 7
    In its balance of a wispy narrative and long, quiet episodes of textual close reading, the film feels incomplete in a productive way.
  29. Us
    Even though it’s not as tidily satisfying as Get Out, the new film is both darker and more ambitious, and broader in its themes.
  30. Buddy
    It would appear that some of Buddy’s humans have indeed written off their fellow people. Does this matter? Honigmann’s film doesn’t plumb this potentially resonant question, as it’s hesitant to look a gift dog in the mou
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