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For 7,303 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,357 out of 7303
  2. Mixed: 1,830 out of 7303
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7303
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  1. Bring Her Back
    Bring Her Back feels less like a movie than a finely tuned instrument of doom. In the devilish hands of Australian filmmaking brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, evil has been concentrated into an exceptionally and impressively nasty 104 minutes.
  2. The Phoenician Scheme
    All the magnificent little elements add up to a whole lot of not-enough this time around, resulting in a creaky and exhausting pastiche of Andersonia rather than the real deal.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
    Lamenting the loss of the arthouse rom-com often feels like pleading for dessert. Thankfully, Piani’s debut is sweet enough to nurse the craving.
  4. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    Once Cruise and McQuarrie expunge all the Ozymandias from their systems, The Final Reckoning manages to deliver the goods. Or at least make a decent case that Cruise has earned the right to become his own biggest champion.
  5. Final Destination: Bloodlines
    Much like its predecessors, Bloodlines joyfully relishes in its Rube Goldbergian kills and thrills, often trading on the absurd humour of its own fashioning.
  6. Hurry Up Tomorrow
    It is a slow-moving, self-insistent and exhausting trip. The end can’t come soon enough.
  7. Friendship
    The more queasy the film becomes – in both story and style, with the director preferring unusually moody natural light and nerve-rattling zooms – the funnier it gets.
  8. Novocaine
    It helps that Quaid is so good at landing every punchline, if not punch. His Nathan may not have any sense of pain, but Quaid gives him a great sense of humour.
  9. Shadow Force
    Nothing in Shadow Force surprises, delights or even attempts to raise your pulse above a twitch.
  10. Another Simple Favor
    Seven years is a long time to attempt a reheating of all the many ingredients that made the original film go down so easily, and Another Simple Favor simply tastes off.
  11. Sharp Corner
    Canadian director Jason Buxton crafts a sometimes tense and sometimes unsteady character study that isn’t so much laced with dread as it is slathered with it.
  12. Clown in a Cornfield
    It becomes clear that there’s just not enough meat on the bones of Craig’s film to justify all the dismemberment.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bonjour Tristesse
    What Chew-Bose gets so right about these characters is their very performativity, building a lifestyle where everyone is legible to each other despite a desire to remain unknowable.
  14. Thunderbolts*
    The first Marvel film in ages to look, feel, and move like an actual feature film and not a slop bucket of CGI.
  15. The Legend of Ochi
    It genuinely wants to say something important and poignant about what we lose when we stop believing in the unreal, but it cannot quite make the leap into figuring out why anybody should be inclined to listen to such heartfelt pleas.
  16. The Accountant 2
    The easy back-and-forth chemistry between Affleck and Bernthal as they paint the town blood-red provides certain dividends.
  17. The Shrouds
    With The Shrouds, the filmmaker – not only one of Canada’s greatest creations, but cinema’s, too – has delivered what might be his career-defining masterpiece.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sinners
    If anything, Sinners is the freest that the Creed and Black Panther filmmaker has ever been: stitching drama to spectacle, folding the personal into the political, slipping past the limits of what studio films are supposed to do in favour of what they still might dare to try.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Wedding Banquet
    The Wedding Banquet’s endearing qualities largely outweigh its deficiencies.
  20. Opus
    Unfortunately, Opus isn’t able to keep up the tension of its cult-horror mystery, speeding through its reveals with a surprising laziness that feels counter to the care it initially took in building out its story.
  21. A Minecraft Movie
    If Minecraft is the game where kids exercise their creativity by building new digital worlds full of tunnels and fortresses, A Minecraft Movie is where that creativity goes to die.
  22. The Amateur
    It is respectful and smooth filmmaking that never loses sight of its one and only goal: keeping its audience hooked.
  23. Drop
    Director Christopher Landon injects the entire affair with so much stylistic verve and narrative propulsion that, like the best kind of first date, it whips by almost too quickly.
  24. Warfare
    Alternately tedious, cacophonous and stultifying, the latest show of force from writer-director Alex Garland following last year’s equally frustrating Civil War just might be the most unnecessarily unpleasant cinematic experience you will endure this year.
  25. The Ballad of Wallis Island
    Things play out as sentimentally as expected, while scratching the surface at something deeper, exploring the relationship people have to music, and how that can either change or stay frozen in time.
  26. Freaky Tales
    Freaky Tales has neither the patience nor the depth to imagine any one person or story with a legitimate hook.
  27. Death of a Unicorn
    A pharmaceutical-industry satire so flaccid that it’s in desperate need of Cialis, Death of a Unicorn is destined to fade into the mythical margins of cinematic history, with future moviegoers convinced that – like its title creature – the film never really existed at all.
  28. Magazine Dreams
    Like Majors’s chiselled physique, which is almost a special effect all its own, Magazine Dreams takes unironic pride in flexing its themes so nakedly and frequently that there’s little left to the imagination.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Misericordia
    With Misericordia, Guiraudie deftly strikes the balance between the playfully sacrilegious and the sociopathic, rounded out by a seductively bizarre cast of dwellers and clusters of puckered, corpse-fed mushrooms.
  30. The Penguin Lessons
    Coogan brings a delightfully sardonic deadpan to the role of the bemused bystander observing the antics of penguins, adolescents and … military dictatorships.
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