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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. I'm Your Woman
    Unfortunately, Hart and her co-writer/husband Jordan Horowitz don’t have much more to offer than a different perspective – and no POV shift can compensate for a film that looks otherwise so familiar in its twists and turns.
  2. Let Them All Talk
    The film’s many tiny dramas add up to a thoughtful, though sometimes shaggy, study of hopes and regrets, aspirations and reality. It is not groundbreaking, but it is funny and sad and completely relatable.
  3. The Midnight Sky
    From a technical standpoint, this might be Clooney’s finest work as a director. . . . But as a storyteller, The Midnight Sky is an irritating experience.
  4. Godmothered
    At least Bell and Fisher make the most of their screen time, with each playing off each other like close friends simply thrilled for the opportunity to frolic in the film’s ridiculous fantasyland.
  5. Black Bear
    Lawrence Michael Levine’s film, though, is only sporadically clever enough to pull off its central trick. Mostly, we’re stuck with a group of rather unpleasant people doing rather unpleasant things. To what desired end, it is never quite clear.
  6. The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
    Thanks to some skillful, nuanced editing – and the forgiveness of time that comes with three decades – Coppola’s experiment is an offer you (sorry) can’t refuse. Mostly.
  7. 100% Wolf
    100% Wolf will leave you howling – not with laughter or delight but in despair for some semblance of a plot in its mercifully short run time.
  8. Funny Boy
    There is so much going on in this film, much of it so rich in detail, that you wonder how better the original material might work as a television series.
  9. Superintelligence
    Superintelligence arrives this week as a comedy with actual charm, wit and, yes, laughs.
  10. Fatman
    For a movie about an assassin charged with killing Santa Claus (!) on the orders of a Richie Rich-like brat (!!), and starring Mel Gibson (!!!) as Kris Kringle himself, Fatman is astoundingly boring.
  11. Stardust
    Because while Stardust covers the period of Bowie’s life just before he released his breakthrough 1972 album, the film doesn’t feature a single track from the record. Or any Bowie music at all.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dolly Parton’s Christmas On the Square
    Christmas on the Square lets the viewer kick back and indulge in all things Parton.
  13. The Croods: A New Age
    It mostly all comes together in the end, but you still cannot help but watch the film and wonder why the need for just so much of everything.
  14. The Donut King
    It’s a fine yarn spiced up with moments of hip hop, animation and pop culture references, all packaged nicely in something like the hot-pink doughnut boxes that the cruller maestro Ngoy supposedly invented.
  15. Happiest Season
    Finally, a big and shiny studio-backed holiday movie targeted to queer audiences that is just as sappy, cheesy and predictable as the many groan-inducing films that have been chucked toward straight moviegoers all these years.
  16. Small Axe: Mangrove
    With its visual, sonic and cultural gestures, the film is nothing less than a love letter to West Indian life, and makes home in its political figures and artists, its iconography, its food, its music, its gestures and movements all shared here on screen.
  17. Sound of Metal
    A movie perfectly engineered for home viewing. Particularly with the best set of headphones that you own.
  18. The Twentieth Century
    Rankin has a made a great film about Canada and an even greater one about the kinds of subjects somewhat contraband in our home and native land: unbridled romantic longing, living in fear of one’s own mother, a perverse desire to masturbate with a dirty work boot, political ambition and shame.
  19. The Last Vermeer
    Appropriately for a film about art forgery, every cast member in The Last Vermeer seems to be attempting their best impression of someone else.
  20. Collective
    Rarely, though, has cinema been so devoted to idealizing the importance of journalism than in Collective.
  21. Mank
    Mank is, overwhelmingly, so very interesting. But it is also something of a half-masterpiece mess: thematically scattered, awkwardly paced, overlong and curiously uninterested in the inner life of its title character.
  22. Freaky
    Landon is not aiming to break new ground here – only to use well-trod territory for his own gag- and gross-out-happy ends. This is candy-coloured mayhem, bright and snappy and enjoyably wince-inducing in its desire to disgust. And just as Vaughn can easily play both male murderer and winsome teen girl, so, too, can the charming Newton ace her required flips.
  23. Ammonite
    Which is why when Mary and Charlotte’s first big sex scene arrives – a moment destined to become a meme unto itself – its explosive energy feels undercut by a lack of genuine connection between the two women. Both performers are throwing the entirety of themselves into Lee’s world, but only one is offered much of anything to grab hold of.
  24. A Rainy Day in New York
    The “new” film is firmly an artifact of the past. More specifically the imaginary era of Gotham that Allen has become a permanently unstuck-in-time guest of since "Annie Hall."
  25. Hillbilly Elegy
    Make no mistake: Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy is a bad film, inert and clichéd and largely devoid of cinematic imagination. But it is not a problematic film.
  26. Cup of Cheer
    The result is messy, zippy and smart-alecky. But never boring, and occasionally funny enough to warrant a spit-take or three.
  27. The Life Ahead
    Ultimately, Ponti’s film survives on the one surprise that’s not much of a surprise at all: the power and majesty of his lead actress. And how did the director score such a casting coup? You’d have to ask his mother ... Sophia Loren.
  28. The Kid Detective
    Early in the film, Morgan is careful to highlight Abe’s talent in predicting a movie’s twist (“She poisoned his drink!”). It is extremely doubtful, though, that anyone could guess what happens at the end of The Kid Detective.
  29. Let Him Go
    A skilfully executed thriller that is narrowly aimed at one demographic – audiences over 50 who like a little violence with their late-life dramas – but succeeds at entertaining just about anyone who comes across its dusty, blood-soaked path.
  30. Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
    Carter himself ties a bow on the film, noting that music is a galvanizing force and that what will unite mankind is a shared respect for truth, God, freedom and democracy. That and a righteous Allman Brothers jam.
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