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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 2.9 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. The Gorge
    The Gorge is half a smouldering romance, half a zombified venture into overkilled horror-movie tropes.
  2. Captain America: Brave New World
    This is a movie of pussyfooting and sidestepping, unconcerned with race, history, heroism or really any idea at all beyond “Hulk smash.”
  3. Love Hurts
    The plot and most action sequences here are as cookie-cutter as the community homes Quan’s Gable is selling.
  4. Companion
    For all its gestures toward trending conversations about our warped relationship with technology, and the entitled boys weaned on it, Companion is ultimately just a fun genre mash-up that pales in comparison to the superior movies it tends to pay homage to but elevated by its cast.
  5. I'm Still Here
    I’m Still Here is a timely, exquisite masterpiece.
  6. Paying for It
    Thanks to Lee’s smooth construction and her performers’ carefully calibrated performances – Beirne is particularly engaging in a role that doesn’t automatically earn sympathy – it all clicks together.
  7. Flight Risk
    A C-grade thriller that is further dumbed down to dunce-cap calibre, Flight Risk might have worked as an enjoyably grimy piece of genre trash had Gibson not made every single wrong directorial decision along the way.
  8. Presence
    Deeply playful while never falling for the more hoary tendencies of the genre – remarkably, Soderbergh seems to have invented a new way of filming a “jump scare” here – Presence keeps its audience close and tight, building to a finale that forces you to reconsider the entire experiment.
  9. Universal Language
    Universal Language is a film flooded with sorrow and spirit, discombobulating surrealism and comforting sentimentality.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Last Showgirl
    The sentiment of being thrown to the margins of an industry that seemed predestined to carry you is certainly an interesting point of departure, but the resulting film often feels stagnant, unable to square its romantic impulses – as a frustrated Shelly puts it in one scene, “this is breasts and rhinestones and joy!” – with the fraught realities of these characters.
  11. Wolf Man
    As sincere and sentimental as his approach is, Whannell struggles to marry the emotional beats to the schlockey thrills the genre demands. Instead, these two competing modes tend to cancel each other out, but not so much as to disregard what the ambitious director is going for.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    It plays out like that rare piece of art capable of capturing the individual agency inherent in both resistance and compliance. An entire history of oppression isn’t needed here – that is beyond the scope of any one film and a waste of this one.
  13. Nickel Boys
    It’s hard to describe Nickel Boys. It seems like an injustice to call it, simply, a film. It’s a remarkable piece of art, even more impressive when you consider that it’s photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross’s debut feature film – in fiction.
  14. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
    Pantera mixes its many influences into a smooth spectacle so confident and patient in its assemblage that it instantly wins you over.
  15. Young Werther
    Long underutilized and certainly undervalued, Canadian actress Pill is a pure delight here as Charlotte, anchoring and then elevating every single scene that she is in.
  16. The Room Next Door
    Ultimately, it all becomes too strained to take seriously.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
    Vengeance Most Fowl is a cozy return to form that plaits together its own laboured conception and our mechanized conditions in order to enliven its signature duo among the youth of today.
  18. Better Man
    Better Man is a triumph of cheek and imagination. Gracey attempts much but actually manages to accomplish all that he set out to do.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Complete Unknown
    Despite the arid direction, Chalamet’s Dylan – described in the film as “a cross between a choir boy and a beatnik” – comes from the heart.
  20. Babygirl
    What deepens this film is Reijn’s empathy for Romy and for all women.
  21. The Brutalist
    The Brutalist is a movie of big ideas constructed inside the transformative majesty of epic-scaled cinema. You can try to describe it, but nothing can match the power of simply opening your eyes.
  22. Mufasa: The Lion King
    Where Mufasa distinguishes itself is Jenkins’s eye for balancing emotion with action.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Queer
    It is a remarkably beautiful portrait of agony, anchored by Craig’s remarkably understated performance. But it’s also a film at odds with itself.
  24. September 5
    September 5 splices together its thoroughly researched dramatic recreations with the actual programming ABC aired, an initially nifty back and forth that quickly wears thin.
  25. Porcelain War
    This film doesn’t flinch from violence, but it finds hope in a people’s patient refusal to surrender who they are.
  26. The End
    Clearly, Oppenheimer is an ambitious and courageous filmmaker – his chilling documentaries alone are enough to ensure his place in the pantheon. But so much of The End prioritizes purpose over execution, with the result stretched out over interminable lengths.
  27. Moana 2
    The big, disappointment here are the flat musical numbers that bide time between adventures and fail to sink Maui’s hook in us.
  28. Maria
    By focusing his lens on the personality of the diva, as opposed to her artistry, Larrain doesn’t truly give us insight into what made Maria into “La Callas.” We get glimpses of the tragedies and scandals in her life that inspired and informed her powerful – and often divisive – vocals. But we don’t understand the artistry behind the voice.
  29. The Return
    Though the stately pace can be frustrating, its anti-war stance ultimately feels modern and urgent.
  30. Black Box Diaries
    For anyone wondering why women don’t come forward to report sexual assault, Black Box Diaries offers a glimpse into the many indignities women can face when reporting the crime, and the amount of personal resolve needed to follow through.
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