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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. Everything's Going to Be Great
    The human struggles at play are too dire and relatable for us to say that these people don’t deserve that level of grace, but making the audience generally sympathize with them doesn’t make spending time with them particularly pleasant either.
  2. Relay
    Set to the rhythms of a pulsing, ultramodern New York milieu, the film, at its best, wrings real tension and excitement out of the simple exchanging of clandestine messages and sensitive information.
  3. How to Train Your Dragon
    As heartwarming as this story remains at its core, it’s hard to shake that you already know how it will play out.
  4. Materialists
    As its second half begins to focus more on Lucy’s dating dilemma, and how she’s forced to confront her firmly established beliefs and rules about dating, the film hews increasingly close to the narrative expectations of the traditional rom-com.
  5. Sex
    The film’s microcosm of dysfunction is convincing for how it depicts an ongoing, even never-ending, struggle to define oneself.
  6. Best Wishes to All
    The film is comic yet vicious and cynically bleak in its portraiture of Japan’s silent plague.
  7. Meeting with Pol Pot
    Rithy Panh’s film is hard-hitting yet illusive, much like the story its characters are hunting.
  8. Echo Valley
    A story that might have been benefited by being allowed to breathe over a six-episode arc instead feels rushed and schematic rather than lived-in.
  9. Inside
    Charles Williams’s feature-length directorial debut, Inside, centers on a trio of dangerous men who are forced into each other’s orbit, leading to an outcome that’s both violently chaotic and tragically predictable.
  10. Predator: Killer of Killers
    Killer of Killers only gives us just enough to get by, get invested, and get to the goods.
  11. Ballerina
    Sans a mythology of its own, or any substantive ties into where the John Wick films go chronologically after this, Ballerina is just another 87Eleven joint.
  12. The Ritual
    Like any number of Exorcist wannabes, David Midell’s film is a special kind of hell.
  13. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
    This film essay grapples with the ethical and political considerations raised in the effort to retrieve Césaire from oblivion.
  14. The Life of Chuck
    Mike Flanagan’s film doesn’t escape the mires of unpersuasive pop psychology.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tornado
    Tornado’s winking theatricality, thematic fixations with myth and avarice, and pared-down plotting add up to a heady concoction, but it’s more conducive to reflection than engagement.
  16. Ghost Trail
    Jonathan Millet’s film is unconvincing and unnaturally contorted into its shape.
  17. The Phoenician Scheme
    The raw emotion underlying The Phoenician Scheme peeks out at unexpected times.
  18. Mountainhead
    If there’s a moral here, it might be that the only thing worse than a competitive billionaire is a bored one.
  19. Fear Street: Prom Queen
    Like its predecessors, the film is an often awkward mix of YA drama and R-rated gore.
  20. Lilo & Stitch
    Here, “ohana” doesn’t just mean family but community, and the film does moving and spirited work in showcasing how crucial it is for us to lift each other up.
  21. Bring Her Back
    The film has a white-hot nerve of pain running inside it that burns right through the screen.
  22. Hurry Up Tomorrow
    The film desperately tries to convince us that it’s peeling back the layers of the Weeknd’s persona in order to show you what’s really going on inside his head. But, in defiance of Anima’s wishes, Hurry Up Tomorrow lacks the honesty to confront what’s there.
  23. Desert of Namibia
    The film is so welded to its main character’s perspective that it, too, shies away from understanding, tragic and frustrating in equal measure.
  24. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    The film is a showcase for preposterous (and mostly practical) action and an unabashed sentimentality that Ethan feels for the makeshift family of spies he’s assembled over the course of the series.
  25. Final Destination: Bloodlines
    Bloodlines finds frights and fun alike in a string of gory kills.
  26. Henry Johnson
    Ultimately, Henry Johnson’s cynical assertions about society and human nature are the only aspects that end up resonating, for better or worse.
  27. Clown in a Cornfield
    Eli Craig’s film works precisely because it plays things straight.
  28. Friendship
    The film plays right into Tim Robinson’s sweet spot of surrealistic and satirical comedy.
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