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For 7,291 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 3.1 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Like a Boss
    The best moments of Like a Boss are just that – moments. The film has an obvious deficit of story – instead of any sort of satisfying sense of development, the audience gets 83 minutes of the same problem repeated over and over.
  2. Cunningham
    If we are take Merce Cunningham at his word, and the joys of dance really are ephemeral, Cunningham makes a compelling case for the doing of it, over and over again.
  3. Cats
    It is the best anti-cat propaganda in the world. It could make you hate Garfield. Because the biggest sin of Cats, other than all its writhing sexuality and the heinous hairball filmmaking, is that it is supremely boring.
  4. The Song of Names
    Mainly, this movie chatters when it should sing.
  5. Invisible Life
    Through a richly layered lens of myth-building and melodrama, Ainouz manages to capture the heartbreak, solitude and resilience of women on the verge.
  6. Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
    So much of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is pulled from what has come before, and so much of it carries the wear and tear of repetition.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    63 Up
    The best of art makes you think of life. On that front, Michael Apted has achieved more than all but a handful of filmmakers. Cherish 63 Up, like you cherish life.
  8. Uncut Gems
    Whatever praise heads toward Sandler should be tripled in the direction of the Safdies.
  9. Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
    Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin paints the picture of a man who was complex, complicated, talented and unparalleled. And perhaps above all, very loved.
  10. Spies in Disguise
    Spies in Disguise is often amusing, and it’s especially nice to see it convey a message of anti-violence, but the film falls short of being truly memorable.
  11. Little Women
    It is sublime. Better than "Lady Bird" even, and I would not, could not, say that lightly. Because it hits harder. Like someone ripping your heart out, while gently rubbing your back and telling you that it’s all going to be okay. I laughed obnoxiously loud, and I cried so hard my face formed a frozen death mask that just went, “Owww, myyyyy hearrrrttttt.”
  12. A Hidden Life
    When Malick reaches the end of Jaggerstatter’s story, A Hidden Life does reach something profound. Relief, maybe, that the film was over. But also a distinct pang that some filmmakers never change.
  13. Bombshell
    Ambivalent and tepid as it attempts to fashion a tick-tock thriller from Ailes’s downfall.
  14. 1917
    In the case of Sam Mendes’s First World War thriller 1917, I am willing to concede that this is indeed a cinematic experience that demands the largest canvas possible.
  15. Jumanji: The Next Level
    The Next Level works precisely for the same reasons why Welcome to the Jungle did. It’s never boring, it’s genuinely funny in a way that’s family friendly but still clever, and the cast’s chemistry is outstanding – it just works.
  16. 6 Underground
    A riotous and gleefully delirious assault on the senses. It is vulgar. It is absurd. And it is completely enthralling.
  17. Richard Jewell
    Hauser is just as skilled and invested an actor as any of the more critically certified players alongside him here, including Sam Rockwell as Jewell’s anti-authoritarian lawyer and Kathy Bates as Jewell’s overprotective mother.
  18. The Kindness of Strangers
    Okay, one kind word: Bill Nighy is clearly enjoying himself playing a New York businessman whose caviar restaurant improbably becomes a beacon for a host of impoverished ne’re-do-wells. But that is the only nicety I can muster for this otherwise cartoonish treacle.
  19. In Fabric
    In Fabric is a beautiful, unpredictable nightmare for those drawn to giggle in the dark.
  20. Honey Boy
    LaBeouf’s script crackles with penetrating dialogue. His acting – LaBeouf portrays a version of his own father – might be the finest of his career.
  21. Dark Waters
    It will make you mad as hell. So angry, even, that you might wonder why no one has given this opportunity to Todd Haynes before.
  22. Queen & Slim
    Queen & Slim’s ultimate route is a powerful one – a drive meant to be shared, and discussed, long after the road ends.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Vita & Virginia
    It’s light research, worn heavily, and the romance that ensues feels just as about as studied and slight.
  24. Frozen II
    I could watch the background environmental action here for hours. But then the second thought of my Frozen 2 experience hit: I really wish I was listening to Let it Go right now.
  25. 21 Bridges
    There’s enough action to keep things moving along, but the drama is ho-hum, juiced up with a turgid soundtrack and sirens howling in the night. It’s all just so average.
  26. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
    What has been crafted with The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open is the multitudinous reality of past and present, absent and material; a world-affirming space of narrative realization that speaks to those who exist within the efforts and “now” of survival.
  27. Atlantics
    A sensual and heady stew of romance, family drama, police procedural, political polemic and ghost story, Atlantics marks the debut of a ferocious talent in Diop.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Report
    Those yearning for aesthetic verve had better look elsewhere; much of The Report takes place inside cold, concrete government buildings. The occasional backdrop of mahogany wood panelling is the closest to warmth you’ll experience in two hours.
  29. The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
    Awkwardly constructed with laughable romantic suggestions, sword-based gore and a whimsical approach to chronological accuracy, the story involves the Indian uprising against the British East India Company.
  30. Charlie's Angels
    Deep inside the new Charlie’s Angels movie, there is a fun film struggling to breathe. There are momentary flashes of energy, of wit, of something sorta-kinda-maybe resembling entertainment. But every time writer-director Elizabeth Banks’s reboot threatens to come alive, it immediately falls to the floor, leaden and lifeless.
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