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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. Ramen Shop
    Its drawn-out descriptions of culinary traditions and practices are enticing enough, but the same can’t be said about the characterizations.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sunset
    László Nemes’s follow-up to Son of Saul simply feels like two films awkwardly affixed to one another.
  3. Captive State
    The film might have better performed if it consisted of more than a smattering of good but relatively isolated ideas.
  4. Triple Frontier
    J.C. Chandor turns an intensely physical narrative into another of his inadvertently generic studies of procedure.
  5. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
    Alex Gibney’s documentary tells a dramatic, if somewhat workmanlike, story of Silicon Valley hubris meeting old-fashioned scamming.
  6. The Eyes of Orson Welles
    The Eyes of Orson Welles honors the central paradox of Welles: that he was a joyful poet of alienation who was, like most of us, both victim and victimizer.
  7. The Juniper Tree
    The Juniper Tree’s peculiar pedigree as an American indie fueled by European arthouse tropes and constructed with a flair for the avant-garde and the handmade marks it as a welcome rediscovery.
  8. Five Feet Apart
    In the film, hardly any fact about cystic fibrosis is raised without being doubly, even triply, underlined for viewers.
  9. Knife + Heart
    The film quickly settles into a holding pattern of repetitive porno-movie hijinks and increasingly listless murder scenes.
  10. The Aftermath
    The film’s threads of personal loss and cultural friction are all but lost amid the tawdry romantic entanglements.
  11. The Mustang
    Single-minded and direct in its execution, the film is a hard look at the extremes of masculine guilt and healing.
  12. Combat Obscura
    The portrait it paints of its Marines is appropriately discordant, redolent of the twitchy frustration caused by a long stint in a sparse landscape with a hazy mission.
  13. The Hummingbird Project
    Throughout, the film can’t decide what attitude to strike toward its characters’ evident greed.
  14. Yardie
    The film’s tendency to break the “show, don’t tell” directive becomes especially irksome in its homestretch.
  15. The Kid
    Its scenes wildly escalate to a fever pitch at the drop of a hat, before then ending, more often than not, with abrupt violence.
  16. Gloria Bell
    The film’s open-ended narrative tends to be undermined by the simplicity of its thematic signifiers.
  17. Two Plains & a Fancy
    No description can do justice to its best moments, which render the absurd and sublime one and the same.
  18. Captain Marvel
    The film doesn't pay nearly enough attention to Danvers’s crucial emotional metamorphosis from dual-identity self-doubter to fearless warrior battling to keep Earth safe.
  19. Island of the Hungry Ghosts
    The film is a haunting portrait of the island as a purgatorial realm between the poles of isolation and liberation.
  20. I'm Not Here
    Throughout, J.K. Simmons invents the film with a primordial physicality of loneliness and self-loathing.
  21. An Elephant Sitting Still
    The film’s gritty, mundane agonies come to feel like a series of moral tests with genuinely unpredictable outcomes.
  22. The Hole in the Ground
    The film gradually becomes something more than a mixtape of horror gimmicks as it homes in on a frightening real-world subtext.
  23. The Wedding Guest
    Michael Winterbottom’s film succeeds in translating the problematics of intercultural conflict into thriller fodder.
  24. Giant Little Ones
    Keith Behrman’s film comprehends the malleable, often inscrutable nature of desire.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Woman at War
    It balances its various modes so carefully and efficiently that it achieves a graceful unity, if a strange one at that.
  26. Styx
    The film is a penetrating an indictment of the bureaucratic obstacles placed in front of refugees.
  27. Mapplethorpe
    In Mapplethorpe, the ultimate purpose of the film seems to be the reductive portrayal of the artist as yet another tormented queer destroyed by his tendencies toward vice.
  28. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
    Chiwetel Ejiofor announces himself as a sensitive, shrewdly restrained filmmaker with his quietly assured directorial debut.
  29. The Competition
    Claire Simon knows that the best way to capture the anxiousness of a moment is to leave it unembellished.
  30. The Changeover
    It’s this carefully managed equilibrium between the inherent preposterousness of its mystical milieu and the convincing emotional reality of Laura’s journey that ultimately makes The Changeover, for all its muddled mythos, a lively and engaging excursion into an unusually naturalistic world of magic.
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