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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. 11/8/16
    Too often, the documentary’s highly calibrated curation reduces its subjects to mere demographic representations.
  2. Gilbert
    Gilbert exposes a wealth of unsuspected pain and tenderness beneath Gottfried's often thorny exterior.
  3. My Friend Dahmer
    The film wants to treat Jeffrey Dahmer like a character, but it invariably frames him like a specimen.
  4. Thank You for Your Service
    The film is admirably frank in its depiction of lingering trauma but too often struggles to capture its more ineffable qualities.
  5. Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
    It's an exercise in joviality, unflinching in its love for Joan Didion, and unwilling to be much more.
  6. Novitiate
    The film's meditative and excessive sides never quite cohere, giving the impression of watching two distinct films that are jostling against each other, rather than united in a single story.
  7. God's Own Country
    Writer-director Francis Lee captures not only what masculinity does and how it comes undone, but the complex apparatus that keeps it into place: the family’s surveillance, the silence, the shame.
  8. The Work
    In its visceral purity, Jairus McLeary's film drags male toxicity up into the light, offering it as a cure for itself.
  9. The Divine Order
    The film's performances and narrative flounder to strike the right balance between comedy and drama.
  10. Amityville: The Awakening
    Franck Khalfoun's Amityville: The Awakening is an elegant entry in a lame series of horror films.
  11. All I See Is You
    The longer things drag out, All I See Is You becomes every bit as amorphous as its protagonist's vision.
  12. Suburbicon
    Suburbicon sees a bunch of candidly left-leaning movie stars doing their best to out-awful each other.
  13. The Snowman
    The Snowman is missing so much basic connective tissue as to be rendered almost completely inexplicable.
  14. Only the Brave
    Joseph Kosinski's Only the Brave displays a kinship to Howard Hawks’s hard-nosed, old-fashioned pragmatism.
  15. 1922
    Zak Hilditch's 1922 informs Steven King's pulp feminism with primordial, biblically ugly force.
  16. Tragedy Girls
    The film's central theme, about where attention-starved narcissism leads when taken to extremes, isn't quite sufficient to sustain an entire feature.
  17. Dealt
    Richard Turner is a charismatic subject who demands more than a conventionally entertaining documentary.
  18. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    The characters' emotional vacancy feels like another auteurist tic to which Yorgos Lanthimos is dauntlessly committed.
  19. Liberation Day
    Throughout, the documentary wavers between a sincere investigation of the avant-garde music group Laibach and self-satire.
  20. One of Us
    It's incisive in its condemnation of the oppression innate in the social structure of Brooklyn's Hasidic communities.
  21. Leatherface
    Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's anonymous work here could've been overseen by any hipster looking to make a mark at Platinum Dunes.
  22. Kills on Wheels
    Writer-director Attila Till is content to indulge a complication-free mix of bloodshed and pathos.
  23. Jungle
    Greg McLean and screenwriter Justin Monjo faithfully hit the key plot points of Yossi Ghinsberg's 1993 book Back from Tuichi but fail to sell the severity of the threats Yossi confronts.
  24. Wonder Wheel
    The tone throughout vacillates wildly from silly comedy to classic Hollywood melodrama, and all of it feels as artificial and unsatisfying as the cotton candy twirling in a vending cart.
  25. The Foreigner
    Even overlooking its fictionalized account of an inexplicable political resurgence, the film falters in its needlessly convoluted plotting.
  26. Marshall
    Marshall arguably intends for societal 20/20 hindsight to provide the bulk of perspective throughout.
  27. 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
    78/52 comes to life when riffing on the psychosexual perversity of Psycho, which changed cinema's relationship with sex and violence.
  28. Diamond Island
    The filmmaker brings enough original aesthetic touches to the table, as well as a fresh cultural perspective to the broader socioeconomic issues he broaches, that Diamond Island rarely feels derivative.
  29. Happy Death Day
    Happy Death Day twists the inherent repetitiveness of slashers to its advantage by exaggerating it to an impossible degree.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    Throughout, internal conflict becomes external, and the passions and irrationalities of human emotion are condensed into explanatory dialogue.
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