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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. Gavagai
    Rob Tregenza's film is rooted in the communion as well as the sensorial challenges of savoring art.
  2. Searching
    As nimble as Aneesh Chaganty is in presenting his main character's multi-faceted interaction with technology in the first hour, the film suddenly morphs into a generic and manipulative missing-person thriller.
  3. No Date, No Signature
    Vahid Jalilvand's film is so worked out that you know that every nuance is pointed and intentional.
  4. Never Goin' Back
    Writer-director Augustine Frizzell's film is funny and surprisingly tender, if at times frustratingly uneven.
  5. Nico, 1988
    The unflashy, austere visual style of the film is but a veneer over writer-director Susanna Nicchiarelli's deceptively radical treatment of the musical biopic.
  6. Good Manners
    The film is a rebellion of surfaces that never quite reaches, or emanates from, the underpinning roots of its fable.
  7. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
    The film poignantly reveals that the secret history of Hollywood is really an alternate history of America.
  8. The Captain
    In one fashion, Robert Schwentke proves to be too complicit with his protagonist, regarding evil and human banality as stimulation.
  9. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
    Peter Rida Michail and Aaron Horvath's Teen Titans Go! To the Movies is a spastic, Mad magazine-style parody of comic-book movies for the age of superhero overload.
  10. Hot Summer Nights
    Like the teenagers at its center, Hot Summer Nights tries too hard to look cooler than it ever could be.
  11. Far from the Tree
    The very act of having kids and demanding perfect conformity from them is never questioned by the film.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Equalizer 2
    Order and righteousness being the product of one great man, The Equalizer 2 is symptomatic of a confused time when people are collectively looking for invulnerable superheroes who don't so much as speak truth to injustice as beat the hell out of it, and its cathartic pleasures leave a bad taste.
  13. Scarred Hearts
    Despite the film's bleak premise, writer-director Radu Jude finds dark humor within the certainty of death.
  14. Generation Wealth
    Into a broad-strokes picture of a culture in crisis, Lauren Greenfield attempts to incorporate autobiographical elements, which results in some awkward narrative pivots and jarringly clunky voiceover.
  15. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
    It boasts such confident performances and choreography that it feels as much like a final draft of the 2008 film as a continuation of it.
  16. The Third Murder
    In The Third Murder, as in his other films, Hirokazu Kore-eda informs tragedy with a distinctive kind of qualified humor that's realistic of how people process atrocity.
  17. Blindspotting
    The film takes aim at myriad targets and bluntly satirizing them in disparate styles that never mesh into a cohesive whole.
  18. Damascus Cover
    The film trots out thinly conceived villains and a murky plot twists that leave crucial details needlessly shrouded in mystery.
  19. Unfriended: Dark Web
    The film is preposterously conceived, but writer-director Stephen Susco so tightly, excitingly executes it that you hardly notice.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Eighth Grade
    Throughout, we're invited to chuckle at the ironies of Kayla's hobbies and activities, but underlying such scenes is a strain of eeriness, as if the film were offering up a post-human spin on Pretty in Pink.
  21. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    As in Rogue Nation, Fallout‘s action scenes are cleanly composed and easy to follow, and so abundant as to become monotonous.
  22. Milford Graves Full Mantis
    Jake Meginsky's documentary is insular, precious, and too pleased with its unwillingness to reach out to the unconverted.
  23. Skyscraper
    Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is the true Tower of Babel, the movie star who with each film gets closer to God and whose films always come tumbling down around him.
  24. Puzzle
    The film buoyed by Kelly Macdonald, who's a master of understated vulnerability, but she can't steer it out of the doldrums.
  25. McQueen
    As Ian Bonhôte's documentary reveals, Alexander McQueen's suicide was perhaps the all-too-predictable ending to a history of violence.
  26. The Night Eats the World
    Dominique Rocher reinvigorates the zombie film only to succumb to the strictures of the coming-of-age romance.
  27. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
    There are only so many monster-centric jokes to be made before they become toothless, and only so many ways to preach tolerance before it sounds more like blunt moralizing.
  28. Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
    Gauguin represents for the film no less an ideal Romantic subject than the Polynesians represented for the painter himself: penniless, chronically ill, and living in self-imposed isolation—the very embodiment of the suffering artist.
  29. Shock and Awe
    Rob Reiner's film rests on broad, sweeping proclamations about the importance of factual reporting.
  30. Path of Blood
    The film in effect positions young jihadis less as fervid, bloodthirsty psychopaths and more as dumb kids at summer camp.
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