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For 3,438 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Amazing Grace
Lowest review score: 0 The Hustle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,433 out of 3438
  2. Mixed: 888 out of 3438
  3. Negative: 117 out of 3438
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  1. The Choice
    There’s a very good love story here, but it needed to be about one relationship, not the nature of romance itself.
  2. Southbound
    The movie shifts gears with each section.... This hodgepodge encourages some variety in the world-building, but, to the littlest detail, it’s derivative — and, worse, not scary.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fort Buchanan
    It’s an easy, sometimes amusing watch, but also an unfulfilling one, as if Crotty needed another hour to make his characters memorable rather than relying on sheer star power.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Rams
    Rams is a quiet, contemplative and intriguing film of a subdued nature that continually manages to hold one’s interest.
  5. Hail, Caesar!
    Just as the brothers themselves love to present dialectics about the duality of triviality and seriousness, so, too, does Hail, Caesar! constantly skate back and forth between feeling slight and monumental.
  6. Swiss Army Man
    Swiss Army Man is an exceptionally unusual, one-of-a-kind achievement, worthy to seek out for that factor alone. However, if as much time was spent on refining the script as was the world-building, this could have been a magical realism fever dream like few others.
  7. Yoga Hosers
    Yoga Hosers isn’t a bad time at the movies, but it’s painful when the gags fall flat.
  8. Wiener-Dog
    With Wiener-Dog, Solondz is perhaps at his most evidently candid, showing all the different, damaged people that can enter and exit one’s life, and what our mutually shared, inevitable destination will be.
  9. Under the Shadow
    Under The Shadow is a rare genre film of emotional and political complexity, one that’s well-acted and directed, even if the psychological horror is front and center.
  10. Tallulah
    There’s honesty here and a swath of well-written, well-developed female characters, but not enough to justify laughing with a kidnapper.
  11. Southside with You
    Most nuanced and effective in the feeling of getting to know someone the first time, when the evident foretelling is put to the side, this is simply an absorbing love story.
  12. Sing Street
    While Sing Street is often infectious its its scraggly energy, one wishes Conor’s other band members were slightly more fleshed-out, which would make their already-absorbing performances sing even more.
  13. Operation Avalanche
    Operation Avalanche is a solid piece of entertainment and a formal step up from their first feature. Where it lacks is in authenticity, too often feeling like an in-joke with no punchline.
  14. Newtown
    While there’s no denying the film’s empathetic, tear-inducing impact, one wonders if a tighter structural grip would allow it to have been even more effective.
  15. Morris from America
    A culturally specific story is being told, but the film’s familiar structure helps to add a commonality for any viewer.
  16. The Lure
    Despite the creativity on display, the character choices and fatal decisions feel cliched.
  17. The Lovers and the Despot
    The most frustrating aspect of The Lovers and the Despot is its refusal to do more than simply recite its tale, ignoring the interesting concepts lurking within it.
  18. Love & Friendship
    [Stillman's] dry sense and cutting sensibility are suited to the meaner edge this story has in comparison with the rest of Austen’s oeuvre.
  19. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
    As it stands today, Lo and Behold is an entertaining exploration into an ever-shifting discussion, but, with Herzog’s specific charms, it will no doubt be a significant time capsule — or ominous document of warning — in the years to come.
  20. Little Men
    Little Men could have been so much more if its perspective leaned towards the opposite direction.
  21. Kate Plays Christine
    As an exploration of identity as it is felt, projected, and interpreted, this is masterful.
  22. Joshy
    Joshy doesn’t provide any new revelations about the transition into adulthood, but, with an amusing ensemble, you could be stuck with a much worse group of guys.
  23. The Intervention
    It’s a sharp script with distinct observations helping it rise above the plethora of other similarly-themed fare.
  24. The Hollars
    Krasinski appears to know exactly the kind of movie he’s making, elevating familiar material to a level that feels real and bittersweet.
  25. The Fundamentals of Caring
    It’s only frustrating that however funny Fundamentals is, the dynamic is something we’ve seen many times before.
  26. The Free World
    Despite actors who are clearly committed to the material, The Free World is an unfortunate misfire of banality.
  27. Frank & Lola
    Carried by two accomplished performance, and despite a tight 87-minute running time, this is a rich saga, bathed in atmosphere that disturbs as much as it engrosses.
  28. The Fits
    The Fits is a haunting psychological and philosophical portrait of childhood and socialization. Largely succeeding, the picture takes on a subject no less than the discovery of self: both the imagined and the real.
  29. Complete Unknown
    Armed with two top-notch leads and a compelling premise, Joshua Marston‘s third feature, Complete Unknown, spends a lot of time hinting at which direction it will go, without going anywhere at all.
  30. Lazer Team
    While Lazer Team might not be the most original of sci-fi comedies, it possesses the kind of self awareness — and unabashed love of genre that other films try to pass off as “homage” or “ironic referencing” — that make it quite impossible not to root for it to succeed.
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