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For 697 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 59% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Sentimental Value
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 435 out of 697
  2. Mixed: 219 out of 697
  3. Negative: 43 out of 697
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  1. Rust
    Rehashing clichés with formal polish but little novelty, this oater is a dour affair made all the grimmer by the fact that there isn’t a second of its 139 minutes that isn’t colored, in some way, by the on-set shooting that made it notable, and notorious, in the first place.
  2. Thunderbolts*
    With Florence Pugh as the intensely magnetic center of this ramshackle maelstrom, and despite a couple of familiar Marvel shortcomings, it’s a protean superhero saga that stands on its own—regardless of its title’s qualifying asterisk.
  3. Havoc
    Even in a genre that’s long indulged in excessiveness, this is the ruthless over-the-top carnage aficionados covet.
  4. Until Dawn
    Lacks any sense of internal logic and is even lighter on surprising scares, dispensing only clichés that are as moldy as the haunted house in which his characters are confined.
  5. The Accountant 2
    A brutal buddy film pairing Affleck’s killer with his equally murderous brother, it locates the humor in its mayhem and, for it, proves a superior sequel in every respect.
  6. The Legend of Ochi
    If the spell it casts is somewhat familiar, it’s nonetheless enlivened by surefooted atmosphere, excellent puppetry, and charismatically outsized performances from Emily Watson and Willem Dafoe.
  7. The Shrouds
    Mordantly, head-spinningly convoluted, it’s a unique take on the director’s favorite themes, laced with bleak wit and encased in an icy chill that’s fitting for a tale fixated on the grave.
  8. Sinners
    Never coherently articulates (or draws connections between) its various concerns, proving a handsomely horrific vampire bloodbath that, ahem, bites off more than it can chew.
  9. The Uninvited
    Gracefully balancing its lighter and darker concerns, it’s a witty ride whose poignancy—like adulthood itself—sneaks up on you.
  10. Drop
    A canny cautionary tale about the perils of looking for Mr. Right—and of keeping your phone powered on at dinner.
  11. Warfare
    A taut and terrifying portrait of courage under fire.
  12. G20
    Part Die Hard, part wish-fulfillment saga for a post-2024 present that didn’t come to pass, it’s a fantasy of feminist and U.S. might that’s chockablock with implausibilities.
  13. The Amateur
    Unsurprising from start to finish and yet proficiently executed thanks to its impressive cast, it’s the definition of serviceable.
  14. Gazer
    Energized by Ariella Mastroianni’s disoriented and frazzled lead performance, it begins unnervingly and ends, like all such sagas should, with haunting bleakness.
  15. A Minecraft Movie
    Block-headed from start to finish, it’s cinema in service of nothing more than IP exploitation.
  16. The Woman in the Yard
    Even at a brisk 85 minutes, it’s a bigger slog than a day spent mowing the grass.
  17. Death of a Unicorn
    Unlike its unique and fantastical title creature, it’s a commonplace monster mash which serves up only frenzied commotion and tired social commentary.
  18. A Working Man
    A macho fantasy about a dad acting out his daughter-saving fantasy by rescuing a surrogate child, with Statham talking tough and acting tougher in typically forthright fashion.
  19. The Friend
    A compassionate portrait of mourning and the bonds that keep us united.
  20. Ash
    A hypnotic star child of out-there wonder and internal corruption and chaos.
  21. Snow White
    No Magic Mirror is needed to identify it as the lamest Mouse House re-do of them all.
  22. The Alto Knights
    An ignominious tour-de-force for the esteemed headliner, who gets to indulge in just about every caricatured mannerism and colloquialism in the stale La Cosa Nostra cookbook.
  23. Misericordia
    A superb thriller that employs common genre devices for a canny and caustic rumination on right and wrong, love and lust, virtue and vice.
  24. The Actor
    Burdened by a hazy and mannered style that drains it of urgency and feeling, it’s a self-conscious curio that’s less dreamy than dreary.
  25. Novocaine
    In trying to have it both ways, it succeeds in neither, in the process stranding its charming leading man in a saga that needed to be either goofier or more gruesome.
  26. The Parenting
    A dismal misfire that strains to meld Meet the Parents-style comedy with The Exorcist-grade horror.
  27. The Electric State
    The Electric State" is just about as derivative as a modern blockbuster can be, and worse is that it skates along from one cacophonous and jokey set piece to another as if on rails.
  28. CHAOS: The Manson Murders
    For all its avenues of inquiry, however, it never quite gels into more than a collection of tantalizing but unfounded theories.
  29. Black Bag
    When it comes to sleek, stylish genre movies, Soderbergh remains a maestro at the top of his game.
  30. Eephus
    Modest and moving, it’s a new sports-movie classic, as sneakily effective as the pitch which gives it its title.
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