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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mouthpiece
    In revealing Cassandra’s interior life, Rozema lays bare the modern female condition in an epic battle that is by turns lacerating, soothing and heartbreaking.
  2. Always Be My Maybe
    The journey here, over all, is still worth it, full of Asians making jokes, talking dirty and getting it on – like any good rom-com.
  3. Domino
    There is the overwhelming sense that Domino was not directed by any one person at all, but rather spliced and diced by committee into something barely watchable.
  4. Ma
    Unfortunately, more often than not, Ma settles into its lack of a refined generic vision and stalls out just before it’s able to hit most of its horror talking points squarely on the head.
  5. Photograph
    The Mumbai-set Photograph is a gentle romance cleverly told, and not without humour.
  6. Halston
    “I have a theory that less becomes more,” Halston purrs in one early interview. The opposite may well be true, and the same could be said for this documentary.
  7. Rocketman
    Rocketman is Broadway razzle-dazzle of the best kind.
  8. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    When Dougherty is able to keep these intelligent-ish impulses at bay, King of the Monsters is stupendous stupidity.
  9. Booksmart
    Wilde’s smart directing choices and the bravery of her two fearless leads transform a series of comic set-pieces, usually seen in fare such as "American Pie," into iconic character moments.
  10. Brightburn
    The film is not nearly as strong as its villain. It is, however, just as immature.
  11. The Perfection
    Most everyone who watches The Perfection will instead be staring at the screen slack-jawed, dumbfounded at the gory silliness they endured.
  12. All Is True
    Unfortunately no amount of self-confidence can sustain All Is True, Branagh’s stab at filling in the blanks of Shakespeare’s retirement, about which there is little officially known.
  13. Aladdin
    Each frame is drowning in vibrant colours and packed with so many decked-out extras that Aladdin’s environment seems less like a typical CGI-enabled sound stage, and more like a tangible, if bombastically stylish, world of its own.
  14. The Sun Is Also a Star
    Perhaps it’s the film’s predictability (and delightful corniness) that contributes to its charm.
  15. A Dog's Journey
    Heartstrings are pulled like a puppy’s leash; nothing much unpredictable happens.
  16. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    All right, there are bits and pieces of new material in Chapter 3, but they come in the form of gobbledygook world-building. What’s worse is that all this blather about the underground assassin economy arrives gussied up with characters uttering needlessly intimidating Latin phrases.
  17. Peterloo
    When the bloody finale does eventually arrive, though, you’ll be thankful that Leigh is at the helm. Once again, the director proves himself to be a master of basic human conflict, on whatever scale is necessary.
  18. Meeting Gorbachev
    Defining a politician’s titan legacy in a singularly unexpected way, Meeting Gorbachev meets its expectations.
  19. The Biggest Little Farm
    The film’s harmless pro-nature message is replaced with a drippy sense of self-congratulatory idealism, turning the film into a home movie by way of humble-brag. And then, by the hour mark, it’s merely a giant commercial for the couple’s 200-acre Apricot Lane Farm in Moorpark, Calif.
  20. Aniara
    Yet while last month’s Claire Denis drama "High Life" will go down as one of the year’s ultimate masterpieces, the Swedish soul-crusher Aniara will likely be remembered as an ambitious if ultimately weaker curiosity: the "Antz" to Denis’s "A Bug’s Life" (a sentence I never thought I’d be able to employ, but here we are).
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ask Dr. Ruth
    Crucially, Ask Dr. Ruth shows us a renegade ahead of her time.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Pokémon Detective Pikachu
    Detective Pikachu is unrelentingly weird. Thankfully, unlike Mario Bros., it’s also breezily watchable, if slightly insubstantial beyond its strangeness.
  23. Non-Fiction
    It is a sadly out-of-touch tactic that recalls an old man yelling at the clouds (or, more accurately, cloud computing).
  24. Shadow
    If "The Great Wall" felt like Yimou was turning his greatest hits into something dispassionately bland, then Shadow takes the familiar and makes it feel startlingly new.
  25. The Hustle
    The Hustle should’ve been a comedy that served equal parts wit and social commentary – otherwise, why gender-swap? It should’ve given Wilson and Hathaway a means through which to shine. These are talented, seasoned, capable women. And for their experience to be wasted in a production that is below them, below their director’s filmography and below the original material is tragic.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The White Crow
    As a stoic and weathered middle-aged ballet teacher, who lives in a cramped apartment and maintains a tender and dignified devotion to his craft, Fiennes gives the film’s best performance.
  27. Poms
    It makes no sense that this fun, feel-good movie about senior citizen cheerleaders should waste so much precious screen time on miserly Keaton hacking up her Metamucil or whatever. If you’re going to make a movie about elderly cheerleaders, bring some brio and physicality to it.
  28. Firecrackers
    Firecrackers is not as casually joyful as its title suggests – but it is absolutely as incendiary.
  29. Tolkien
    Stately, handsome and ferociously romantic, the new biopic of British high-fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, though there is some excellent tea drinking to be had.
  30. Red Joan
    Young Joan is played by Sophie Cookson, magnetic in the role. Dench is underused, though. The film’s suspense is waiting on the world-class actress to bust out some chops. It never happens. The spy who bored me, rather.
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